JonasEB
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And why are young people getting rid of cable in favor of streaming? Price. Don't you know that streaming services will eventually cost as much, possibly more, than cable ever did? The selection will inevitably be poorer, older films will become even more marginalized than they already are, silent films and the best world cinema will be essentially non-existant to the public eye. Not to mention what it could do to physical home video - it's impossible for most cinephiles to see what they want to at theaters and the potential absence of DVD and Blu-ray will only make matters much, much worse.
Commercials: If you think you've escaped them think again. Eventually streaming media will be full of it. Cable On Demand services already have forced commercial breaks on some network programming and general commercial breaks on others, this will inevitably happen to Netflix and Hulu and other services as well - not just the 30 second bit that plays before a show like on YouTube, it will be interspersed throughout, just like TV.
We've had streaming for about half a decade now. After years of development I'm even less optimistic about where this is all going. Streaming in and of itself isn't a bad thing, it can be useful, but the "Everything Now"/"Only What I Want, Now" mentality that has developed because of it is extremely unhealthy. Moderation, people.
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I guess Warner refuses to have anything to do with the "Rape of Christ" scene so that automatically puts the 2004 version off the table.
But even if we did get the 2004 version, it would still be a DVD - apparently that restoration only exists on SD digibeta, there isn't a film copy. Money would have to be spent and archives would have to be opened to get a proper film version assembled and it's highly unlikely Warner's going to go for that.
Unfortunate, but at least the original British X-rated theatrical cut will finally be available again.
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Valentine, the British Film Institute is going to release The Devils on DVD in March next year.
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Strike, a major silent film, certainly has been on US TV before and has been on TCM before. In fact, here's the old programming article for it...
http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/445903|0/Strike.html
TCM either mistakenly ordered the old version used on the Image DVD or Kino sent them a wrong or flawed master of the restoration they just issued. They usually have limited opportunities to show films licensed from small companies like Kino (usually one time per rental) so they probably didn't want to spend the money unless they were getting what they wanted.
Strike will probably show up again in March, April, or May - at least within the next year.
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For anyone who doesn't own the European DVDs or anyone who wants to have the films running at proper speed, here's the latest TCM/Universal Vault Collection set...
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> {quote:title=helenbaby wrote:}{quote}I'm pretty sure the wraparounds & any original programming in the last 3 or 4 years are filmed in HD, but since the films are all made before HD cameras, they aren't. Although I'll have to say that the films are more vivid, for the lack of a better word, on the HD feed.
Film has always been "HD", it has a capacity far beyond the common digital formats today (that's why they look good projected; a DVD sized image would look terrible on a 50 ft screen.) Digital has only just caught up to 35mm film, it's still inferior to 70mm film. Film just requires a new telecine scan at a higher resolution to capture what's on the print, whereas video is locked at whatever resolution it was originally shot at.
TCM is waiting for the right time to do genuine HD - it requires a lot of HD masters to be made and delivered. Warner/Turner films are surely ready to go but the same may not be true for the other studios. Most studio DVDs made in the last 10 years should have been made from 2K scans, so in theory we should have a lot ready for HD but it needs to be in TCM's hands. The channel should definitely be ready by 2015. Maybe TCM will start true HD broadcasting on their 20h anniversary in 2014.
As for TCMHD's upscaling quality - 4:3 B&W films tend to look the best, often quite good, and widescreen color films tend to look the worst (because TCM must artificially enlarge a 4:3 letterbox master in this case.) It's also worth mentioning that these problems are more significant if you have a 120hz framerate/refresh or higher TV (SD television in general fares poorly on these.)
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Ah, thanks a lot for that article!
What I'm interested in knowing now is this: Will the 3:00 AM-3:00 PM Fox Movie Channel programming be like it is today (mostly pre-70s) or will we see the more recent Fox catalogue titles (1970s on) we see during the evenings pushed into the daytime hours? I'm guessing it's going to be the latter - 12 hours of FMC, about half pre-70, half post-70.
If this is the case that means about 3-5 pre-70 films tops depending on how long the films are.
I guess it's good that the older films will still be there but I think this is basically the beginning of the end and FMC will eventually lose out entirely to FXM.
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As other posts have affirmed there was something there but now it's gone.
As for my proof, well, it's not exactly hard proof but the fact that the films scheduled weren't strictly Fox films (Iron Man - Paramount), are films regularly seen on FX, and the interstitial programs were marked "FXM presents _____", I think it seems to indicate "FX" & "Movies".
