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Lujdzo · « **Reply #165 on:** November 01, 2012, 04:27:05 PM »

Tuesday 13th November
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11:00
The House on 92nd Street (Film)
Henry Hathaway's thriller, based on real-life FBI files and made with the blessing of J Edgar Hoover, stars William Eythe as Bill Dietrich, a German-American student approached by the Nazis to be a spy. Instead, he becomes an FBI double agent and infiltrates a New York spy ring, based on the 92nd Street of the title, who are stealing information on the A-bomb project. As the group's radio operator, he passes on useless information but can he keep his cover long enough to expose the group's shadowy leader?
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: William Eythe, Lloyd Nolan, Signe Hasso, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll, Lydia St. Clair
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1945, U, 4 Star)

12:45
The Cowboys (Film)
Mark Rydell's western stars John Wayne as an ageing Montana rancher whose regular ha$$$ desert him for a gold rush. So, with little other choice, he hires 11 boys to help him drive his 1200 head of cattle 400 miles over tough terrain to the railhead. It's a journey that pushes each of the drovers to their limit.
Director: Mark Rydell
Starring: John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Alfred Barker Jr., Nicolas Beauvy
(Subtitles, 1972, PG, 2 Star)

15:15
One of Our Aircraft is Missing (Film)
Bailing out over Holland, the crew of a British bomber dodge Nazi patrols to make their way home with the help of the Dutch resistance. Superior propaganda piece with an Oscar-nominated script from maverick filmmakers Powell and Pressberger.
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Emrys Jones
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1942, U, 4 Star)

17:20
Springfield Rifle (Film)
Action-packed western starring Gary Cooper as Major Alex Kearney, a Union officer who goes undercover during the American Civil War to break up a Confederate gang who are stealing horses from the North. Directed by Andr? de Toth.
Director: Andre de Toth
Starring: Gary Cooper, Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly, Lon Chaney Jr., Philip Carey
(Subtitles, 1952, 12, 2 Star)

19:10
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
Layer Cake (Film)
A clever gangster movie, based on J.J. Connolly's London based crime thriller. Daniel Craig stars as XXXX, a drug dealer who's made his money and plans to retire. He doesn't see himself as a crook, more as a successful businessman about to take a well-earned rest. However, mob boss Mr Big has other ideas, and forces him to do one last job - track down the smack-addicted daughter of a wealthy man.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Daniel Craig, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foreman, Sally Hawkins, Burn Gorman, George Harris
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 15, 3 Star)

23:05
Tyrannosaur (Film)
Actor Paddy Considine's multi-award-winning directorial debut is as assured and compelling as its subject matter is bleakly grim. Peter Mullan plays Joseph, a bitter man who seeks to ease his pain via betting, drinking and raging at anyone unfortunate enough to come into his ambit. One day, Joseph stumbles in to a charity shop, where he is greeted with respect and care by its Christian manager Hannah; he respo$$$ with typical vitriol. However, the two gradually form a bond of frie$$$hip as they get to know one another - but its one that may not survive the deeper, darker revelations each is yet to disclose. Also starring Eddie Marsan as Hannah's exceedingly unpleasant husband James. Film4 premiere.
Director: Paddy Considine
Starring: Peter Mullan, Archie Lal, Jag Sanghera, Mike Fearnley, Paul Conway, Lee Rufford
(Premiere, Subtitles, 2011, 18, 4 Star)

00:55
Mona Lisa (Film)
Neil Jordan's Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning drama stars Bob Hoskins as George, a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high-class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. And that's when George's troubles really start.
Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane, Clarke Peters, Kate Hardie
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1986, 18, 4 Star)

03:00
A Gun for George (Film)
Director Matthew Holness's short crime thriller is set on the mean streets of Margate, East Kent. Terry Finch was a pulp fiction author, one of whose books was even turned into a film, starring his brother George. But then the dream turned sour when George was killed by the gangsters that funded the film. Now, some time later, Terry's writing contract has also come to an end - leaving him a bitter man, with revenge for his brother's murder increasingly on his mind... Starring Edward Halsted, Veronica Roberts and Tim Skelton.
Director: Matthew Holness
Starring: Edward Halsted, Veronica Roberts, Tim Skelton, Joseph Bailey, Alistair Gillies, Raman Rai
(Black and White, Subtitles, 2011)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #166 on:** November 08, 2012, 09:00:03 AM »

Wednesday 21st November
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11:00
Campbell's Kingdom (Film)
Having been diagnosed with a terminal disease, Bruce Campbell returns to a town in the Canadian Rockies to prove his grandfather's theory that there is oil in the hills. However, no one believes him and, to make matters worse, Owen Morgan plans to build a dam and flood the land where the oil supposedly lies.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Mikey Craig, Barbara Murray, Robert Brown, John Laurie
(Subtitles, 1958, U, 3 Star)

13:05
Love Me or Leave Me (Film)
Doris Day gave MGM one of her finest performances as famed 1920s torch singer Ruth Etting in this powerful and compelling drama that also stars James Cagney as racketeering laundryman Martin 'The Gimp' Snyder. The two meet in a Chicago club and, Svengali-like, he advances her career. But when Snyder's influence diminishes in New York and Ruth marries him out of pity, his behaviour drives her to drink, leading to the destruction of their marriage... and to murder.
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith, Tom Tully, Harry Bellaver
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 4 Star)

15:30
Battle Cry (Film)
The dramatic story of US marines in training, in combat and in love during World War II. The story centres on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training in Saipan to combat in New Guinea. Based on the novel by Leon Uris. The music by Max Steiner was nominated for an Oscar.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whit, Raymond Massey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)

18:25
Terms of Endearment (Film)
James L Brooks' five-Oscar-winning film mixes deep emotion with offbeat comedy, in particular from the sparky relationship between Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson. Emma Horton flees her suffocating mother Aurora Greenway for an unsuitable marriage, while Aurora seeks solace with her neighbour Garrett Breedlove, an ex-astronaut. The years go by and the unlikely relationships grow and change until Emma is struck down by a terminal illness and her husband deserts her and their children, forcing Emma to try and rebuild her relationship with her mother.
Director: James L. Brooks
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Jeff Daniels, John Lithgow
(Edited for Language, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1983, 15, 4 Star)

21:00
Chinatown (Film)
Roman Polanski's classic detective drama, which was nominated for 11 Oscars, stars Jack Nicholson as JJ 'Jake' Gittes, a private eye in 1940s Los Angeles. He's hired by Evelyn Mulwray, who wants evidence of her husband's adulterous affair. What appears to be an open-and-shut case thickens when the real Evelyn Mulwray turns up at his office and the errant husband is found drowned. As Gittes pursues his investigation, he becomes involved with Evelyn's father Noah Cross, a guilty family secret and a water/land-grab conspiracy so lucrative that murder is a small price to pay to protect it.
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling
(Subtitles, 1974, 18, 5 Star)

23:35
Street Kings (Film)
Keanu Reeves stars in David Ayer's action crime drama, co-scripted by James Ellroy. Detective Tom Ludlow is having a tough time coping after the death of his wife, but things are due to become even more testing when his partner is shot dead. Ludlow's grief turns to bafflement when he fi$$$ himself accused of killing his workmate, and despair when his fellow cops turn against him. Up against a steely Internal Affairs investigation and shut out by his colleagues, it's clear that only Ludlow himself has any interest in proving his innocence.
Director: David Ayer
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Forest Whitaker, Hugh Laurie, Chris Evans, Cedric the Entertainer, Jay Mohr
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 3 Star)

01:30
Sleuth (Film)
Kenneth Branagh's remake of the 1972 thriller stars Jude Law as Milo Tindle, a tyro young writer invited by established novelist Andrew Wyke to his home. The ostensible reason is to discuss an insurance scam involving Wyke's jewels which will benefit both parties, but the initially unspoken sub-plot is that Milo is cuckolding Andrew; something for which Andrew seeks revenge. Based on Anthony Shaffer's play and scripted by Harold Pinter, the film has Caine appear for the second time in it; in the original, he played Milo.
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Starring: Michael Caine, Jude Law, Harold Pinter, Carmel O'Sullivan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

03:15
Chalk (Drama)
Martina Amati directs this short starring Lillie Buttery, Nicole Pavier and Katie Lyons. When two thirteen-year-old gymnasts are selected for the National training camp they learn something new about bodies, boys and frie$$$hip. Film4 premiere.
(Black and White, Subtitles, 2010)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #167 on:** November 09, 2012, 08:14:17 AM »

