Thursday 28th June   

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   
Guns of Fort Petticoat (Film)
George Marshall's western action-romance offers a unique feminine twist. Lt Frank Hewitt deserts the Union army to warn of an impending Native American attack on Texan farmers. But all the men are away fighting and the only hope the women have is to band together under Hewitt's command and learn how to fight. Hewitt's love interest comes in the form of the sassy Anne Martin.
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson, Jeff Donnell, Jeanette Nolan, Sean McClory
(Subtitles, 1957, 15, 3 Star)


14:45   
The Bridges of Toko-Ri (Film)
Mark Robson's vivid fact-based depiction of the US Navy's air support of ground troops during the Korean War stars William Holden as Lt Harry Brubaker, a Second World War pilot recalled from civilian life to serve in Korea. He's far from happy to be dragged from blissful domestic stability but dutifully follows orders to participate in a risky bombing raid on a series of bridges that are essential to North Korean supply lines. The Navy gave Robson access to film many of the ship and plane sequences, but the action is also backed up by convincing special effects, for which the movie won an Oscar.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Charles McGraw
(Subtitles, 1954, PG, 3 Star)


16:50   
Von Ryan's Express (Film)
Mark Robson's Second World War adventure stars Frank Sinatra as the leader of Allied prisoners of war attempting to slip the clutches of their captors. In occupied Italy, a group of mainly English PoWs are set to make their escape from their camp when a tough American Colonel, Joseph Ryan, is incarcerated with them. On learning the details of their plot, and thinking it amounts to suicide, he blows their plans by telling the Italian guards. His action earns their hatred, and the moniker 'von Ryan'. However, Ryan is eventually able to make it up to his comrades when he spies the opportunity to hijack a train, and the possibility of conveying them all to safety in Switzerland. Even so, that still leaves them with a lot of the Italian countryside to cover, with the Nazis and Fascists determined to stop them, plus more trouble than they were expecting from their fellow Allied forces.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella CarrĂ , Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni, John Leyton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, PG, 3 Star)


19:05   
The Addams Family (Film)
Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia star in Barry Sonnenfeld's comedy as Morticia and Gomez Addams, head of one of cinema's more morbidly funny families. Based on Charles Addams' famous cartoons, the family welcome long-lost Uncle Fester to their bosom. But is he really all he seems? Featuring Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman as Wednesday and Pugsley Addams, the delightfully malicious offspring.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Wilson, Christina Ricci, Judith Malina
(Subtitles, 1991, PG, 3 Star)




21:00   
What's Love Got to Do with It? (Film)
Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne received Oscar nominations for their portrayals of Tina and ike Turner in Brian Gibson's Turner biopic. The film charts Tina's life from her youth as a rebellious gospel singer through her turbulent and violent marriage to Ike, and contains classic Turner songs, including River Deep, Mountain High, Shake a Tail Feather and Nutbush City Limits.
Director: Brian Gibson
Starring: Angela Bassett, Virginia Capers, Laurence Fishburne, Khandi Alexander, Dororthy Thorton, Demetrice Cheathon
(Subtitles, 1993, 18, 4 Star)


23:15   
Away We Go (Film)
A romantic comedy-drama from director Sam Mendes, from a script by husband-and-wife team Dave Eggars and Vendela Vida, and starring John Krasinski and Maya Rudolph. Burt and Verona are in their thirties, have been together a long time and are deeply in love. Verona is also heavily pregnant. Their lives aren't exactly mapped out, but they have the sort of jobs that mean they can work from their scruffy-but-comfortable Colorado home, and Burt's parents, Gloria and Jerry, live just down the road, so they've got the childcare covered and things are looking good. But when Gloria and Jerry announce they're off on an extended trip to Belgium when the baby is due to arrive, suddenly all bets are off.
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: John Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Carmen Ejogo, Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 4 Star)


01:05   
Sunshine (Film)
Danny Boyle's science fiction epic is set 50 years in the future. The sun is dying, Earth suffers a perpetual winter and humanity's only hope is a spaceship that will deliver an atomic device into the heart of the Sun to 'kickstart' it again. Icarus II is captained by Kaneda, with Capa, a physicist, and Corazon in charge of the ship's environment. But as Icarus II approaches Mercury, it begins to receive signals from Icarus I, and when they board the supposedly lost craft, they encounter an entity that endangers the whole mission. Sunshine is written by Alex Garland, who also collaborated with Boyle on 28 Days Later.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Cliff Curtis, Chipo Chung, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rose Byrne
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 4 Star)

