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Saturday 28th July   
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Film4 Listings for Saturday 28th July


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11:00   
The Last Mimzy (Film)
Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn star as siblings Noah and Emma Wilder in Bob Shaye's intelligent family sci-fi adventure drama that doesn't talk down to children. While staying at their family beach house near Seattle, the two find a box of things that look like toys, but prove to be far more mysterious. Sent back in time, the 'toys' are trying to pass on a message about the future. And the more Noah and Emma play with the objects from the box, the more their intelligence grows. But one day Noah lines up the toys and accidentally activates a powerful force that creates a state-wide blackout. With her family under arrest by the FBI, Emma must make sense of the messages Mimzy, the toy rabbit, has been telepathically communicating to her.
Director: Robert Shaye
Starring: Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 2007, 4 Star)


13:00   
Entrapment (Film)
Sean Connery plays Robert 'Mac' MacDougal, one of the finest art thieves in the world, while Catherine Zeta-Jones is Virginia 'Gin' Baker, an insurance company agent who plans to trap him by offering the opportunity to crown his career: the theft of a $40 million Chinese mask. To do so, she has to set herself up as a thief eager to learn from the master, which she does, passing a series of tests. But as Jon Amiel's all-action thriller reaches its climax high above Kuala Lumpur's skyscrapers, both of them realise there are still lessons to be learnt.
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton, Maury Chaykin, Kevin McNally
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 1999, 3 Star)


15:10   
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)


17:10   
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)


19:15   
Jumper (Film)
Doug Liman's sci-fi thriller stars Hayden Christensen as David Rice, a 'jumper', who can teleport anywhere instantly. He uses his powers to accumulate wealth for his idea of an ideal lifestyle, but fi$$$ himself threatened by the Paladins, a shadowy organisation led by Roland, who are dedicated to tracking down and killing jumpers. Rice teams up with fellow jumper Griffin to take on the Paladins and to save his sweetheart Millie, who has become an innocent pawn in the battle.
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Diane Lane, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Rooker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2008, 3 Star)




21:00   
Run, Fat Boy, Run (Film)
David Schwimmer's debut directorial feature stars Simon Pegg as Dennis Doyle, seen in the film's opening sequence abandoning a very pregnant Libby Odell at the altar. Five years later, he's an overweight security guard with limited access rights to their son Jake, but still holds a torch for her. When he fi$$$ she has a new boyfriend, superfit all-round jock Whit, he decides to win her back by entering the same charity marathon as Whit and beating him. With coaching from his landlord and encouragement of sorts from his friend Gordon, he sets off over the start line, but has he prepared enough to make it to the finish?
Director: David Schwimmer
Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Harish Patel, Ameet Chana
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2007, 3 Star)


22:55   
Team America: World Police (Film)
From Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creative geniuses behind South Park, comes the tongue-in-cheek story of a world police force consisting of puppets that target terrorists. However their aim is exceptionally bad... Team America's opponents include The Film Actors' Guild, which gives Parker and Stone a chance to lampoon top Hollywood stars too. Not a film for the easily shocked.
Director: Trey Parker
Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Kristen Miller, Masasa Moyo, Daran Norris, Phil Hendrie
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2004, 3 Star)


00:45   
Children of the Corn (Film)
Donald P Borchers' remake of the supernatural horror, based on a short story by Stephen King, and.
Director: Donald P. Borchers
Starring: David Anders, Kandyse McClure, Daniel Newman, Preston Bailey, Robert Gerdisch, Jordan Schmidt
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Made For TV, 2009, 2 Star)


02:30   
The Edge of the World (Film)
Michael Powell's debut feature, shot on location in the Shetland Isles, is the moving story of an isolated island where the declining population are to be re-settled, leading to strained frie$$$hips between those happy to leave and those wanting to stay.
Director: Michael Powell
Starring: Finlay Currie, Grant Sutherland, John Laurie, Niall MacGinnis, Eric Berry, Belle Chrystall
(Subtitles, Black and White, U, 1937)

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Sunday 29th July   
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Film4 Listings for Sunday 29th July


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11:00   
Gideon of Scotland Yard (Film)
87 min PG
Legendary director John Ford crosses the Atlantic for this film in which the eponymous Inspector Gideon faces outrage and danger in his quest to bring London's criminals to justice. A comic tone offsets the drama, with an occasional sense of menace hinting at Ford's mastery of the medium.
Director: John Ford
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Cyril Cusack, Andrea Aureli, James Hayter, Ronald Howard
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1958, PG, 3 Star)


13:00   
Meet Dave (Film)
Director Brian Robbins' sci-fi comedy stars Eddie Murphy as both a man-sized humanoid spaceship and the diminutive captain of the same vessel. When a piece of extraterrestrial technology crash-la$$$ in young Josh Morrison's bedroom, he initially thinks it's a meteorite. But it's actually an alien device designed to drain the Earth's oceans and save its home planet from salt-depleted doom. And when it fails its mission, a team of 100 tiny aliens are sent to complete the job, arriving amid a fireball on Liberty Island. Tenacious cop Officer Dooley is soon on their trail, while the alien crew start to mutiny over their plans to totally dehydrate Earth when they discover that the locals are much less primitive than they'd expected.
Director: Brian Robbins
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms, Kevin Hart
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 2 Star)


14:45   
The Poseidon Adventure (Film)
Disaster movie set aboard a luxury cruise liner which is hit by a huge tidal wave and capsizes. With time running out. the passengers are forced to fight for their survival and make their way to the surface through air pockets in the upturned ship.
Director: Ronald Neame, Irwin Allen
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters
(Subtitles, 1972, PG, 3 Star)


17:00   
Jungle 2 Jungle (Film)
Tim Allen plays Wall Street high-flyer Michael Cromwell. Before he can marry his fiancé Charlotte, he must divorce his wife Patricia, who works with indigenous people deep in the South American jungle. When he tracks her down, he also discovers he has a teenage son, Mimi-Siku, raised as one of the natives, who wants Michael to take him to New York to experience life in the Big Apple. Cue fish-out-of-water gags galore in John Pasquin's comedy, as Mimi-Siku's innocent ways create mayhem in Michael's ordered metropolitan WASP life. Edited for content.
Director: John Pasquin
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington, David Ogden-Stiers
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, PG, 4 Star)


19:00   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)




21:00   
Taken (Film)
Liam Neeson stars as former CIA operative Bryan Mills, who's desperate to track down his kidnapped daughter in Pierre Morel's Luc Besson-produced action-thriller. Mills' life hasn't panned out well; his dedication to the CIA wrecked his marriage and made him neglect his daughter Kim. Now, retired from the Agency, he wants to make things up to Kim. But to do so, he has to contend with his ex-wife's animosity and Kim's new step-father's wealth. So when he has an opportunity to advance Kim's pop star ambitions he jumps at the chance, even if that means her and a friend crossing the Atlantic to brave 'the dangers of Europe'. As things turn out, he has a point: in Paris, the two girls are kidnapped by vicious Eastern European sex traffickers. As they are being abducted, Bryan tells one of the baddies, via Kim's mobile phone: 'I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you'. He subsequently does his best to make good on his promise, using all the violent tricks of the trade his time at the CIA taught him.
Director: Pierre Morel
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Holly Valance, Famke Janssen, Radivoje Bukvic, Leland Orser
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star)


22:50   
Law Abiding Citizen (Film)
A brutal, gory revenge thriller starring Gerald Butler and directed by F Gary Gray. Could anything be worse than seeing your wife and child brutally killed in front of you? Well, probably not, but seeing one of their killers walk free after striking a bargain with the prosecuting lawer wouldn't make things any easier. And so it is for Clyde Shelton. But the experience doesn't destroy him; instead it eats away at him for a decade, at which point he snaps and takes sadistic revenge on the freed murderer. And then, even after he himself has been jailed, he embarks on a deadly campaign against everyone else connected with the case - including the police and legal representatives.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Michael Irby
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 18, 4 Star)