Thursday 22nd November
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11:00
Alexandra (Film)
Aleksandr Sokurov's moving anti-war film is set in a Russian army base in war-torn Chechnya. Aleksandra Nikolaevna arrives by train to visit her beloved gra$$$on Denis, a captain in the occupying troops. Settling at the base, she soon makes herself known, fussing around the young soldiers and later, she travels into the town on her own to buy cigarettes and sweets for them. Despite the danger, she and the Chechen women she meets share their anti-war emotions, wondering why their husba$$$, sons and brothers are caught up in such a ruthless conflict. Although light on plot, the film, from the director of the acclaimed Russian Ark, is always compelling thanks to Vishnevskaya's outstanding performance and stunning cinematography where bleached tones accentuate the bleakness of life for both the occupiers and the occupied.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Starring: Galina Vishnevskaya, Vasily Shevtsov, Raisa Gichaeva, Andrei Bogdanov, Aleksandr Kladko, Aleksei Neymyshev
(Widescreen, Subtitles, In Russian and Chechen with English Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

12:50
The Master of Ballantrae (Film)
William Keighley's adventure film, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, stars Errol Flynn as Jamie Durrisdeer, a Jacobite forced to flee Scotland from the English. Joining Irish adventurer Francis Burke in the West Indies, he battles pirates for the English and, in doing so, makes a small fortune. Now free to return home, he hopes to marry his sweetheart Lady Alison, only to find she, thinking him dead, is engaged to his brother Henry, the man who betrayed Jamie to the English.
Director: William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux, Felix Aylmer
(Subtitles, 1953, PG, 3 Star)

14:40
Saboteur (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock's wartime drama stars Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, a worker wrongly accused of sabotaging his factory with a fire that killed his best friend. On the run, trying to track down the real culprit, he teams up with Patricia Martin. They discover a nest of pro-Nazi sympathisers, led by Charles Tobin, who are determined to bring down the government. And so Kane becomes the main hope of foiling Tobin's plans. The dramatic climax takes place on the Statue of Liberty.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1942, PG, 4 Star)

16:50
Shenandoah (Film)
James Stewart stars as Charlie Anderson in this beautiful drama about a widower and wealthy Virginia farming patriarch trying to keep his family together and safe in the midst of the encroaching Civil War. The family struggles to ignore the war tearing apart their Shenandoah Valley community and ultimately also becomes part of the fight. How Charlie survives overwhelming tragedy, from the capture of his young son by the Confederate Army to his daughter's love for a Confederate soldier and the untimely deaths of his other son and daughter-in-law, with Stewart's famous soliloquy by his wife's grave, is the moving story that made this drama so successful. In fact, Stewart's speech was so popular it was released as a record.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: James Stewart, Doug McClure, Glenn Corbett, Patrick Wayne, Rosemary Forsyth, Phillip Alford
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, PG, 4 Star)

18:55
Employee of the Month (Film)
Greg Coolidge's comedy is set in a department store and stars Dane Cook as Zack, who works in the packing department, and Dax Shepard as Vince, one of the cashiers. Zack's ambition in life is to perfect the art of slacking while Vince is the store's biggest suck-up. But then they both hear that hot new cashier Amy has one firm rule: she will only date the Employee of the Month. Can Zack manage to beat Vince to the title?
Director: Greg Coolidge
Starring: Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, Dax Shepard, Efren Ramirez, Andy Dick, Tim Bagley
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

21:00
The Departed (Film)
After five previous nominations, director Martin Scorsese finally picked up the Oscar for this thriller, based on Alan Mak and Andrew Lau's Infernal Affairs. Matt Damon plays Colin Sullivan, spotted as a kid by gangster Frank Costello, who grooms him to become a successful cop, Frank's eyes and ears inside the force. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Billy Costigan, who comes from a family with criminal connections. Enlisting into the police force, he is sent undercover into Costello's gang. Both sides know they have an informer in their midst and both use their man to try and uncover the identity of the other. As each gets closer to their target, the tension on both sides rise.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 18, 5 Star)

23:55
Harsh Times (Film)
Christian Bale plays Jim Luther Davis, a disturbed Iraq veteran back on civvy street and looking for easy money. He and his childhood buddy, the easily led Mike Alonzo, are out on the streets, juiced up on beer and dope, but when they find a gun, things take a darker turn as they get involved with the Mexican drugs dealers who owned the piece. In David Ayer's stark drama also contains an intriguing subplot as agents from the Department of Homeland Security approach Davis, hoping to use his skills for their own purposes.
Director: David Ayer
Starring: Christian Bale, Freddy RodrÃguez, Eva Longoria Parker, Chaka Forman, Tammy Trull, J.K. Simmons
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 4 Star)

02:10
Downtime (Film)
In Bharat Nalluri's taut thriller, police psychiatrist Rob talks suicidal mother Chrissy down from the block of flats where she lives and later, asks her out on a date. But the lift they, and her young son, are travelling down the block in is wrecked by vandals and suddenly the three are fighting for their lives.
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Starring: Tom Georgeson, Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, David Roper, Denise Bryson, Adam Johnston
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, 15, 2 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #168 on:** November 29, 2012, 11:04:43 AM »

Wednesday 12th December

Film4 Listings for Wednesday 12th December

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11:00
The Man Behind the Gun (Film)
Felix E Feist's western stars Randolph Scott as Major Ransome Callicutt, a US agent sent to Los Angeles to investigate rumours of Southern California seceding. Posing as a schoolteacher, he fi$$$ romance with fellow teacher Lora Roberts, as well as a possible lead to uncovering the plot in army officer Roy Giles, who is also Callicutt's rival in love.
Director: Felix E. Feist
Starring: Randolph Scott, Patrice Wy, Dick Wesson, Philip Carey
(Subtitles, 1953, U, 3 Star)

12:40
The Red Pony (Film)
John Steinbeck wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his own story. Peter Miles stars as Tom Tiflin, a lonely farm boy who takes refuge from his squabbling parents in the company of his beloved foal, the eponymous equine. The pony is owned by ranch hand Billy Buck, who teaches Miles how to tame it and care for it, providing an escape for the boy and a lesson to his parents. Aaron Copland's score and Tony Gaudio's rich Technicolor photography combine with Lewis Milestone's experienced direction in this dramatic western.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Myrna Loy, Robert Mitchum, Louis Calhern, Shepperd Strudwick, Peter Miles, Margaret Hamilton
(Subtitles, 1949, U, 3 Star)

14:30
The Silent Enemy (Film)
During 1941, in the Mediterranean, the Italians start using underwater chariots to mine the undersides of allied ships. Explosives expert Lionel Crabbe arrives in Gibralter to organise defences, but fi$$$ only two British divers available to help him. Worryingly, it appears that the Italians might be secretly using neutral Spain across the bay as their key base.
Director: William Fairchild
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, Mikey Craig, John Clements, Sid James, Alec McCowen, Michael Brill, Laurence Brooks
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, U, 3 Star)

16:45
Ever After (Film)
Andy Tennant's romantic comedy fantasy is set in 16th-century France, where, following the death of her father, Danielle de Barbarac is assigned kitchen duties in the castle by her stepmother, Baroness Rodmilla de Ghent. A chance meeting with Prince Henry, heir apparent to the throne, leads to the potential for a romance that she fears could be ruined if he discovers the masquerade. A 'fairy-godmother' in the shape of Leonardo da Vinci eventually smoothes the path of true love. But thanks to Barrymore, this is not another soft retelling of Cinderella but a punchy, energetic film with the star in excellent form as the forthright Danielle. Edited for content.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Drew Barrymore, Anjelica Huston, Dougray Scott, Patrick Godfrey, Megan Dodds, Melanie Lynskey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, PG, 4 Star)

19:05
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Film)
In Tim Story's sequel to the foursome's first adventure, the superheroes are suffering from very human problems. The Thing fi$$$ it hard to believe that Alicia wants him for himself rather than out of pity; Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman are having second thoughts about their wedding; and Human Torch is having relationship problems of his own. But when mysterious huge craters start appearing around the world, the authorities call on the Four's help. The vast indentations are being caused by the other-worldly Silver Surfer, precursor of the planet-destroying Galactus. Can the Four stop him in time, as well as preventing Victor von Doom from stealing the Surfer's secrets for his own evil e$$$? Edited for language and violence.
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 3 Star)

