Anti-American YLE
Here’s an ad in the latest edition of 6-Degrees for YLE, Finland’s state owned and operated broadcasting company…
Whoa!! There’s some in-your-face Anti-Americanism for you. I’d expect this kind of bigotry from 6-Degrees, but from YLE?
Nelonen, MTV3 and Finnish theaters show a lot of American movies. Why? Cause Finns like them! Lately, as discussed on here previously, the US has produced some really great stuff, and Finns are eating them up! Hollywood produces more movies than just about anyone, and they do it in a language that most Finns speak. And YLE shows it share of American programs too.
I think it’s great that a TV station has movies from all over the world and it’s good marketing to brag about that, but singling out the United States is just blatant prejudice and completely unnecessary, saying “Good movies from about 43 countries.” would get the point across just fine. Then the “The TV-license. The things you can get with it!” is just propaganda to sucker people into paying that ridiculous fee or else “all they’ll watch is evil Hollywood films!!” Give me a break.
Photo taken by me. Pic is of 6d magazine.
I think you’re overreacting a bit, but this reminded me of an object of longstanding curiosity. Phil, as an American, can you explain why Everybody loves Raymond is so popular there? Do you like it? Most everyone I know hates the show, especially the character of Ray.
Comment by maissi — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 10:45 pm
You sound quite paranoid. I don’t think that’s Anti-Americanism at all, the ad is like that just because the huge majority of movies Finns watch are American. You know, there could be a similar ad like this: “Restaurant ****. Good food from about 43 countries, not just the Finnish pea soup.” I wouldn’t consider that Anti-Finnish.
Comment by Passer-by — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
Phil, as an American, can you explain why Everybody loves Raymond is so popular there? Do you like it?
Worst. Show. Ever.
Comment by Phil — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 10:51 pm
I don’t think this is anti-American at all, it doesn’t say that films from the USA are a load of rubbish. It merely states that they show more than just American films. I think that this Yleisradio advert is infact very clever. The commercial channels do hardly ever show non-USA made films.
And it is simply not just down to public preferring American films; texting films with subtitles is more expensive for non-English programmes, and very often the tv companies get films ‘retexted’ because for some bizarre reason it is cheaper than buying the film with the original subtitles that were made for the cinema or DVD release. Strange I know.
Secondly, yes, American films are the most popular, that is quite clear. However, just because they are the most popular does not mean that there are not people who like countries’ films. That is one of the key benefits of having a public service broadcaster; it does not solely cater for the majority taste. The fact that the commercial tv channels show almost only American films shows the fact that smaller countries would certainly lose a bredth to their broadcasting offering should public service tv/radio be lost.
Therefore, I think this advert is a clever way of Yle highlighting that in regards to its film offering.
Comment by JG — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 10:52 pm
You sound quite paranoid. I don’t think that’s Anti-Americanism at all, the ad is like that just because the huge majority of movies Finns watch are American.
Let’s be honest, Hollywood gets trashed in Finland. Finns love to hate them. And George Bush doesn’t ease the situation. I think it was a cheap shot on YLE’s part. Like I said, they would have gotten the same point across if they left out the “…not just the USA.”
Comment by Phil — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 10:54 pm
it’s a pretty stupid ad. give me a john huston movie and you can forget about all the almodovar filmography.
Comment by tangatti — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
I actually disagree, they would not have got the same point across if they left out “not just the USA”.
If the statement just read “Good movies from about 43 countries” it would be a nice boast, a good advert. However, it doesn’t have the same strong and powerful impact that the “not just the USA” gives it. With that ending, it makes the reader realise “Oh yes, MTV3/Nelonen/Digi-tv does just tend to show almost only American films”, it therefore makes the preceeding clause become far more powerful as a statement.
There is nothing anti-American in it. I think you are reading too much into it also.
Comment by JG — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 10:59 pm
by the way, i wonder if this ad will be seen in “Finnish” media…
Comment by tangatti — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:07 pm
Therefore, I think this advert is a clever way of Yle highlighting that in regards to its film offering.
