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Posted: **Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:15 pm**

MichaelB wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:13 am Certainly back in the 1990s, it was usually the failure to land a TV sale that prevented a film from getting distribution, and opportunities were dwindling thanks to the 1990 Broadcasting Act forcing Channel 4 to start selling its own advertising and therefore pay a lot more attention to viewing figures (which they’d blithely ignored in the 1980s as ITV was effectively subsidising them).

And BBC2 was also showing fewer foreign-language films - ironically, the rise in availability of foreign language films on physical media in the early 1990s meant that there was no longer the same compulsion to show them on telly out of a sense of cultural responsibility.

On checking through the mid 1990s UK TV listings, Rosalie Goes Shopping got quite a healthy number of showings on Channel 4 back in the day: premiered in February 1995 (at 10 p.m.) and repeated again in January 1997 and May 1998, which is the last time a film by the director has aired on UK television (and which rather neatly coincides with MichaelB's mention of Channel 4 having to be responsible for selling its own advertising, beginning in 1998).

Channel 4 also premiered Salmonberries in January 1997, which has been its single UK TV screening. But that's better than any of the films he made afterwards, which have never aired at all!

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:18 am**

colinr0380 wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:15 pm On checking through the mid 1990s UK TV listings, Rosalie Goes Shopping got quite a healthy number of showings on Channel 4 back in the day: premiered in February 1995 (at 10 p.m.) and repeated again in January 1997 and May 1998, which is the last time a film by the director has aired on UK television (and which rather neatly coincides with MichaelB's mention of Channel 4 having to be responsible for selling its own advertising, beginning in 1998).

Channel 4 also premiered Salmonberries in January 1997, which has been its single UK TV screening. But that's better than any of the films he made afterwards, which have never aired at all!

If I remember rightly, Younger & Younger went straight to Sky, which was how I saw it, via a recording someone made for me.

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:40 am**

A Channel Four sale would have significantly cushioned the theatrical distributor in a way that a Sky sale may well not have done.

Posted: **Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:46 am**

colinr0380 wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:15 pm which is the last time a film by the director has aired on UK television

Bagdad Cafe turned up on TPTV at the end of last year, the longer version with a StudioCanal ident on the front. It is the quirkiest film the channel have shown.

For the record other Adlon films that played on Channel 4 were Celeste, Sugarbaby and The Swing in '88, '89 and '90 respectively.

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:44 pm**

Legendary Australian stuntman Grant Page.

If you've seen pretty much any Ozploitation film, you'll have seen and almost certainly been wowed by his work.

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:40 am**

Dan Wakefield, novelist and screenwriter (Going All the Way) who wrote the book which formed the basis of forum favorite Starting Over

Posted: **Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:04 am**

beamish14 wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2024 1:40 am Dan Wakefield, novelist and screenwriter (Going All the Way) who wrote the book which formed the basis of forum favorite Starting Over

Based on those two titles (with the former being close enough to "Go All the Way"), I'd guess he was a huge Raspberries fan.

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:16 am**

Ubiquitous face of personal injury litigation Larry H. Parker

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:38 am**

Joe Camp, 84, Creator and director of Benji films: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/joe- ... 235943106/

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:39 am**

Aunt Peg wrote: Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:38 am Joe Camp, 84, Creator and director of Benji films: https://variety.com/2024/film/news/joe- ... 235943106/

Including that weird one, Oh! Heavenly Dog, in which Benji is voiced by a reincarnated Chevy Chase!

Posted: **Sat Mar 16, 2024 4:11 pm**

Polish stage, cinema and television actress Maria Chwalibóg, whose screen career spanned six full decades and included Jerzy Kawalerowicz's Mother Joan of the Angels (1961), Wojciech Marczewski's Nightmares (1978) and Andrzej Wajda's Korczak (1990), but she'll most likely be best remembered for the title role of Agnieszka Holland's third feature A Woman Alone (1981), whose unflinching depiction of just how hard it is for people on the margins of society to survive in so-called People's Poland was banned under martial law.

Posted: **Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:59 pm**

David Seidler, writer of Tucker: The Man and His Dream and The King’s Speech

Posted: **Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:47 pm**

Steve Harley, aged 73 from cancer. He's best known for "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" his UK number one single with his band Cockney Rebel, and that song has appeared on film soundtracks quite a few times, in The Full Monty, Velvet Goldmine and others.

Posted: **Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:06 pm**

Mr Soft was used in a very odd Trebor softmints ad in the 80s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaTRCHbG_IA

Posted: **Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:15 pm**

M Emmet Walsh discussion moved here

Posted: **Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:45 am**

Diane Crittenden, casting director on a staggering number of notable films

Posted: **Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:06 am**

Eli Noyes, Oscar-nominated stop motion filmmaker who helped develop HBO’s 80’s educational show Brain Games and MTV’s much-missed Liquid Television

Posted: **Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:19 am**

Richard Serra, sculptor, but also filmmaker and co-star of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 3.

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2024 6:39 pm**

Louis Goessett Jr discussion moved here

Posted: **Sat Mar 30, 2024 11:03 pm**

Chance Perdomo

Posted: **Sun Mar 31, 2024 2:27 pm**

Marian Zazeela

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:33 am**

Actress Barbara Rush, 97, who had a long and productive career appearing in numerous well known films: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235863798/

My favourite performance was as James Mason's wife in Bigger Than Life (1956).

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:10 pm**

In the Village People disco musical Can’t Stop the Music (1980), directed by Nancy Walker of Rhoda fame, Barbara Rush played the mother of Bruce Jenner’s character.

Wow. That must be something to behold ...

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:50 pm**

Aunt Peg wrote: Mon Apr 01, 2024 10:33 am Actress Barbara Rush, 97, who had a long and productive career appearing in numerous well known films: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv ... 235863798/

My favourite performance was as James Mason's wife in Bigger Than Life (1956).

I still think she was rightly stuffed back in the closet in that film!

Though she is the female lead in two classic sci-fi films of the 1950s: It Came From Outer Space and When Worlds Collide.

Posted: **Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:55 pm**

Lemmy Caution wrote: Mon Apr 01, 2024 2:10 pm
In the Village People disco musical Can’t Stop the Music (1980), directed by Nancy Walker of Rhoda fame, Barbara Rush played the mother of Bruce Jenner’s character.
Wow. That must be something to behold ...

Apparently the creator of the awards seeing a double bill release of this film and Xanadu was the event that directly led to the formation of the Razzies in 1981 in order to, um, highlight the dire qualities of the 1980 film season!

Luckily the Cinema Snob has tackled this film. It looks worse than The Apple, but not quite as lunatically bad as Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!

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