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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 10, 2023 21:27:03 GMT
You don't get curated stuff on TV anymore do you? BBC doesn't even do films these days.
I don't have any point to make tbh. I'm just watching this stuff on youtube and reminiscing.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Apr 11, 2023 11:05:31 GMT
When I was growing up, the Ontario public broadcaster had ' Magic Shadows', which serialized old films over the course of a week, and whose host, Elwy Yost* was a fixture in our house most nights. It had a neat, Beatles-esque opening, too:
After Magic Shadows was cancelled, Yost went on to host 'Saturday Night at the Movies', which played double-features and included interviews with cast and crew members. A really excellent show.
*Yost's son Graham became a fairly famous Hollywood screenwriter, and Elwy's last show before he retired featured his son's film 'Speed'.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Apr 15, 2023 16:32:22 GMT
You don't hear about Alex Cox these days.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 15, 2023 17:22:20 GMT
You don't hear about Alex Cox these days. Isn’t he a bit of a conspiracy nutter? |
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 15, 2023 17:29:23 GMT
You don't get curated stuff on TV anymore do you? BBC doesn't even do films these days. I don't have any point to make tbh. I'm just watching this stuff on youtube and reminiscing. It was a great series. I hadn't realised how long it had gone on for. But a lot of the films that really knocked me out when I was young, I got into through his show. He was pretty eccentric and his delivery was unusual but I suppose that was part of what made it all so attractive - like it was his shady, strange little world. But of course he knew his shit! I remember seeing The Man Who Fell To Earth, Ace In The Hole, Repo Man, Five Easy Pieces, Badlands, Get Carter....so many more. And you needed a bit of knowledge, really. It helped to get the backstory. Then you were all fired up to see the thing. |
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 15, 2023 17:31:06 GMT
The BBC do show late films now - I think there's been a bit of a resurgence. But not like they did 30, 40, 50 years ago.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who had VHS cassettes full of stuff taped off the telly. My copies of Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider and Twelve Angry Men were almost worn through.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 15, 2023 17:33:27 GMT
Yeah like a secret society. Opening the door into the unknown. Cult films, b movies, arty weirdness.
I guess people seek out their own shit these days therefore there’s no need for something like this. I’m not convinced by that argument btw.
Over 30 years ago now. Thrilled
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 15, 2023 17:35:04 GMT
Taping films off the telly!
Christ, yeah!
Hard not to get nostalgic about it all. When things were harder to come by they have an exotic allure.
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Post by oh oooh on Apr 15, 2023 17:38:41 GMT
Absofuckinlutely! I don't really see any reasonable argument against that.
I mean, whenever I found myself in another city, the first thing I'd do would be to find the record shop. And then I'd look through the racks and be thrilled by all the strange covers. Like you say, windows into different worlds. A massive thrill. You'd take a risk, buy something new. And sometimes when you got the thing home, you'd be disappointed. But sometimes you'd have your head blown off.
This just isn't happening today. Maybe the thrills are still there, but the convenience of access surely takes some of it away.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Apr 15, 2023 17:55:54 GMT
Everything is algorithmed to shit.
Randomness is good!
Ach. Anyway.
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