Off Beat Cinema is a two-hour hosted movie show that airs on television stations throughout the United States late at night and features "the Good, the Bad, the Foreign..." but mostly cult movies like Night of the Living Dead, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and even more art house fare like The Third Man in a format not unlike the Creature Double Feature of the 1970s and 1980s. It originated from WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York from its launch on Saturday October 31, 1993 until July 2012. It shifted to local competitor WBBZ-TV on August 4, 2012.
On occasion, a clip show will air featuring episodes of public domain shorts and sitcom episodes (an example of this was a Christmas episode aired in 2007 that featured a Metro Goldwyn Mayer short, a 1963 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies, and an episode of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet).
Famous quotes containing the words beat and/or cinema:
“Before you beat a dog, find out who its master is.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn’t.”
—Jean-Luc Godard (b. 1930)