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In Reply to: Last night on IFC - Rashomon, Rules of the Game posted by Victor Khomenko on December 27, 2006 at 15:11:57:
I decided not to watch RotG - I'm seeing it on the big screen this weekend. I did watch Rashomon.IFC has been running a bunch of the Janus release series this month - lots of great classics.
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Same here, my reason for not watching RofG was its running too late to really sit comfortably through it and enjoy - it is the kind of a movie you need to take seriously.But without any questions - kudos to the channel managers for doing what they are doing. Most of the time they seem to show just some moderately interesting stuff, but even that is great relief.
I enjoyed every second of Rashomon - it's been long time since I saw it.
The problem with IFC is that, unlike TCM and Sundance, they don't "respect" the film classics which they show. By that I mean they display their logo in the bottom right corner of the screen for the entire duration of the film and the end credits are cropped for promos. Between films there are commercials with stupid tie-ins.
It's annoying they try so hard to be "hip" by endlessly pitching to Generation X or Y or whatever it is nowadays.Thank goodness I saw most of these classics in the 1970's at Carnegie Hall Cinema, Bleeker Street Cinema, The Elgin, The Thalia, and The Regency revival houses in NYC and the Park Theatre in New Jersey.
TCM recently had a salute to Janus Films mini-festival where I finally caught up the 1955 Spanish classic "Death of a Cyclist".
You have TCM and Sundance and the masterful Criterion dvd editions to see these great films the right way!
I agree BUT the films are uncut and usually in the correct aspect ratio. Plus they usually repeat them so if you missed a part or want to give it another go it's there for you.
Uncut is a biggie, original aspect ratio is a biggie, and no coomercials is HUGE...plus they get a great variety of films that are difficult to find anywhere else on cable - recent and not so recent indies as well as foreign, cult and classic. The repeat scedule is nice. The logo sucks but its everywhere on cable.I don't mind their noisy promos. Yes, of course they're trying too hard to be hip. But if it draws in younger viewers for independent films that's a cool thing. In the meantime I can easily hit the mute button.
I too saw most of the Janus era classics at rep and revival houses in the 70's and 80s, as well as a ton at my alma mater (School of Art Institute of Chicago). Hovere, those venues are almost all gone so IFC and TCM are the best places for anyone to see some of these films.
I forgot to note that on an IFC wide screen film shown on a wide screen TV the logo often is not even visible.
You can make all the excuses you want for IFC but the fact is they don't respect the films. If TCM and Sundance don't use the logo constantly and don't crop the end titles for promos and don't show commercials then IFC can do the same. The only way to get them to change is to complain.Look at the awful AMC: remember how wonderful it was, a model for TCM no less! Now that it's owned by Cablevision which owns IFC it's become a brain-dead entity. I wouldn't be surprised if IFC doesn't gradually go down this path
The noted film/film music critic Royal S. Brown complained in the pages of Fanfare magazine a few years back about IFC's policies and cancelled it.
Don't let them (gradually) dumb you down!
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