comment #1

FilmTurtle says ...

Never heard of the show. But it's worth asking, if he's the host of a show called "Fox Legacy," why he's allowing the Fox Research Library to be shut down. The entire history of the studio is contained there. So much for the Fox "legacy." Argh...

comment #2

le corbeau says ...

I'd love to watch this, if DirecTV didn't put FMC on a higher tier than all the other movie channels. It's no TCM, but it has some good things (if you get it, be sure to tivo Blood Money or Zoo in Budapest).

comment #3

MikeSchaeferSF says ...

Mgmax: Comcast does the same thing -- I have a movie-centric tier that includes several dozen film channels including multiple Starz, multiple Encore, IFC, Sundance... but no FMC.

comment #4

lesterg says ...

Fox Movies, Hallmark and Sundance are inexplicably buried between Latin music channels, foreign language stations and obscure MTV spin-offs (Tr3s, VH1 Soul) on Connecticut's Cablevision. Can't imagine what their viewership must be around here.

comment #5

Edward says ...

One thing about cable and satellite that is annoying, at the very least, are all the channels you receive that you have no interest in. For me it would be the Hispanic channels (for obvious reasons), shopping and religious programming (although, I have to confess of watching religious programming on occasion), MTV, Disney, etc. The providers bitch about not being supportive of a la carte programming, but viewers should be allowed to pick and choose a block of programming that's of interest. What's the point in having 100's of channels when you only are interested in half of them.

comment #6

erniesouchak says ...

I'm sure it's a really, really, REALLY big deal for Papa Steven to drop a note to a studio head. (yawn)

comment #7

Rothchild says ...

Tom Rothman is a soulless piece of shit. He's also retarded. He's like the exec version of D.Z.

comment #8

The Bandsaw Vigilante says ...

His crimes while head of the studio are legion (forcing Bryan Singer off X-MEN 3, driving Connery into retirement, nearly making Proyas quit the filmmaking business altogether, et al).

But he, like, totally gets to fuck the star of SUSPIRIA, like, every night!

Dude even said so himself at the Saturn Awards.

comment #9

Rothchild says ...

You're not even touching the shit he pulls on writers.

comment #10

Richardson says ...

"I'd love to watch this, if DirecTV didn't put FMC on a higher tier than all the other movie channels. It's no TCM, but it has some good things"

I don't know if they still do it, but I have caught them outright misframing "letterboxed" presentations. If 'Miller's Crossing' is on, chances are good I'll wind up watching it. I caught a good chunk of it on FMC, and was briefly pleasantly surprised to see it letterboxed -- most movie stations don't bother. But it soon appeared that this was by far the worst shot Coen brothers movie ever, badly misframed, until I checked it opposite my DVD and realized that they had done something wrong. I think they took an open matte copy and just applied the frame across it without checking or something, because the framing was awful. In a movie where hats are so important, the tops of people's heads matter.

Ever since then I've been wary of FMC, though I should say in their favor that they have also shown widescreen Robert Altman movies that *did* look properly aligned.

comment #11

The Bandsaw Vigilante says ...

"You're not even touching the shit he pulls on writers."

Quoted for truth.

comment #12

le corbeau says ...

Yeah, FMC is very indiscriminate about what prints they show. The virtue they have is that once in a blue moon one of those really good early Fox talkies, that you cannot see anywhere, turns up. Blood Money is astonishing, there's a real S&M angle to it that is quite shocking. Zoo in Budapest is a lovely allegory about teens in love and zoo animals in cages, really a beautiful film in that early 30s way that no other decade equals (silent poetry plus early talkie realism). There are a few others-- The Power and the Glory (Preston Sturges' proto-Citizen Kane), some of the better Will Rogers titles, etc.

comment #13

lipranzer says ...

Rothman comes off as very pompous in the intros he does. I was particularly not happy with the one he did for GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT - while he understood the film wouldn't play the same way today it obviously did back then, he still came off as if he were lecturing us.

comment #14

T. S. Idiot says ...

Zoo in Budapest is one of the most beautifully photographed, by Lee Garmes, films of the early 30s and deserving of Criterion treatment.