sadly, yes

I was going to get all huffy about this banal headline from the San Jose Mercury News

Bergman defined art-house genre

until I remembered that, in America, artistic movies—the real deal, as in the masterpieces created by the genius director Ingmar Bergman—indeed comprise nothing but just another genre.

When they’re not being dissed as inferior to the work of

Carl Dreyer and Robert Bresson — two master filmmakers widely scorned as boring and pretentious during Mr. Bergman’s heyday.

Bergman’s films were inferior, says Jonathan Rosenbaum in his consideration of Bergman’s “overrated career,” because he merely had the power to entertain, whereas Dreyer and Bresson dared to challenge “conventional film-going habits.”

Surely people go to the movies to have their film-going habits challenged!