Blog - June Programming Highlights

2008-06-02 17:00:06

We want to be sure you
don't miss our programming highlights. Here
is a run down of what's to come on Ovation
TV this month. Let us know what you think.



“Unreal Worlds: The Art of Animation”




The Triplets of Belleville – (Ovation TV Premiere) Monday, June 16
(8-10 PM ET/PT) This wildly inventive and highly original,
Oscar®-winning animated feature film is crowded with colorful
characters and fantastic imagery.




Wallace and Gromit Go to Hollywood – Monday, June16 (10-11 PM ET/PT) This
documentary visits the studios of Aardman Animation, the Oscar®-winning
animation house responsible for such box-office sensations as “Chicken
Run” and “The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” Interviews include those with
Aardman founders Peter Lord and Dave Sproxton, Dream Works’ Jeffrey
Katzenberg, Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, filmmaker Terry Gilliam,
animation genius Ray Harry Hausen and the late cartoonist and legend
Chuck Jones.



Tokyo Godfathers – (Ovation TV Premiere) – Tuesday, June 17 (8-10 PM
ET/ T) In modern-day Tokyo, three homeless people’s lives are changed
forever when they discover a baby girl at a garbage dump on Christmas
Eve.



Dante’s Inferno – (World Television Premiere) -- Thursday, June 19
(8-10 PM ET/ T) The literary classic is retold as a contemporary tale
with marvelously inventive technique using hand-drawn paper puppets
brought to life with hand-made special effects in a kind of apocalyptic
graphic novel meets Victorian-era toy theater.


“Paris” Mini-Marathon



City of Dreams – Wednesday, June 4 (8-9 PM ET/PT) Art historian
Sandrine Voillet reveals how Paris battled through turmoil and trauma
to become the city of dreams. From the Louvre to a magical fairy tale
park, which is one of Paris’ best-kept secrets, Sandrine uncovers a
Paris rarely explored.



Blood & Chocolate – Wednesday, June 4 (9-10 PM ET/PT) Sandrine
traces the growth of Paris from its origins on a small island in the
middle of the River Seine to the world capital of revolution, revealing
a city of haves and have nots in an era of the Salon, theatre and
chocolate, which famously and bloodily divided a nation.



Bohemian Rhapsody – Wednesday, June 4 (10-11 PM ET/PT) Sandrine
takes a look beyond the glittering surface of Paris at the underground
worlds and movements that defined the city in the 20th Century. She
meets can-can girls at the Moulin Rouge and talks to Olivier Picasso
about how his famous grandfather painted his wives.


“Destination Arthouse” Weekend, showcasing Akira Kurosawa



High and Low – Sunday, June 8 (12:30-3 PM ET/PT; 1-3:30 AM ET/PT) Toshiro
Mifune stars as a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target
of a ruthless kidnapper in Akira Kurosawa’s exemplary film noir.



Seven Samurai – Sunday June 8 (3-7 PM ET/PT; 9 PM – 1 AM ET/PT) One
of the most beloved movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven
Samurai” tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate
inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors to protect them from invading
bandits. Starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura.



Rashomon – Sunday, June 8 (7-9 PM ET/PT) Through an ingenious use
of camera angles and flashbacks, Korosawa reveals the complexities of
human nature as four people recount different version of the story of a
man’s murder and the rape of his wife. Toshiro Mifune gives another
commanding performance.


Featured Films



My Dinner With Andre – Saturday, June 7 (10 PM – 12 AM ET/PT) Director
Louis Malle presents a very simple setting for one of the most
thoughtful and significant discussions ever captured on film.



Shadowlands - Tuesday, June 24 (8-11 PM ET/PT) While teaching at
Oxford, C.S. Lewis, author of “The Chronicles of Narnia” series, meets
American poet Joy Grisham. He falls in love with her vivacious spirits
and the two marry, though their time together is cut short when Joy is
diagnosed with cancer.



White Nights – (Ovation TV remiere) Friday, June 27 (8-11 PM ET/PT) Starring
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines, this is the story of a Russian
defector and an American tap dancer who defected behind the Iron
Curtain during the Vietnam War. Artistic vision and political idealism
collide as two great dancers make a decision that will change their
lives forever.



Ugetsu – (Ovation TV Premiere) Saturday, June 28 (9-11 PM ET/PT) “Ugetsu”
is a ghost story like no other and is Japanese director Kenji
Mizoguchi’s greatest achievement. This haunting tale of love and loss,
with its blending of the otherworldly and the real, is one of the most
beautiful films ever made.





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