Next month, one of the Fox Legacy installments (the 9th) is marked "Series Finale" - we'll probably know what's going on by that point.
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Unfortunate, but not surprising, to hear Fox is missing a lot of film materials. I was hoping that the same could be done for a lot of the late silent-era Fox titles we've been waiting for.
Definitely eager to see What Price Glory this Sunday!
Oh, this is the artwork for the upcoming edition of Wings...
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And here's what the artwork looks like...
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For sure, Fox Movie Channel was repeat heavy, but it did (usually) show classic films for about half of its programming day - there isn't any other channel left like that other than TCM.
Any time we lose a channel that will show something like Pilgrimage (on this morning) in favor of network promotion and the even greater repetition of films that FX already shows regularly, it's a very bad thing.
*don96 - Fox Movie Channel generally does not put up it's early schedule ( beginning at 3am ) until sometime after the 25th of the month. So for the full Jan '12 schedule--look for it after Nov 25.*
I've always had a full schedule or nothing by the middle of the month (maybe a few missing days) but we'll wait and see. I wouldn't be surprised if that chunk of time between 4:00 AM and 3:00 PM was filled with paid programming.
*lavenderblue19 - There are a few older films on in the morning.I'm also disappointed with their line-up.*
Those films on January 1st are the last of Fox Movie Channel's broadcasting. The new FX Movies will begin at 3:00 PM that day.
*markfp2 - I'd much rather see Fox strike a long-term deal with TCM giving it access to it's entire classic library and not just the few dozen films it now gets.*
That would be the best possible outcome of the situation. Considering we're getting the long unavailable silent What Price Glory? this weekend, we'd probably get more rarities out of a TCM/Fox relationship.
*ValentineXavier - The same people who own AMC bought the IFC, and The Sundance Channel. The IFC used to be great, now it's awful. They haven't started with the commercials on The Sundance Channel yet, but it has gone way down hill as well. You're disappointed, well, I'm disgusted..*
I'm fairly certain that The Sundance Channel will start commercials next month just like IFC did last December. I'd be genuinely surprised if they did not. TV shows eat up over half of their broadcasting time, they're showing various mainstream Warner and Fox properties, new foreign and independent additions to their programming have basically dried up entirely (a one-off showing of a couple of Korean films - Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day and Lee Chang-dong's Secret Sunshine - are the only interesting new titles I've come across in the last six months or so.)
FMC schedule - December 9th lists this installment of "Fox Legacy" as the "Series Finale", so I guess we'll know for sure what FX Movies is going to look like by that point.
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Take a look at January on their schedule...
http://www.foxmoviechannel.com/schedule.php
Iron Man, Slumdog Millionaire, Fantastic Four, The Grudge 2, The Wickerman (2006), Jumper, etc. etc.
We can't see what airs before 3:00 PM ET yet but it looks like the channel is going to be rebranded "FX Movies" - will the old films still be there?
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http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2011/11/unless_we_find_an_angel.html
Darn, I've enjoyed the new incarnation of the show.
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> {quote:title=ValentineXavier wrote:}{quote}I used to enjoy Siskel and Ebert, for their discussions. I would often disagree with their conclusions, but felt I was given sufficient info to make my own conclusions.
And the show was just so fun to watch when you got them going on a particular subject - never the same after 1999 and none of the other shows that copied the format did it right.
General thread comments...
Roger Ebert = "Socialist-Far Left Lens" - Ebert's obviously not a socialist and being a liberal isn't terribly far to the left. Let's not start on the backwards use of the term liberal in this country (did you know the main conservative party of Japan is called the Liberal Democratic Party? It's actually quite commonly used everywhere else for center-right parties like our Republicans.)
Socialism = "Far Left" - Pretty much ever country in the world, except for the U.S., has a mainstream socialist party. That should tell one something. Every other country also seems to have at least 3 and often 4 or more viable political parties - that should really tell us something very obvious about ourselves (we are in fact a country that only caters to the center of the political spectrum.)
Michael Medved = Idiot - Well, that's because he is.
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Probably Jonathan Rosenbaum in general but others have written my favorite examples of criticism (like David Bordwell's Ozu book.)
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Reading comprehension troubles? I'll highlight the pertinent points for you...
*ValentineXavier wrote: "Also, there have been many cases in the past where local Comcast Cable head-ends have inadvertently turned it on, so it can't be turned off at your house."*
It's that simple. This has happened before and it's likely this is what has happened to the original poster. That's why they don't deserve a lot of crap from people who can't take the time to read the thread.
