Film4 Listings for Saturday 19th January

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11:00
The Great Sioux Massacre (Film)
Sidney Salkow's all-action western traces the events leading up to Custer's last stand, when over 250 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
(Subtitles, 1965, U, 3 Star)


13:00
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?
Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena, Ewen Bremner, Ray Winstone
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 2 Star)


15:10
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)


17:10
Mirrormask (Film)
A visually arresting, dark family fantasy - part live action, part CGI - from long-time graphic novel collaborators Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, here working as screenwriter and director respectively. The story centres on Helen, who's fed up with life at her parents' circus and desperately wants to get away. But one day she loses her temper and wishes her mother dead - and is mortified to see her cruel wish seemingly begin to come true. She realises that she'd do anything to retract her 'curse', but instead fi$$$ herself thrown suddenly into a surreal la$$$cape that's by turns beautiful, sinister and scary. It is a realm ruled by the Queen of Shadows and the Queen of Light, who once balanced each other out - to the benefit of their subjects. But now the Queen of Shadows is in the ascendant, and only Helen can restore the land's much-needed equilibrium by seeking out the immensely powerful MirrorMask, which is also her only way out of this strange and troubling new world.
Director: Dave McKean
Starring: Jason Barry, Rob Brydon, Stephanie Leonidas, Gina McKee
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)


19:05
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (Film)
David L Cunningham's fantasy film is loosely based on Susan Cooper's acclaimed award-winning sequence of novels, The Dark Is Rising. Alexander Ludwig plays Will Stanton, the seventh son of a seventh son, who is the Seeker, charged with finding the six signs hidden throughout time that the forces of The Dark are also pursuing in order to gain global domination. Ian McShane plays Merriman Lyon, Will's guide and mentor, with Christopher Eccleston as The Rider, the envoy of The Dark's forces.
Director: David L. Cunningham
Starring: Alexander Ludwig, Christopher Eccleston, Ian McShane, Frances Conroy, James Cosmo, Jim Piddock
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 2 Star)


21:00
10 Things I Hate About You (Film)
Gil Junger's feel-good teen comedy is loosely based on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona and Julia Stiles as Katarina Stratford. He accepts a bribe to take her to the prom so that her sister can take the beau of her choice. But when Katarina fi$$$ out, she's furious - just as Patrick realises her true character and falls for her... Cue many hysterical misunderstandings, including a wonderful set piece on an athletics field involving a marching band.
Director: Gil Junger
Starring: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz, Andrew Keegan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, 15, 3 Star)


22:55
The Keep (Film)
Before Manhunter, Heat and The Insider, Michael Mann made this fascinatingly original horror movie, casting Nazis as the 'good guys'. A group of soldiers hole up in ancient fortress in the Carpathian Mountains, an ideal defensive spot. But they unwittingly unleash an ancient evil, whose plans make Hitler's regime look relatively benign.
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Scott Glenn, Alberta Watson, Jürgen Prochnow, Robert Prosky, Gabriel Byrne, Ian McKellen
(Subtitles, 1983, 18, 4 Star)


01:00
Black Snake Moan (Film)
Craig Brewer's two-handed drama begins after Rae's soldier husband is called up for duty in Iraq. She goes off the rails, sleeping around, until one encounter leaves her semi-naked in the road, where she's found by Lazarus, who's nursing his own hurt of a cheating wife. Determined to save Rae from herself, he initially imprisons her in his home, but, as the two form a relationship, so she begins to understand the reasons behind her actions.
Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Christina Ricci, Justin Timberlake, S. Epatha Merkerson, John Cothran Jr., David Banner
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)

Monday 21st January
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Film4 Listings for Monday 21st January

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11:00
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 the four bank robbers he believes raped and murdered his wife. When the criminals break out of prison, taking Emma Steimmetz hostage, he tracks them down, determined 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)


12:55
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, André Morell, Harry Andrews, Peter Cushing, Anthony Bushell
(Subtitles, 1954, 15, 2 Star)