Absolutely, and they could have gotten the same point across without the jab at the United States.
Take this example. There’s a night club that attracts alot of blacks, but wants to convey to everyone that they’re much more diverse.
“Great club! Diverse crowd, not just blacks.”
Comment by Phil — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:11 pm
by the way, i wonder if this ad will be seen in “Finnish†media…
My girlfriend says she saw this in Finnish.
Comment by Phil — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:11 pm
Phil:
This comment on YLEs “ad” from the guy who recently published his list of the (according to his view) 76 “all-time best” movies out of which 2 (?) were non-american. Laughable.
I think this is just a way to show some diversity in the presence of “programming” very much resembling Phil’s view of a “balanced” selection of movies.
Just for the record, I went through the movie selections of the “media houses” for the coming week (very quickly, so no guarantees) via http://www.telkku.com:
YLE (digi channels not included):
U.S. 2
U.K. 1
Argentina 1
Finland 1
MTV3 + Sub TV:
U.S. 5
Nelonen:
U.S. 5
Hong Kong/U.S. 1
France/Italy 1
So in this light there might be some point to the “ad”.
Comment by Thomas — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:13 pm
“And YLE shows it share of American programs too.”
Yeah, why Are they being so anti-American?!?!????? BUAAAAAAHHH
Comment by Kaislis — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:13 pm
I’m not saying this because of my views of America, but Hollywood films mostly suck. I mean, there are good Hollywood-movies out there, but most of them seem like torture to me. The plot holes, all the shooting, explosions, standard plot… nothing original. The same form again and again.
I think that’s the main reason why books-to-movies is so popular; it forces the movie script to be more original than it otherwise would be (and even then they take lots of freedoms. League of Gentlemen comes to mind).
There are good American movies, but most of the good ones weren’t made in Hollywood — if you know what I mean.
Comment by iJusten — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:14 pm
“Hollywood gets trashed in Finland.”
Not nearly as badly as it gets trashed by some people in the USA!
Comment by Kimmo W. — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:21 pm
go home, yankees!
Comment by hm — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:25 pm
“Take this example. There’s a night club that attracts alot of blacks, but wants to convey to everyone that they’re much more diverse.
“Great club! Diverse crowd, not just blacks.—
Analogy doesn’t quite work. I am assuming that the point of the ad is to say that the films on offer represent a more diverse array than the Hollywood hegemony of commercial channels.
Therefore, a night club that wants to advertise its diversity in a similar manner might be more likely to market itself as attracting “not just whites”.
Comment by Kimmo W. — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:28 pm
Totally off-topic here, I think I may have mentioned this once before, but - I was at my local ghetto video store some years back. The Chinese language “Crouching Dragon, Hidden Tiger” was new on DVD.
When I came back a few days later, there was a hand written signed taped to the shelf saying, “This movie contains subtitles”. I laughed cause obviously so many customers had complained.
Then I come back again some days later, there’s another handwritten sign taped on the bottom of the existing sign that read, “Subtitles means that there’s words at the bottom of the screen”. LOL!! Funny as fuck. I’ll never forget that.
Comment by Phil — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:37 pm
That is as Anti-American as Rajamäki.
Comment by Juho — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:38 pm
Not nearly as badly as it gets trashed by some people in the USA!
You’re referring to conservatives who trash the liberal Hollywood elite, aren’t you?
Comment by Freeridin' Franklin — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:46 pm
I don’t find that ad anti-American at all. As far as I know, it’s a fact most movies and TV series on Finnish TV channels come from the U.S. That’s understandable, because there’s the largest entertainment industry and Finnish people generally like this content, but it’s good to have some variety too.
If commercial channels want to focus on American content, it’s a good choice for Yle to also offer European, Asian etc. content. This is what a public TV company is good to have for. AFAIK many British and German TV series are quite popular in Finland.
Secondly, this ad seems to be targeted against MTV3 and Nelonen, not the U.S. Yle wants and needs to compete with commercial channels.
Comment by Tero Lehto — Thu, Jan 25th, 2007 @ 11:57 pm
You’re referring to conservatives who trash the liberal Hollywood elite, aren’t you?
I visit an American pop culture message board quite frequently and I can say that “Hollywood” is pretty much a cuss word over there. “Hollywood norms”, “Hollywood plot”, “Hollywood stereotype” are frequently used to describe things that ultimately stink. Most of the posters on that board are American and Canadian. So to say that bashing Hollywood is some Finnish thing sounds very strange to me. I have also met plenty of Americans in real life who bash Hollywood at every turn.
As a native Baltimorean, Phil should be familiar with the works of John Waters. Cecil B. Demented wasn’t exactly an excercize in subtlety when it comes to Hollywood-hate, now was it?
Comment by Anzi — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 12:05 am
As a native Baltimorean, Phil should be familiar with the works of John Waters. Cecil B. Demented wasn’t exactly an excercize in subtlety when it comes to Hollywood-hate, now was it?
Yah, John Waters is about as un-Hollywood as you can get.
Comment by Phil — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 12:20 am
Clever ad. MTV3, Nelonen and Subtv are all basically showing only American movies and dumbing down all the time.
“This comment on YLEs “ad†from the guy who recently published his list of the (according to his view) 76 “all-time best†movies out of which 2 (?) were non-american. Laughable.”
I agree, Phil critizing YLE sounds a little bit like hypocritical BS.
Comment by tim73 — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 12:27 am
So in this light there might be some point to the “adâ€Â.
Maybe truthful advertising is anti-American.
Comment by Freeridin' Franklin — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 12:49 am
Franklin:
“Maybe truthful advertising is anti-American.”
Maybe we should be careful? Maybe “not lying” is still just un-American ;-).
Comment by Thomas — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 1:02 am
#25 Similar to the way that “not denying” is just un-Finnish.
Comment by maksalaatikko — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 3:35 am
Oh, by the way, here’s a strawman argument:
“just propaganda to sucker people into paying that ridiculous fee or else “all they’ll watch is evil Hollywood films!!†Give me a break.”
Where does it say that Hollywod films are evil? All it says that the channels show plenty of other stuff, too. Not exactly a rant-worthy statement.
Comment by Kimmo W. — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 8:02 am
I agree, Phil criticizing YLE sounds a little bit like hypocritical BS.
How exactly am I being hypocritical?! Most of my favorite movies are from the states. I’m willing to bet that most people on this blog would say that most of their favorite movies are from the states.
Comment by Phil — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 8:20 am
Where does it say that Hollywod films are evil? All it says that the channels show plenty of other stuff, too. Not exactly a rant-worthy statement.
I’m reading between the lines. It’s trendy in Finland at the moment to bash everything American, and YLE is just taking advantage of people’s sentiments.
Comment by Phil — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 8:23 am
Is it anti-American to acknowledge that good movies are made both in the USA and outside it, yet only American ones tend to be shown on MTV3 and Nelonen? I don’t think so. The slogan is anti-MTV3, not anti-American.
Comment by a lamb with no guiding light — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 9:10 am
Perhaps if we are going to be accusing Yle of being anti American, we should also be accusing MTV and Nelonen of being anti-everywhere else in their choice of film showings.
I think Lamb and Tero Lehto have it right, it’s not anti-American at all, but a jibe at the stagnant non-imaginative film offering of the commercial television channels.
Comment by JG — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 9:17 am
What? Can’ I read or why I don’t see this like you do?
This add says we show GOOD films from the other countries TOO, not ONLY from USA.
If same percentage of producted films are bad in all countries, and vast majority shown ones are from US, then ofcourse I’ve seen more bad american movies than any other.
Be careful Phil, this “what other people thinks about us” or “I’m sure these people are making fun of me” -thinking shows that you are turning to be a real finn.
Or is that in your national caracter too, not just finnish.
Comment by issi — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 9:21 am
“It’s trendy in Finland at the moment to bash everything American,”
If that’s the case, then Finns are, once again, following an American trend!
Comment by Kimmo W. — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 9:21 am
Well, they way I read it is that they show good movies also from USA. I guess the majority of movies produced for the western audiences are made in USA, so I think it’s OK to single out the biggest producer and say they show also others.
