Daily Variety, June 7th, 2005
Back in the 1970s and '80s, when pay cable television was just beginning to make an impact on the culture, there was a little channel in Los Angeles that had everybody talking long before HBO's "water cooler" lineup. That channel was the Z Channel and it was like nothing that came before it and nothing since. An oasis of independent film savvy with a dash of mainstream Hollywood blockbuster punch and night owl titillation, mixed together with European festival sensibilities and a film historian's eye, it was literally a film lover's paradise. For director Xan Cassavetes, growing up in a stric...
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