A thread to talk about the free DVD's they put in the weekend papers.

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This weekend the Guardian is giving away a copy of The Whicker Man. Amazingly enough I've never seen this film so I'm quite looking forward to it. No doubt if the Guardian's giving a DVD away the rest will follow suit, so feel free to recommend or warn against them here.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

I kinda keep the Guardian ones around to watch during bored moments. I watched Let Him Have It the other night (which I got months ago) and bawled like a baby.

The only one I ever bought specifically to get the DVD was that Sunday Observer that had Dune in it. I wanted to watch it, but was f*cked if I was going to pay for it. ;-P

― Boris and the Johnsons (kate), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of papers have been doing this for a while, surely? The Wicker Man is the second one I've actually wanted; the first was Donnie Darko in last week's Sunday Times.

(but I'm going to be away on Saturday, so I've left strict instructions with The Parents to go out and buy me a Guardian that day)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

the only paper i have bought in the last six months or so was an indie, purchased for a free dvd of 'closely observed trains'.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of papers have been doing this for a while, surely?

Yeah, so I was suprised when I couldn't find a thread about it.

Is this a UK only phenomenon or does it happen elsewhere?

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

mmm that reminds me. MR niche-ian may i have the Poseidon adventure back, the one i got from the w/e paper?

i got cinema paradiso free from the Guardian, can't fault 'em.
haven't watched it yet though.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

over the past year or so i've got whistle down the wind, closely observed trains, wings of desire, dune, and a few others. i had to buy the telegraph in order to get wdtw, but i really love that film.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Guardian had an article about it the other day, specifically to slag the Sunday Times off for Donnie Darko.

According to said article newspapers don't make any money from it.

The Guardian does it once a month.

Instead of subtitles you get to see a crappy transcript on the internet. What about deaf readers, eh? RAW DEAL.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

it's a very costly gimmick.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Said article:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1711977,00.html

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not sure papers can say they "don't make any money", because there's invariably a sales spike. but people don't seem to then stick with the paper for the following weeks, so you've got no long-term gain; and i suppose that if you're putting out "police academy 5: the out-takes" on the same day your deadliest rival is putting out "the complete hitchcock", you've just lost a huge amount of cash.

i've never been involved with DVD promotions but i've done cover-mounted CDs and the rights/legal issues etc were tortuous. mind, that was - gulp - getting on for eight years ago now.

the plan with these giveaways was simple: hook people into the product with a big giveaway, then wow them with how ace the paper is so they keep reading it. problem, of course, is that everybody else is doing the same thing, meaning people keep reading their paper of choice and pick up another one every so often when there's a DVD they like; or they don't bother with a paper of choice at all and just pick and mix depending on who's got the best film.

hellfire, i bought a telegraph the other week for "saturday night and sunday morning". that said, as a hack i do try to read a cross-section of papers, so for me this can be quite a good way of ensuring i see something different each week ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

heh: it's a funny article, that. i like it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I bought the Telegraph two days running. For some reason I had convinced myself it was quite good, but it was awful. I'm glad I've got the films though.

The point is/was that the sales spike doesn't cover the costs of the DVD. I'm not sure I believe this though, they must be piss cheap to produce and usually they license crap, which is covered with the logo of whoever owns it anyway.

Yes, the article is like a hissy fit in print.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

The spike doesn't cover the costs, but the hope is that it leads to longer-term sales increase, as tempted readers go "I say! Pigfarming Weekly has some surprisingly interesting features".

It probably doesn't work, as grimly says, but most papers get sucked into the giveaway arms race just to tread ciculation water. Is that metaphor mixed enough?

hellfire, i bought a telegraph the other week for "saturday night and sunday morning".

That's nothing - to get His Girl Friday I had to buy the Express.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 February 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Even the Sunday Sport have joined in with this by giving away free porn. Though I'd feel more embarrased buying the Sunday Sport than I would buying porn.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

This weekend the Guardian is giving away a copy of The Whicker Man.

Note how The Guardian saves costs by fooling the public with the (vastly inferior) remake, in which Alan Whicker has a nice chat with the Lord Summerisle on the veranda.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

the guardian article, or maybe a bloke from the guardian talking about it on the tv, said it does cost them money but it's really all about the ABC figures, hence the once a month thing.

the sun was a bit cheap, making you send away for the recent Carry On dvds thus ensuring nobody bothered. (you could also pick them up in person from news agents like 'dillons' and 'martins', ie the unpopular newsagents. i didn't like the way the adverts concentrated on the popular colour films and just mentioned the better b&w ones as an afterthought)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

but it's really all about the ABC figures, hence the once a month thing

yes - but of course if everyone's doing it, it makes the ABCs a joke (qv bulk sales etc).

my publication doesn't do the DVD thing. which means i can feel much better about its piddly circulation ;)

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 23 February 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

i love that the telegraph did 'saturday night and sunday morning'.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

It shows they have won.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

That's nothing - to get His Girl Friday I had to buy the Express.

I so meant to do that and forgot. I love that film. Baghdad Cafe I really enjoyed and would never have watched if it wasn't for The Guardian.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

> i love that the telegraph did 'saturday night and sunday morning'.

they also did 'taste of honey' the same weekend - interracial sex, smiths' lyrics and all.

that said, both were BAFTA choices rather than Telegraph choices.

what do you do with the dvds you don't care for that you now have lying around due to buying the paper it was in? oxfam? dustbin?

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i love that the telegraph did 'saturday night and sunday morning'.
they also did 'taste of honey' the same weekend - interracial sex, smiths' lyrics and all.

goddamnit, wish i'd bought it now.

i will swap my unwatched copy of 'the fabulous baker boys' (free with the times -- hi had my reasons) for either.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a whole bunch I never get round to watching. Everythiing from "Cabaret" to "French Lietenant's Woman" to the "Carry On" set (at some point).

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

do they ever have 'extras'? i'm still feeling an idiot for not getting the torygraph, cos them's are both films i've contemplated BUYING (in flusher times...).

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

i wish they did this over here

― ,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't yet bought a paper especially for the DVD, but that's more through forgetfulness than design. Bagdad Cafe and Let Him Have It were two I probably wouldn't have seen otherwise, and I liked both. The ones I don't want come in useful for students at work.

Recently there's been a lot of people giving them away on Freecycle, too.

No extras, no subtitles. (Which no doubt my mum fumes about every week.)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I bought the Mirror to get Cabaret. My choice of Sunday paper tends to revolve around the freebies. And as a result I now have a drawer full of DVDs that I never get round to watching, and I end up with copies of the Mail on Sunday :(

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

I bought The Sun to get a cheap holiday.

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Woah, was it the *NEW* Dune?

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 February 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Inspired by this thread, I last night put my Taste Of Honey into the flashy double wallet that came with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. BFI has offers for Telegraph readers. Don't know what they are, but it is another economic factor, I suppose. I don't suppose they have many takers. I know, I will have a look and Report Back.

I once tried watching Last Orders, but I couldn't get into it.

What is lined up for this weekend, apart from The Wicker Man?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 24 February 2006 08:18 (nineteen years ago)

I hear summer is icumen in.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 24 February 2006 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

Could be worse, I suppose:

http://www.bfi.org.uk/booksvideo/offers.html

(Sing cuckoo sing.)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 24 February 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'd like to see The Draughtsman's Contract. I figure that's the kind of thing the Indie will give away eventually.
Best free dvd I've got so far = Wings of Desire.

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 24 February 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

i might invest in 'the edge of the world'.

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:08 (nineteen years ago)

> Inspired by this thread, I last night put my Taste Of Honey into the flashy double wallet that came with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.

what did you do with the now-empty wallet for 'taste of honey'? (i have exactly this dilemma and several like it concerning boo radleys cd singles).

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

The Mail are giving away a Barbara Cartland DVD today. Perhaps only in Scotland.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

I was really excited to get the Director's Cut of Donnie Darko in last week's Sunday Times. I went out to get the sunday papers much earlier than normal, to make sure I got one before they sold out.

― C J (C J), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:55 (nineteen years ago)

Is it true that the director's cut ruins the film?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. I haven't had time to watch it yet :(

― C J (C J), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:57 (nineteen years ago)

MAKE TIME.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 24 February 2006 09:58 (nineteen years ago)

Koogs, I chucked it away.

One day I will regret it.

I wouldn't do it with the Boo Radleys CD singles.

But then I wouldn't have released them like that either, don't they care about their fans' mental health several years down the line?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder whether the wicker man will be the original release or the extended version.

I feel a bit cheated that my favourite, which I already own two DVD copies of (Region 1, has a nicer box and was the only version available when I bought it, and region 2, which came out later and had an extra commentary track so was worth getting again), is now being given away for free to people who will never get round to watching it.

Actually I guess I own four copies already, since both editions have two discs, containing original and extended versions of the film.

― JimD (JimD), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the "Find the answer within" promo that had all the tracks on one CD.

That's a little off topic, but hey.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

why does 'the wicker man' look so bad?

― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Friday, 24 February 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Re Donnie Darko from the Sunday Times, I too was excited to watch the Director's Cut (never having seen it) but the dvd is a bit plop really. The pre-film guff exhorts you in no uncertain terms to GO AND BUY TEH REAL DVD and once you get to the film you can see why - it's got no chapter breaks or anything so yr reduced to using visual fast-forward and rewind much like with ye olde VHS if you want to skip ahead or back.

Fair enough that they trim away all the extras and commentary etc with a free disc, but to make it a pain the arse to watch seems a bit excessive.

That said, the Guardian's free Dune DVD the other week was class (great transfer and sound) so am looking fwd to snagging The Wicker Man for free tomorrow - given that it's one of the best British horror movies ever made.

― Bill A (Bill A), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

One of our papers is giving away Simsons pins, so like, yeah. Movies? You guys is lucky.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 24 February 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)

I console myself for never getting around to buying the papers with the thought that thousands of these are destined for charity shops in the immediate future.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 24 February 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

In my charity shop we are regularly swamped by free CDs and DVDs. They are useless, and they cost money to get rid of. And they devalue all the other DVDs that you might have donated, as someone pointed out above about The Wicker Man.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 24 February 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Z!U!L!U! D!A!W!N! in the Mail on Sunday, doing their bit for ethnic relations in multi-cultural Britain.

I got the Wicker Man, but my wife refused to watch it in case it freaked her out.

I once bought a free one from a charity shop. Never watched it, obv.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Sunday, 26 February 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

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Spookily enough my wife is going to be in Venice this weekend. Guess I'll have to make do with 'Don't look now' instead.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm now officially confused.

What's coming out with the Observer this weekend?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 08:51 (nineteen years ago)

Observer - Nic Roeg film.

High Street retailers eventually - DA Pennebaker (sp?) film about Bob Dylan with commentaries and subtitles and the whole kit and kaboodle.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, OK. Thought it too good.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

High Street retailers eventually - DA Pennebaker (sp?) film about Bob Dylan with commentaries and subtitles and the whole kit and kaboodle.

this has been out for literally a year though. i reviewed it for 'plan b'.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 09:47 (nineteen years ago)

unless, and i'm creaming myself with the anticipation, they're releasing DAP's OTHER zim film, of the '66 tour...

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

It is DON'T LOOK BACK, the one that starts will Alan Price rabbiting on in Geordie. It may well have been out before, but not with the SUBTITLES and the COMMENTARIES. Also, wasn't it Region Somewhere Else before?

SUBTITLE fans may like to know that I did the third where someone has thrown a bottle out of the window.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:13 (nineteen years ago)

ah, i now find that i have the import version.

i'm sure the one i've got is subtitled, and it has definitely has a commentary. but i'm sure your subtitles are much better, pj.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:15 (nineteen years ago)

'other' BD/DAP docu = 'eat the document' - never really completed and the extant version is frankly a mess - some of the footage turned up in the Scorsese prog

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

but it has that weird back-and-forth with lennon...

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:18 (nineteen years ago)

HEROIN

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

It was difficult to subtitle.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

"I don't CARE who he IS MAN, I just want his NAME!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:23 (nineteen years ago)

let's get real: dylan is a fucking dick in 'DLB'. it was all staged anyway.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:26 (nineteen years ago)

I have not suggested otherwise.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:27 (nineteen years ago)

i hope your subtitling relfected this.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:29 (nineteen years ago)

actually, what the dvd really needs is subtitles identifying the famous people.

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

the beatles aren't in it, iirc, though dylan met them during the tour! twice!

― Real Goths Don't Wear Black (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

Who is the bloke who looks like a gnome?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

donovan

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:09 (nineteen years ago)

The other one. Beardy no moustache.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

but it has that weird back-and-forth with lennon...

i have memories of wandering through the columbia hotel late at night and ending up in some americans' hotel room, and them showing me 'eat the document' on their laptop and going "can you tell? they're on HEROIN!!!"

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Donovan's Manager, you mean?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 5 April 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

ten months pass...

Saw an ad on TV last night for this -- The indepedent are giving away not just one but two Eric Rohmer films on DVD.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/features/article2251253.ece

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Friday, 9 February 2007 12:17 (eighteen years ago)

that'll get the circulation bumping.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 9 February 2007 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

I know - One extra copy :-)

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Friday, 9 February 2007 12:20 (eighteen years ago)

Two extra!

There was quite a gd piece by Matthew Sweet in the Guardian today, abt the way that DVD and DVD rentals have supplanted the FREE Euro flick education/enlightenment that used to be one of C4 and BBC2's most pleasing 'services' - I don't think he mentioned newspaper giveaways, but again the papers have given away films by ppl like Wenders, Chabrol, Forman etc

There is a gd bk to be written - at least, I wld buy one copy - abt the 'rise and fall of arthouse cinema' in the UK, the way it was marketed/exhibited/distributed etc

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Friday, 9 February 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Ha! First line of that article:

"Ever seen Last Year at Marienbad?"