Saturday 30th June   

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


13:00   
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (Film)
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as Tom and Kate Baker, parents to 12 kids, in Adam Shankman's sequel to the comedy hit. The children are now older, and getting ready to leave home, so Tom arranges a final family holiday in rural Wisconsin. Unfortunately, also at the campsite are his rival Jimmy Murtaugh, his trophy wife Sarina and their eight offspring. But despite the two men trying to outdo each other, the two sets of kids become frie$$$, with Sarah Baker and Eliot Murtaugh touching as the two teenagers experiencing first love.
Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Steve Martin, Eugene Levy, Bonnie Hunt, Tom Welling, Piper Perabo, Carmen Electra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)


14:50   
Around the World in 80 Days (Film)
Frank Coraci's remake of the classic 1956 film, based on Jules Verne's novel, stars Steve Coogan as eccentric inventor Phileas Fogg and Jackie Chan as his new manservant Passepartout. Fogg accepts a challenge from his fellow club member Lord Kelvin to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days and, with Passepartout, sets off on a series of adventures, picking up a love interest in the shape of Monique La Roche in Paris, but trailed by Inspector Fix, who suspects the duo of a daring crime.
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Robert Fyfe, Jim Broadbent, Ian McNeice, David Ryall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, PG, 2 Star)


17:10   
The Ladykillers (Film)
Alexander Mackendrick's classic Ealing comedy stars Alec Guinness as the sinister, eccentric leader of a gang of crooks whose perfect crime meets its nemesis at the unwitting ha$$$ of Guinness's elderly landlady, played by BAFTA-winner Katie Johnson.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 4 Star)


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




21:00   
Dorian Gray (Film)
Ben Barnes, Colin Firth and Ben Chaplin star in this Gothic horror directed by Oliver Parker, who's obviously a bit of an Oscar Wilde fan, this being his third adaptation from the literary legend's canon. Around the dawn of the 20th century, the young, naive Dorian Gray arrives in London to take possession of his inheritance. He also meets Lord Henry Wotton, who enthusiastically takes the attractive bachelor under his wing, introducing him to society in general, and in particular to their artist of choice, Basil Hallward.
Director: Oliver Parker
Starring: Colin Firth, Ben Barnes, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Rebecca Hall, Emilia Fox, Ben Chaplin
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15)


23:10   
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Film)
The original Swedish adaptation of the best-selling novel by Stieg Larsson, directed by Niels Arden Oplev and starring Michael Nyqvist and Noomi Rapace. About to go to jail, having been convicted of criminal libel, journalist Mikael Blomkvist realises he has time for one more investigation before he himself starts doing time. The case he looks into involves the disappearance of a rich business magnate's niece some 40 years earlier. As he delves into the mystery, the darker and darker it gets - and it's not difficult to see why the original Swedish title was Män som hatar kvinnor - as the violence and misogyny mounts. It's a complicated tangle of clues to unpick, but not as complicated as the character of the computer hacker Lisbeth Salander who at least one of the stra$$$ leads him to.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Starring: Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber, Sven-Bertil Taube, Peter Andersson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 4 Star)

Monday 2nd July   

11:00   
The Gentle Sex (Film)
This Second World War documentary-style morale booster, directed by Leslie Howard, emphasised the role of women on the home front by following the fortunes of seven very different females, who all join the ATS on the same day. The story follows them through basic training to their eventual postings, when they are reunited at an anti-aircraft station.
Director: Leslie Howard, Maurice Elvey
Starring: Joan Gates, Jean Gillie, Joan Greenwood, Joyce Howard, Rosamund John, Lilli Palmer
(Black and White, 1941, U, 3 Star)


12:50   
Can-Can (Film)
Shirley MacLaine stars in Walter Lang's Oscar-nominated musical as Simone Pistache, the owner of a Parisian cafe where the can-can, which has been declared illegal, is still danced. Frank Sinatra plays Francois Durnais, her playboy lover/lawyer who keeps her out of trouble, while Maurice Chevalier plays Paul Barriere, a judge who turns a blind eye to Simone's antics in return for a little cash and a view of some naked flesh. Songs include Let's Do It and Just One of Those Things while MacLaine shows her hoofing talents in a passionate Apache dance.
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Juliet Prowse, Marcel Dalio
(1960, U, 3 Star)