14:40
Footsteps in the Fog (Film)
Stewart Granger stars alongside Jean Simmons, his off-screen wife at the time, in this atmospheric Victorian melodrama. Granger plays Stephen Lowry, a sinister aristocrat who poisons his wife. His maid, Lily Watkins, knows what he has done and uses this knowledge to her advantage. But, will the fact that she knows too much put her in danger with her murderous boss?
Director: Arthur Lubin
Starring: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers, Finlay Currie
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)


16:30
The Last Frontier (Film)
Portraying the character of Jed, Victor Mature gets to flex both his muscles and his acting abilities in this gripping western from Anthony Mann. Notable for some excellent action sequences and its stunning Mexican locations, The Last Frontier is an archetypal cavalry-versus-Indians saga, as three primitive frontiersmen are glad to accept an offer to become Indian scouts for a cavalry fort. But tension arises between the fort's colonel and Jed when the frontiersman displays his clear liking for the officer's wife, Corinna.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Ralph Bushman, William Desmond, Joe Bonomo, Pete Morrison
(Premiere, Subtitles, Black and White, 1932, PG, 3 Star)


18:30
Marley and Me (Film)
The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel's light comedy-drama - based on a best-selling autobiography - stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as a pair of married journalists who welcome a truly unruly dog into their lives. Relocating to Florida, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan end up working for rival newspapers, and it's soon obvious that Jenny has landed the more high-profile job. But when she starts to become broody, one of John's colleagues suggests they see how they cope with a puppy before trying for a baby. John duly picks a cute yellow Labrador Retriever as a gift for his spouse.
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Ann Dowd
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, PG, 4 Star)




21:00
Elizabeth (Film)
Cate Blanchett received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur's award-winning Film Four production. The historical drama traces the early years of the monarch, from her battle for the throne against her stepsister Mary Tudor through political and emotional intrigues to her seizure of absolute power as the Virgin Queen, answerable to no man.
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson, Paul Fox, Terence Rigby, Christopher Eccleston, Peter Stockbridge
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, 15, 4 Star)


23:25
Reindeer Games (Film)
John Frankenheimer's thriller stars Ben Affleck as Rudy Duncan, an ex-prisoner who assumes a dead cellmate's identity to hijack his romance with Ashley, who had been sending him love letters. But her brother Gabriel knows Nick used to work in a casino and wants the security details so he can stage a spectacular robbery. Now Rudy has to stay one step ahead of the game to stay alive.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Ben Affleck, James Frain, Dana Stubblefield, Mark Acheson, Tom Heaton, Isaac Hayes
(Widescreen, 2000, 15, 3 Star)


01:30
Croupier (Film)
Mike Hodges' film was a surprise sleeper, ignored in this country until it was lauded in the States. Clive Owen plays Jack Manfred, a croupier who works by night and writes by day. His girlfriend Marion becomes increasingly frustrated by his seemingly aimless life, but he becomes focused when glamorous South African Jani de Villiers arrives in his casino, and then his bed, with a plan to defraud the house. But is she playing with a straight deck of cards?
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Clive Owen, Alex Kingston, Nick Reding, Nicholas Ball, Alexander Morton, Barnaby Kay
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 4 Star)

Wednesday 6th February


Film4 Listings for Wednesday 6th February




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11:00
Bullwhip (Film)
When cowboy Steve Daley faces hanging for a murder he didn't commit, he has one way out: if he marries firebrand Cheyenne to save her inheritance he'll walk free. After the ceremony, she wants nothing to do with him but he's intrigued and sets about wooing her for real. Harmon Jones's western mirrors Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew and was an influence on the 1975 comedy western Goin' South, which starred Jack Nicholson.
Director: Harmon Jones
Starring: Guy Madison, Rhonda Fleming, James Griffith, Peter Adams, Don Beddoe, Dan Sheridan
(Subtitles, 1958, 12, 2 Star)