00:55   
The War of the Roses (Film)
Danny DeVito directs and stars in this black comedy as Gavin D'Amato, a high-powered divorce lawyer who is called in by his frie$$$ Oliver and Barbara Rose. After 17 years of marriage, Barbara realises she's been trapped and wants her own life, a divorce and all of the highly prized home. The arguments begin in D'Amato's office but the conflict gets more bitter and violent at home, as each of the Roses escalates the dispute.
Director: Danny DeVito
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin, Heather Fairfield
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1989, 15, 4 Star)

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Thursday 2nd August   
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Film4 Listings for Thursday 2nd August


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11:00   
Ocean Waves (Film)
Tomomi Mochizuki directs this Studio Ghibli animated romantic drama. As he journeys back from Tokyo to his high school for a reunion, Taku Morisaki recounts his memories of his school days, focussing in particular on a love triangle that developed between him and two of his frie$$$.
Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
Starring: Nobuo Tobita, Toshihiko Seki, Yoko Sakamoto, Yuri Amano, Kae Araki, Jun'ichi Kanemaru
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, Made For TV, 1993, PG, 4 Star)


12:35   
Ivanhoe (Film)
Richard Thorpe's Oscar-nominated swashbuckler, based on Sir Walter Scott's classic novel, stars Robert Taylor as Saxon hero Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who sets out on a quest to raise the ransom to free King Richard the Lionheart from imprisonment in an Austrian castle. Not only must he outwit Richard's evil brother Prince John, who plans to seize the throne with his Norman allies, he must cope with the attentions of both his betrothed, Lady Rowena, and Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York, who is helping Ivanhoe raise the ransom.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas
(Subtitles, 1952, U, 3 Star)


14:45   
Rooster Cogburn (Film)
Rooster Cogburn is back in the saddle. This time he join forces with a vengeful spinster to search for and punish the outlaw who killed her father. Between chasing bandits and arguing, the two also find time to form a loving realtionship.
Director: Stuart Millar
Starring: John Wayne, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Zerbe, Richard Jordan, John McIntire, Richard Romancito
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1974, U, 3 Star)


16:55   
Jungle 2 Jungle (Film)
Tim Allen plays Wall Street high-flyer Michael Cromwell. Before he can marry his fiancé Charlotte, he must divorce his wife Patricia, who works with indigenous people deep in the South American jungle. When he tracks her down, he also discovers he has a teenage son, Mimi-Siku, raised as one of the natives, who wants Michael to take him to New York to experience life in the Big Apple. Cue fish-out-of-water gags galore in John Pasquin's comedy, as Mimi-Siku's innocent ways create mayhem in Michael's ordered metropolitan WASP life. Edited for content.
Director: John Pasquin
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Sam Huntington, David Ogden-Stiers
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, PG, 4 Star)


18:55   
X-Men: The Last Stand (Film)
When a mutant called Leech produces an antibody that cures all mutants, billionaire Warren Worthington II, driven by shame of his mutant son, kidnaps Leech to manufacture the cure and rid the world of mutants. But while Professor Charles Xavier advises negotiation and understanding, Magneto favours using mutant force against Worthington. Caught in the middle is government advisor Dr Hank McCoy, aka Beast. As the mutants, including Wolverine, Storm, Phoenix and Juggernaut, take sides, the battle becomes the final stand for the X-Men. Directed by Brett Ratner. Edited for violence and language.
Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, Anna Paquin, Kelsey Grammer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 4 Star)




21:00   
Appaloosa (Film)
Ed Harris directs and stars in this western as Virgil Cole, who, with his lifelong buddy Everett Hitch, plays a lawman for hire, cleaning up towns beset by bad guys before moving on. The duo's latest job is in the town of Appaloosa, which is terrorised by evil rancher Randall Bragg. But matters get complicated when Virgil falls for widow Allison French. Everett, worried his distracted friend will lose his edge when Bragg makes his move, must decide on the best course of action as, between the shoot-outs, a delicate balance between romance and frie$$$hip must be struck.
Director: Ed Harris
Starring: Robert Jauregui, Jeremy Irons, Timothy V. Murphy, Luce Rains, James Tarwater, Boyd Kestner
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star)


23:15   
Omen III: The Final Conflict (Film)
The conclusion of this week's Omen triple-bill. In Graham Baker's concluding film of the Omen trilogy, Damien Thorn, the Antichrist, is played by Sam Neill. Now head of Thorn Industries, he has his eyes set first on the Senate, then the White House, from where he can, of course, trigger the final Apocalypse. All that sta$$$ in his way are seven monks, led by Father DeCarlo, armed with the seven daggers which can end his corporeal existence. But, more worryingly for Thorn, are rumours of the Second Coming of the one entity who can defeat him spiritually.
Director: Graham Baker
Starring: Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon, Lisa Harrow, Barnaby Holm, Mason Adams
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1981, 18, 2 Star)


01:25   
Out of Time (Film)
Denzel Washington plays Matt Whitlock, Chief of Police of a small Florida town in Carl Franklin's thriller. He and his wife, Detective Alex Whitlock, are divorcing and he's started an affair with high school sweetheart Ann Merai Harrison. She's married to the violent Chris Harrison and is suffering from cancer. She has an insurance policy worth $1m, but needs half to pay for treatment now. Whitlock 'borrows' it from recovered drugs money, but then his life gets messy. Two bodies are found in the gutted Harrison household; his wife is heading up the investigation; and the DEA wants to know where the money has gone. Whitlock is now the number-one suspect and has to find the murderer and the missing money while staying one step ahead of his colleagues.
Director: Carl Franklin
Starring: Denzel Washington, Eva Mendes, Sanaa Lathan, Dean Cain, John Billingsley, Robert Baker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 12, 3 Star)

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Friday 3rd August   
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Film4 Listings for Friday 3rd August


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11:00   
King of Kings (Film)
Nicholas Ray's epic film tells the story of Jesus Christ, played by Jeffrey Hunter, from his birth to the Ascension. The cast also includes Robert Ryan as John the Baptist, Siobhan McKenna as Mary, Rip Torn as Judas and Harry Guardino as Barabbas, a fiery rebel leader whose message of violence contrasts with Christ's message of peace.
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell, Viveca Lindfors, Rita Gam
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1961, 3 Star)


14:10   
The Hindenburg (Film)
Robert Wise's dramatic retelling of 1937's ill-fated transatlantic flight suggests conspiracy and cover-up were at the heart of the tragedy. Following a swirl of rumours about sabotage, Colonel Franz Ritter is assigned to the airship's flight as chief of security. He travels from Europe with an interesting set of passengers: from Anne Bancroft's countess to scheming businessmen, an entertainer, a Gestapo man and others with potentially suspicious reasons for being on that particular flight. The film's conspiracy theory hints that the full facts will never be known, as its story builds to its dramatic conclusion in the airspace over New Jersey.
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess Meredith
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1975, 3 Star)


16:35   
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Film)
The first spin-off movie from the TV series, directed by Robert Wise, stars William Shatner as Admiral James T Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock and DeForst Kelley as Dr Leonard McCoy in a spectacular adventure. Kirk, deskbound at Starfleet Command, goes aboard the Enterprise to hand over command but he has to take control again in order to avert a crisis. A huge energy cloud that destroys everything in its path is heading towards Earth, apparently seeking its creator. Can Kirk and his crew solve the mystery of its origins and avert disaster?
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, U, 1979, 3 Star)


19:10   
Elf (Film)
Will Ferrell plays Buddy who, as a kid, crawled into Santa's sack, ended up at the North Pole and was reared as an elf. Reaching adulthood, he sets off to find his real father, Walter. But, on finding him, he is dismissed as a nut. However, with the help of shop girl Jovie, he tries to win his father over and bring back the true spirit of Christmas to Manhattan. Director Jon Favreau and Ferrell keep the schmaltz to a minimum, instead using the actor's comedy skills to produce a film that that has a wicked sense of humour as well as a seasonal heart.
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Edward Asner, Mary Steenburgen, Zooey Deschanel
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 2003, 4 Star)


