Why Beauty is Killing Cinema

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Standards in Art are often misdiagnosed as Beautification and the the meaning of Beauty itself has been lost. But is Beauty really killing Cinema?
Programme (Selected Filmography):
0:00 Introduction
0:05 PART I. BEAUTY
2:19 Ulysses' Gaze, dir: Theo Angelopoulos
2:41 Hero, dir: Yi-Mou Zhang
2:51 The Tree of Life, dir: Terrence Malick
3:03 Gummo, dir: Harmony Korine
3:29 Eraserhead, dir: David Lynch
3:43 The Turin Horse, dir: Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky
4:54 PART II. SUBLIME
4:58 Vitalina Varela. dir: Pedro Costa
5:48 Mirror, dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
6:10 Fallen Angels, dir: Wong Kar Wai
6:45 The Bird People of China, dir: Miike Takashi
7:00 It Follows, dir: David Robert Mitchell
7:10 Dogville, dir: Lars Von Trier
7:23 Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
8:02 Parasite, dir: Bong Joon-Ho
8:14 The Horse Thief, dir: Tian Zhuangzhuang
8:43 Yi Yi, dir: Edward Yang
9:17 Tokyo Story, dir: Ozu Yasujirō
9:55 Ordet, dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer
10:30 Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, dir: Kim Ki-Duk
12:17 PART III: ARTIFICE
12:22 The Red Shoes, dir: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
12:31 Fanny and Alexander, dir: Ingmar Bergman
12:41 Beauty and The Beast, dir: Jean Cocteau
13:45 Dreams, dir: Kurosawa Akira
14:41 Ugetsu, dir: Mizoguchi Kenji
15:08 Crimson Peak, dir: Guillermo Del Toro
15:18 Dracula, dir: Francis Coppola
15:28 Blade Runner, dir: Ridley Scott
15:51 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, dir: Robert Wiene
16:19 Neon Demon, dir: Nicolas Winding Refn
16:52 Playtime, dir: Jacques Tati
17:42 PART IV: DECAY
17:45 Marie Antoinette, dir: Sofia Coppola
18:16 In the Mood for Love, dir: Wong Kar Wai
18:26 Decasia, dir: Bill Morrison
19:56 Conclusion (or PART V: LANGUAGE)