12:40
The History of Mr Polly (Film)
In Anthony Pelissier's adaptation of the HG Wells novel, John Mills plays the eponymous Mr Polly who, disillusioned by the constant nagging of his wife and his dull life, torches his shop and takes to the open road. He e$$$ up in the heart of the countryside where, after a few hitches, he begins a new life with a jovial innkeeper. But can this idyllic existence last for ever, and what of the family he left behind?
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Starring: John Mills, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins, Finlay Currie, Gladys Henson, Diana Churchill
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, U, 3 Star)


14:35
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)


16:45
The Professionals (Film)
Fast-moving, action-packed western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode as soldiers of fortune hired by millionaire rancher Ralph Bellamy to rescue his wife Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by Mexican bandit Jack Palance.
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 4 Star)


19:05
The Honeymooners (Film)
Cedric the Entertainer and Mike Epps play Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton, two blue collar workers who dream of making a killing through get-rich-quick schemes, but always pick ones that fail. However, when their long-suffering wives Alice and Trixie come up with a plan for the down payment on a dream home, it's up to the men to come up with the money, which they aim to raise by investing all their savings in running an abandoned, broken-down greyhound at the track... John Schultz's comedy is based on the popular 50s comedy series of the same name, which starred Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. Edited for content.
Director: John Schultz
Starring: Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall, Eric Stoltz, Jon Polito
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 1 Star)




20:50
Hyde Park on Hudson Interview Special (Entertainment)
Director Roger Michell and actress Olivia Colman talk about the new period comedy-drama.
Starring: Bill Murray


21:00
Transporter 2 (Film)
In Louis Leterrier's all-action film, co-written by Luc Besson, Frank Martin is back as the Transporter, who'll take anything anywhere, no questions asked, for the right money. This time, he's earning what should be easy money guarding the son of government drugs czar Billings. But when the boy is kidnapped by drugs lord Gianni, Martin takes it as a professional slur and sets out to find the boy and the baddies.
Director: Louis Leterrier
Starring: Jason Statham, Alessandro Gassman, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta, Matthew Modine, Jason Flemyng
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)


22:40
Olivia Colman Interview Special (Entertainment)
The popular British actress talks about her TV and film career, from Peep Show to Tyrannosaur and the new release Hyde Park on Hudson.


22:50
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 it's one that may not survive the deeper, darker revelations each is yet to disclose.
Director: Paddy Considine
Starring: Peter Mullan, Archie Lal, Jag Sanghera, Mike Fearnley, Paul Conway, Lee Rufford
(Subtitles, 2011, 18, 4 Star)


00:40
See Me (Drama)
This explosive Film4-funded short drama is the directorial debut of actor and writer Catherine Shepherd. Three 16-year-old schoolgirls are stuck in a boring summertime detention with their teacher. They're all frustrated and waiting for something to happen... and then it does. Starring Olivia Colman, Sophie Wu, Scarlett Marshall and Tahirah Sharif.
(Black and White, Subtitles, 2011)




01:10
Le Donk and Scor-Zay-Zee (Film)
Shane Meadows' mockumentary about an ageing roadie vicariously seeking fame may be played straight, but is frequently hilarious, and has its touching moments too. Paddy Considine stars as Nottingham roadie Le Donk, a muso-turned-promoter who's aiming to propel his protege, local white rapper Scor-zay-zee, to stardom via a support slot to the Arctic Monkeys. Le Donk also has to sort out his personal life; his pregnant girlfriend Olivia has had enough of him and is seeking comfort in the arms of a new beau. And is Scor-zay-zee really happy to have a Grade A idiot as his manager?
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Paddy Considine, Dean Palinczuk, Olivia Colman, Richard Graham, Seamus O'Neill, Nigel Reeks
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 15, 3 Star)


02:25
Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Film)
A romantic drama from Portugal's prolific director Manoel de Oliveira, who was born in 1908. Adapted from a story by the 19th-century Portuguese novelist Jose Maria de Ela de Quieroz, this brief tale of love's rocky road is leisurely recounted to a stranger by its main protagonist while they share a train journey down to the Algarve. Machrio, a young accountant working in Lisbon, is captivated by a beautiful woman he can see in the apartment opposite his office window. The more he sees her from afar, the more his infatuation grows. But, as he reveals to his fellow passenger, his path to romantic fulfilment proved not to be an easy one.
Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Starring: Ricardo Trêpa, Catarina Wallenstein, Diogo Dória, Júlia Buisel, Leonor Silveira, Luís Miguel Cintra
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Portuguese with English Subtitles, 2009, U, 3 Star)

Friday 8th February


Film4 Listings for Friday 8th February



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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
Winchester '73 (Film)
Classic western adventure about a man's hunt for a killer, and the quest for a stolen rifle. A man on the trail of his father's murderer wins a prized Winchester 73 rifle in a shooting contest. But when the weapon is stolen, his mission becomes more complex. One of director Anthony Mann's series of westerns that helped revitalise the genre during the 1950s.
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell, Charles Drake
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 5 Star)


14:55
To Catch a Thief (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock's romantic mystery-thriller stars Cary Grant as John Robie, a former jewel thief who has traded a life of crime for comfortable retirement in the south of France. But, shortly after the beautiful Frances Stevens arrives in Cannes with her mother Jessie, a spate of cat burglaries hits the town - and suspicion quickly falls on Robie. In order to prove his innocence, the reformed Robie must now use all the wiles he once relied on to steal to instead track down and capture the real culprit. However, his new hometown is a renowned hangout for crooks, and everyone he meets seems to be a possible candidate.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis, John Williams, Charles Vanel, Brigitte Auber
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1955, PG, 4 Star)


17:15
Little Manhattan (Film)
A pre-teen romantic comedy from the writer-producer of the 90s TV series The Wonder Years, Mark Levin, written by his wife Jennifer Flackett. Over the course of one New York summer, the scales fall from 11-year-old Gabe's eyes and he discovers girls. Or, to be more accurate, he tumbles deeply into love with schoolmate and fellow karate pupil Rosemary. The only problem is that he's new to this game and love is a terribly confusing business. Nevertheless, Gabe has found his reason for living and he's determined to win her heart. As he strives for his goal, the viewer is given a wryly amusing glimpse into his joys and anguishes along the way via a voiceover detailing Gabe's inner thoughts. Also starring Bradley Whitford and Cynthia Nixon as Gabe's warring parents. Edited for content.
Director: Mark Levin
Starring: Josh Hutcherson, Charlie Ray, Bradley Whitford, Cynthia Nixon, Willie Garson, Tonye Patano
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 4 Star)


19:00
Hero (Film)
Zhang Yimou's stunning all-action film is set during the time of China's warring states, before the country was unified. To the court of the King of Qin, who seeks to rule the united country, comes Nameless, who claims to have killed three deadly assassins who were all determined to kill the King. As Nameless recounts his exploits in flashback, each time the wily King respo$$$ with his version. Is Nameless a true servant of Qin or does he have a secret agenda? Hero was more expensive than Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - and this is reflected on screen, with breathtaking special effects and wire-work coupled with a gripping, Rashomon-like story that intrigues to the end.
Director: Yimou Zhang
Starring: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen, Donnie Yen
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2002, 12, 4 Star)




21:00
The Waterboy (Film)
Adam Sandler stars in Frank Coraci's comedy as Bobby Boucher, the waterboy of a top Louisiana university American football team. When his temper gets the better of him, he loses his job, and is hired by jittery coach Klein of the Mud Dogs. But when Bobby reveals a hidden talent for football, he's offered the chance to lead the team to glory and a chance to get one over on the team who sacked him at the championship game. Kathy Bates features in scene-stealing mode as Bobby's possessive, manipulative mother.
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed, Lawrence Gilliard Jr.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, 12, 2 Star)


