David Stratton: A Cinematic Life is now available to stream on TVNZ OnDemand's Pulse channel.
OPINION: The newish TVNZ OnDemand channel Pulse continues to be some kind of cultural oasis among the free-to-airs.
In fact, even with its severely limited selection of arts and music documentary programming, Pulse is still comprehensively kicking Netflix NZ right in the bum, with the international big-hitter offering a laughably obvious and malnourished selection of docos outside of the – usually queasily exploitative – “true crime” and historical atrocities genres.
If you want to see what a genuinely great selection of documentaries looks like, you're going to have to support your local surviving video store. But, if that's no longer an option, Pulse at least exists, even if TVNZ don't yet seem to have any idea how to market it.