20:50
The A-Team Interview Special (Entertainment)
Bradley Cooper, Liam Neeson and director Joe Carnahan talk about making the big-screen version of the much loved TV series.
(Repeat, Subtitles)

21:00
The A-Team (Film)
Director Joe Carnahan's big-screen take, co-produced by Tony and Ridley Scott, on the 80s TV series, which was an OTT action-fest that, at the same time, gloried in and poked fun at its tough-guy stars and their adventures. This time around, a little brasher and more serious than their first incarnation, the team of soldiers comprises the cigar-chomping Col 'Hannibal' Smith, the wilfully eccentric Murdock, toned babe-magnet Face and, of course, BA Baracus, who famously 'pities the fool', usually with more forceful fisticuffing than is strictly necessary.
Director: Joe Carnahan
Starring: Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Jessica Biel, Quinton 'Rampage' Jackson, Sharlto Copley, Patrick Wilson
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

23:20
Age of Consent (Film)
James Mason co-produces and stars in director Michael Powell's final feature-length movie. Bradley Morahan is an Australian artist living in New York. But he's sick of the art world and, keen to immerse himself in the creative process again, he decides to ditch the Big Apple and go live by the Great Barrier Reef instead. His hopes for a quiet life don't quite pay off, as his new island home is more populous than he imagined. However, among the residents is the beautiful young woman Cora. The pair strike up a frie$$$hip; and it's not long before she agrees to model for the older man. But trouble is on the horizon: Cora's guardian, the gin-soaked Ma Ryan is furious to discover that her underage granddaughter has been posing nude... Also starring Jack MacGowran and Clarissa Kaye. Film4 premiere.
Director: Michael Powell
Starring: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran, Neva Carr-Glynn, Andonia Katsaros, Michael Boddy
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1969, 12, 3 Star)

01:30
Holy Smoke (Film)
When, in Jane Campion's psychological drama, Ruth Barron becomes involved with an Indian cult, her mother tricks her into returning to Australia and enrols her in a programme run by American exit counsellor PJ Waters. As he begins to loosen her faith, so he fi$$$ himself falling for her, and soon she discovers that sex allows her to turn the tables on him.
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Sophie Lee, Daniel Wyllie, Paul Goddard
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 18, 3 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #169 on:** December 26, 2012, 11:23:55 AM »

Tuesday 8th January
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11:00
Carry on Spying (Film)
When the dastardly organisation STENCH steals a top secret chemical formula, it's clear the British secret service must do something - and quick. Unfortunately, their sole available resource is Agent Desmond Simpkins and his bumbling trainees Crump, Bind and Honeybutt. Nevertheless, the country's finest are soon in hot pursuit of the terrorists, on a trail that will take them as far afield as Austria and Algeria. The only thing that sta$$$ between them and success is their incompetence. Gerald Thomas's spy spoof also stars Jim Dale and Eric Barker.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Kenneth Williams, Barbara Wi$$$or, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, Eric Barker, Dilys Laye
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, Black and White, 1964, PG, 3 Star)

12:45
Ten Tall Men (Film)
Lively spoof adventure with Burt Lancaster as Mike Kincaid, a French Foreign Legion sergeant leading nine men on a dangerous mission to prevent a Berber attack on a North African desert fort.
Director: Willis Goldbeck
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias, John Dehner
(Subtitles, 1951, 15, 3 Star)

14:40
Jungle Book (Film)
Classic version of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories, directed by Zoltan Korda and starring Sabu as the young Indian boy who, brought up by wolves in the jungle, returns to his village as an adolescent.
Director: Zoltan Korda
Starring: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, Rosemary DeCamp, Patricia O'Rourke
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1942, U, 3 Star)

16:50
Imagine That (Film)
Eddie Murphy stars in this family comedy from Over the Hedge director Karey Kirkpatrick. Evan Danielson is a divorced workaholic financial advisor, whose young daughter Olivia has come to stay with him for a week. Initially he makes little time for her, worrying instead about his own future at a company that seems about to go under. But when Olivia's imaginary frie$$$ begin to offer remarkably prescient financial advice of their own, Danielson fi$$$ himself drawn into her world of make-believe.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden-Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Stephen Rannazzisi, Nicole Ari Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, PG, 3 Star)

18:55
The Three Musketeers (Film)
Stephen Herek's derring-do take on Dumas's tale stars Chris O'Donnell as D'Artagnan, a would-be recruit to the noble Musketeers who fi$$$ that Cardinal Richelieu has disbanded them, leaving only renegades Aramis, Athos and Porthos, who discover the Cardinal is plotting against France. They manage to intercept Richelieu's beautiful but deadly accomplice Milady as she is about to sail for England to make an alliance that will topple France's monarchy. But can they manage to return to Paris in time to thwart the Cardinal and save the throne?
Director: Stephen Herek
Starring: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell, Oliver Platt, Tim Curry, Rebecca de Mornay
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1993, PG, 3 Star)

21:00
48 Hrs (Film)
Nick Nolte is a tough cop, Eddie Murphy the wise-cracking convict paroled to help him track down a killer who is using Nolte's stolen gun in Walter Hill's hard-hitting comedy thriller, which is scattered with classic lines.
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar
(Subtitles, 1982, 15, 3 Star)

22:55
Poetry (Film)
Lee Chang-dong's award-winning drama is the deceptively simple tale of a Korean grandmother coming to terms with the early onset of Alzheimer's while dealing with the fallout from a serious family crime. Mija is an elderly woman who has started to forget words and has joined a poetry class hoping to regain control of her mind and her past as a local beauty. Mija's teenage gra$$$on Jongwook is linked to the violent death of a girl, and she fi$$$ herself caught up in a conspiracy to pay hush money to the dead girl's family. But Mija's tendency to become lost in poetry, and the wonders of nature, causes her mind to wander at the wrong time, with unfortunate consequences. Lee Chang-dong's heartbreaking, intelligent and flawlessly constructed film, his first to receive a UK cinema release, won the Best Screenplay at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Not only a talented filmmaker and novelist, Lee Chang-dong also served a South Korea's Minister of Culture and Tourism from 2003 to 2004.
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Starring: Jeong-hie Yun, Da-wit Lee, Hira Kim, Nae-sang Ahn, Myeong-shin Park, Yong-taek Kim
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Korean with English Subtitles, Premiere, Widescreen, 2010, 12, 4 Star)

01:40
The Ice Storm (Film)
Ang Lee's BAFTA and Cannes-winning drama follows the stories of two couples and their adolescent children in Connecticut in the early 70s. Their casual affairs, breakdowns, juvenile sexual experimentation and bad parenting lead to a dramatic climax of dysfunction during an ice storm that blankets the area with a frozen glaze.
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, 15, 4 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #170 on:** December 28, 2012, 01:20:07 PM »

Wednesday 9th January
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11:00
D-Day the Sixth of June (Film)
Henry Koster's wartime romance stars Robert Taylor as Captain Brad Parker, stationed in Britain as the Allies prepare for D-Day, who falls for Valerie Russell. But he has a wife back home and Valerie is promised to Lt Colonel John Wynter. When the two men's paths cross on the eve of invasion, they discover camaraderie overcomes jealousy. But as they storm the Normandy beaches, fate intervenes.
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter, Edmond O'Brien, John Williams, Jerry Paris
(Subtitles, 1956, PG, 3 Star)

13:10
23 Paces to Baker Street (Film)
Thriller starring Van Johnson as Phillip Hanson, a blind playwright who overhears a kidnapping plot in a pub. He approaches the police, but, as his only clue is the perfume that one of the suspects wore, the coppers are unimpressed. Determined to stop the crime, Johnson teams up with his fiancÃ© and secretary, and the detectives set out to bring the villains to book.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1956, U, 4 Star)

15:15
The Virgin Queen (Film)
Bette Davis and Richard Todd star in Henry Koster's lavish historical melodrama about Queen Elizabeth I's love for Sir Walter Raleigh. Unfortunately for Her Royal Highness, Raleigh is more interested in exploring the New World and the affections of lady-in-waiting Beth Throgmorton. This was Davis's second portrayal of the Tudor monarch: she had played the lead role in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 16 years earlier.
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 3 Star)

17:05
Black Narcissus (Film)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Oscar-winning classic film of repressed desires and lust among a community of Anglican nuns in the Himalayan hills. Deborah Kerr stars as their leader, Sister Clodagh, trying to hold their faith together in spite of the very un-nun-like leanings of Sister Ruth, who becomes infatuated with local land agent Mr Dean.
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Sabu, Esmond Knight
(Subtitles, 1947, U, 4 Star)

19:10
New in Town (Film)
RenÃ©e Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr star in this romantic comedy from Danish director Jonas Elmer. Ambitous food company executive Lucy Hill is in two mi$$$ when she's assigned to 'streamline' an underperforming factory in snowbound Minnesota. On the one hand it definitely offers the opportunity for another promotion, while on the other she'll have to abandon her beloved, and warm, Miami. But ambition wins out, and it's not long before she's in New Ulm, where she gets a frosty reception from the locals, who unsurprisingly aren't happy that she's arrived to make a number of them redundant. It's not just the general unfriendliness that she must bear, she also has to deal with single parent Ted Mitchell, the union boss who's out to save as many of the plant's employees as possible. They don't get off to a great start, but as time goes by their attitudes do begin to thaw.
Starring: RenÃ©e Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan Fallon, J.K. Simmons, Mike O'Brien, Frances Conroy
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

21:00
The Notebook (Film)
Tonight's Ryan Gosling double-bill kicks off with Nick Cassavetes's romantic drama, which stars his mother Gena Rowla$$$ and James Garner as Duke and Allie Calhoun, living out their twilight years in a retirement home. She is suffering from Alzheimer's disease but he insists on daily readings to her from a notebook, a record of how they met and married. And in flashback the film tells that story, with Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as the young couple. She comes from a monied North Carolina family, he from local working stock but with aspirations. Despite the obstacles her family put in her way, her engagement to another and his Second World War service, their love overcomes all.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring: Tim Ivey, Gena Rowla$$$, Starletta DuPois, James Garner, Anthony-Michael Q. Thomas, Ed Grady
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 12, 5 Star)

23:25
Stay (Film)
Tonight's Ryan Gosling double-bill continues with Marc Forster's drama starring Ewan McGregor as Sam Foster, a psychiatrist whose patient Henry Latham calmly announces he will kill himself in three days' time. As Foster struggles to get inside his mind to stop him, he must also battle with his own demons in a film which uses visual references, edits and strategies to forward the plot in this fascinating Hitchcockian exercise.
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Kate Burton, Naomi Watts, Elizabeth Reaser, Bob Hoskins
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)

01:20
Birthday Girl (Film)
Ben Chaplin plays John Buckingham, a bank manager in the very English town of St Albans. Despairing at his inability to find love, he orders mail-order Russian bride Nadia, and is initially delighted with his 'purchase'. But things take a darker turn when her two large, menacing cousins arrive and move in to their tiny house. He quickly realises that not everything bought over the internet comes with a guarantee.
Director: Jez Butterworth
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Lynn Evans, Stephen Mangan
(Subtitles, 2001, 15, 3 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #171 on:** December 28, 2012, 01:23:05 PM »

Thursday 10th January
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Film4 Listings for Thursday 10th January

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11:00
Tales From the Golden Age: Legend of the Party Activist (Arts)
Cristian Mungiu's collection of five short comedies, directed by himself, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu and Ioana Uricaru, takes a bitingly satirical look at life in Romania during the final years of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. The individual episodes give an idea of how surreal and absurd the lot of the ordinary Romanian could be made by the machinations of their nation's brand of communism. The stories take the form of blackly comical folk tales: The Legend of the Official Visit tells how villagers could be forced to jump through hoops to satisfy official representatives on even the most fleeting of stops.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12)

13:40
The Greatest Show on Earth (Film)
Cecil B DeMille's double-Oscar-winning epic stars Charlton Heston as Brad Braden, a circus manager who's in charge of the Ringling Brothers Circus on a run through America's small towns. The main plot concerns star attraction trapeze artist The Great Sebastian and his co-performer Holly, who also happens to be Braden's girl. As their love triangle plays out, there is also the mystery of Buttons the clown, who never removes his make-up and is hiding a dark secret; and the secret love that glamorous elephant girl Angel, married to the brutish Klaus, has for one of the circus's top performers. With derring-do high-wire exploits, gangsters after the circus's take and a spectacular train crash, the action never flags, in or out of the Big Top.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, Dorothy Lamour, Gloria Grahame, Henry Wilcoxon
(Subtitles, 1952, U, 4 Star)

16:40
Jesse James (Film)
Henry King's classic western stars Tyrone Power as Missouri farmer Jesse James, who works the land with his brother Frank. When the railroad illegally forces them off their property, leading to the death of their mother, they swear vengeance. Robbing trains, they help fund the fight back against the railroads despite the best efforts of Marshall Will Wright. The ending sets the scenario for Fritz Lang's 1940 revenge-sequel, The Return of Frank James.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
(Subtitles, 1939, U, 3 Star)

18:50
One Fine Day (Film)
George Clooney plays Jack Taylor, a 24/7 reporter exposing city hall corruption, who is left holding his daughter when his wife walks out. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Melanie Parker, an architect preparing a major presentation, who has to 'hide' her son from her child-hating boss. And when they learn of each other's problems, taking turns to care for the kids also leads to love in Michael Hoffman's outstanding romantic comedy.
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Jon Robin Baitz
(Edited for Language, Subtitles, 1996, PG, 3 Star)

21:00
Fracture (Film)
The first of tonight's two movies featuring Ryan Gosling. Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling and David Strathairn star in Gregory Hoblit's twist-filled legal drama. When top airplane engineer Ted Crawford discovers that his wife has been cheating on him he takes a devastatingly direct route to revenge: he drives home and shoots his errant spouse in the face. He then waits for the police to turn up and confesses to the crime. With his wife in a coma, Crawford is arrested and enters the justice system. It should, of course, be the simplest prosecution ever. And lawyer Willy Beachum can be forgiven for thinking that his last case as a criminal attorney will be a doddle. However, once in court, Crawford, representing himself, proceeds to tear apart the ample evidence that's stacked against him. Can he possibly get away with his crime?
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

23:15
Blue Valentine (Film)
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in Derek Cianfrance's drama that lays bare the final throws of an imploding relationship. Cindy holds down a career in nursing, with all its attendant pressures, while her husband Dean has taken on the role of looking after their young daughter Frankie, as well as picking up house-moving or painting jobs when they crop up.
Starring: John Doman, Mike Vogel
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15)

01:30
It's All About Love (Film)
Thomas Vinterberg's sci-fi romance, set in the near future, stars Joaquin Phoenix as John, the estranged husband of ice-skating superstar Elena. Meeting to sign divorce papers, he discovers her life is in danger from her management, who are worried at her appeal waning with age and have a plan to replace her... In a world suffering from cosmological chaos, they are joined by her brother Michael in their flight while his brother Marciello circles the world in a plane, crystallising his philosophy on the planet's ills.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Claire Danes, Sean Penn, Douglas Henshall, Alun Armstrong, Margo Martindale
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #172 on:** January 03, 2013, 11:15:11 AM »

Friday 11th January

Film4 Listings for Friday 11th January

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11:00
Anne of the Indies (Film)
Fast-moving, action-packed swashbuckler starring Jean Peters in the title role of a brave buccaneer who falls for Captain Pierre FranÃ§ois LaRochelle without realising he has been planted in her crew by the French navy to bring about her capture.
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall, Thomas Gomez, James Robertson Justice
(Subtitles, 1951, 12, 3 Star)

12:40
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (Film)
Henry Koster's comedy stars James Stewart as Roger Hobbs who reluctantly goes on holiday with his family. Apart from complications caused by his couch potato son who's shy of girls, two grown daughters who have married the wrong guys and a yachtsman who takes a shine to Roger's wife Peggy, everything goes swimmingly.
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Marie Wilson, Reginald Gardiner
(Subtitles, 1962, U, 3 Star)

15:00
All That Heaven Allows (Film)
Cary Scott is the wealthy New England widow who is drawn to carefree gardener Ron Kirby. But she fears the scorn of her frie$$$ and her children. Melodrama master Douglas Sirk influenced film-makers from Fassbinder and Todd Haynes to John Waters.
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbott
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, U, 4 Star)

16:50
Gift Horse (Film)
Compton Bennett's war drama follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew, from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
Director: Compton Bennett
Starring: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Sonny Tufts, Bernard Lee, Dora Bryan
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1952, U, 3 Star)