22:45
Donkey Punch (Film)
Oliver Blackburn's teen thriller starts out in Mallorca, where a group of up-for-it girls meet a bunch of middle class lads who are crewing a luxury yacht. The lads don't waste time in inviting the girls down to the marina. Initially, once everyone is on board, all is fine and they take the boat out to sea. But, as the drink flows and the drugs take hold, one of the lads, while having sex with one of the girls, foolishly takes the opportunity to try out a dangerous sexual kink his mates told him about - with lethal consequences. Now the surviving girls are in danger, as the boys realise they face charges of rape and murder. And so, on the high seas, begins a cat-and-mouse struggle to remain alive.
Director: Oliver Blackburn
Starring: Robert Boulter, Sian Breckin, Tom Burke, Nichola Burley, Julian Morris, Jay Taylor
(Subtitles, 2008, 18, 3 Star)


00:40
The Fly (Film)
Jeff Goldblum stars in David Cronenberg's 80s classic horror as loner scientist Seth Brundle, who's obsessed with matter-transfer. Science journalist Veronica Quaife becomes fascinated by Seth's work and by him, but when she challenges him to experiment on a life form, he chooses himself and unwittingly fuses his body cells with those of a fly that had snuck unnoticed into his machine. When Seth leaves his pod he's no longer the man he used to be... This screening is introduced by the director.
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo
(Subtitles, 1986, 18, 5 Star)


02:35
Small Time (Film)
Shane Meadows' assured directorial feature debut is set in an anonymous Nottingham suburb where a group of low-level criminals - led by Jumbo and including Malc, Willy and Bets - scrape a living by petty thieving. Their latest haul, a few crates of dog food, doesn't interest their fence Lenny, but he does offer them a money-making scam. Also involved are Ruby and Kate, Jumbo and Malc's girlfrie$$$, but Kate wants out and also wants the abused Ruby to come with her. Will Malc's loyalty lie with Kate or the gang?
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Tim Cunningham, Dominic Dillon, Leon Hammond, Mat Hand, Jimmy Hynd, Gena Kawecka
(Subtitles, 1996, 18, 3 Star)

Film4 Listings for Sunday 10th February

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11:00
Very Important Person (Film)
Lively comedy sending up British stiff-upper-lipped prisoner of war dramas, starring James Robertson Justice as Sir Ernest Pease, a bombastic scientist who e$$$ up in a German PoW camp during the Second World War. The inmates, led by Jimmy Cooper and Jock Everett, are forced to help him escape.
Director: Ken Annakin
Starring: James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis, Godfrey Winn
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1961, 12, 3 Star)


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


15:00
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)


16:45
P'Tang Yang Kipperbang (Film)
Based on Jack Rosenthal's childhood memories, Michael Apted's film, set in the summer of 1948, stars John Albasiny as 14-year-old Alan, who has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes and that he will finally kiss classmate Ann. So when he's cast opposite her in a play that requires a kiss and England seem to be doing well in the cricket, life couldn't be better.
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: John Albasiny, Abigail Cruttenden, Maurice Dee, Alison Steadman, Mark Brailsford, Christopher Karallis
(Subtitles, Made For TV, 1982, PG, 4 Star)


18:25
Big Fish (Film)
An estranged son tries to reconcile with his dying father, a Southern raconteur, by piecing together the stories he has gathered over the years. William Bloom recreates his father's elusive life in a series of lege$$$ and myths inspired by the few facts he knows. Through these tales of giants, circuses, lost towns, love, war and bank robbery, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and failings.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Danny DeVito
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, PG, 4 Star)


21:00
Predators (Film)
Adrien Brody, Alice Braga and Topher Grace star in this well-received addition to the Predator sci-fi action-adventure franchise, this time with Hungarian director Nimrod Antal at the helm. The action opens with Royce waking in a parachute that's drifting down towards a jungle. On landing he discovers he's one of a small group of people, all of whom have been similarly mysteriously delivered to their current location. With the exception of Edwin, a doctor, their only common trait is that all are expert killers, whether from the military or the wrong side of the law.
Director: Nimród Antal
Starring: Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Laurence Fishburne
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)