21:00   
Terminator Salvation (Film)
Director McG takes the helm for the fourth instalment of the sci-fi action franchise, starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. The principal action takes place in the not-too-distant 2018, in the devastated world that was glimpsed early in the series, where a determined group of resistance fighters are battling killing machines that are set on sole control of the planet. John Connor is one of the resistance leaders who discovers that their Skynet robot adversaries have a potentially fatal design flaw; they also learn that Skynet plans to imminently assassinate the top resistance leaders; Connor is second on the kill list to Kyle Reese, a civilian whose significance is known only to Connor. Meanwhile, Marcus Wright has also appeared on the scene - is he a mysterious warrior, out to defeat the machines, or does he have darker motives?
Director: Joseph McGinty Nichol
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter, Anton Yelchin, Jadagrace
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 12, 2009, 3 Star)




23:10   
Paprika (Film)
Satoshi Kon's Japanese animation about the chaos unleashed when a machine that can invade people's dreams is stolen.
Director: Satoshi Kon
Starring: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya, Kôichi Yamadera, Katsunosuke Hori, Toru Emori, Akio Ã"tsuka
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2006, 4 Star)


00:55   
Dreams that Money Can Buy (Film)
A rare screening for this intriguing piece of experimental filmmaking; an astonishing collaboration between a group of modern art luminaries. The portmanteau was put together under the aegis of German Dadaist Hans Richter, and features segments from a stellar line-up of 20th-century artists, namely French cubist Fernand Lager, American photographer Man Ray, American sculptor Alexander Calder, German surrealist Max Ernst and French avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp. Other notables involved include influential art collector Peggy Guggenheim, who was one of the producers; Josh White, the blues singer and civil rights campaigner, whose left-leaning sympathies would plunge him into a McCarthyite nightmare shortly after this film was released; and the composers Paul Bowles and John Cage.
Director: Man Ray, Hans Richter
Starring: Louis Applebaum, Ethel Beseda, Jack Bittner, Samuel Cohen, Max Ernst, Jo Fontaine-Maison
(Subtitles, 12, 1947, 3 Star)


02:35   
The Exiles (Film)
Director Kent MacKenzie's slice of very low-budget, US independent filmmaking looks at life in the margins of the American dream. His quasi-documentary, beautifully shot in black and white, focuses on a group of young Native Americans who've abandoned their Indian reservation for the Los Angeles slum of Bunker Hill. Yvonne Williams and Homer Nish take the lead roles as a husband and wife, while Tommy Reynolds plays one of Homer's frie$$$. The movie opens with the camera following Yvonne traversing an open-air market, it trails her to her cramped home, where Homer's frie$$$ are introduced, then follows them all through an evening's carousing in town, finishing with a till-dawn traditional drumming ceremony/jam session up in the hills.
Director: Kent MacKenzie
Starring: Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds, Ann Amiador, Ned Casey, Mary Donahue
(Black and White, Subtitles, 12, 1961, 4 Star)

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Saturday 4th August   
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Film4 Listings for Saturday 4th August


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11:00   
The Valley of Gwangi (Film)
Dinosaurs meet cowboys in Jim O'Connolly's cult film, with the monsters animated by the inimitable Ray Harryhausen. In a small Mexican town, horse trader Tuck Kirby meets up with old flame T J Breckinridge, owner of a rundown circus. He runs into palaeontologist Professor Horace Bromley, who has found a living eohippus, the prehistoric ancestor of the horse. Nursing their own agendas, the scientist and the cowboy venture into the Forbidden Valley only to find that larger, more deadly creatures have also survived from prehistoric times.
Director: Jim O'Connolly
Starring: James Franciscus, Gila Golan, Richard Carlson, Laurence Naismith, Freda Jackson, Gustavo Rojo
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1968, 12, 2 Star)


13:00   
Elf (Film)
Will Ferrell plays Buddy who, as a kid, crawled into Santa's sack, ended up at the North Pole and was reared as an elf. Reaching adulthood, he sets off to find his real father, Walter. But, on finding him, he is dismissed as a nut. However, with the help of shop girl Jovie, he tries to win his father over and bring back the true spirit of Christmas to Manhattan. Director Jon Favreau and Ferrell keep the schmaltz to a minimum, instead using the actor's comedy skills to produce a film that that has a wicked sense of humour as well as a seasonal heart.
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Edward Asner, Mary Steenburgen, Zooey Deschanel
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2003, PG, 4 Star)


16:40   
Meet Dave (Film)
Director Brian Robbins' sci-fi comedy stars Eddie Murphy as both a man-sized humanoid spaceship and the diminutive captain of the same vessel. When a piece of extraterrestrial technology crash-la$$$ in young Josh Morrison's bedroom, he initially thinks it's a meteorite. But it's actually an alien device designed to drain the Earth's oceans and save its home planet from salt-depleted doom. And when it fails its mission, a team of 100 tiny aliens are sent to complete the job, arriving amid a fireball on Liberty Island. Tenacious cop Officer Dooley is soon on their trail, while the alien crew start to mutiny over their plans to totally dehydrate Earth when they discover that the locals are much less primitive than they'd expected.
Director: Brian Robbins
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms, Kevin Hart
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 2 Star)


18:25   
The Great Debaters (Film)
Denzel Washington directs and star in this fact-based civil rights drama. He tells the inspirational story of how a small black college in Marshall, Texas, defied the racist norms of 1930s America to take on the pampered white frat boys of the Ivy League in the national debating championship. Washington stars as Melvin B Tolson, the professor who set up a debating forum for the students at Wiley College, which proved so popular and successful under his tutelage that they collectively took the brave decision to compete not only against bigger black colleges, but also to take on white academia. Though uplifting, the team's journey graphically demonstrates the appalling injustices, violence and contempt that African Americans were then forced to endure.
Director: Denzel Washington
Starring: Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, Jermaine Williams, Forest Whitaker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 4 Star)


21:00   
The Bank Job (Film)
Roger Donaldson's bank heist conspiracy-thriller - scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais - stars Jason Statham as the leader of a gang of thieves who bite off more than they can chew. When car dealer and one-time crook Terry Leather is approached by his old flame Martine Love with a proposition that would put his money worries behind him for good, he jumps at the chance. Leather quickly assembles a team which digs a tunnel directly into a London bank's vault. But what he hasn't been told is that, in addition to the money, he'll also be stealing a safety box containing material that, if it saw the light of day, would be extremely damaging to the royal family. Another box they take holds further dramatic revelations concerning establishment figures. So it's not long before Leather and the gang are pursued by the police, MI5 and various thugs, all keen to get their ha$$$ on the incendiary information... Edited for sexual scenes.
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15, 4 Star)




23:10   
30 Days of Night (Film)
The small Alaskan town of Barrow is so far north, it suffers 30 days of full darkness... Which is ideal for a band of vampires, led by Marlow, who descend on the town to feast. Local sheriff Eben Oleson and his estranged wife Stella lead a small group of survivors who hole up in a secret hideout. But, with supplies running out and the vampires closing in, can they stay hidden or must they risk taking on the undead? David Slade's all-action, visceral horror film mixes fast-moving action with claustrophobic tension as the body count rises and the days slowly pass.
Director: David Slade
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone Junior, Mark Rendall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 18, 3 Star)


01:20   
Control (Film)
Moving biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis (Sam Riley), who battled depression and epilepsy before taking his own life. Samantha Morton shines as his neglected wife.
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Samantha Morton, Sam Riley, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, Toby Kebbell, Craig Parkinson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 4 Star)

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Sunday 5th August   
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Film4 Listings for Sunday 5th August


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11:00   
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Film)
Howard Hawks' musical stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as Dorothy Shaw and Lorelei Lee, two singers on a luxury liner en route from France to New York. While Dorothy is on the lookout for love rather than money, Lorelei is hoping her millionaire boyfriend Gus Esmond Jr will marry her, his father's approval permitting. As the voyage continues, will both of them find their heart's desire? The film's two standout numbers are Monroe's Diamo$$$ Are a Girl's Best Friend, which became her signature tune, and Russell's ultra-camp Ain't There Anyone Here for Love, accompanied by Olympic athletes in gold lam? trunks.
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow
(Subtitles, 1953, U, 4 Star)


13:00   
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)