18:55
Brewster's Millions (Film)
Richard Pryor stars as Montgomery Brewster, a low-league baseball player who suddenly fi$$$ out that a distant relative has left him $300m. But there's a catch: he has to waste $30m in just 30 days without anyone knowing he's doing it, without investing it and without banking it. And his best friend John Candy is no help, trying to make his friend's money earn interest... Walter Hill, better known for tough dramas, turns his hand to comedy for this much-loved and filmed stage play, scripted in this case by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod of Trading Places fame. Edited for content.
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach
(1985, PG, 2 Star)

21:00
Knowing (Film)
Nicolas Cage stars in Australian director Alex Proyas's science fiction thriller about the discovery of a series of deadly prophecies. Back in 1959, a Boston school buried a time capsule containing the pupils' imaginings of what life would be like in the future; most contributions were in the form of pictures, but one was very different. Now, 50 years later, the experiment has been dug up, and the predictions distributed among the school's current students; the oddity - a long list of numbers that baffles everyone - is given to Caleb Koestler, who takes it home. When Chandler's scientist dad, John, takes a look at it he realises that the list details a series of lethal events, all but three of which have already happened. Convinced he's right, John sets out to both prove his theory and stop the impending disasters. But little does he know the danger he, his family and everyone around him are in.
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson, D.G. Maloney, Nadia Townsend
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

23:20
The Informers (Film)
Gregor Jordan's multi-stranded drama of 80s excess is based on a collection of short stories by Bret Easton Ellis. Among the ensemble cast are Kim Basinger, Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder, Mickey O'Rourke and Rhys Ifans. The various elements of the plot are loosely held together by the story of an English band, managed by Rhys Ifans, whose tour has landed them in Los Angeles. But the real narrative unfolds around Graham, his friend Martin and Graham's girlfriend Christie and the various people they are sleeping or taking drugs with. In fact, the entire movie seems to function as a kind of sexual vortex, with any character appearing in it seemingly likely to be drawn inexorably to bed any of the other characters at some point. Against this hedonistic backdrop, there's also a plotline following the ultra-sleazy child-kidnapping Peter, uncle of Jack, who is the doorman at Christie's apartment.
Director: Gregor Jordan
Starring: Jon Foster, Austin Nichols, Amber Heard, Lou Taylor Pucci, Fernando Consagra, Aaron Himelstein
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 3 Star)

01:15
Bad Education (Film)
Fantasy crime drama. Aspiring actor Ignacio and filmmaker Enrique combine to make a film based on their traumatic schooldays. But dredging up the past exposes a closetful of secrets. A twisting tale of sex, shame and blackmail from Pedro AlmÃ³dovar.
Director: Pedro AlmodÃ³var
Starring: Gael GarcÃa Bernal, Fele MartÃnez, Daniel GimÃ©nez Cacho, LluÃs Homar, Javier CÃ¡mara, Petra MartÃnez
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2004, 15, 4 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #173 on:** January 03, 2013, 11:17:53 AM »

Saturday 12th January

Film4 Listings for Saturday 12th January

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11:00
The Admirable Crichton (Film)
Lewis Gilbert's classic comedy, based on J M Barrie's play, stars Kenneth More as the admirable Crichton, butler to Lord Loam and his family. When, while cruising in the South Seas, they are shipwrecked on a desert island, his Lordship takes command but slowly it emerges that Crichton possesses the skills for survival. As the master/servant roles are reversed, even romance is turned upside down; but surely rescue will reassert the status quo?
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker, Sally Ann Howes, Martita Hunt, Jack Watling
(Subtitles, 1957, U, 3 Star)

13:00
Imagine That (Film)
Eddie Murphy stars in this family comedy from Over the Hedge director Karey Kirkpatrick. Evan Danielson is a divorced workaholic financial advisor, whose young daughter Olivia has come to stay with him for a week. Initially he makes little time for her, worrying instead about his own future at a company that seems about to go under. But when Olivia's imaginary frie$$$ begin to offer remarkably prescient financial advice of their own, Danielson fi$$$ himself drawn into her world of make-believe. Also starring Martin Sheen and Thomas Haden Church. Edited for content.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden-Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Stephen Rannazzisi, Nicole Ari Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, PG, 3 Star)

15:05
Carry on Spying (Film)
When the dastardly organisation STENCH steals a top secret chemical formula, it's clear the British secret service must do something - and quick. Unfortunately, their sole available resource is Agent Desmond Simpkins and his bumbling trainees Crump, Bind and Honeybutt. Nevertheless, the country's finest are soon in hot pursuit of the terrorists, on a trail that will take them as far afield as Austria and Algeria. The only thing that sta$$$ between them and success is their incompetence. Gerald Thomas's spy spoof also stars Jim Dale and Eric Barker.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Kenneth Williams, Barbara Wi$$$or, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, Eric Barker, Dilys Laye
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, Black and White, 1964, PG, 3 Star)

16:50
Anastasia (Film)
Russian royal Anastasia does not remember her origins and when she travels to St Petersburg to investigate her forgotten past, she falls in with two conmen who want to pass her off as the lost princess, little suspecting that their 'fake' princess is in fact the real thing.
Director: Gary Goldman, Don Bluth
Starring: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters
(Subtitles, 1997, U, 3 Star)

18:40
A Good Year (Film)
Ridley Scott's romantic comedy, based on Peter Mayle's novel, stars Russell Crowe as Max Skinner, a ruthless stockbroker who unexpectedly inherits a struggling vineyard in Provence from his uncle Henry. Initially planning to sell the land, he has second thoughts on meeting comely caf? waitress Fanny Chenal who, together with the charms of the region, melts his heart and his avaricious plans.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Abbie Cornish, Albert Finney, Rafe Spall, Marion Cotillard, Archie Panjabi
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

21:00
Double Jeopardy (Film)
Tense thriller about a woman convicted for her husband's murder after she wakes covered in blood when he goes missing one night. After being imprisoned for six years she is freed on parole and, increasingly convinced that her husband is still alive and that she was framed, the woman sets out to discover what really happened on the night of the 'murder'.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Benjamin Weir, Jay Brazeau, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth Gish
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1999, 15, 3 Star)

23:05
Silent Hill (Film)
Christophe Gans' stylish horror film, based on the classic video game of the same name, stars Radha Mitchell as Rose Da Silva, whose infant daughter Sharon keeps having nightmares about the town of Silent Hill. Rosa decides to take her there in an attempt to solve the puzzle, but she blacks out following a minor road accident en-route. When she comes round, her daughter has disappeared into the deserted town; a place of evil that sits atop a smouldering mine where grey ash falls, making it perpetually night and where the inhabitants include bloodthirsty babies and zombie nurses. Can she avoid their murderous attentions, and get to Sharon before it's too late?
Director: Christophe Gans
Starring: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Laurie Holden, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 3 Star)

01:30
Near Dark (Film)
Kathryn Bigelow's chilling and compelling shocker stars Adrian Pasdar as a Midwestern farm boy who becomes terrifyingly involved with a gang of travelling modern-day vampires. Caleb meets an attractive young vampire, Mae, who instead of killing Caleb, transforms him into a vampire. While Mae accepts Caleb, her vampire family are unwilling to allow the newcomer into their tightly-knit group and demand that Caleb either kills humans for blood like the rest of them or prepare to be killed. When the group set out to kidnap Caleb's little sister, Caleb and Mae must work quickly to save her before daylight when the sun's rays will spell certain death for them both.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, Tim Thomerson
(Subtitles, 1987, 18, 4 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #174 on:** January 03, 2013, 11:19:13 AM »

Sunday 13th January

Film4 Listings for Sunday 13th January

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11:00
Ten Tall Men (Film)
Lively spoof adventure with Burt Lancaster as Mike Kincaid, a French Foreign Legion sergeant leading nine men on a dangerous mission to prevent a Berber attack on a North African desert fort.
Director: Willis Goldbeck
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias, John Dehner
(Subtitles, 1951, 15, 3 Star)

13:00
The Spy Next Door (Film)
Brian Levant directs martial arts icon Jackie Chan in this family friendly action-comedy about a secret agent pitted against both the Russian mafia and the three children of the single mother he's fallen for. Artsy Gillian leaves 'Bob Ho' in charge of the kids for the weekend, and he uses his espionage skills to try to get to grips with the brood - who cover the traditional bases of bolshie, brainy and adorable - while Poldark and Creel are the villains in a subplot involving a misappropriated chemical formula. Levant includes homages to some of Chan's landmark movies, and the alpha male who's a fish out of water when dealing with kids is a good fit for Chan's likeable screen persona.
Director: Brian Levant
Starring: Jackie Chan, Amber Valletta, Madeline Carroll, Will Shadley, Alina Foley, MagnÃºs Scheving
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, PG, 3 Star)