15:25   
The Guns of Fort Petticoat (Film)
George Marshall's western action-romance offers a unique feminine twist. Lt Frank Hewitt deserts the Union army to warn of an impending Native American attack on Texan farmers. But all the men are away fighting and the only hope the women have is to band together under Hewitt's command and learn how to fight. Hewitt's love interest comes in the form of the sassy Anne Martin.
Director: George Marshall
Starring: Audie Murphy, Kathryn Grant, Hope Emerson, Jeff Donnell, Jeanette Nolan, Sean McClory
(1957, PG, 3 Star)


17:00   
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)


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




21:00   
Enemy at the Gates (Film)
Fact-based war drama set during the 1942-3 battle of Stalingrad. A Russian marksman is given the task of killing a German major, whose own expert shooting skills make him a formidable enemy. Supported by a propaganda officer, the Russian soldier takes up the challenge with resilient determination. But a personal battle develops between the two allies when they both fall for an attractive Jewish comrade.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman
(Widescreen, 2001, 15, 4 Star)


23:35   
Bully (Film)
In Larry Clark's brilliant yet disturbing second feature, Marty Puccio, Lisa Connelly and Ali Willis are just three of a group of teenagers who gang up to murder bully Bobby Kent, who uses psychological violence as well as physical and sexual violence against them.
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Brad Renfro, Rachel Miner, Bijou Phillips, Nick Stahl, Michael Pitt, Kelli Garner
(2001, 18, 3 Star)


01:50   
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.
(PG)

Wednesday 4th July   

11:00   
The Bridges of Toko-Ri (Film)
Mark Robson's vivid fact-based depiction of the US Navy's air support of ground troops during the Korean War stars William Holden as Lt Harry Brubaker, a Second World War pilot recalled from civilian life to serve in Korea. He's far from happy to be dragged from blissful domestic stability but dutifully follows orders to participate in a risky bombing raid on a series of bridges that are essential to North Korean supply lines. The Navy gave Robson access to film many of the ship and plane sequences, but the action is also backed up by convincing special effects, for which the movie won an Oscar.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: William Holden, Grace Kelly, Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Robert Strauss, Charles McGraw
(Subtitles, 1954, PG, 3 Star)


13:05   
Carry on Sergeant (Film)
The first of the Carry On movies was inspired by R.F. Delderfield's novel The Bull Boys. William Hartnell plays Sergeant Grimshawe, the retiring army training sergeant faced with possibly the worst group of national service recruits ever to have been called up, including Charlie Sage, Horace Strong, Peter Golightly and James Bailey.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen, Charles Hawtrey
(Black and White, 1958, PG, 3 Star)


14:45   
Von Ryan's Express (Film)
Mark Robson's Second World War adventure stars Frank Sinatra as the leader of Allied prisoners of war attempting to slip the clutches of their captors. In occupied Italy, a group of mainly English PoWs are set to make their escape from their camp when a tough American Colonel, Joseph Ryan, is incarcerated with them. On learning the details of their plot, and thinking it amounts to suicide, he blows their plans by telling the Italian guards. His action earns their hatred, and the moniker 'von Ryan'. However, Ryan is eventually able to make it up to his comrades when he spies the opportunity to hijack a train, and the possibility of conveying them all to safety in Switzerland. Even so, that still leaves them with a lot of the Italian countryside to cover, with the Nazis and Fascists determined to stop them, plus more trouble than they were expecting from their fellow Allied forces.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella CarrĂ , Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni, John Leyton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, PG, 3 Star)


