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From its inception in 1982 to its demise in 1998 (with the launch of the subscription service FilmFour, now Film4 on Freeview), Film on Four was the flagship broadcast strand for new feature films...
Following on from Ieuan Franklin's excellent blog which discussed such mind-bendingly psychedelic Films on Four as Born of Fire (Jamil Dehlavi, 1987), Shadey (Phillip Saville, 1987) and Silent Scream (David...
A Licence to be Different: The Story of Channel 4 by Maggie Brown (BFI Publishing, October 2007), 368 pages, ISBN: 9781844572052 (paperback), £16.99; ISBN: 978-1844572045 (hardback), £50.00 Channel 4: The...
British Horror Rises from the Tomb: In the UK there has been a major resurgence in the production of horror movies in the last few years. Jonathan Rigby, author English Gothic – Classic Horror Cinema...
The Artist's Cut On 12th October Northern Film & Media & Channel 4 previewed the first fruits of the Artist's Cut initiative (see Part 1 of this article) - two new shorts by contemporary visual...
Although the idea of film funding wasn't directly discussed in the Annan Report which led to the creation of Channel 4, it was a passion of the Channel’s first Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs. In Europe...
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