23:10
Witness (Film)
Oscar-nominee Harrison Ford plays detective John Book, who is assigned to guard Amish mother Rachel Lapp and her son Samuel, who witnessed a murder at Philadelphia railway station. But the killers are after them and the three must hide out in Lapp's community, where Book's aggressive, hard-bitten manner clashes with the gentler beliefs of the Amish in Peter Weir's tough, Oscar-winning romantic drama.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes, Alexander Godunov
(Subtitles, 1985, 12, 4 Star)


01:25
Double Take (Entertainment)
Johan Grimonprez's film is a disquisition on the Cold War and its history. But he uses a montage of Alfred Hitchcock's introductions to Alfred Hitchcock Presents... along with a lookalike of the director to present his thesis, which is about duplicity and MacGuffins. As Hitch interacts with, among others, Nixon, JFK and Khrushchev, so the politics and individuals of the Cold War hostilities are bought into focus.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 12)

Tuesday 12th February


Film4 Listings for Tuesday 12th February




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11:00
Winchester '73 (Film)
Classic western adventure about a man's hunt for a killer, and the quest for a stolen rifle. A man on the trail of his father's murderer wins a prized Winchester 73 rifle in a shooting contest. But when the weapon is stolen, his mission becomes more complex. One of director Anthony Mann's series of westerns that helped revitalise the genre during the 1950s.
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell, Charles Drake
(Black and White, 1950, U, 5 Star)


12:50
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, 1942, PG, 4 Star)


15:00
The Wife of Monte Cristo (Film)

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Starring: John Loder, Lenore Aubert, Charles Dingle, Fritz Kortner, Eduardo Ciannelli, Martin Kosleck
(Black and White, Premiere, 1946, 3 Star)


16:35
Because of Winn-Dixie (Film)
Wayne Wang's charming family film stars AnnaSophia Robb as Opal, who lives with her dad Preacher. Following his wife's death, Preacher sinks into a depression, leaving Opal neglected and lonely. Then she adopts a stray mutt, which she names Winn-Dixie, after the supermarket where she found him causing chaos. Through the dog, she begins to make frie$$$ of her own age, as well as with pet shop worker Otis and elderly Southern belle Miss Franny.
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Cicely Tyson, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint, Courtney Jines
(Widescreen, 2005, U, 3 Star)


18:40
Chocolat (Film)
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with scepticism and some loathing. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcomed.
Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss, Judi Dench
(Widescreen, 2000, 12, 5 Star)




21:00
Die Hard (Film)
Tough, energetic action yarn about a New York cop who launches a one-man rescue operation when a gang of crooks crash a party in an LA office block and take everyone hostage, including his estranged wife. In the chaos the cop manages to slip away to the building's top floors. From here he fights back as the LAPD, FBI, and media look on.
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason
(Widescreen, 1988, 18, 5 Star)


23:50
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Film)
Larry Charles's spoof documentary follows Borat Sagdiyev, Kazakhstan's leading journalist and TV presenter, as he travels through the heart of America in an attempt to understand the land of the free and the home of the brave. Along the way, he's able to congratulate a packed rodeo crowd for their country's 'war of terror', enjoy a dinner with the cream of Southern society and engage in an unforgettable hotel-room wrestle that spills into a shocked conference hall. Sacha Baron Cohen stars as the eponymous Borat, scabrously exposing smalltown America's prejudices in the company of his producer Azamat Bagatov. In English, and Romanian, Hebrew, Polish and Armenian with English subtitles.
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Luenell, Ilham Äliyev, Bob Barr, Alan Keyes
(Widescreen, 2006, 15, 4 Star)