14:50
Only You (Film)
Marisa Tomei is convinced by a tarot reading she'll marry a man named Damon Bradley, but when he doesn't appear, she commits herself to a safe, if dull doctor. However, on the eve of her marriage, the phone rings and on the line is... Via Venice and Rome, not to mention countless adventures, she subsequently pursues the man of her dreams. Norman Jewison's romcom is delightfully light with a great look, and if the ending is predictable, it's still great fun.
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens, Billy Zane
(Subtitles, 1994, PG, 3 Star)

17:00
Robots (Film)
An animated coming-of-age-tale from the people responsible for Ice Age. Chris Wedge's film features Rodney Copperbottom, an inventor who travels to Robot City to sell his ideas to the tycoon Big Weld. On arrival in the metropolis, he's befriended by Fender, who acts as his guide to the town and its mores. Rodney quickly fi$$$ that even a society of robots isn't interested in the perfection he's offering, especially when the need for perpetual upgrades results in a constant flow of profits. But, with Fender's help and the love of Cappy, he decides to confront the Big Weld and attempt to change society.
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Starring: Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Mel Brooks, Lucille Bliss, Paula Abdul, Terry Bradshaw, Drew Carey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, U, 3 Star)

18:45
The Women (Film)
Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes and Annette Bening head an all-female cast in this comedy drama, a remake of George Cukor's 1939 satire, from writer-director Diane English. Mary Haines thinks she has it all - a happy marriage, a lovely daughter, a top clothes designer job at her father's firm and a solid circle of very good frie$$$. But then she hears through the grapevine that her husband is having an affair with a perfume saleswoman and, with that one thread unpicked, her entire world begins to unravel... Also starring Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, Cloris Leachman, Bette Midler and Carrie Fisher. Edited for language and content.
Director: Diane English
Starring: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bette Midler
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 2 Star)

21:00
The Ugly Truth (Film)
Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler star in this sexually unsophisticated romcom from writer/director Robert Luketic. When a TV morning show's ratings fail to impress the suits, its producer Abby Richter fi$$$ herself having to welcome a new, and hopefully ratings-boosting, host - Mike Chadaway. Trouble is, she's a control-freak perfectionist, while he's the chauvinistic former host of a freewheeling, late-night chat show, who's used to living in the moment. The two are destined from the start not to get along. And so it proves. But when Abby falls for an attractive doctor, she takes the questionable decision to follow Mike's dating advice. Cue a succession of crude and, for Abby, humiliating set-pieces as she aims to snag her man.
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner, Eric Winter, Nick Searcy, Jesse D. Goins
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

22:55
Carlos (Film)
In this critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-winning three-part miniseries, French film-maker Olivier Assayas charts the rise and fall of the Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Ã‰dgar RamÃrez takes the lead role, portraying Ilich RamÃrez SÃ¡nchez, who was born in 1949, and whose father was such a committed Marxist that he named his other two sons Vladimir and Lenin. But it was Ilich's crimes under the guise of Carlos the Jackal that brought him to the attention of the world. Assayas's work was also released as a 165-minute feature film, but Film4 is presenting it in its full miniseries-format glory. Part one begins in 1973, the year in which the murderous ideologue's fight for Palestinian rights saw him conduct attacks in London and Paris on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, as well as get involved in a plot that would prove both audacious and ultimately cause a massive rift with his sponsors. The film concludes tomorrow night with parts two and three.
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Repeat, Widescreen, Part 1, 15)

01:00
SherryBaby (Film)
Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Sherry Swanson, who has just finished three years inside on drugs charges. Determined to go straight and stay clean for the sake of her eight-year-old daughter Alexis, she has to cope with a halfway house that's not much better than prison, as well as an uncaring parole officer. But what makes it hardest is the close relationship Alexis has built up with her brother Bobby and his wife Lynette, who have been looking after Alexis while Sherry has been inside. Laurie Collyer's engaging drama follows Sherry as she struggles to find a job, keep clean and try to regain her daughter's love and trust without alienating her relatives.
Director: Laurie Collyer
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michelle Hurst, Sandra RodrÃguez, Anna Simpson, Giancarlo Esposito, Caroline Clay
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 3 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #175 on:** January 03, 2013, 11:20:29 AM »

Monday 14th January

Film4 Listings for Monday 14th January

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11:00
The Virgin Queen (Film)
Bette Davis and Richard Todd star in Henry Koster's lavish historical melodrama about Queen Elizabeth I's love for Sir Walter Raleigh. Unfortunately for Her Royal Highness, Raleigh is more interested in exploring the New World and the affections of lady-in-waiting Beth Throgmorton. This was Davis's second portrayal of the Tudor monarch: she had played the lead role in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 16 years earlier.
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 3 Star)

12:50
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (Film)
After her acclaimed performance in Black Narcissus, Deborah Kerr donned the wimple again, this time for director John Huston, as a nun stranded on a Japanese-held Pacific island with laconic Marine corporal Robert Mitchum, her only companion and hope of salvation.
Director: John Huston
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star)

14:55
Carry on Cabby (Film)
Gerald Thomas's war-of-the-sexes comedy concerns an ongoing 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, 1963, U, 3 Star)

16:45
23 Paces to Baker Street (Film)
Thriller starring Van Johnson as Phillip Hanson, a blind playwright who overhears a kidnapping plot in a pub. He approaches the police, but, as his only clue is the perfume that one of the suspects wore, the coppers are unimpressed. Determined to stop the crime, Johnson teams up with his fiancÃ© and secretary, and the detectives set out to bring the villains to book.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1956, U, 4 Star)

18:50
Fool's Gold (Film)
Andy Tennant's comedy adventure stars Matthew McConaughey as Benjamin Finnegan, a treasure hunter who finally pins down the Caribbean location of a sunken Spanish galleon loaded with gold. He convinces his ex-wife Tess to persuade her boss Nigel Honeycutt to lend him his luxury cruiser as a base for diving for the treasure. But can they reach the wreck before Benjamin's mentor Moe Fitch and gangster rapper Bigg Bunny, who also have designs on the gold? Edited for language and content.
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena, Ewen Bremner, Ray Winstone
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 2 Star)

21:00
Road to Perdition (Film)
Sam Mendes' thriller stars Tom Hanks as killer Michael Sullivan, who is in the employ of crime boss John Rooney. But Newman's son is jealous of the closeness the two share and kills Sullivan's family, apart from his oldest child. The pair go on the road seeking revenge and then a new life. But Rooney knows the only way to save his son is to eliminate Sullivan, and sets another hit man on their trail.
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig, Tyler Hoechlin
(Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)

23:20
Carlos (Film)
The critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-winning three-part miniseries, from French film-maker Olivier Assayas continues, with Ã‰dgar RamÃrez again starring as international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. In part two, it's now 1975 and Carlos is leading a group of German and Palestinians on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Their mission: to storm the headquarters of OPEC and take hostage some of the most powerful men in charge of the world's oil production. The concluding part of the triptych follows immediately after this screening.
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Repeat, Widescreen, Part 2, 15)

01:30
Carlos (Film)
The conclusion of the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe-winning three-part miniseries from French film-maker Olivier Assayas, with Edgar Ramirez starring as international terrorist Carlos the Jackal. In the final part, and with the events of 1975 and his links to the Middle East firmly behind him, Carlos has thrown in his lot with a variety of violent European causes. But the coming change in world order is set to turn the terrorist's life upside down... Film4 premiere.
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Repeat, Widescreen, Part 3, 15)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #176 on:** January 03, 2013, 11:21:39 AM »

Tuesday 15th January

Film4 Listings for Tuesday 15th January

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11:00
The Black Knight (Film)
British adventure movie starring Alan Ladd as a sword-maker who is tutored at the court of King Arthur, becoming the Black Knight. He needs his new skills to defeat two conspirators who are attempting to overthrow Camelot, and to win the hand of an Earl's daughter.
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, AndrÃ© Morell, Harry Andrews, Peter Cushing, Anthony Bushell
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1954, 15, 2 Star)

