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Self - Filmmaker: I saw "Berlin Alexanderplatz". Now, that was the most extraordinary revelation. Where else are you going to see this 12 or 14 hours of this magnificent novel turned into this extraordinarily brilliant film - which nobody in commercial filmmaking to this day will ever put on television? It was like some enormous *meal* that kept coming, you know, and you saw the whole thing. It was breathtaking
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I saw Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Now that was the most extraordinary revelation
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Where else are you going to see this 12 or 14 hours
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of this magnificent novel
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turned into this extraordinarily brilliant film
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which nobody in commercial filmmaking to this day
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will ever put on television
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It was like some enormous meal that kept coming
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and you saw the whole thing
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It was breathtaking
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Movie Summary
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies ...