Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
May 16, 2004Release Date
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
May 16, 2004Release Date

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Cast & Crew.

Quentin Tarantino
Self

Robert Altman
Self

Jim Jarmusch
Self

Paul Verhoeven
Self

Alexander Payne
Self

James Woods
Self

Henry Jaglom
Self

Jacqueline Bisset
Self

Jerry Pam
Self - Z Producer

Kris Kristofferson
Self

Theresa Russell
Self

Vilmos Zsigmond
Self

Penelope Spheeris
Self

James B. Harris
Self

Vera Carlisle Anderson
Self

Doreen Ringer Ross
Self

Douglas Venturelli
Self

Iain Kennedy
Editor

Kevin Thomas
Self

Jerry Harvey
Self (archive footage)

Xan Cassavetes
Director

F.X. Feeney
Co-Producer

Marshall Persinger
Producer

Rick Ross
Producer

Steve Matzkin
Producer

Steven Hufsteter
Original Music Composer

Ed Carroll
Executive Producer

Alison Palmer Bourke
Executive Producer

Iain Kennedy
Editor

Jonathan Montepare
Associate Producer

Leslie Lowell
Associate Producer

John Pirozzi
Director of Photography

Susan Heimbeinder
Supervising Producer
Media.

Details.
Release DateMay 16, 2004
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 1m
Content RatingR
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This Movie Is About.
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession is a 2004 documentary film about Los Angeles pay cable channel Z Channel which was directed by Xan Cassavetes, daughter of Hollywood director and actor John Cassavetes. It was screened out of competition at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
The documentary is about Z Channel, which was one of the early pay cable TV stations in the United States. Z Channel became famous for showing an eclectic variety of films, including foreign language, silent, documentary, director's cut, forgotten, overlooked, under-appreciated, erotic as well as mainstream films, without commercials and uncut and letterboxed when possible.
The film also tells the story of Z Channel's programming director Jerry Harvey who was a film lover, programming genius, and a man almost single-handedly responsible for getting many great films shown to the public. It gives insights into Harvey's constant battle with personal demons, which resulted in him ending his life and the life of his wife in a murder-suicide.
Throughout the film a variety of footage featuring some of the films shown on the Z Channel is used. This serves to underline the diversity offered on the channel in particular its attempts to expose its American viewers to undubbed foreign language films.
The films ends with a montage of scenes of such films with Irving Berlin's "What'll I Do?" theme being played over the top of them as performed by the actor William Atherton from the film The Great Gatsby (1974).
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