You can't set the List Style at the Movies level, only at the level below that. i.e. Name, Series, Grid, Recent, etc. If you are adding a level below those and trying to set the List style, you are on your own, as I don't take the menu system down that many levels. With my setup it doesn't make sense for me. Each of the Name, Series, Grid, Recent, etc. items remembers their own List Style.
The Artist thing, you are making it hard for yourself. Very hard. Movies don't typically have Artists, they have Actors, and there is a field for those, and a view under the Movies heading. The Movies level of the view already has the "Media Type" set to "Video" and the "Media Sub Type" set to "Movie", and that cascades down to the Name, Series, Grid, Recent, etc. level. Adding that condition back in at the Name level against the Artist field is redundant, and you will get unexpected results.
[Album], [Artist], [Album Artist], and [Album Artist (auto)] have logic built around them, and so they are best suited for audio media.
Movies don't have a three-level structure like TV Series (Series, Season, Episode), so just use [Series] for the movie Series (Star Wars), and [Name] for the Name of the movie. That works as expected and makes sense to me. I guess you could apply three levels to some Marvel movies (Marvel, X-Men, Name) but the Marvel movies are about the only time that would apply. If I wanted to record that a movie was part of the Marvel universe I would probably add a field for "Studio" or something similar, rather than use the three level criteria.
Set up the way I have, using just [Series] for a movie series such as Star Wars, I select the Movie > Series view, then select Star Wars, and all I see in there are Star Wars movies. Yes, you will have to give each Star Wars movie a [Series] value of "Star Wars". If you already have that information in the [Artist] field, you can just move the value across to the [Series] field. That function is on the right-click menu.
All of the above is the standard, default way the Theatre View menus are set up when MC is first installed, except that a Series subview doesn't exist under the movies menu. That is easy to add. Just create a sub-level item (Library Item) under the Movies section, and then add the [Series] field into the detail area so that the movies are grouped by Series. Then in the details area, add under the set rules for display add a rule that says "series" "is not" "empty". I want my Movie > Series view to only display movies that are part of a series, and hence have a value in the [Series] field.
Then modify the result by sorting it any way you want. I sort in ascending order by [Date (release)] which then displays the movies in the Series in what I consider the correct order, by Release Date. My Movie > Series view only displays movies that are part of a series, and hence have a value in the [Series] field.