15:10   
James and the Giant Peach (Film)
Part live action, part animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's book from director Henry Selick. Orphan James lives with his tyrannical aunts. Through a magical series of events, a giant peach grows in their garden and when James takes a bite, it takes on a life of its own. He fi$$$ the peach is inhabited by colourful creatures including a spider, a centipede and a grasshopper. The motley crew set off on a sea voyage, via the frozen north, to find happiness in New York - but not before encountering fabulous creatures and having dangerous adventures.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Paul Terry, Susan Sarandon, Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, U, 3 Star)


16:45   
Chariots of Fire (Film)
Hugh Hudson's Oscar-winning film goes back to the 1924 Paris Olympics, where Cambridge student Harold Abrahams and Scottish devout Christian Eric Liddell represented Britain on the track. The tale of commitment, integrity and sacrifice follows their lives and loves before the two come together in Paris, where Liddell must overcome religious considerations to compete.
Director: Hugh Hudson
Starring: Nicholas Farrell, Ben Cross, Nigel Havers, Ian Charleson, Daniel Gerroll, Ian Holm
(Subtitles, 1981, U, 4 Star)


19:10   
Legend (Film)
Ridley Scott's fantasy stars Tom Cruise as Jack, the hero whose mission is to conquer Darkness. But he must also rescue his love Lili, held captive by Darkness, who is trying to force her to aid his plan to kill the last unicorn and thus plunge Earth into eternal night.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Tom Cruise, Mia Sara, Tim Curry, David Bennent, Alice Playten, Billy Barty
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 3 Star)




21:00   
P.S. I Love You (Film)
Director Richard LaGravenese's romantic drama stars Hilary Swank as Holly Kennedy, a New York real estate agent forced to come to terms with the unexpected death of her young husband Gerry. Before he died, Gerry wrote her a series of letters, to be delivered across the forthcoming year, hoping to help her grieve. The letters give her vivid flashbacks to their life together and, under his written direction, she visits Gerry's parents in Ireland, where she ultimately fi$$$ the strength to move on. Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, Harry Connick Jr and Jeffrey Dean Morgan also star.
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, James Marsters, Kathy Bates
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 12, 3 Star)


23:25   
Final Destination 3 (Film)
James Wong, who directed the first film in the horror franchise, returns to helm this sequel starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the roller coaster she and her school frie$$$ are on is going to crash. And, sure enough, soon after they disembark, there is a spectacular, gory accident on the attraction. But, once again, Death will not be cheated of his due and, as the survivors succumb one-by-one in suitably ingenious ways, Wendy and her friend Kevin Fischer desperately try to work out who is next, and how they'll escape.
Director: James Wong
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton, Jesse Moss
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 2 Star)


01:10   
El Perro (Film)
Gentle drama set in Patagonia where Juan 'Coco' Villegas ekes out a living selling handmade knives. When he's given Bombón, a game dog of questionable beauty but certifiable breeding he hits the canine competition circuit where Villegas, under the tutelage of his manager Walter Donado, broadens his horizons in all directions.
Director: Carlos Sorin
Starring: Juan Villegas, Walter Donado, Gregorio, Rosa Valsecchi, Mariela Díaz, Sabino Morales
(In Spanish with Subtitles, Widescreen, 2004, 15, 4 Star)

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Monday 6th August   
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11:00   
Damn the Defiant! (Film)
Alec Guinness stars as Captain Crawford, an 18th-century ship's captain. Crawford's crew, led by Vizard, is driven to mutiny by the viciousness of one of his officers, Lieutenant Scott-Padget, despite the dangers of invasion by the French.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter, Peter Gill
(Subtitles, 1962, PG, 3 Star)


13:00   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)


15:00   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)


17:00   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)


19:00   
Love Story (Film)
Oscar-nominee Arthur Hiller's heart-breaking romantic drama starring Oscar-nominees Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. Oliver Bartlett IV and Jennifer Cavalleri are two Harvard students who fall in love. Sadly, Cavalleri has a fatal disease, so the two, knowing they only have a short time together, decide to live life to the full.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, Tommy Lee Jones, Russell Nype
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1970, PG, 3 Star)




21:00   
The Day After Tomorrow (Film)
As Earth is suddenly devasted by multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age; a climatologist tries to figure out how to save his young son who is stranded in New York, before more devastating weather arrives.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Sela Ward
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, 12, 3 Star)


23:25   
The Burning Plain (Film)
Guillermo Arriaga's feature directorial debut is a romantic crime drama starring Charlize Theron, John Corbett and Jose Maria Yazpik.
Director: Guillermo Arriaga
Starring: Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, José María Yazpik, Joaquim de Almeida, Tessa Ia
(Widescreen, 2008, 15, 3 Star)


01:40   
The War of the Roses (Film)
Danny DeVito directs and stars in this black comedy as Gavin D'Amato, a high-powered divorce lawyer who is called in by his frie$$$ Oliver and Barbara Rose. After 17 years of marriage, Barbara realises she's been trapped and wants her own life, a divorce and all of the highly prized home. The arguments begin in D'Amato's office but the conflict gets more bitter and violent at home, as each of the Roses escalates the dispute.
Director: Danny DeVito
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Sean Astin, Heather Fairfield
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1989, 15, 4 Star)

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Tuesday 7th August   
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11:00   
Ivanhoe (Film)
Richard Thorpe's Oscar-nominated swashbuckler, based on Sir Walter Scott's classic novel, stars Robert Taylor as Saxon hero Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who sets out on a quest to raise the ransom to free King Richard the Lionheart from imprisonment in an Austrian castle. Not only must he outwit Richard's evil brother Prince John, who plans to seize the throne with his Norman allies, he must cope with the attentions of both his betrothed, Lady Rowena, and Rebecca, daughter of Isaac of York, who is helping Ivanhoe raise the ransom.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas
(Subtitles, 1952, U, 3 Star)


13:00   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)


15:00   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)


17:00   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)


19:00   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)




21:00   
The X Files (Film)
Rob Bowman's sci-fi thriller feature, based on the popular TV series, stars David Duchonovy and Gillian Anderson as special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. The two are in disgrace after failing to stop the bombing of a Federal building in Dallas. But conspiracy theorist Alvin Kurtzwell believes the bodies caught up in the explosion were not only already dead but killed by something agelessly evil. Aided by Cigarette Smoking Man, the duo find themselves caught up in a worldwide conspiracy that could change the future of mankind.
Director: Rob Bowman
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau, Mitch Pileggi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 3 Star)


23:20   
Inglourious Basterds (Film)
Quentin Tarantino's history-tweaking homage to the war movie sees the director back on exhilarating form. American officer Aldo Raine leads a squad of soldiers into occupied France on a Dirty-Dozen-style assassination mission to kill as many Nazis as possible and spread fear through the Third Reich. They become involved in a Jewish resistance fighter's plan to blow up the Parisian premiere of one of Goebbels's propaganda films - an event due to be attended by Hitler himself. Inglourious Basterds features the entertainingly showy performances, encyclopaedic movie references and oodles of self-conscious dialogue that you'd expect from a Tarantino film, as well as a superb turn from Christoph Waltz as a charmingly evil SS colonel. In English, and German, French and Italian with English subtitles.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 18, 4 Star)


02:20   
Endurance (Film)
Leslie Woodhead and Bud Greenspan's film - part documentary, part drama - is the story of one of the world's greatest long distance athletes, Haile Gebrselassie. The documentary side follows him metre by metre in his run for gold in the 10,000m at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, shot by Greenspan, a veteran of Olympic camerawork. Intercut is the story of how Gebrselassie, the son of a poor farmer in southern Ethiopia, never gave up on his dream of becoming a great athlete. It shows not only his strength of personality but also his humanity and the closeness of family, as he struggled for success.
Director: Leslie Woodhead, Bud Greenspan
Starring: Haile Gebrsellasie, Shawananness Gebrselassie, Yonas Zergaw, Tedesse Haile, Bekele Gebrselassie, Alem Tellahun
(In Amharic with Subtitles, Widescreen, 1998, PG, 3 Star)

