Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by mikenyc on December 21, 2002 at 03:37:40

In Reply to: Those movies channels... they crawl out of woodwork... posted by Victor Khomenko on December 19, 2002 at 08:16:34:

IFC and FLIX are the only alternatives, in addition to, your local PBS station.

FLIX has the best foreign film presentation of ALL of the film channels, actually. They have the "first films" and obscure films, of many, now, well known actors actresses and directors. Really interesting choices, and subject genres, that make their limited runs here. Someone is thinking in the programming department. How dare they think !!!!

IFC has the same selection of films from the past too, but more current selections. The current selections are not that varied, and essentially are "establishment" choices. If they wanted to go cheap, they, at least, need to beef up their pre-'60s, especially, their Sam Fuller catalog, to include more of his films, and more genre's of independent films. One can see "Seven Samurai" and "Repo Man", only so much! I don't find the original programming interesting, at all. A big disappointment, considering the potential that's there. It has the Cablevision Limited Imagination of what independent film REALLY is. You won't find too much, if ANYTHING, interesting here. They should call it the Dependent Film Channel.

AMC sucks big time, with their neverending commercials, that are actually worse than any commercial network or MTV, is. The new hosts/hostesses for their movies are totally faceless, Generation X'ers, that have no memorability as people, let alone "personalities". WE, is their "chick film" offshoot that, primarily, presents really sucky "made for Tv" movies. In their grab for what, Cablevision, think the "youth market" is, it's apallingly tasteless and totally non-offensive, to the point of being invisable in the cable Tv marketplace. I have never witnessed such ineptness in programming, as a viewer, from these people. They are THAT out of touch, and amazingly DUMB !!! That these Morons raise cable rates, and subscribers take it...it's another story.

BRAVO...who knows what NBC is going to turn it into after they get their commercial mits on it, into the new year. Let's hope they just leave their "BRAVO Profile" series alone. It works for something that has been re-invented many times over...but by lesser talents than the BBC. Very entertaining show. Their "SportsNight" and other original programming stuff, just makes it like every other network, and it's not distinctive. I might as well as be watching, well, NBC!

Your local PBS outlet, is great...lots of obscure, public domain films, that are, actually, entertaining the 100th time around. Look for the overnights, Friday, Saturday, for the film fests. I LOVE "Murder by Television", especially, after the 1000th time !