Heh, my first criterion for a plausible WWII movie is that the nazis speak German, not English with funny accent…
Comment by Antti (the redneck one) — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 9:29 am
“Let’s be honest, Hollywood gets trashed in Finland.”
I think Hollywood gets trashed everywhere, and for a good reason too.
“I’m willing to bet that most people on this blog would say that most of their favorite movies are from the states.”
Hmm, let’s see. I compiled my top ten when you blogged about your favorite movies. It has
- 4 movies from US
- 2 movies from Japan
- 1 movie from Soviet Union
- 1 movie from France
- 1 movie from Brazil
- 1 movie from Korea
None of those American films are made in Hollywood. I think those numbers are quite well in proportion with the magnitude of the film industry in the respective countries.
I think it’s great that we have YLE here, it’s necessary if you want to see more marginal films too. It’s a small country thing in the end: Finland has so small population that there probably wouldn’t be enough consumers to fund a commercial indie-channel.
Comment by Passer-by — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 9:29 am
“Be careful Phil, this “what other people thinks about us†or “I’m sure these people are making fun of me†-thinking shows that you are turning to be a real finn.”
That’s what I was thinking too
Comment by Passer-by — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 9:32 am
What can you expect? YLE is full of communists who grew up and studied in -60s and -70s when everything good came from the USSR and bad from the USA. Soviets had peace missiles and Americans had imperialist doomsday weapons. A rat cannot change its fur.
Comment by alo — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 10:14 am
“How exactly am I being hypocritical?”
Since you came back online you already have had one anti-Norwegian post, one anti-Russian and anti-Chinese post, and at least two anti-Finnish posts. This of course according to your own thin-skinned criteria of what makes something anti-something.
Comment by N. Siinistö — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 11:13 am
The way I see it, this ad says, that even though good movies can easiest be found in the US, Yle has managed to find a couple in some other countries too. They use the US as a prototype of a country that makes good movies. That is, they say US movies, in general, are better than other ones (which is easy to agree upon). So Phil should like this and other nationalities should dislike this ad, if someone really wants to find something insulting from it.
Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 11:46 am
But what is most insulting about this ad is the implication that “we are smarter and have more interesting (read “culturally diverse films”) things on offer, so sign up for that license!
But they fail to admit (or do they do it on purpose?) that the TV Police will come to your house and take your TV, your bank information and probably your first born if you don’t pay!!!
Even if you only watch those “inferior, commerical, American-laden” channels. Jeee-sus.
Comment by DAVE THE MAVE — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 11:52 am
NOT TO MENTION that those of us who actually pay the TV license are actually paying for these poorly-written ads that seem to be EVERYWHERE!
WTF?
Comment by DAVE THE MAVE — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 11:53 am
alo:
“What can you expect? YLE is full of communists who grew up and studied in -60s and -70s”
Yle is FULL OF COMMUNISTS WHO STUDIED IN THE 60s? Get a clue will you. And while your at it learn some arithmetic, like plus and minus. It is the year 2007 already.
Comment by Thomas — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 11:56 am
Anti-American? Well, the sad fact is that the majority of the population has little regard for high quality films, little time, little energy. Luckily YLE doesn’t have to conform to market wishes, so it can show also non-commercial movies (including independent American productions). Of course Hollywood is popular in Finland - we get our share of Hollywood films quite automatically, so is it such a high crime that there is room for the minority taste as well? YLE doesn’t have a monopoly in Finland, on any given day you can easily get your trashy low-quality Hollywood mass productions. In saying this I don’t think I’m particularly anti-American: every year some of the best stuff on earth is made in the USA, it just is not very profitable…
Comment by mjr — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 12:15 pm
If that’s in-your-face Anti-Americanism, what would it be if someone said something like “Americans are the scum of the Earth”?
Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 12:43 pm
“Nelonen, MTV3 and Finnish theaters show a lot of American movies. Why? Cause Finns like them!”