01:30
Uzak (Film)
A beautifully shot, moving drama about two men who are seeking purpose and direction in their lives, from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who also made the highly regarded Three Monkeys and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. Mahmut is a successful photographer living alone in his tidy Istanbul flat. He's engaged in a half-hearted affair with a married woman, while his former wife is about to leave the country for a new life in Canada; his job bores him and he has the energy to do little more than watch television in his spare time.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring: Mehmet Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Erkaya
(Widescreen, Subtitles, In Turkish with English Subtitles, 2002, 15)

Thursday 14th February


Film4 Listings for Thursday 14th February




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11:00
Tulpan (Film)
Sergei Dvortsevoy's amazing Cannes-winning comedy drama is set on Kazakhstan's bleak Hunger Steppe where Asa, a young sailor recently discharged from the Russian Navy, is living in a yurt with his sister Samal and her family. He is determined to become a shepherd and to marry a local woman but the only available single woman is Tulpan, who turns him down because his ears are too big. Can Asa change her mind and can he and Samal halt the increase in stillborn lambs in their flock?
Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy
Starring: Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Ondas Besikbasov, Samal Esljamova, Askhat Kuchencherekov, Bereke Turganbayev
(Widescreen, Subtitles, In Kazakh and Russian with English Subtitles, 2008, 12, 4 Star)


13:05
Sabrina (Film)
Witty and sophisticated romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn as a Long Island chauffeur's daughter who is romantically pursued by two wealthy sons of an upper-crust family, business tycoon Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. With Walter Hampden and John Williams. Directed by Billy Wilder and written by Wilder, Samuel Taylor and Ernest Lehman, and based on Taylor's play Sabrina Fair.
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden, John Williams, Martha Hyer
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1954, U, 4 Star)


15:25
Brief Encounter (Film)
One of the timeless classics of British cinema, David Lean's Oscar-nominated, heart-breaking romantic drama stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as Laura Jesson and Dr Alec Harvey, two married people whose chance meeting in a railway station's caf? sees them tempted to commit $$$$$ery. But will their marriages prove more important than fleeting happiness?
Director: David Lean
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1945, PG, 5 Star)


17:10
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Film)
Gurinder Chadha's charming coming-of-age comedy stars Georgia Groome as Georgia Nicholson, who's about to turn 15 and is eager to meet boys. When brothers Tom and Robbie join her school, she and her best mate Jas set their sights on them, but while Jas scores, Georgia loses out to 'slaggy' Li$$$ay. And her bickering parents seem to be heading for a divorce. As her birthday approaches, will her life fall apart or into place? Edited for content.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aaron Johnson, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Tommy Bastow
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)


19:05
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Film)
Woody Allen's Spanish-set romantic comedy stars Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. Christopher Evan Welch narrates the exploits of two American frie$$$, Vicky and Cristina, who are spending the summer in Barcelona. Vicky is engaged to Doug, who's back in the States, while Cristina is most definitely single, and adventurous. At an art exhibition, they meet Juan Antonio Gonzalo, artist and lothario, who takes a shine to both women, and invites them back to his hometown Oviedo, hoping to be more than just their tour guide. Vicky's initial unease at the jaunt is overruled by Cristina, and the visit sparks a complex romantic entanglement. But the fireworks are truly lit when Gonzalo's unstable wife Maria Elena arrives on the scene... Edited for content.
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Rebecca Hall, Scarlett Johansson, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Christopher Evan Welch, Chris Messina
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 4 Star)




21:00
I Love You Phillip Morris (Film)
Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor star in this comedy from Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Steven Russell is seemingly the ultimate wholesome family man: he plays the organ at church, celebrates good news with a nice glass of healthy milk and prays nightly beside his blonde, blue-eyed wife.
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Starring: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, Ted Alderman, Nicolas Alexandre
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 15, 3 Star)


