quote:Originally posted by bogartthecat: frankly like many others I am considering whether to continue my subscription. film 4 is no longer the home of the best of World cinema. Instead it seems to consist of endless repeats.[QUOTE]
I've had enough and cancelled my subscription. It's no longer the cutting edge programming it used to be. I mean, look what happened with "Unforgiven" - first it was on Film Four, then it was on TCM a day or two later and within a week, it was on Channel 5. Why pay for Film Four at all? Things always turn up on Channel4 a week later!
Somehow it's lost all it's special class. I've stopped subscribing.
Wise move. BBC4 are showing more and more World Cinema (most Saturday nights) and SKY have just announced that their Sky Cinema channels will be showing much more World Cinema.
Film Four is only worth subscribing to if you have a 'My Best Friend's Wedding' fixation.
quote:Originally posted by FilmFour Channel: Here is a selection of some of the World and Extreme films we will be showing over the following months, plus some American indie titles:-
The Emperor and The Assassin The Business of Strangers Salaam Bombay The Bank Tears of The Black Tiger Weight of Water The Cremator Twin Falls Idaho Sex and Lucia Wendigo Brother George Washington What Time Is It There? Late Marriage The Warrior (and the director's short film, The Sheep Thief) Les Enfants du Siecle Dark Water Rolling Thunder Ivan's XTC Nowhere To Hide Read My Lips Crimes of Passion Django Kill Scenes From A Marriage Army of Darkness Bad Lieutenant (uncut)
Please let us know what films (or shorts) you would like to see on FilmFour - many thanks.
<malcolm grundy>
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hi can you tell me if the 1977 film the boys in company c will be on telly in the near future
How about screening Jacques Rivette's masterpiece OUT 1, a 13-hour TV series that many people believe to be the most important European film of the last four decades. This has been shown uncut on Italian, German and French television. Surely Film Four could find the space for it.
P.S. Don't worry. I'm only being ironic. What we really need is another screening of JERRY MAGUIRE.
you shouldn't joke about that - the way filmfour have been going on there will be a Tom Cruise week in the pipeline !!
can i add Kieslowski's Dekalog (decalogue) to the request list - i actually own it on DVD but there must be plenty of film buffs that would love an opportunity to expeience this masterpiece.....
"You see, what I'm sayin' basically is, you can't make an omelette without crackin' a few eggs, and humanity is just a cracked egg--and the omelette...stinks."
<minty's ma>
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when is the cremaster cycle going to be shown on tv? ever? never? wouldnt surprise me either way...
house of the fly
the sea is calling her children home
<highlandcoo>
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Please please show Restless Natives. Last time I seen it was on C4 some 15-20 years ago. Great film don't know why it's not on every week!!
<nathan>
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one simple suggestion from one simple person-how about the film'SYBIL'being shown?ever heard of it?sally field plays a woman who has sixteen personalities.i would gladly subscribe to filmfour just to see this film again. believe it was last shown on tv about ten years ago!sally won an emmy for her performance in it.c'mon filmfour do us a favour!
<Contact>
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I was wondering if you're going to be showing "In the realm of the sences " a.k.a. "Aiena Coroda" (spelling?) in the near future, and will it be cut, i heard the film was on film four some years back and i missed it.
"Ai No Corrida" has always been censored in this country (optical re-framing, video version missing a few shots compared to the cinema version), but what FilmFour has shown is still quite strong and no doubt will be shown again, if and when they get the rights.
Is there any chance of FilmFour showing The Tin Drum. Now available uncut, but I read that it was shown on C4 in the 1980s in this form despite being officially cut by the censors.
The version of Ai No Corrida that we show is the complete version of the film, with the optical re-framing still in place. We still have the rights and will be screening it in the next few months - as always, more exact details will follow. The Tin Drum is a title we would like to show but there have been some rights issues - we will let you know if there is any change. Thank you for your post.
quote:Originally posted by FilmFour Channel: Here is a selection of some of the World and Extreme films we will be showing over the following months, plus some American indie titles:-
The Emperor and The Assassin The Business of Strangers Salaam Bombay The Bank Tears of The Black Tiger Weight of Water The Cremator Twin Falls Idaho Sex and Lucia Wendigo Brother George Washington What Time Is It There? Late Marriage The Warrior (and the director's short film, The Sheep Thief) Les Enfants du Siecle Dark Water Rolling Thunder Ivan's XTC Nowhere To Hide Read My Lips Crimes of Passion Django Kill Scenes From A Marriage Army of Darkness Bad Lieutenant (uncut)
Please let us know what films (or shorts) you would like to see on FilmFour - many thanks.
i would like to see " you me and marley " showed or could you send me info where i could actually buy this title from yourselfs or elswhere ?