12:45
Black Narcissus (Film)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Oscar-winning classic film of repressed desires and lust among a community of Anglican nuns in the Himalayan hills. Deborah Kerr stars as their leader, Sister Clodagh, trying to hold their faith together in spite of the very un-nun-like leanings of Sister Ruth, who becomes infatuated with local land agent Mr Dean.
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Sabu, Esmond Knight
(Subtitles, 1947, U, 4 Star)

14:50
D-Day the Sixth of June (Film)
Henry Koster's wartime romance stars Robert Taylor as Captain Brad Parker, stationed in Britain as the Allies prepare for D-Day, who falls for Valerie Russell. But he has a wife back home and Valerie is promised to Lt Colonel John Wynter. When the two men's paths cross on the eve of invasion, they discover camaraderie overcomes jealousy. But as they storm the Normandy beaches, fate intervenes.
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter, Edmond O'Brien, John Williams, Jerry Paris
(Subtitles, 1956, PG, 3 Star)

17:00
The Great Sioux Massacre (Film)
Sidney Salkow's all-action western traces the events leading up to Custer's last stand, when 251 US troops died at Little Big Horn. Philip Carey plays the doomed Colonel whose political ambition proved so costly, with Iron Eyes Cody as his adversary, Crazy Horse.
Director: Sidney Salkow
Starring: Joseph Cotten, Darren McGavin, Philip Carey, Julie Sommars, Nancy Kovack, Michael Pate
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1965, U, 3 Star)

18:50
Only You (Film)
Marisa Tomei is convinced by a tarot reading she'll marry a man named Damon Bradley, but when he doesn't appear, she commits herself to a safe, if dull doctor. However, on the eve of her marriage, the phone rings and on the line is... Via Venice and Rome, not to mention countless adventures, she subsequently pursues the man of her dreams. Norman Jewison's romcom is delightfully light with a great look, and if the ending is predictable, it's still great fun.
Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens, Billy Zane
(Subtitles, 1994, PG, 3 Star)

21:00
Fracture (Film)
Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling and David Strathairn star in Gregory Hoblit's twist-filled legal drama. When top airplane engineer Ted Crawford discovers that his wife has been cheating on him he takes a devastatingly direct route to revenge: he drives home and shoots his errant spouse in the face. He then waits for the police to turn up and confesses to the crime. With his wife in a coma, Crawford is arrested and enters the justice system. It should, of course, be the simplest prosecution ever. And lawyer Willy Beachum can be forgiven for thinking that his last case as a criminal attorney will be a doddle. However, once in court, Crawford, representing himself, proceeds to tear apart the ample evidence that's stacked against him. Can he possibly get away with his crime?
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling, David Strathairn, Rosamund Pike, Embeth Davidtz, Billy Burke
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

23:15
Chinatown (Film)
Roman Polanski's classic detective drama, which was nominated for 11 Oscars, stars Jack Nicholson as JJ 'Jake' Gittes, a private eye in 1940s Los Angeles. He's hired by Evelyn Mulwray, who wants evidence of her husband's $$$$$erous affair. What appears to be an open-and-shut case thickens when the real Evelyn Mulwray turns up at his office and the errant husband is found drowned. As Gittes pursues his investigation, he becomes involved with Evelyn's father Noah Cross, a guilty family secret and a water/land-grab conspiracy so lucrative that murder is a small price to pay to protect it.
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling
(Subtitles, 1974, 18, 5 Star)

01:50
Cold Weather (Film)
Director Aaron Katz ble$$$ drama, mystery and comedy in this story about Doug's investigation of the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend Rachel. After dropping out of his forensic science university course, Doug returns to his hometown of Portland, Oregon, where he settles into a new life living with his sister Gail, reading detective novels and working at the local ice factory. His colleague Carlos quickly becomes a close friend. When Rachel suddenly disappears, Doug finally gets to put his expertise to work. With Gail and Carlos eagerly in tow, Doug's investigation delves into the mysteries of personal relationships and uncovers more than one secret.
Director: Aaron Katz
Starring: Cris Lankenau, Trieste Kelly Dunn, RaÃºl Castillo, Robyn Rikoon, Jeb Pearson, Brendan McFadden
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #177 on:** January 03, 2013, 11:23:17 AM »

Wednesday 16th January

Film4 Listings for Wednesday 16th January

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11:00
Gift Horse (Film)
Compton Bennett's war drama follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew, from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
Director: Compton Bennett
Starring: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Sonny Tufts, Bernard Lee, Dora Bryan
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1952, U, 3 Star)

13:00
Jesse James (Film)
Henry King's classic western stars Tyrone Power as Missouri farmer Jesse James, who works the land with his brother Frank. When the railroad illegally forces them off their property, leading to the death of their mother, they swear vengeance. Robbing trains, they help fund the fight back against the railroads despite the best efforts of Marshall Will Wright. The ending sets the scenario for Fritz Lang's 1940 revenge-sequel, The Return of Frank James.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
(Subtitles, 1939, U, 3 Star)

15:10
Detective Story (Film)
Kirk Douglas stars in William Wyler's claustrophobically powerful police drama. Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler's clever adaptation of Sidney Kingsley's stage hit won them one of the film's four Oscar nominations. The events take place during a single day in a New York police precinct station and focus on Detective James McLeod, whose obsessive pursuit of criminals, whatever the cost to them or himself, finally explodes into violence when he vengefully pursues a seedy abortionist who has been involved with his wife. There are also strong supporting roles from Joseph Wiseman and William Bendix. Wyler picked up a Best Director nomination and Lee Grant's turn as a shoplifter earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready, Horace McMahon
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, 1951, PG, 4 Star)

17:15
Anastasia (Film)
Russian royal Anastasia does not remember her origins and when she travels to St Petersburg to investigate her forgotten past, she falls in with two conmen who want to pass her off as the lost princess, little suspecting that their 'fake' princess is in fact the real thing.
Director: Gary Goldman, Don Bluth
Starring: Meg Ryan, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Christopher Lloyd, Hank Azaria, Bernadette Peters
(Subtitles, 1997, U, 3 Star)

19:00
The Spy Next Door (Film)
Brian Levant directs martial arts icon Jackie Chan in this family friendly action-comedy about a secret agent pitted against both the Russian mafia and the three children of the single mother he's fallen for. Artsy Gillian leaves 'Bob Ho' in charge of the kids for the weekend, and he uses his espionage skills to try to get to grips with the brood - who cover the traditional bases of bolshie, brainy and adorable - while Poldark and Creel are the villains in a subplot involving a misappropriated chemical formula. Levant includes homages to some of Chan's landmark movies, and the alpha male who's a fish out of water when dealing with kids is a good fit for Chan's likeable screen persona.
Director: Brian Levant
Starring: Jackie Chan, Amber Valletta, Madeline Carroll, Will Shadley, Alina Foley, MagnÃºs Scheving
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, PG, 3 Star)

20:50
Django Unchained Interview Special (Entertainment)
Director Quentin Tarantino and some of his cool cast talk about their exciting new western adventure, Django Unchained.

21:00
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)

00:10
From Dusk Till Dawn (Film)
Robert Rodriguez directs this cult horror from Quentin Tarantino's script. Brothers Richard and Seth Gecko hijack the Rev Fuller's mobile home to get to a midnight party at the Titty Twister, Mexico's most famous brothel. But at dusk the brothel turns out to be a far cry from what the brothers thought it was, and much blood is set to flow before dawn.
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu, Salma Hayek
(Subtitles, 1996, 18, 3 Star)

02:15
Old Joy (Film)
Director-writer Kelly Reichardt's film is a deceptively gentle drama about a frie$$$hip renewed. Kurt and Mark, two frie$$$ who have lost touch, decide to re-kindle their relationship with a weekend trek through Oregon's mountains. They talk, with Mark concerned about imminent fatherhood while Kurt is more meditative, but will their bond be re-forged by the end of the journey?
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Starring: Daniel London, Will Oldham, Tanya Smith, Robin Rosenberg, Keri Moran, Autumn Campbell
(Subtitles, 2006, 15, 3 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #178 on:** January 08, 2013, 11:55:08 AM »

Thursday 17th January

Film4 Listings for Thursday 17th January

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11:00
The Lemon Tree (Film)
Eran Riklis's moving film is set in the West Bank, where Palestinian widow Salma Zidane te$$$ her lemon grove. But when Israeli Defense Minister Navon moves in across the way, his security guards demand she removes the trees, which could shelter terrorists. Refusing to bow down, she engages lawyer Ziad Daud to take her case to the Supreme Court, which brings international attention. But there is another figure in the drama, the Minister's wife Mira, who sympathises with Salma, wishing for a neighbourly resolution. What could easily have been a political polemic becomes instead an emotional drama as the three protagonists face up to past losses and future hopes. In Arabic, Hebrew and English with English subtitles.
Director: Eran Riklis
Starring: Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman, Rona Lipaz-Michael, Tarik Kopty, Amos Lavi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 4 Star)