Only partly true. It’s also about who controls the distribution. It’s easy for a TV channel to buy American movies in bulk, but who really watches all those crappy “based on a true story” TV films?
Comment by N. Siinistö — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 12:52 pm
Phil, you’re really getting hysterical about this. So you’re saying, that we are showing our anti-american mentality by loving american films?!?!???? You’re funny. I guess, since I like also Kieslowsky, Bertolucci and Olmi, makes me, what, the devil? Why is it so awful, if a european likes also european films?
Comment by Kaislis — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 1:00 pm
Phil,
As an American living in Finland I don’t think the ad is un-American at all. Now if it read “Good movies from about 43 countries, just not the USA.” then I would agree with you.I do think you are sometimes hyper-sensitive to an anti-American bias in Finland. Yes there is alot of bias against our present government and rightly so but not all mention of USA in the media is negative.
Comment by Lynne — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 1:12 pm
Thomas: I think I’m much better in maths than you. For instance, see Sinikka Arteva http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinikka_Arteva In memoriam.
Comment by alo — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
Phil:
“Take this example. There’s a night club that attracts alot of blacks, but wants to convey to everyone that they’re much more diverse.
“Great club! Diverse crowd, not just blacks.†”
As usually, your analogy sucks big time.
Ask yourself, does the night club have the right to pick-and-choose its clients? Well maybe some night clubs do (and are subsequently accused of racism or general intolerance), but mainly they accept paying customers, because that’s what they are after. Advertisements based on the skin-colour of their “median” customers, would simply be thought of as idiotic and inappropriate, although it wouldn’t (in case it would be based on facts) be untrue.
Now, ask yourself does YLE have the right to choose the movies it broadcasts? Does MTV3 have it? Does Nelonen have it? I believe they do.
See the difference?
What YLE promotes in their ad is simply: we choose also non-american movies to broadcast. This is true. This is different from MTV3 and Nelonen. This is therefore something to point out.
Get it? Or do we need to elaborate?
Comment by Thomas — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
alo:
“Thomas: I think I’m much better in maths than you. For instance, see Sinikka Arteva http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinikka_Arteva In memoriam.”
What are you trying to say? Is Sinikka Arteva (who unfortunately has passed away recently) one of the COMMUNISTS studying in the 60s that you attack or what?
You may be better at maths than I (which I don’t really believe, frankly), but your logic (a necessity for being able to do maths btw.) sucks.
“YLE is full of communists who grew up and studied in -60s and -70s when everything good came from the USSR and bad from the USA.”
Are you saying that there are no employees at YLE who “grew up and studied” during the 80s and 90s (not to mention the 00s). What about the “chief” Jungner? I’m sure he’s a communist from the 60s as well. OK, he was born in the 60s (1965), but that’s probably a crime as well, ensuring you’re one of the commies.
What about e.g. that old fart Erkki Toivanen who keeps writing tiresome “letters to the editor” in HeSa glorifying the EU. Is he one of the commies from the 60s. What about e.g. Pertti Salolainen?
You should choose your words better.
Comment by Thomas — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
Just don’t understand this… Hollywood makes the movies that people want to watch (just check out the highest grossing movies of all times). So what can you say about movies form 43 other countries… Yeah maybe, but that is like saying we send our kids to other great universities not just Harvard. What this says in reality is that Harvard is the gold standard by which everything else is compared, just like Hollywood is to movies.
Comment by uncle sam — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 7:10 pm
Well, actually most popular doesn’t really equal the best. A hard concept for many, but there you go. I mean, I believe Budweiser is way more popular beer than Budvar. I rest my case!
Comment by mjr — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 8:06 pm
#37
“What can you expect? YLE is full of communists who grew up and studied in -60s and -70s when everything good came from the USSR and bad from the USA. Soviets had peace missiles and Americans had imperialist doomsday weapons. A rat cannot change its fur.”
Sampo is led and largely OWNED by a Communist who grew up and studied in the 1960s and 1970s. A great deal more obviously than the late Sinikka Arteva ever was one. Perhaps you should ask Nalle if he has changed his fur lately, or his leopard-skin pill-box hat. Maybe he’ll front you a few euros for the revolution for old times’ sake. Though a second braincell might do you more good.
