Review of IFC Films, my new source of entertainment.
By: Kyle D. Dobbs
I
must admit that it has been a very long time since I actually watched
television. Don’t get me wrong, I do watch films; just nothing
broadcasted on television networks. In the pursuit of enjoyable
films, I stumbled across a film industry by the name of IFC Films.
When
I first encountered this corporation, I had no idea what I was in
for. I had watched films by such companies as Warner Brothers,
Universal, Paramount, and a number of others. I was not sure what I
had opened when I entered their domain, for it was just another name
across my screen that stood aside all the others who produced films.
At
first, as I scrolled across their lists of films, I looked at their
selections based on genres to see what my options might be. Next, I
scrolled through their lists of actors and actresses, along with
their lists of script writers, producers, and even directors as if I
was scrolling through a card catalog. In this search, I stumbled
across some rather different films that stood apart from all the
other films I had watched elsewhere. These films were biographical
movies about specific writers—authors to be exact. These were
not just any writers; they were some of the most important writers in
the history of literature: Vita
& Virginia
about Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West’s affair in how
their relationship affected Woolf’s career as an author; Gothic
about
Lord Byron’s encounter with Percy Bysshe Shelly, Mary
Wollstonecraft, and Dr. Polidori and how this particular night led
each of them to writing important works of horror and science
fiction; Rebel
in the Rye,
giving us a perspective of the life of J.D. Salinger in writing his
famous novel The
Catcher in the Rye;
and Mary
Shelley
about Mary Wollstonecraft going from an unknown young lady to
becoming one of literature’s most important authors.
When
I watched these films, I felt a piece of history unravel in how these
writers are displayed to the modern audience. When we take these
writers’ biographies and put them into biographical movies, the
films display what we had been reading in our history books; giving
us a perspective we might not have imagined, and allowing us to take
the content from written context and display it.
IFC
Films might not have the reputations of some of the other film
industries—they do make some good films. If you want an
alternative in
finding something entertaining to watch, check IFC
Films out if you are seeking something different.
