Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

00:00:23 The first Kurosawa film I think I ever saw...

00:04:48 There was no videocassettes. None of that existed.

00:09:41 Landed in Rome...

00:14:11 he said, " I've been hired, and I want to do a new spin...

00:18:51 and was able to program them on the Z Channel.

00:22:56 He said, "Nobody's ever heard of him.

00:26:53 and they're not gonna believe it.

00:31:37 What were your mother and father doing when you were growing up?

00:36:12 and my agent was pressuring me, "Go read for Star Wars!

00:41:05 In those days, that was the only game in town, you know.

00:47:47 and a kind of emotional tension that exists more like weather.

00:52:32 and I think the favorite of all his watering holes was Guido's.

00:57:51 He was like family... Sam and Jerry.

01:02:56 so he knew what he could do and what he couldn't do...

01:07:54 and that was... in itself was a very welcoming gesture.

01:12:32 I was working at a video store in Westwood called Video Tech...

01:17:35 "Gone With the Wind" in the United States, you know.

01:22:32 rather sadistic towards his kids.

01:27:10 So he got to the point where he stood up...

01:31:29 and the stubborn reputation of Z Channel...

01:36:13 What do they call this place?

01:40:09 "worrying about other filmmakers' problems."

01:45:38 and she saw him just kind of walking...

01:51:24 the best in films by showing it in a context...