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8th August -05:00
She Led Two Lives (Film)
One made her feel passionately loved. The other made her feel safe.They were both her husba$$$ - at the same time. An extraordinary case of bigamy lies at the heart of this story about a lie that could not remain a secret forever.
Director: Bill Corcoran
Starring: Connie Sellecca, Perry King, A. Martinez, Patricia Clarkson, J. Smith-Cameron, David Wohl
(Made For TV, 1995, PG, 3 Star)


07:00
The Waltons (Drama)
The Boondoggle. Series 4, episode 5.
When an investigative reporter, arrives at Walton Mountain to write a historical guide to the State of Virginia, he uncovers a secret that angers the rest of the community.
(1975, U)


08:00
The Waltons (Drama)
The Breakdown. Series 4, episode 6.
Jason Walton stretches himself to the breaking point by working too hard to prove his self-worth.
(1975, PG)


09:00
Tuesdays with Morrie (Film)
Jack Lemmon features in this Emmy award-winning tale of a man who seems to have everything, apart from love. Can one of his former professors teach him the importance of living life to the full?
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria, Wendy Moniz, Caroline Aaron, Bonnie Bartlett, Aaron Lustig
(Made For TV, 1999, PG, 4 Star)


11:00
The Road to Avonlea (Drama)
Sara's Homecoming - Sara has mixed feelings about returning to her Father, however feeling guilty about the general stores fire she feels it's for the best.
(Part 1, PG)




12:00
The Road to Avonlea (Drama)
How Kissing was discovered - The Annual Cricket Match has everyone buzzing, the more so because Alec King is resident Cricket champion.
(Part 2, PG)


13:00
The Bachelor's Baby (Film)
few months ago, Jake Henry didn't even know he had a son. Now he'll do anything to stay part of his life. This is the emotional - and often humorous - story of how a selfish, womanising bachelor is forced to transform himself into the ideal father.
Director: Paul Schneider
Starring: Scott Bakula, Chelsea Field, Dan Lauria, Cynthia Martells, Pamela Brull, Belita Moreno
(Made For TV, 1996, 15, 3 Star)


15:00
Little House on the Prairie (Drama)
Troublemaker.
When teacher, Miss Beadle is deemed unable to control some of the older boys in her class, Mrs. Oleson convinces the school board to replace her with a firmer male hand, Mr.Applewood.
(1974, U, 3 Star)


16:00
Little House on the Prairie (Drama)
The Long Road Home.
During a recession, Charles and Mr. Edwards take a dangerous job handling highly explosive liquid dynamite.
(1974, U, 3 Star)


17:00
North and South (Drama)
1842. Two West Point military academy cadets form a strong frie$$$hip. Is it strong enough to survive the forces, forces that will rip their country into North and South.
(2004, PG, 5 Star)




19:00
Lakota Woman (Film)
In 1890, at Wounded Knee, the US Army murdered 350 of its own citizens, all Native Americans, in a massacre that ended a movement to regain the Indians' way of life. Now one woman tells her story.
Director: Frank Pierson
Starring: Charles Abourezk, Dave Bald Eagle, Lawrence Bayne, Edgar Bear Runner, Irene Bedard, Nathan Bison
(Made For TV, 1994, PG, 4 Star)


21:00
Without Her Consent (Film)
The controversial issue of date rape is the subject of this emotionally tangled drama starring Melissa Gilbert, Barry Tubb, Scott Valentine, Bebe Neuwirth and Crystal Bernard.
Director: Sandor Stern
Starring: Melissa Gilbert, Barry Tubb, Scott Valentine, Bebe Neuwirth, Crystal Bernard, Robin Riker
(Made For TV, 1990, 15, 3 Star)


23:00
Roots: The Next Generation (Drama)
In 1865 the United States' Civil War and slavery end, but Alex Haley's family history continues. A new chapter begins for the descendants of Kunta Kinte and their quest for full freedom.
(Part 1 of 7, 1979, PG)


01:00
For the Love of My Child (Film)
A mother and father frantically battle to save their daughter from dying of leukemia. Their decision to conceive another child to provide a compatible bone marrow transplant donor sparks controversy.
Director: Waris Hussein
Starring: Priscilla Lopez, Tony Perez, Robin Thomas, Danny Nucci, Luis Antonio Ramos, L. Scott Caldwell
(Made For TV, 1993, PG, 2 Star)


03:00
Living Proof (Film)
Richard Thomas stars as legendary country music star Hank Williams Jr. In this biopic of his life, we see his dominating mother try to control him and the reasons behind his suicide attempt.
Director: Steve Gomer
Starring: Jason Priestley, Teri Polo, Cheech Marin, Shalim Ortiz, Rebeka Montoya, Ed Lauter
(Made For TV, 2009, 12, 3 Star)




05:00
You Must Remember This (Film)
When a young girl discovers that her beloved great-uncle, was one of Hollywood's first black film directors, she seeks to learn why he has kept silent all these years. Robert Guillame stars.
Director: Helaine Head
Starring: Tim Reid, Vonte Sweet, Vonetta McGee, María Celedonio, Robert Guillaume, Zero Hubbard
(Made For TV, 1992, PG, 2 Star)

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Thursday 9th August   
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11:00   
A Town Called Panic (Animation)
A feature-length version of Belgian animators Vincent Patar and Stephane Aubier's kids' show Panique au village, which concerns the everyday adventures of three housemates living in a very small village. The principal characters are plastic toys called Cowboy and Indian, who share their home with a talking horse called... Horse. The 'human' duo don't possess the sharpest of intellects and spend most of their time squabbling, while Horse's days are largely spent homemaking and keeping the other two in line.
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, PG)


12:30   
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Film)
Howard Hawks' musical stars Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe as Dorothy Shaw and Lorelei Lee, two singers on a luxury liner en route from France to New York. While Dorothy is on the lookout for love rather than money, Lorelei is hoping her millionaire boyfriend Gus Esmond Jr will marry her, his father's approval permitting. As the voyage continues, will both of them find their heart's desire? The film's two standout numbers are Monroe's Diamo$$$ Are a Girl's Best Friend, which became her signature tune, and Russell's ultra-camp Ain't There Anyone Here for Love, accompanied by Olympic athletes in gold lam? trunks.
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan, George Winslow
(Subtitles, 1953, U, 4 Star)


14:25   
James and the Giant Peach (Film)
Part live action, part animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic children's book from director Henry Selick. Orphan James lives with his tyrannical aunts. Through a magical series of events, a giant peach grows in their garden and when James takes a bite, it takes on a life of its own. He fi$$$ the peach is inhabited by colourful creatures including a spider, a centipede and a grasshopper. The motley crew set off on a sea voyage, via the frozen north, to find happiness in New York - but not before encountering fabulous creatures and having dangerous adventures.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Paul Terry, Susan Sarandon, Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, U, 3 Star)


16:00   
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Film)
Henry Levin's glorious adventure movie, inspired by the Jules Verne novel, stars James Mason as Professor Oliver Lindenbrook, who embarks on an expedition to the centre of the planet: a world of prehistoric beasts, rock falls, scorching heat and lethal wi$$$, accompanied by murderous attempts on the explorers' lives. But will his team, including student Alec McKuen and glamorous widow Carla Goteborg, ever be able to return?
Director: Henry Levin
Starring: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl, Diane Baker, Thayer David, Peter Ronson
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1959, U, 4 Star)


18:35   
Chariots of Fire (Film)
Hugh Hudson's Oscar-winning film goes back to the 1924 Paris Olympics, where Cambridge student Harold Abrahams and Scottish devout Christian Eric Liddell represented Britain on the track. The tale of commitment, integrity and sacrifice follows their lives and loves before the two come together in Paris, where Liddell must overcome religious considerations to compete.
Director: Hugh Hudson
Starring: Nicholas Farrell, Ben Cross, Nigel Havers, Ian Charleson, Daniel Gerroll, Ian Holm
(Subtitles, 1981, U, 4 Star)




