IFC helps grow Apple's iTunes film catalog

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  • Reply 21 of 26
    tenobelltenobell Posts: 7,014member
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    Have to check out Dead Man if you are putting it together with the other 4.



    "Dead Man" is a Jim Jarmusch movie and he's an acquired taste so I can't make any promises.



    The importance of independent film is that it allows different viewpoints and new opportunities in a other wised closed and strictly controlled American film market.



    For good or for bad truly independent film generally does not have to go through the Hollywood system of being approved by Harvard or Yale business graduates who are charged with making a profit for their corporate parent company. Or focused grouped by people from middle America who do not want to be challenged beyond their own values or want to understand complex narrative themes. This process is to homogenize the film in order that it meets the approval of a wide enough audience to insure its makes as much money as possible.



    The point isn't that everyone has to like every independent film. The point is that everyone likes different things and independent film offers the opportunity to bring different points of view.
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  • Reply 22 of 26
    wilcowilco Posts: 985member
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    Originally Posted by Louzer View Post


    Yeah, I've seen a couple. They have a tendency to be really depressing dramas.







    Pulp Fiction

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    The Usual Suspects

    Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

    Psycho

    Memento

    Apocalypse Now

    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    Se7en

    American History X

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    Reservoir Dogs

    Amadeus

    Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    Fargo

    Donnie Darko

    Crash

    The Graduate

    Platoon

    Trainspotting

    Magnolia

    The Big Lebowski

    The Terminator

    Sling Blade



    http://www.imdb.com/chart/independent
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  • Reply 23 of 26
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    Originally Posted by DeaPeaJay View Post


    Has anyone actually ever seen an IF? I haven't. I'm a lemming of the film studios. I do as they command



    Ha! Classic!
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  • Reply 24 of 26
    tenobelltenobell Posts: 7,014member
    Actually Wilco most of those movies are not true independent films. They did go through the studio system. Some maverick studio executive really liked the story and championed it through the system.



    The movies you listed from the 60's or 70's came to be because at the time television was eroding the movie audience and studio executives did not know what to do, so they took a lot of risks. It was also before all of the studios were bought up by large conglomerates.



    The more recent films you list somehow slipped through but many of the guys who push those types of films through the system get fired for being too risky. Nowadays they are tightening down to the point where its very difficult to push risky films through the system.



    Hollywood has also co-opted the "Independent Film" concept because their is a market that makes money and the fact that regular studio releases are so sanitized that they rarely receive praise or reward as being great cinema.



    There are many independent films being made outside of Hollywood but these films still depend on the system for promotion and distribution.
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  • Reply 25 of 26
    His Steveness is wrong about one thing. People may want to own there music but they do want to rent their movies.



    We listen to an album hundreds of times and will re-listen to it two decades after its debut. Movies we watch once and if we really like it we may buy it, but the vast majority is not worth watching twice.
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  • Reply 26 of 26
    melgrossmelgross Posts: 33,720member
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    Originally Posted by scstsut View Post


    His Steveness is wrong about one thing. People may want to own there music but they do want to rent their movies.



    We listen to an album hundreds of times and will re-listen to it two decades after its debut. Movies we watch once and if we really like it we may buy it, but the vast majority is not worth watching twice.



    Then why did movie sales pass movie rentals years ago?
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