Well now I picked up the DVD of that just last week!!!

(he mentions the newspaper giveaways, btw)

I think BBC4 does an OK job broadcasting foreign movies. Some of the role occupied by late night schedules on BBC2 and channel four could've been passed onto film four and BBC4 (what's the % of homes with digital these days?).

He should've mentioned local libraries - I watched my first Tarkovsky film after picking up 'Nostlagia'. Haven't used any other renting services.

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

serious thanks for the rohmer tipoff, btw.

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Part 3 of a reading of Charlotte's Web comes with the Indie tomorrow.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Film Four is shit for foreign language films now. Unless you don't have to go to work in the morning and can stay up till 3 am to watch yet another Japanese splatter flick. Sky Cinema 1 and 2, BBC 4 and Artsworld are all way better.

― I Tried to Use My Cock as a Bong (noodle vague), Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

Film Four's shittyness has been well documented in its own thread but I live in hope they'll broadcast some interesting curious at 11.00 pm instead of starting everything at 1 am (or even 3pm - some stuff I like to see then).

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I see more films I enjoy in the afternoon/early evening slot than during primetime. I still watch movies on Film Four but its abandonment of non-English cinema is really disappointing.

― I Tried to Use My Cock as a Bong (noodle vague), Saturday, 10 February 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

Film Four, as far as I can tell, has never had any policy towards foreign movies. There is a trend of "We'll broadcast an old 'pretentious' euro flicks really late so you won't see it, but the DVD is gonna be out in two weeks for you to buy so that's ok". BBC four broadcasts foreign films that have been released in the last few years, but won't go back further - unlike broadcasting old BBC material and making docs about old TV, etc. which is probably much cheaper. Which makes me ask as to whether the costs have gone up to broadcast anything at all now that DVDs are here (I don't know this for a fact)?

― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Saturday, 10 February 2007 13:05 (eighteen years ago)

I assume it's not the cost so much as the fight for ratings. If the papers can afford to give away movies week after week I wouldn't have thought the TV rights would be very valuable.

― I Tried to Use My Cock as a Bong (noodle vague), Saturday, 10 February 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

M. Sweet makes the point that C4 are still gd cultural custodians of obscure old Brit movies from the 40s/50s because they can sell lots of ads for stairlifts, life insurance, orthapedic beds etc - whenever i got to the NFT and see old art movies i'm always painfully struck by how (myself included) the middle-aged, middle class audience for arthouse klassiks are now pretty frumpy/freaky - we cld have a reality gameshow where marketing experts have to devise a campaign to make the great arthouse auteurs SEXY and TRENDY once again - I want to be on Tom E's team!

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 10 February 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

Today I spent 15p to throw a Caring Sharing Sun in the bin and get a copy of Evil Dead uncut.

They're doing a classic horror giveaway Monday-Saturday: Halloween, Evil Dead, Children of the Corn, Scanners, Flowers in the Attic and Hellraiser. Then Hellraiser 2 - Hellbound in Sunday's News of the Screws.

― onimo, Tuesday, 13 March 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

"Film Four, as far as I can tell, has never had any policy towards foreign movies."

yeah this is the thing -- policy. it's just way random, like "european" is as homogenous a "genre" as, say, US horror.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 09:56 (eighteen years ago)

I got Children of the Corn this morning without spending 15p on a crap paper, I tore the coupon out of the paper in the coffee shop. This shall be my strategy for the rest of the week.

― onimo, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:39 (eighteen years ago)

I got the free Merlin dvd last weekend, but haven't had time to watch it yet.

― C J, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Film 4's current policy appears to be "show some shit Hollywood movies from the last 5 years, possibly featuring gangsters and/or Nicole Kidman".

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

i saw a bit of 'ghost dog' last night, that was pretty cool.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ghost Dog's wonderful (didn't realise it had been on). But the prime time movies have been horrible lately.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

it's master and commander tonight! i do agree though. i wonder who's job it is to choose the movies. that'd be an awesome job.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

Cos you'd think it'd be half an hour's work - "right, we'll have this, this and this" - and the rest of the day off, yeah?

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

they probably have to source the movies, i guess.

i would get a channel 4 intern to do that.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

You could bring some DVDs in from home.

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

mmmm, channel 4 interns.

― That one guy that quit, Wednesday, 14 March 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

One of my favourite (if not favourite) films in The Observer on Sunday, Local Hero.

― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 26 September 2008 08:43 (seventeen years ago)

yeah.

Oh, I wonder what happened to that Daily Mail CD poll...

― Mark G, Friday, 26 September 2008 08:58 (seventeen years ago)

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