13:05
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Film)
Ingrid Bergman stars as Gladys Aylward in Oscar-nominated Mark Robson's dramatic film, loosely based on fact. Rejected for missionary work in China, Aylward makes her own way there and wins over a powerful mandarin to Christianity despite his initial suspicions. But the test of her faith comes when the Chino-Japanese war breaks out in 1940 and she must guide 100 children to safety through enemy territory.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Curd JÃ¼rgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler, Ronald Squire
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

16:15
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (Film)
Henry Koster's comedy stars James Stewart as Roger Hobbs who reluctantly goes on holiday with his family. Apart from complications caused by his couch potato son who's shy of girls, two grown daughters who have married the wrong guys and a yachtsman who takes a shine to Roger's wife Peggy, everything goes swimmingly.
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Marie Wilson, Reginald Gardiner
(Subtitles, 1962, U, 3 Star)

18:35
The Women (Film)
Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes and Annette Bening head an all-female cast in this comedy drama, a remake of George Cukor's 1939 satire, from writer-director Diane English. Mary Haines thinks she has it all - a happy marriage, a lovely daughter, a top clothes designer job at her father's firm and a solid circle of very good frie$$$. But then she hears through the grapevine that her husband is having an affair with a perfume saleswoman and, with that one thread unpicked, her entire world begins to unravel... Also starring Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, Cloris Leachman, Bette Midler and Carrie Fisher. Edited for language and content.
Director: Diane English
Starring: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bette Midler
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 2 Star)

20:50
Green Zone Interview Special (Entertainment)
Star Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass - the men behind the last two Bourne films - talk about re-teaming for the Iraq-set conspiracy action-thriller Green Zone.
(Repeat, Subtitles)

21:00
Double Jeopardy (Film)
Tense thriller about a woman convicted for her husband's murder after she wakes covered in blood when he goes missing one night. After being imprisoned for six years she is freed on parole and, increasingly convinced that her husband is still alive and that she was framed, the woman sets out to discover what really happened on the night of the 'murder'.
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Ashley Judd, Benjamin Weir, Jay Brazeau, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth Gish
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1999, 15, 3 Star)

23:05
The Insider (Film)
"60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman sniffs a story when a former research biologist for Brown & Williamson, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, won't talk to him. When the company leans hard on Wigand to honour a confidentiality agreement, he gets his back up. Trusting Bergman and despite a crumbling marriage, he goes on camera for a Mike Wallace interview and risks arrest for contempt of court.
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Li$$$ay Crouse
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 15, 4 Star)

02:10
The Neon Bible (Film)
The Neon Bible is the moving, sometimes harrowing, story of a boy, David, whose life in the American deep south in the 40s is profoundly affected by both his overbearing parents and the bible-led environment in which he's raised. Based on the Pulitzer prize winning novel by John Kennedy Toole, director Terence Davies.
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Jacob Tierney, Drake Bell, Gena Rowla$$$, Diana Scarwid, Denis Leary, Bob Hannah
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1995, 15, 3 Star)

Lujdzo · « **Reply #179 on:** January 08, 2013, 11:57:06 AM »

Film4 Listings for Friday 18th January

Listings: all day morning afternoon evening late night

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11:00
Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (Film)
After her acclaimed performance in Black Narcissus, Deborah Kerr donned the wimple again, this time for director John Huston, as a nun stranded on a Japanese-held Pacific island with laconic Marine corporal Robert Mitchum, her only companion and hope of salvation.
Director: John Huston
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star)

13:05
The Tall T (Film)
Ranch hand Pat Brennan assumes the leadership of a group of stagecoach passengers in the fall-out from a hold-up. Ruthless robber Usher, disgusted at the cowardice of a passenger who offers his new bride as ransom, accepts the terms and then shoots the man.
Director: Budd Boetticher
Starring: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Skip Homeier, Henry Silva
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star)

14:50
The Bravados (Film)
Henry King's brooding western stars Gregory Peck as a stranger who arrives in a small town to witness the execution of four bank robbers. He's convinced they raped and murdered his wife and, when they break out of prison, taking Emma Steimmetz hostage, he tracks them down and begins to kill them one by one. But then he discovers a truth that makes him reconsider both his purpose and his beliefs.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

16:45
Robots (Film)
An animated coming-of-age-tale from the people responsible for Ice Age. Chris Wedge's film features Rodney Copperbottom, an inventor who travels to Robot City to sell his ideas to the tycoon Big Weld. On arrival in the metropolis, he's befriended by Fender, who acts as his guide to the town and its mores. Rodney quickly fi$$$ that even a society of robots isn't interested in the perfection he's offering, especially when the need for perpetual upgrades results in a constant flow of profits. But, with Fender's help and the love of Cappy, he decides to confront the Big Weld and attempt to change society.
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Starring: Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Mel Brooks, Lucille Bliss, Paula Abdul, Terry Bradshaw, Drew Carey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, U, 3 Star)

18:30
A Good Year (Film)
Ridley Scott's romantic comedy, based on Peter Mayle's novel, stars Russell Crowe as Max Skinner, a ruthless stockbroker who unexpectedly inherits a struggling vineyard in Provence from his uncle Henry. Initially planning to sell the land, he has second thoughts on meeting comely caf? waitress Fanny Chenal who, together with the charms of the region, melts his heart and his avaricious plans.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe, Abbie Cornish, Albert Finney, Rafe Spall, Marion Cotillard, Archie Panjabi
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

20:50
Django Unchained Interview Special (Entertainment)
Director Quentin Tarantino and some of his cool cast talk about their exciting new western adventure, Django Unchained.

21:00
The Others (Film)
Alejandro Amenabar's haunting thriller stars Nicole Kidman as Grace Stewart, who lives in a mansion on Jersey in the days just after the Second World War with her two children. Also part of the household are three elderly servants who appeared, as if from nowhere, to replace the previous staff, after they left suddenly. The two children, Nicholas and Anne, are photosensitive and must never be exposed to light, so all curtains and doors are kept firmly shut. Anne starts claiming that there are other people in the house, something Grace denies until inexplicable events begin to convince her that they are not alone. But who are these Others?
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann, James Bentley, Christopher Eccleston
(Widescreen, 2001, 12, 5 Star)

23:05
Days of Thunder (Film)
Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle, a young hot-shot stock car racer determined to make it as top gun if he can find the right cocktail of car and manager, who comes along in the guise of racing legend Harry Hogge. As the pair tour the circuits, the climax builds up to Daytona and a showdown between Trickle and his arch-rival Russ Wheeler, who will stop at nothing to beat him. Tony Scott's all-action film captures the all-out excitement and speed of the sport, while Nicole Kidman as Dr Claire Lewicki provides the love interest.
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, Michael Rooker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1990, 12, 2 Star)

01:10
Flash Point (Film)
Wilson Yip directs another martial arts action rollercoaster starring the genre's big hitting superstar Donnie Yen. The plot centres around a violent dispute between pre-Reunification Hong Kong drugs dealers, their Vietnamese suppliers and the cops, led by Detective Sergeant Ma Wun, who are out to kill the import and distribution of narcotics on the island. But the film is really an excuse for a steady stream of flying feet, elbows and feet, leading up to the movie's spectacularly choreographed five-minute climactic fight scene. Also starring Louis Koo, Collin Chou, Ray Lui, Bingbing Fan, Ben Lam and Yu Xing. In Mandarin, Cantonese and English, with English subtitles.
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Louis Koo, Collin Chou, Ray Lui, Bingbing Fan, Kent Cheng
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 18, 3 Star)

02:55
Loving Memory (Film)
A rare chance to see one of the late Tony Scott's earliest works, which demonstrated a subtlety not immediately associated with his more famous films. The film tells the story of an isolated brother and sister living with painful memories and a dark secret. Scott worked with cinematographer Chris Menges on Loving Memory, and the result is a beautiful darkly atmospheric film that captures the haunting atmosphere of life on the Yorkshire Moors.
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: David Pugh, Roy Evans, Rosamund Greenwood
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, 12, 3 Star)

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