Comment by kylmä totuus — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 8:23 pm
This is not anti-American, but a non-issue. This is just plain old overreaction, like the thing with the candy. I guess since there’s a couple of blackface African natives on a candy box - must be racist. I guess since there’s a form of ‘no’ and ‘America’ in the same sentence - must be anti-American.
I can expect this kind of a reaction from some dickhead who’s blinded by the flag. I didn’t think Phil was one of those.
Comment by gopha — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 9:11 pm
Well, actually most popular doesn’t really equal the best.
What? Aren’t 10 billion flies right about the culinary qualities of faeces*? Wasn’t the NSDAP the best choice in the 1933 elections? Wasn’t Windows 95 like the best OS ever? Surely you must be kidding!
BTW, many mainstream Hollywood films are great.
* I’m not absolutely sure, but all species combined, crap might just be the most popular meal on the planet. Ponder that for a while.
Comment by Freeridin' Franklin — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 9:46 pm
Reminds me of the 1970s and 1980s when in some circles you very quickly got branded with the “anti-Soviet” label.
Comment by Erik — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
54. “I guess since there’s a couple of blackface African natives on a candy box - must be racist. I guess since there’s a form of ‘no’ and ‘America’ in the same sentence - must be anti-American.”
Is the racism so deeply entrenched in you that you can’t see the racism in “Neekeri Lakritsi”, as it’s so often called in Finland.
Comment by maksalaatikko — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 10:24 pm
Is the racism so deeply entrenched in you that you can’t see the racism in “Neekeri Lakritsiâ€Â, as it’s so often called in Finland.
Wow, that triggered a flashback. I can’t imagine myself asking the kiosk auntie for some neekerilaku, but I have surely done so on several occasions roughly 25 years ago.
Bring back the innocence! Bring back Kekkonen and Brezhnev! (or not)
Comment by Freeridin' Franklin — Fri, Jan 26th, 2007 @ 11:04 pm
To be Anti-American this ad would have to imply that YLE show films from other countries not because they are better or show greater diversity or because the American films get shown on other channels, but purely because they are American. There is no reason to think that is the case.
Criticism of something American is not anti-American. I wish some people would get a grip of that concept. When people criticise Britain for having cold houses, ridiculous taps and malfunctioning showers, I do not see this as evidence of Anti-Britishism but as evidence people feel negatively towards those things imparticular. If they said the showers were technically wonderful but they hated them because they were british then that would be anti-British.
Comment by finnsense — Sat, Jan 27th, 2007 @ 9:52 am
gopha:
“I can expect this kind of a reaction from some dickhead who’s blinded by the flag. I didn’t think Phil was one of those.”
Really? How long have you been reading Phil’s whining?
Comment by Thomas — Sat, Jan 27th, 2007 @ 4:18 pm
I read it as “Good movies in addition to movies from the U.S”
There, made this post redundant.
Comment by Keksi — Sun, Jan 28th, 2007 @ 2:37 pm
Well, now at 9 o’clock you can enjoy a “French Art Movie” on SubTv.
“To My Sister” - À ma soeur! directed by Catherine Breillat.
Considering it is K-15 and has teenage sex and severe violence I somehow don’t think they’d even allow showing that in TV in teh US
Comment by Hank W. — Tue, Jan 30th, 2007 @ 9:18 pm
Finland: Pussy flicks on tv. Whoa! USA: Freedom of speech. How’s that for a comparison?
Comment by truth — Tue, Jan 30th, 2007 @ 9:48 pm
Phil is hysterical and paranoid. His whole point was probably once again to trash Six degrees, not the ad itself. Phil’s bias and hatred against six degrees is so obvious, that honestly nobody gives a shit anymore about what he says.
Comment by Anonymous — Mon, Feb 5th, 2007 @ 2:01 pm
Stop whining. Most movies do come from America, so it was a reasonable advert.
But you are right about six degrees. There’s a piece of crap if I ever saw one.
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