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Pit Pat - The Mr. Show show

GloboChem's new mascot, Pit Pat. You may recognize one comedian from Arrested... more

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Dinosaur Rap

The Whitest Kids U' Know - Dinosaur Rap Getting stoned with dinosaurs... more

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The Human Centipede

Well, eventually I will see a man eat his own head and then I will have seen... more

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Friday's Important News: New Rotten Tomatoes Show, Oscar's Top Ten and Priest Goes Bye-Bye in 3D

On this new episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show, Brett and Ellen assemble... more

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IFC Goes Into the Void , Fingers Crossed for 3D PR0N

On the cusp of its' premiere at Sundance, IFC announces to the world that it... more

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What Is Interesting About The IFC/Netflix Partnership

Netflix has adopted its' inner hipster and partnered up with the Independent Film Channel to stream 53 select titles via Netflix Instant. This is sort of like their current partnership with Starz on Demand, but infinitely cooler due to the inclusion of John Sayles' Brother From Another Planet. But let's explain in detail why this is actually relevant rather than just go "OH MY GOD, JOE SWANBERG OMG STREAMING ETC."

Because I assume you can at least read and care about film, aside from wanting me to copy and paste a press release.

Originally, IFC had partnered with Blockbuster for exclusive rights to its' rentals' expansion in 2008. At the time, who knew streaming rental services such as Netflix would actually prosper? Well, to be fair, IFC did. They've been pioneering a Video on Demand service for their first-run films that get sentenced to an otherwise crippling New York only release since 2008. This marks their first time partnering with a second-party system to showcase their titles.

So what now? Well, Netlfix Instant (as of yesterday) has access to 53 titles owned by IFC. Those include the ones you read--er, other sites copied and pasted from the press release like Joe Swanberg's Nights and Weekends and Hirokazu Kore-eda's Nobody Knows.

But what else is there?

Unfortunately, nothing recent like Antichrist or Police, Adjective. For those films, you have to be in New York and able to attend the IFC Center screenings. Still, marvel at all the films you can see that are under the IFC catalog:

-Brothers: Before it was remade by Jim Sheridan with Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Tobey Maguire, this movie was considered "independent" and unheard of outside the Toronto Film Festival.
-The Brother From Another Planet is fantastic for this scene.
-Following is Christopher Nolan's debut film.
-Kitchen Stories is because I'm a fan of Bent Hamer's Factotum.
-Sex is Comedy because I loved Catherine Breillat's Bluebeard at NYFF this year. And a sister dies.
Netflix has adopted its' inner hipster and partnered up with the Independent... more

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Friday's Awesome Time Suck: The 50 Greatest Trailers

[youtube 4aDs-G0NVc8] We've been bad bloggers today due to a variety of... more

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Coming to IFC: Arnett! Cross! The Onion! Kids in the Hall!

There are certain cable channels that you might not watch because the theme of the... more

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CriterionCast - Episode 25.5 - On the Screen - Cynical Lost Fans - IFC / Criterion Discussion [Podcast]

In the latest Disc 2 podcast episode, Rudie, Ryan, and Travis discuss what has been on... more

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Your Holiday Indie Film Preview - Features - News - IFC.com

2009 is about to end with a bang, though probably not the apocalyptic kind predicted... more

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The Fire This Time

On a hot summer evening in the gay-friendly West Village neighborhood of New York... more

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IFC goes Bollywood -- aka as Hindi on Indie

Chris Kattan stars as Chris Kattan, a comedic actor of few skills who goes to India in... more

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Video On Demand Can Save Indie Filmmakers

"For years, filmmakers flocked to the Cannes Film Festival to sell their independently financed movies, confident they'd soon see their work exhibited in movie theaters. Like so many show business dreams, those visions have been vanishing quickly as numerous distributors of film-festival fare closed their doors after losing money or corporate support. But there's a potential savior on the horizon called video on demand -- and it may be hiding somewhere inside your cable television box.

Just as the videocassette and the DVD brought untold billions into studio coffers, video-on-demand distribution may deliver some much-needed economic relief to independent cinema, those often highbrow dramas and low-budget genre films made outside the studio system that have been struggling to turn a profit. It's likely that of the hundreds of movies headed to this year's Cannes festival (which opens Wednesday), only a handful will attract an American theatrical distributor, but scores may land video-on-demand deals.

"I think it is inevitable that it will succeed," said John Sloss, a lawyer and leading sales agent for independent film who this July will launch his own video-on-demand cable service, called Cinetic Film Buff. "Imagine the coolest, most imaginative film-literate person programming your Netflix queue. That's what this channel can be."

Unlike some Internet-based movie services, such as Amazon on Demand and YouTube Screening Room, video-on-demand movies arrive on your television set, not your computer. Cable subscribers with VOD channels can pick from several dozen independent films; with just a few clicks on the remote, the video-on-demand movie starts in seconds, rather than a more limited number of films that begin at prescribed times, as is the case with pay-per-view titles.

For the distributors of independent film, VOD offers a cost-effective end run around most showings at the multiplex, where costs for even a limited national release can total $500,000. The way some forward-looking filmmakers and the VOD channel programmers see things, the new technology can bring their movies into corners of the country that rarely would have a chance to see new films that played in Cannes or other leading festivals at a fraction of the cost of a theatrical release.

"It is the wave of the future," said Andrew Herwitz, whose Films Sales Company is a prominent vendor of independent movies. "But the future is not yet here."

IFC Films, the most aggressive buyer and distributor of VOD releases, now operates two VOD channels, one for movies in limited theatrical release and one for films that have appeared only at festivals and will never make it to a theater. IFC acquired nine movies that premiered at last year's Cannes festival and picked up several others being sold at the concurrent film market.""For years, filmmakers flocked to the Cannes Film Festival to sell their... more