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In Reply to: Re: The problem with IFC... posted by rico on December 28, 2006 at 14:32:19:
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.
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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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