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As noted in this very thread, right before you in fact, this is a problem caused by the cable station. It has happened before and has been noted here before - but that doesn't mean that every single person who watches TCM is going to know about that. It's a reasonable complaint and now the OP probably knows what to do.
Don't be a dick.
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Robert Osborne has little to do with TCM's scheduling.
I didn't watch any of the Hammers that TCM showed on Halloween. Curse of Frankenstein I'd seen before and it's superb. Hammer made a lot of sturdy thrillers, horror films, and some sci-fi films between the late 50s and early 60s, a British equivalent to the Val Lewton unit. These aren't any more or less scary than any other horror films.
I can't speak for the quality of theHammer films made in the mid to late 60s on but Hammer has a much deserved reputation and it's the height of silliness to use the few that TCM did show as a barometer for a studio that made several dozens of films in its classic period.
TCM showed many films with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi last month, more than the amount of Hammer films aired that month.
But I guess there's no helping lazy viewers.
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What TCM was like back in the day...
They have always played films made within the last ten years - since month #1.
They've always scheduled things from 1970 on.
The amount of films post-60s hasn't changed in the last five, ten + years - proven countless times on this forum.
They've always aired world cinema - more daring and challenging choices showing up lately.
They've always aired silent films - they've actually seemed to increase in number over the last couple of years.
They've always aired rare, hard to find, or otherwise never to be seen films on TV.
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I'm not going to try to defend the film from negative reactions because I do think it's basically a failure - not in the "terrible film" sense, just that it doesn't quite work.
Although a narrative was meant to be built out of the project, clearly focused on Tom Farrell, there's ultimately too little of it to build on and most of the other characters and visual connections are either too general or just not there. This isn't surprising considering that Ray had to mold something out of an entirely chaotic approach to filmmaking.
There is the occasional moment in which the visceral effect of all of the images come together (the beard shaving scene) but it doesn't happen often enough.
Ray said that he wanted to make a kind of "Guernica" out of the whole thing.
So, it's a failure, but a supremely interesting one.
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I'm 25 years old and have been exposed to classic film (live action) since the age of 3, became genuinely interested in them in my late teens.
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> {quote:title=pturman wrote:}{quote} Good answer.And I urge you to give GIANT another chance. I've lived in Texas for the last 15 years & it really does capture the Texan mentality & the problem they have with change. Watching GIANT makes me almost have empathy for George Bush & Rick Perry. Almost.
I don't actually dislike Giant, I just have a gut reaction when a film like Rebel Without a Cause is attacked for some of the more histrionic moments (in a film that isn't going so much for realism) whereas Giant rarely is, at least around here, for its excesses (the boy's birthday party, for instance.)
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Chiefly, middle class aspirations and goals and the shifting familial roles America experienced in the 20th century but especially after WWII. The cultural effects of all of this - no wisdom, no traditions, no genuine spiritual or moral guidance, no passion, things that many have to find elsewhere (if they're lucky.) The parents are misunderstood by the children, the parents misunderstand each other, the children don't understand themselves. The attempt at finding one's identity is the major issue of adolescence, and even adult life, in the modern world - it's pure reality - and as we have seen over the past century, it is a process that is becoming increasingly problematic.
Rebel Without a Cause is of one piece with Nicholas Ray's later film Bigger Than Life. Both deal with a kind of cultural sickness that has been a part of life not just in America but in every western-style country in the modern and post-modern era. America likes to proclaim tradition but the country is essentially a nation that cast away the old traditions in favor of new values. We champion the family but we always encourage it to be separated. We are the chief image of modernity and the relativistic age and we still haven't discovered how to deal with these contradictions.
The film isn't a one sided parents (bad) vs. children (good) situation.
Rebel Without a Cause is in the modernist tradition of Ulysses, not as detailed and complex, but the same confused individuals, the same ideas, dealing with an increasingly fractured society.
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> {quote:title=Sky1948 wrote:}{quote}Hi;Just watched the November 2011 "What's Playing" show. Saw the ads for the upcoming "Master de Baters" or something like that.
TCM isn't showing anything called "Master de Baters". What are you talking about?
And what the hell is all of this talk about "putting a modern slant" on old clips. How did "liberal agenda" get into any of this???
Are we talking about the AFI Masterclass thing? TCM always does stuff like this. What does Steven Spielberg talking about his movies and collaboration with John Williams have to do with a "liberal agenda".
Jesus Christ!
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The official "Suggest A Movie" Page - http://www.tcm.com/suggest-a-movie/index.html - is authentic. I've had a great number of successes with it over the past couple of years.