We don't have rights to this particular film, and there are no DVD details or company credits on the IMDB, so it may not be commercially available. Sorry not to be able to help further.
As a long standing film4 subscriber I've been rather concerned (and clearly i'm not alone in this) by the striking move away from avant-garde cinema towards Notting Hill-esque films. The list of prospective art films posted above is encouraging however. That being said, I would be even happier if there were plans to screen some of the great Godard films which haven't been released in the UK - Le Petit Soldat, Une Femme Marie, Pierrot Le Fou, Made In USA, Les Carabiniers, Passion, Le Chinoise etc. I recognise that his Dziga-Vertov period Maoist films may be too much to ask for but I would appreciate it if there was an attempt to unearth these masterpieces at some point Le Petit Soldat was shown a couple of years ago on the main Film4 channel if i remember correctly but my friend taped over it and ive been heartbroken ever since. Cheers, Ian. P.S. A bit of Wong Kar-Wai wouldn't go amiss either!
You,me, and Marley if I remember correctly was made for tv either by film four, but more likely BBC 2.. I have a tape from tv of it somewhere but it could take quite some finding.. I'll pass on any further details if I can dig it out
Meanwhile just when is Film Four going to get a more reasonable policy for accquiring films it hasn't previously shown because they are getting VERY thin on the ground and the quality of many of them is remarkably suspect.
Many thanks for your post. If you can spare the time, we would love to know which films you have recently seen and enjoyed on FilmFour and which films you might like to see on the channel in the future.
Any chance you'll be screening the Paradise Lost documentaries again? I missed them last time around, and they're unavailable in this country on DVD ir VHS.
quote:Originally posted by FilmFour Channel: Dear Xynaria
Many thanks for your post. If you can spare the time, we would love to know which films you have recently seen and enjoyed on FilmFour and which films you might like to see on the channel in the future.
Firstly....after looking through about 800 tapes I can't find my copy of You, Me and Marley but it was produced by Chris Parr who is rather active in TV still so anyone wanting to trace rights, distribution issues might be able to get further info through him.
Dear Film Four, I suppose it's one giant leap for mankind that you have actually replied to my post but had you read others you would see I've made numerous requests and suggestions, all but one that were ignored. The way I see it, suggesting individual films, seasons, director tributes, genre omissions isn't really worthwhile when they are not going to be considered and won't neccessarily stem the tide of increasing blandness, over repetition, or lack of focus that as taken a stranglehold over Film Four for over the last year. It's tag line used to be 'Great films you know and great films you don't' and up to an arguably viable point it lived up to that and fulfilled the function that repotary cinemas would.....surely one of the main reasons for it's existence and it's subscribers. You know from this board and from common sense there is an audience for those films that rarely get public airings yet where are the films from Africa, South America, and to an extent Asia, or even Europe..ok you have shown some of the 'best' that Europe has thrown up at times.. but there's also so much more and new additions to your programming are getting so scant or trite as to defy much justification for the channel..why are most of the recent interesting films that FF would once have proudly displayed being snapped up and shown by BBC 4????..why are other user suggesting people to suscribe to Artsworld or Sky movies????
Hi FilmFour could you please tell me when you will be showing the film "Merci pour la chocalat" as this one of the greatest films of all time. And also when will you be repeating Tea with Mussolini?
frankly like many others I am considering whether to continue my subscription. film 4 is no longer the home of the best of World cinema. Instead it seems to consist of endless repeats.[QUOTE] 
I've had enough and cancelled my subscription. It's no longer the cutting edge programming it used to be. I mean, look what happened with "Unforgiven" - first it was on Film Four, then it was on TCM a day or two later and within a week, it was on Channel 5. Why pay for Film Four at all? Things always turn up on Channel4 a week later!