21:00   
Terminator Salvation (Film)
Director McG takes the helm for the fourth instalment of the sci-fi action franchise, starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. The principal action takes place in the not-too-distant 2018, in the devastated world that was glimpsed early in the series, where a determined group of resistance fighters are battling killing machines that are set on sole control of the planet. John Connor is one of the resistance leaders who discovers that their Skynet robot adversaries have a potentially fatal design flaw; they also learn that Skynet plans to imminently assassinate the top resistance leaders; Connor is second on the kill list to Kyle Reese, a civilian whose significance is known only to Connor. Meanwhile, Marcus Wright has also appeared on the scene - is he a mysterious warrior, out to defeat the machines, or does he have darker motives?
Director: Joseph McGinty Nichol
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood, Helena Bonham Carter, Anton Yelchin, Jadagrace
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 12, 3 Star)


23:10   
Tekkonkinkreet (Film)
Michael Arias's anime adaptation of Taiyo Matsumoto's manga series tells the tale of a pair of orphans who attempt to prevent the Yakuza and their assorted violent and corrupt allies from taking over their city. The Cats, streetwise orphan Black and his naive friend White, are on a mission to control the violence on the streets of Treasure Town by beating down any foes. They come across thugs, religious fanatics and the Yakuza before meeting their fiercest opponents yet: a foreign-run company called Kiddy Kastle which is planning on tearing down the town and replacing it with an amusement park. It's up to Black and White to use their very different approaches to save their city. With Tekkonkinkreet, Arias became the first American director to direct a major anime in a Japanese studio.
Director: Michael Arias
Starring: Kazunari Ninomiya, Yû Aoi, Yûsuke Iseya, Kankurô Kudô, Min Tanaka, Rokurô Naya
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2006, 12, 4 Star)


01:20   
Johnny Mad Dog (Film)
94 min 15 Jean-Stephane Sauvaire's widely praised, grimly realistic drama portrays the brutal lives of African child soldiers, and features a cast largely consisting of first-time actors, some of whom had themselves been child soldiers. The film was shot in conflict-devastated Liberia and follows a troop of children and youths sent as a vanguard by the rebels to take control of a government position. They are led by a teenager known only as Johnny Mad Dog, and as they advance they heap terror, death and atrocity on anyone who gets in their way.
Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
Starring: Carlos Badawi, Teddy Boy, Maxwell Carter, Amil Cash, Galaxy Chea, Jerry B. Chea
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 3 Star)

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Friday 10th August   
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11:00   
Challenge to Lassie (Film)
Somewhat unashamedly stealing from the legend of Greyfriars Bobby, Richard Thorpe's film has Lassie raised from a pup by shepherd Jock Gray. When, on a trip to Edinburgh, he dies and is interred in Greyfriars, Lassie guards his grave day and night. Innkeeper John Traill cares for her but Sergeant Davie inte$$$ to enforce the law against stray, unregistered dogs and the faithful hound's fate e$$$ up a matter for the courts of law. The lush score is from a then 20-year-old Andr? Previn.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Brooks, Reginald Owen, Alan Webb, Ross Ford
(Subtitles, U, 1949, 3 Star)


12:35   
Funny Face (Film)
Classic, stylish musical starring Fred Astaire as a fashion photographer who turns a Greenwich Village bookshop assistant into a top model, and falls in love with her in Paris.
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Dovima
(Widescreen, Subtitles, U, 1957, 4 Star)


14:40   
Carry on Cabby (Film)
Gerald Thomas's war-of-the-sexes comedy concerns an on-going battle between two rival taxi companies run by a feuding husband and wife. When her husband Charlie Hawkins neglects to celebrate their wedding anniversary, Peggy takes revenge by secretly setting up her own cab business. Entirely female-staffed, Peggy's GlamCabs soon fi$$$ favour with the lecherous local male clientele and quickly inflicts a serious financial blow to Charlie's Speedee Taxis empire. However, Peggy's victory is a pyrrhic one, only serving to push the couple further apart. But a bank robbery is set to provide the couple with a chance for reconciliation... Kenneth Williams was missing from the cast this time round, but the film features Carry On debuts for Jim Dale and writer Talbot Rothwell, who would provide scripts for the next 19 editions of the series.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Esma Cannon, Liz Fraser
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, U, 1963, 3 Star)


16:35   
Rear Window (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock's masterful thriller stars James Stewart as news photographer LB 'Jeff' Jeffries, confined to a wheelchair in his New York apartment after breaking his leg. Bored in his convalescence, he takes to watching his neighbours across the courtyard. Through his increasingly unhealthy fascination with observing his neighbours he becomes convinced that one of his subjects, Lars, has murdered his wife. But Jeff is unable to convince either his fiancé Lisa or a detective friend, leading the couple into life-threatening danger - and a suspenseful climax - as Jeff becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth. A sense of intimacy and voyeurism, and of mini-dramas being played out in each apartment, is enhanced by Hitchcock's decision to shoot the entire film on one set. Though On the Waterfront dominated the year's Oscars the film has justifiably garnered its reputation as a classic for both cineastes and wider audiences.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1954, 5 Star)


18:50   
Bride and Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical (Film)
The determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters while there's a lavish wedding party in town. Right away, the smart and headstrong Lalita announces she will only marry for love, giving her mother nightmares. Then Lalita meets wealthy American Will Darcy, and sparks immediately fly. But is it love or hate?
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Nadira Babbar, Anupam Kher, Naveen Andrews, Namrata Shirodkar
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 2004, 3 Star)




21:00   
The Bank Job (Film)
Roger Donaldson's bank heist conspiracy-thriller - scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais - stars Jason Statham as the leader of a gang of thieves who bite off more than they can chew. When car dealer and one-time crook Terry Leather is approached by his old flame Martine Love with a proposition that would put his money worries behind him for good, he jumps at the chance. Leather quickly assembles a team which digs a tunnel directly into a London bank's vault. But what he hasn't been told is that, in addition to the money, he'll also be stealing a safety box containing material that, if it saw the light of day, would be extremely damaging to the royal family. Another box they take holds further dramatic revelations concerning establishment figures. So it's not long before Leather and the gang are pursued by the police, MI5 and various thugs, all keen to get their ha$$$ on the incendiary information... Edited for sexual scenes.
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Alki David
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2008, 4 Star)


23:10   
Black Rain (Film)
Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia star in Ridley Scott's thriller as New York cops Nick Conklin and Charlie Vincent, charged with returning yakusa gangster Sato to Osaka to stand trial. But the pair are tricked into handing him over to his fellow gangsters and must, with the help of local cop Masahiro Matsumoto, track him down amid the violence and corruption of a city where they are strangers.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Yusaku Matsuda, Shigeru Kôyama
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 1989, 3 Star)


01:35   
30 Days of Night (Film)
The small Alaskan town of Barrow is so far north, it suffers 30 days of full darkness... Which is ideal for a band of vampires, led by Marlow, who descend on the town to feast. Local sheriff Eben Oleson and his estranged wife Stella lead a small group of survivors who hole up in a secret hideout. But, with supplies running out and the vampires closing in, can they stay hidden or must they risk taking on the undead? David Slade's all-action, visceral horror film mixes fast-moving action with claustrophobic tension as the body count rises and the days slowly pass.
Director: David Slade
Starring: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster, Mark Boone Junior, Mark Rendall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 2007, 3 Star)

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Saturday 11th August   
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11:00   
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)


13:00   
The First Wives Club (Film)
Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn and Diane Keaton star as Brenda, Elise and Annie, three women who meet at the funeral of a mutual college friend, where they discover they have something else in common: they've all been dumped by their husba$$$ for a younger model. Vowing revenge, they decide to hit them where it hurts most: the pocket. Using the skills of socialite Gunilla Garson Goldberg, Annie's lesbian daughter Chris and Mob boss Carmine Morelli, they begin to pick them off one by one in Hugh Wilson's sharp comedy.
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Maggie Smith, Dan Hedaya, Sarah Jessica Parker
(Edited for Language, Subtitles, 1996, PG, 3 Star)


15:00   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)


17:00   
Love Story (Film)
Oscar-nominee Arthur Hiller's heartbreaking romantic drama starring fellow Oscar-nominees Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. Oliver Bartlett IV and Jennifer Cavalleri are two Harvard students who fall in love. Sadly, Cavalleri has a fatal disease, so the two, knowing they only have a short time together, decide to live life to the full.
Director: Arthur Hiller
Starring: Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, Tommy Lee Jones, Russell Nype
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1970, PG, 3 Star)


