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This is the end of the film "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession" (2004), a fine documentary about the Z Channel, which was one of the first pay cable
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TV stations in the US. Z Channel became famous for showing an eclectic variety of films, including foreign language, silent, documentary, director's cut, forgotten, overlooked, underappreciated, erotic as well as mainstream films, without commercials and uncut and letterboxed when possible.
The film also tells the tragic story of Z Channel's programming director Jerry Harvey, true film lover, programming genius, and a man almost singlehandedly responsible for getting many great films shown to the public. Sadly, Jerry was a mad genius who had a constant battle with personal demons and ended his own life and the life of his wife in a murder-suicide.
The saddest part of all is that Z Channel (and Jerry's awesome programming) didn't survive to become a nationwide cable channel.
In this clip we hear Jerry requesting the song "What'll I Do" because "for me, it's the greatest love song". The song was written by Irving Berlin, and is sung here by William Atherton. Yes, the actor from "Die Hard".
As the song plays, the remainder of this clip is a montage of clips from films shown on the Z Channel.
0:18 1900 (1976, Bertolucci)
0:26 ?
0:28 Children of Paradise (1945, Carné)
0:34 China 9, Liberty 37 (1978, Hellman)
0:38 The Leopard (1963, Visconti)
0:44 Black Orpheus (1959, Camus)
0:49 La Strada (1954, Fellini)
0:55 Das Boot (1981, Petersen)
0:59 McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Altman)
1:04 Malizia (1973, Samperi)
1:07 1900 (1976, Bertolucci)
1:10 In a Lonely Place (1950, Ray)
1:15 Heaven's Gate (1980, Cimino)
1:25 Salvador (1986, Stone)
1:29 Paths of Glory (1957, Kubrick)
1:33 Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (1980, Roeg)
1:37 Turkish Delight (1973, Verhoeven)
1:40 8½ (1963, Fellini)
1:49 Le Magnifique (1973, de Broca)
1:45 The Important Thing is to Love (1975, Zulawski)
1:52 Fitzcarraldo (1982, Herzog)
1:55 One Deadly Summer (1983, Becker)
2:00 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973, Peckinpah)
2:05 ?
2:09 Once Upon a Time in America (1984, Leone)
2:13 Silver Streak (1976, Hiller)
2:15 Pandora's Box (1929, Pabst)
2:18 College (1927, Horne)
2:21 Overlord (1975, Cooper)
2:25 Red Desert (1964, Antonioni)
2:30 The Wild Bunch (1969, Peckinpah)
2:36 The 400 Blows (1959, Truffaut)
