Lukas Moodyssons 'Together' on TV

[Barney_Tabasco]

Lukas Moodyssons marvellous film is on BBC Four on Saturday 30th March. Very surprised at how quickly this has come to TV, but it's a great opportunity for those who missed it at the cinema or on DVD.

Highly recommended.

On a similar note, i do think BBC Four (formerly BBC Knowledge) will be a channel to keep an eye on for arthouse/foreign movie buffs. Also starting on April 1st is a Jeanne Moreau season which kicks off with a brand new interview showing a selection of her films. The channel also promises an 'intelligent' magazine show called 'The DVD Collection' which focusses on classic movies on DVD and claims to be for lovers of 'serious cinema' - good stuff.

[Foxy Slamdangle]

Hmmm...I don't want to get my hopes up, but BBC4 is starting to sound very promising.

[gZa]

Aww man! I wish his earlier film <I>******* Åmål</i> would come to TV or even a decent DVD!
I think there's a non-anamorphic r1 version, under the less explicit title of <i>Show Me Love</i> available...

...but as this is owned by MOMENTUM PICTURES who release decent anamorphic DVDs I'm holding out for the r2...

I originally saw this on a double bill with <I>Together</i> and enjoyed them both equally...

BTW does anyone have the r2 of <I>Together</i> if so what's it like?

[Barney_Tabasco]

Looking at BBC Fours plans, '******* Åmål' (can we say that?) may well turn up on the schedule.

[Noel M]

Show Me Love (******* Åmål) is on FilmFour (http://www.filmfour.com/ff/listings/20020225.jsp) this Monday 25 February.

[phlebas]

Originally posted by Garry Cowell
Aww man! I wish his earlier film <I>******* Åmål</i> would come to TV <i>Show Me Love</i> available...Saw this recently on FilmFour after seing Together when it was released at the cinema. Excellent film.BTW does anyone have the r2 of <I>Together</i> if so what's it like? There's a thread on this here (http://www.thedvdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57281).

[Foxy Slamdangle]

Originally posted by Garry Cowell
BTW does anyone have the r2 of <I>Together</i> if so what's it like?

Yeah, sound and picture are good, but it's pretty much a no-frills disk.

HMV have it in their 2 for £25 deal (it's £19.99 on it's own), head over to the Bargain Forum and use the HMV vouchers listed there to get it even cheaper (assuming you can find another worthwhile disk, that is).

[Barney_Tabasco]

Spooky!

[Barney_Tabasco]

Just heard Little Otik is to be shown on this channel also :clap:

[Gary Couzens]

I'm certainly looking forward to BBC Four as well, though it doesn't seem much different to what BBC2 (and Channel 4) was doing ten years ago...and should still be doing but aren't.

It's like the argument about a specialised opera channel (for example). If you do the marketing and budgeting properly, you should create a viable channel...but you won't get the people who didn't know they liked opera until they caught a showing on BBC2/C4.

I'm old enough to remember when BBC2 showed foreign-language films at 9 or 10pm on a Saturday night. (I even remember ITV - at least in the London region - showing the occasional subtitled film late at night.) They showed <i>The Lacemaker</i> one night in September(?) 1981 and I saw it. It was only the second subtitled film I'd ever seen, and it started me watching others. My film watching has been much enriched over the last twenty years, and for that I'll be forever grateful. But it was only because the chance was there that I was able to take it. Nowadays, you'd be lucky to see a foreign film on a terrestrial channel at all, and if you do it's on after midnight. This shows how unadventurous TV has become over the last decade or so.

Okay, I didn't have a VCR in 1981, and foreign-language video releases (not to mention DVDs) didn't exist. And I was fortunate enough to be close enough to London to see the films I wanted to see (starting with Margarethe von Trotta's <i>The German Sisters</i>, my one and only visit to the old Academy on Oxford Street, in mid 1982). And we have Film Four, which I do subscribe to (not forgetting Carlton Cinema's efforts). But I wonder what a twenty-year-younger version of myself would do. You don't pay for these things unless you think you're going to like what you get...and how do you find that out? BBC2 and C4's showings of "niche"/minority-interest films used to be a lifeline for those who didn't live near to an arthouse cinema. Back then, TV could <i>create</i> a taste – it did for me – rather than just cater for it at best, or pander to it at worst.

My thousandth post, written more in sadness than in anger...