22:50
An Officer and a Gentleman (Film)
Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, a would-be navy pilot whose uptight attitude at training camp makes him the butt of drill sergeant Emil Foley's attentions. Similarly, Mayo's relationship with Paula Pokrifi is equally compromised because of his indifference, until the unexpected and tragic suicide of his best friend Sid Worsley becomes the catalyst for both his professional and personal maturity. Taylor Hackford's drama follows its key protagonists through the 13 weeks of training and the emotions that shape all their lives in a film that is at heart an intense love story in a military setting.
Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Robert Loggia, Lisa Blount, Lisa Eilbacher
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1982, 15, 3 Star)


01:15
The Fountain (Film)
Darren Aronofsky's ambitious time-travel saga stars Hugh Jackman as Tomas/Tommy/Tom Creo who shuffles through the 16th, 21st and 26th centuries searching for a cure for his cancer-stricken wife Izzi. Weisz also plays Queen Isabel in the 16th century section of the film, in which Tomas is a conquistador searching the New World for the Tree of Life which may also provide, in the future, the cure for Izzi. In the present, Tommy is a scientist searching for a cure using conventional research methods. While in the future, he is Tom, an aged space traveller aiming for a nebula that could be the underworld, sustained by memories of Izzi who he hopes to meet there in her pre-cancerous state.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Stephen McHattie, Fernando Hernandez
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15)

Saturday 16th February


Film4 Listings for Saturday 16th February




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


13:00
Volcano (Film)
Mick Jackson's disaster movie is set in Los Angeles, where, to use the movie's tagline, 'the coast is toast'. The famous La Brea tar pits start bubbling, the first signs that a dormant volcano beneath the city has come to life, and before long lava is flowing through the sewers and the streets. Taking charge of the disaster is Mike Roark, head of the city's Office Emergency Management, assisted by scientist Dr Amy Barnes and his second-in-command Emmitt Reese. Can they save the city by diverting the threatening lava?
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim, Keith David
(1997, 12, 2 Star)


15:00
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who (Film)
Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino's animated family film, based on Dr Seuss's book, stars Horton, an elephant. One day, wandering through the jungle, he hears a voice coming from a mote of dust. It turns out to be the tiny planet of the Whos, who are threatened with destruction. Horton agrees to help them and, catching them safely on a flower, seeks the help of the others in the jungle. But the Kangaroo, ruler of the jungle, believes, 'If you can't see it, it's not there' and hires the vulture Vlad to eliminate the planet. Can Horton save the Whos? With Steve Carrell as the voice of the Mayor of Whoville, and Isla Fisher as a Who doctor, Mary Lou Larue.
Director: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Starring: Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Will Arnett, Seth Rogen, Dan Fogler
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, U, 4 Star)


16:50
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)


19:00
X-Men (Film)
Adaptation of the long-running Marvel comic book series. As mutations in humans become more widespread, a US senator attempts to pass legislation that would effectively criminalise their existence. Two very different factions of mutants stand in his way: one open to peaceful coexistence, the other openly hostile.
Director: Bryan Singer
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2000, 12, 4 Star)




21:00
Knight and Day (Film)
James Mangold's action-comedy is a jet-setting caper that opens June Havens crossing paths with Roy Miller at an airport. He's a CIA assassin whose colleagues think has turned rogue agent and are now out to put him permanently out of the game. He realises that, now she's met him, June's life is also in danger from those chasing him, so he kidnaps her to keep her safe. Forced to flee with him, the duo dash around the globe - with locations sweeping from the South Pacific to Seville - and must survive chase after chase in the fight to clear his name and return June to her 'regular' life in Wichita, Kansas.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Mollà, Viola Davis, Paul Dano
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 3 Star)


23:10
Inferno (Film)
Dario Argento's tale of the occult, the second in a planned trilogy which started with Suspiria sees Rose Elliot, a young poet in Rome, murdered after she reads a Latin book that tells the supernatural story of the Three Mothers. Her brother Mark investigates her murder and, after his friend Sara is killed, takes off for New York, where he becomes entangled in a chilling web of supernatural forces.
Director: Dario Argento
Starring: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi, Daria Nicolodi, Sacha Pitoëff, Alida Valli
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1980, 18, 3 Star)


01:20
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)