19:05   
Big Momma's House (Film)
Comedy about an FBI officer on the trail of a violent bank robber who has escaped from prison. He stakes out the home of Big Momma, a large elderly woman with a sharp tongue. But when she leaves town, he needs to maintain his cover. Fortunately, he is a master of disguise.
Director: Raja Gosnell
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Jascha Washington, Terrence Howard, Ella Mitchell
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2000, 15, 2 Star)




21:00   
The Ghost (Film)
Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan star in Roman Polanski's much lauded adaptation of author Robert Harris's political conspiracy thriller. When the corpse of the man ghost-writing the memoirs of former British Prime Minister Adam Lang is found, apparently having accidentally fallen from a ferry, another writer is quickly hired to finish the job. The new man is dispatched to the ex-PM's swish home in the States, where he now resides. As the writer begins his task, he's frustrated that he's not allowed completely free access to his predecessor's draft but gets on with the work, under pressure from all sides to finish the job quickly. But, later, he uncovers documents, seemingly left by the dead man, which throw a new light on everything: they suggest Lang and his wealthy frie$$$ have very dark secrets, ones they'd possibly even kill for to keep them hidden. Will the new ghost-writer now suffer the same fate as the previous one?
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Olivia Williams, James Belushi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 4 Star)


23:30   
Final Destination 3 (Film)
James Wong, who directed the first film in the horror franchise, returns to helm this sequel starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Wendy Christensen has a premonition that the roller coaster she and her school frie$$$ are on is going to crash. And, sure enough, soon after they disembark, there is a spectacular, gory accident on the attraction. But, once again, Death will not be cheated of his due and, as the survivors succumb one-by-one in suitably ingenious ways, Wendy and her friend Kevin Fischer desperately try to work out who is next, and how they'll escape.
Director: James Wong
Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ryan Merriman, Kris Lemche, Alexz Johnson, Sam Easton, Jesse Moss
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 2 Star)


01:15   
Day Watch (Film)
Timur Bekmambetov's sequel to the Russian fantasy blockbuster Night Watch begins with Anton discovering his son Yegor has gone over to the dark side and is now one of the Great Others, who threatens the truce. When Yegor's tutor Olga is found killed, Anton is accused of murder by the Day Watch, but a mind-swap between him and the murdered woman offers him a chance of salvation if he can find an ancient warrior's tomb and the legendary Chalk of Fate, which can re-write history. From the opening stupendous battle sequence, Bekmambetov's cinematic visions complement the fantasy of the film, providing a feast for the eye as well as the mind.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Starring: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Zhanna Friske
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Russian with English Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

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Monday 13th August   
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Film4 Listings for Monday 13th August


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11:00   
20 Million Miles to Earth (Film)
A US army rocketship, returning from an exploratory flight to Venus, crashes into the sea off Sicily and only Colonel Calder survives. When a sealed container from the wreck is opened by zoologist Dr Leonardo and his granddaughter Marisa, a gelatinous mass inside turns into a clawed monster that doubles in size overnight and escapes, with horrific consequences.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Browne Henry, Tito Vuolo
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1957, PG, 3 Star)


12:40   
Guns at Batasi (Film)
Richard Attenborough won a BAFTA for his role in John Guillermin's drama as RSM Lauderdale, martinet of the sergeants' mess of a British army garrison in one of Britain's last remaining African colonies. When a coup d'état is declared by British-educated Lt Boniface, the British officers, including Lt Col John Deal, find themselves caught in a tricky political situation. But for someone like Lauderdale, with his entrenched values and beliefs, duty calls before any compromise, as he prepares to defend those for whom he is responsible.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow, Cecil Parker
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1964, PG, 3 Star)


14:50   
The Man in the Iron Mask (Film)
Richard Chamberlain stars in the dual role as the wicked Louis XIV of France and his twin brother Philippe, imprisoned and with his identity hidden behind an iron mask in Mike Newell's film, based on Alexandre Dumas's novel. However, the ageing D'Artagnan learns of the deception and, getting back together with his old musketeer comrades, concocts a plan to restore the rightful King to the throne.
Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Patrick McGoohan, Louis Jourdan, Jenny Agutter, Ian Holm, Ralph Richardson
(Subtitles, Made For TV, 1976, PG, 3 Star)


16:55   
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Film)
Don Sharp's remake, the third cinematic adaptation of John Buchan's spy thriller, places the action back in its original setting, just prior to the Great War. Richard Hannay, a mining engineer, inadvertently stumbles upon an international espionage plot, and must flee for his life. He's doggedly pursued by both the police and enemy agents, from the start of his ordeal in London, all the way up to the Scottish Highla$$$ and then back down again to the movie's precarious climax back in the capital. And it's not just his own life he must worry about: he picks up an initially unwilling accomplice along the way, and must also find a means of persuading the authorities that he's not a turncoat and that they must act upon the information he has discovered.
Director: Don Sharp
Starring: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, George Baker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1978, PG, 2 Star)


19:00   
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)




21:00   
Mission: Impossible (Film)
Brian De Palma took the helm for this first instalment of the action thriller franchise that rebooted the American TV series. Tom Cruise stars as agent Ethan Hunt, member of America's elite IMF team. Hunt and a group of colleagues are sent to Prague to both prevent a list of undercover agents' real identities from being disclosed, and to reveal who within the IMF has turned traitor. But things go disastrously wrong and all but one of the team are massacred. As the sole survivor, Hunt must now try to prove his innocence and discover the real betrayer before he is terminated by his own government.
Director: Brian de Palma
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart, Henry Czerny, Jean Reno, Ving Rhames
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, PG, 4 Star)


23:10   
Jackie Brown (Film)
Scintillating drama in which a middle-aged air stewardess smuggles cash for a ruthless gun salesman. When she is arrested, federal officers expect her to talk in return for a light sentence. However, she has other plans and, with the help of a bail bo$$$man, soon embarks on a scheme which will keep her one step ahead of the police and a world away from her old life. Based on the novel 'Rum Punch' by Elmore Leonard.
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert de Niro
(Subtitles, 1997, 15, 4 Star)


02:05   
Déficit (Film)
In his directorial debut, Gael Garcia Bernal stars as Cristobal, one of Mexico's middle class elite, who arranges a party at his absent parents' country home. Among those present are his younger sister Elisa, her gang of frie$$$ and Dolores, for whom Cristobal makes a play. But behind the scenes, all is not well as the family's servants rebel against the orders from the partygoers and it becomes apparent that the parents have fled abroad, faced with corruption charges.
Director: Gael García Bernal
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Luz Cipriota, Camila Sodi, Ana Serradilla, Jorge Luis Moreno, Pamela Reiter
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2007, 12, 2 Star)

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Wednesday 15th August   
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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 15th August


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11:00   
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (Film)
Spoof western directed by Raoul Walsh. Having inherited a failing gunsmith business, quintessential Englishman Jonathan Tibbs decides that the real market for his wares is in the Wild West. But after falling foul of both cowboys and Native Americans, he fi$$$ himself conned into becoming the sheriff in the lawless town of Fractured Jaw. Co-starring Jayne Mansfield as a pistol-packing saloon owner.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Henry Hull, Bruce Cabot, Ronald Squire, William Campbell
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)


13:05   
Cloak and Dagger (Film)
Fritz Lang's spy thriller stars Gary Cooper as Professor Alvah Jesper, a mild-mannered American physicist who, sent on a mission to Europe to rescue a nuclear scientist held by the Nazis, falls in love with an Italian underground fighter.
Director: Richard Franklin, Fritz Lang
Starring: Gary Cooper, Lilli Palmer, Robert Alda
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1946, 12, 3 Star)


15:15   
Passport to Pimlico (Film)
Director Henry Cornelius's classic Ealing comedy set in the austere climate of post-war Britain. The discovery of a 15th-century charter confers on the people of Pimlico - led by Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Margaret Rutherford and Raymond Huntley - the status of Burgundians, enabling them to declare themselves an independent state within the United Kingdom, free from rationing and bureaucracy.
Director: Henry Cornelius
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Barbara Murray, Paul Dupuis, John Slater, Jane Hylton
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)


