Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
May 16, 2004Release Date
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
May 16, 2004Release Date
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Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
Cast & Crew.
Jerry Harvey
Self - Program Director, Z Channel
Robert Altman
Self
Jim Jarmusch
Self
Paul Verhoeven
Self
Alexander Payne
Self
Quentin Tarantino
Self - Filmmaker
James Woods
Self
Henry Jaglom
Self
F. X. Feeney
Self - Film Critic
Jacqueline Bisset
Self
Jerry Pam
Self - Z Producer
Kris Kristofferson
Self
Theresa Russell
Self
Vilmos Zsigmond
Self
Douglas Venturelli
Self - Friend
Penelope Spheeris
Self
Xan Cassavetes
Director
Marshall Persinger
Producer
James B. Harris
Self
Rick Ross
Producer
Vera Carlisle Anderson
Self
Doreen Ringer Ross
Self
Steven Hufsteter
Composer
John Pirozzi
Cinematographer
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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).