Looking forward to the Dreyer and Almodovar seasons! Other directors of interest include:
KOJI WAKAMATSU ERIC ROHMER JEAN ROLLIN JESS FRANCO AKIRA KUROSAWA JEAN-LUC GODARD FRACOIS TRUFFAUT, etc...
I very much enjoyed FF's brief offering of some 'Mondo Macabro' releases (shortly before the demise of FilmFour World if I recall correctly). These included films such as 'Alucarda,' etc. It would be nice to see some more of these alternative films. Thanks.
quote:Originally posted by castro1959: Looking forward to the Dreyer and Almodovar seasons! Other directors of interest include:
KOJI WAKAMATSU ERIC ROHMER JEAN ROLLIN JESS FRANCO AKIRA KUROSAWA JEAN-LUC GODARD FRACOIS TRUFFAUT, etc...
I very much enjoyed FF's brief offering of some 'Mondo Macabro' releases (shortly before the demise of FilmFour World if I recall correctly). These included films such as 'Alucarda,' etc. It would be nice to see some more of these alternative films. Thanks.
The Mondo Macabro documetaries are great too - Channel 4 and F4 hav shown some of these in the past - perhaps these could fortify and fill out a season of world cinema dedicated to films of the stranger/exotic variety or that exist on the periphery. How about a screening of LADY TERMINATOR?
I second the suggestions for films by Rollin, Wakamatsu and Rohmer. I've seen a couple of Rollin's movies (FASCINATION was on F$ a few years ago, GRAPES OF DEATH is on DVD) but would love to see more of his stuff (uncut of course). I'm yet to see a Rohmer film but will hopefully be going to see TRIPLE AGENT in the cinema this week. Any suggestions for a Rohmer novice?
I know I've requested it in the past, but how about a season of Monte Hellman films? One of the greatest - and least well-known - American filmmakers EVER, his body of work is small but first-rate. F4 has screened THE SHOOTING and RIDE IN THE WHIRLWIND (which I just watched again yesterday - fantastic, both) in the past but how about FLIGHT TO FURY, TWO-LANE BLACKTOP, CHINA 9, LIBERTY 37 (shown in a pan & scan print a couple of years back on Sky Cinema 1 & 2), IGUANA and the rest (although I won't even bother asking about COCKFIGHTER...). Hellman's ripe for discovery by a wider audience...
Many thanks for these suggestions, and we will certainly keep you posted on any developments. We have indeed shown some of the Monte Hellman's in the past, and he is definitely a director of interest to us. On the Rollin front, we have shown The Night of The Hunted and Lips of Blood earlier this year, uncut. We will be showing them again next year, and will keep you updated once they have a definite date in the schedule. Please keep the suggestions coming.
There has been a sad lack of Peter Greenaway films on Film4. What's more, there are none in the FF video rental just announced. The sad demise of Spike Milligan could have been the impetus for a Spike season (the Bed Sitting Room, The Magic Christian, The Running Jumping and Standing Still Film, and many others) but that opportunity was missed. Other films I would like to see again include Blanche, with the fabulous early music; Nothing but the Best fo perfect black comedy. I've been a subscriber for years, with just a brief hiatus when analog was ditched before I could get digital, but I do not find the offerings anywhere near as interesting as in the early days of FF. I know I should watch Japanese and similar films, but I can't force myself. Originally, they could have a channel to themselves, but the new 2-channel set-up (+1 is not another channel, is it? - be honest) or, more precisely one and one-seventh channels, does not permit segregation. I think the old system was better. After all that, Film4 is the only film channel to which I subscribe, so it can't be all bad.
I agree with many of the contributors. I seem to remember the original filmfour claiming to be a channel for independant movies. By what definition is Gladiator an independant film? I only subscribe to the channel for a month at a time, when there's an unmissable movie on - 1900 for example - that you can't see on the mainstream channels. Isn't that what filmfour is meant to be about. As for any longer subscription in future, forget it. Not while so much mainstream Hollywood drivel clogs up the schedules.
I very much enjoyed Bernard Rose's "ivans xtc" the breakneck race between fast life and fast death for Hollywood agent Ivan Beckman (played by charm monster Johnny Huston). And despite it's mature, realist theme, it also made me curious to see Rose's 1992 horror movie "Candyman", as in "ivan's xtc" he displays a killer instinct for hard-balling tension in his viewers, and the effectiveness of an idyllic setting for any spectacular mortal fall (he films Beverly Hills with piercing grace). Another movie I'd be delighted to see on filmfour is "The Picasso Summer". It's a 1970 US production filmed in Europe and concerning a British man (Albert Finney) frittering away his honeymoon in an obsessive quest for a face-to-face meeting with Picasso. It's distinguished by frequent bouts of animation of Picasso's art (you gots to see this) between the scenes with Finney etc. as well as a Ray Bradbury screenplay and a score by Michelle Legrand. It's unlikely to be offered to the DVD-buying public, so I'm depending on you...
I subscribe to film four along with sky movies and recently have been enjoying a lot of the stuff on film four in particular the joaquin phoenix season i never realised he had been in so many films. Buffalo soldiers was excellent and film four produced as well so well done and keep up the good work. As for showing films that have already been seen well sometimes you dont always see a film first time round I also recently enjoyed the big lebowski which i know has been out for years but it's good to get a chance to catch up on things you have missed first time around
I would love, *love*, to be able to watch Film 4... but there's no Freeview reception in our part of the country, and we're not satellite or cable subscribers. So: what are my options? Will I be able to watch movies online?
I would like to say that I am very dissapointed in what FilmFour has become - I don't like ad breaks in movies, I don't like the schedule finishing earlier (3am instead of 6am) and I don't like FilmFour Weekly being cancelled, because there is now only one film to watch at a time so there's no choice.
I hope somebody will read this as it has completely devastated me. I want my FilmFour back the way it was. Please! I used to love getting into a film and losing myself in the diverse, fascinating, entertaining films and documentaries. FilmFour was one thing I really loved.
Tonight I started watching "Lost in Translation" and was really starting to get into it when my worst fear was realised - adverts, NOOOOOO! Please sort it out. £6 a month is a small price to pay for seeing the films the way the director intended - uninterupted. I won't rest until this problem is fixed. I would be watching a film now but there are no more Films on. Why stop them at 3am? There are 5million people in the U.K who work nights and I for one loved watching film four on my nights off. FilmFour has become another boring film channel.
I hope you don't ruin the one last thing left - the selection of world, extreme and independant films. If film four stops showing these and instead goes for dull hollywood movies and new releases only I will break down and cry.
I can't express how much enjoyment I have had from the one beautiful TV channel. Please don't leave it in ruins. It's not too late.
The breaks are worse than on ITV1 AND CH4 - that's the problem. 5th Element had them every 25mins, ITV and CH4 are usually about 40mins before you hit an ad. WhatVideo said they'd be every 45mins - yeah right!
As I can get Film 4 from the freeview box, I don't have any complain about the advert, esp I can record the films I like and fast forward the advert. But I also hope that Film 4 will show the high quality films rather than any rubbish, boring Hollywood films.
The first films I've watched was 'Lost in Translation', but didn't enjoy it at all. I've also seen 'Infernal Affairs I' and 'Duck Soup' so far. Not bad. Looking forward to more interesting films...
[Filmfour please help, since the big switch on i have been unable to recieve the channel, all my other channels are fine but still cannot recieve. I have a tosumi tomstb01 freeview box. Any ideas??
I have read some of the comments on the forum about film4....I dont have sky but if I did I would subscribe, unfortunatly due to cutbacks, like the electricity and gas going through the roof, I am a freeview owner and film4 is all scrambled because of where i live it is the reception is not good. If digital is the way forward for t.v why is analog better I mean you get better reception.
I have an On Digital Freeview box (Nokia Mediamaster 9850 T). The ads had said FilmFour would be on ch 31 - Freeview, but what I've got is the CBBC channel instead. What's going on?!
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