16:55   
One Million Years B.C. (Film)
Director Don Chaffey's reunion with special effects supremo Ray Harryhausen created a prehistoric world, rife with earthquakes and dinosaurs - and Raquel Welch in her famous fur bikini - in which man doesn't quite rule the Earth. An inhospitable la$$$cape is populated by two tribes: the Rock People and the Shell People. When, following a fight with his father, Tumak is banished from the Rock People, he wanders the land, battling with roving dinosaurs before teaming up with Loana to head off into the sunset, and face new hazards.
Director: Don Chaffey
Starring: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick, Jean Wladon
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)


18:50   
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Film)
In the second Star Trek movie, Admiral Kirk's midlife crisis is interrupted by the return of enemy Khan who is looking for revenge and a potentially destructive device.
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, George Takei
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1982, 15, 4 Star)




21:00   
The Last Exorcism (Film)
Kicking off this year's FrightFest season, Daniel Stamm's documentary-style horror presents the spine-chilling footage shot by filmmaker Iris Reisen and her cameraman following the Reverend Cotton Marcus. Marcus is a Louisiana evangelist famed for his ability to drive demons from the possessed. However, aside from the mental respite he brings the afflicted, he has become disillusioned with the process, seeing his own 'skills' as little more than well-meaning tricks. Already on the verge of ending this work, he is easily persuaded to collaborate with Reisen on a film that is designed to reveal that exorcism has nothing at all to do with divine intervention. And, when he is asked to help Nell, a troubled teenager who intermittently appears to host violent forces which mutilate the local livestock, they think they have the perfect case for his final exorcism.
Director: Daniel Stamm
Starring: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell, Iris Bahr, Louis Herthum, Caleb Landry Jones, Tony Bentley
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)


22:45   
Film4 Frightfest Special (Entertainment)
Interviews with some of the stars and directors from this year's Film4 FrightFest, taking place over Bank Holiday weekend in Leicester Square.


23:00   
Antichrist (Film)
Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in Lars von Trier's horror-drama about a marriage that violently implodes after a tragic accident; and, featuring scenes of explicit sex, disturbing violence and graphic genital mutilation, it's not for the squeamish. Dafoe and Gainsbourg, the unnamed protagonists, are making love in their lofty apartment when their young child manages to crawl out of an open window and plunge fatally to the pavement below. Naturally, their lives fall apart. However, the father is a psychiatrist, and he persuades his wife to forgo anti-depressants and travel with him to an isolated house in the woods, where he can put his own therapeutic theory into effect. But instead of healing their hurt, their isolation, and her research into witchcraft and pagan religions, results in them succumbing to otherworldly influences and a grisly descent into brutal savagery. This screening is introduced by Mark Kermode.
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 3 Star)


01:15   
Rosemary's Baby (Film)
Roman Polanski's mould-breaking horror story stars Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes as Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, a young couple who move into an apartment block where they are befriended by Minnie and Roman Castevet. When Rosemary becomes pregnant, even though the circumstances of the conception are hazy, she is pleased by the concern of her husband, her neighbours and their frie$$$, who are prepared to go to any lengths to ensure she has a healthy baby.
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Sidney Blackmer, Maurice Evans, Ralph Bellamy
(Subtitles, 1968, 18, 4 Star)

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Thursday 16th August   
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Film4 Listings for Thursday 16th August


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11:00   
Offside (Film)
Jafar Panahi directs this charming, witty drama that follows the fortunes of an unnamed teenage Iranian football fan, played by Ayda Sadeqi. She tries to sneak into Iran's World Cup qualifier against Bahrain, but women are banned from watching football and her disguise is penetrated. Placed in a corral with other women who tried to sneak in, where they are guarded by young conscript soldiers, the film plays out during the duration of the match, as the women taunt the soldiers about the rules that exclude them, while trying to follow the game by the crowd's noise. Shot on digital video cameras with a non-professional cast, the film is both challenging and uplifting, with one sequence, where one of the women must be escorted to the men's toilet, wonderfully absurd.
Director: Jafar Pahani
Starring: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi, Nazanin Sediq-zadeh
(In Persian with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, PG, 4 Star)


12:50   
Bataan (Film)
Tay Garnett's Second World War film is based on a true story about 13 men left to fight against the advancing troops of the Japanese army. Robert Taylor stars as the sergeant in charge, Bill Dane, who, along with Lt Steve Bentley and Cpl Jake Feingold, is on a mission to stop the Japanese from building a vital bridge into the Philippines' Bataan peninsula. But it becomes increasingly apparent that none of them is likely to survive.
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman, Robert Walker Jr.
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, PG, 3 Star)


15:05   
Casablanca (Film)
Michael Curtiz's classic drama stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, who owns a shady bar in Second World War Casablanca. Into Rick's nest of Allied and Axis interests walk Victor Laszlo, a resistance hero on the run to a neutral country, and his wife Ilsa Lund. She and Rick have history, which left him with a broken heart, but will he now find it in his heart to forgive her and save a life precious to her?
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1942, U, 5 Star)


17:10   
The Time Machine (Film)
George Pal's Oscar-winning film stars Rod Taylor as Victorian scientist H George Wells, who invents a time machine. Travelling through the far distant future, with stop-overs for World Wars I, II and III, he finally e$$$ up in the year 802,701. Here, he encounters the peaceful Eloi race and falls for the beautiful Weena, but then discovers that another race exists: the underground-dwelling, cannibalistic Morlocks, who feast on the Eloi. Can Wells save the Eloi - and Weena - from their grisly fate?
Director: George Pal
Starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Hel, Whit Bissell
(Subtitles, 1960, 12, 4 Star)


19:15   
How She Move (Film)
Ian Iqbal Rashid's drama stars Rutina Wesley as Raya, a young woman mourning the death of her sister from a drugs overdose and spurning the street culture around her. Hearing of a dance contest that could fund the private education her parents can't afford, she hooks up with the streetwise but bookish Quake, joining a dance crew vying for supremacy in the final against rival Michelle. Choreographed by Hi-Hat, this is an exuberant mix of dance and teen drama. Edited for language and content.
Director: Ian Iqbal Rashid
Starring: Tre Armstrong, Boyd Banks, Clé Bennett, Ardon Bess, Conrad Coates, Keyshia Cole
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 1 Star)




21:00   
Frozen (Film)
Written and directed by Adam Green, this chilly thriller stars three frie$$$ whose ill-advised bribery of a chair lift operator results in a terrifying night at the top of a mountain. On a weekend away in New England, Dan Walker, his girlfriend Parker O'Neill and best friend Joe Lynch insist on one last trip on the ski lift before the slopes close for the night. But when the chair gri$$$ to a halt, and they see that the lights of the ski resort have been turned off, they face a life-threatening night of frostbite, hypothermia and hail, as well as unknown dangers lurking below. With judicious use of gore, the suspense builds as the frie$$$' fear of their extreme situation spirals. Film4 premiere.
Starring: Kevin Zegers, Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15)


22:50   
Thirst (Film)
South Korean director Park Chan-wook's Cannes-winning horror combines eroticism, spiritual conflict and black comedy - along with the expected gore - to provide an unconventional take on all things vampire. Sang-hyun is a Christian priest who, in order to help find a cure, volunteers to be infected with a terrible virus that's devastating Africa. Miraculously, he survives the deadly disease. However, he's left with an intense craving for both blood and sex; as well as developing some extraordinary supernatural powers. His priestly role as a hospital visitor enables him to quell his thirst for blood without killing his 'donors', or destroying his still-intact Christian ethics.
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Ok-bin Kim, Hae-sook Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, In-hwan Park, Dal-su Oh
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Korean with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2009, 18, 4 Star)


01:25   
Near Dark (Film)
Kathryn Bigelow's chilling and compelling shocker stars Adrian Pasdar as a Midwestern farmboy who becomes terrifyingly involved with a gang of travelling modern-day vampires.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Tim Thomerson
(Subtitles, 1987, 18, 4 Star)