17:00   
Went The Day Well? (Film)
Classic Second World War Ealing propaganda thriller, based on a story by Graham Greene, and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. The storyline evokes with a convincing passion the determination of a nation that had to be defended against an invader. The setting is a small English village that is so cut off that the arrival of a car is an event. When lorryloads of Royal Engineers led by Major Ortler turn up, the villagers have no reason to suspect that they are really disguised German paratroopers, and that the squire, Oliver Wilsford, is a Fifth Columinst. The villagers eagerly billet the soldiers but slowly their suspicions are aroused. However, the Germans move first and the village is held captive. Suspense mounts as the villagers attempt to outwit the enemy.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Starring: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr, Basil Sydney, David Farrar
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1944, 12, 2 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   
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Film)
Director Scott Derrickson's remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic replaces the original's theme of fear of impending nuclear war with current concerns for environmental catastrophe. Keanu Reeves stars as Klaatu, an alien sent by a confederation of extraterrestrial beings to warn the inhabitants of Earth that the biosphere is on the verge of collapse. Predictably, as soon as he emerges from his spaceship a trigger-happy soldier ignores his instructions and takes a shot at the visitor. The wounded Klaatu asks for access to the United Nations to deliver his message, but the Secretary of Defence, Regina Jackson, instead orders that he should be taken away for further investigations. Klaatu becomes increasingly convinced that Earth can only survive if mankind is eradicated.
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)


23:00   
Mirrors (Film)
Kiefer Sutherland stars in hardcore horror director Alexandre Aja's remake of the Korean psychological/supernatural chiller Into the Mirror. Ben Carson's life is on a downward trajectory: he's been suspended from his police detective post; he's losing his battle with alcoholism; and he seems determined to test to destruction his relationship with his estranged wife Amy. To make e$$$ meet, Carson takes a night watchman job at the Mayflower, a massive department store that was badly damaged in an arson attack some time ago. While on his rou$$$, he starts to catch sight of startling images featuring violent visions of self-mutilation in the abandoned shop's various mirrors. Initially he ascribes his experiences to being alone in unsettling isolation at night. However, when his family also starts to be affected, he is convinced they are all in danger.
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Cameron Boyce, Erica Gluck, Amy Smart, Mary Beth Peil
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 3 Star)


01:10   
Bal (Film)
The final part of Semih Kaplanoglu's trilogy about the life of Yusuf - which began by detailing his NSFW years in Yumurta and traced his adolescence - explores the protagonist's childhood. Yusuf is six years old and lives in the undeveloped, verdant la$$$ of north-east Turkey, up by the Black Sea.
Director: Semih Kaplanoglu
Starring: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikçioglu, Tülin Özen, Ayse Altay, Alev Uçarer, Özkan Akcay
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, PG, 4 Star)

Friday 6th July   

11:00   
Air Force (Film)
Howard Hawks' wartime propaganda film tells the story of the Mary Ann, an American B-17 bomber commanded by Captain 'Irish' Quincannon and co-pilot Lt Bill Williams. A motley crew from all walks of American life, their first taste of action comes as they arrive at Pearl Harbor just as the Japanese attack. Surviving the experience, the crew begin to form a bond as they take the fight to the Japanese in Manila, and on to the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, Harry Carey Jr., George Tobias
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, PG, 4 Star)


13:25   
Written on the Wind (Film)
Douglas Sirk's commentary on 50s life presaged the glamour and drama of Dallas and Dynasty as Robert Stack and Rock Hudson are the two men both in love with Lauren Bacall, Stack's wife. When Stack suspects he's impotent just as Bacall announces her pregnancy, the fur flies. Dorothy Malone won an Oscar for her role as nymphomaniac sister of Stack who secretly yearns for Hudson.
Director: Douglas Sirk
Starring: Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams
(Subtitles, 1956, PG, 4 Star)


15:25   
Merrill's Marauders (Film)
In his last film, Jeff Chandler takes on the title role, as General Frank Merrill, leading his troops behind Japanese lines in Second World War Burma, through harsh jungle terrain, and frequent skirmishes with their enemy, to a final showdown at the strategically important Myitkyina. Samuel Fuller's drama is based on the true story of General Merrill and his troops: the 5307th Composite Unit.
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Peter Brown
(Widescreen, 1962, U, 3 Star)


17:20   
Carry on Nurse (Film)
Bawdy comedy featuring high jinks on a men's surgical ward at Haven Hospital, where no entendre is left undoubled.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Terence Longdon, Bill Owen
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1959, U, 3 Star)


19:05   
The Italian Job (Film)
Classic comedy crime caper. Newly released from jail, Charlie Croker discovers that he has 'inherited' a brilliant plan for a bullion robbery in Italy. Aided and abetted by an imprisoned mastermind, the scheme calls for him to engineer the biggest traffic jam in history in order to steal the gold. All he has to do is overcome a few obstacles - such as a lack of money, not having a gang, and the wrath of the local Mafia.
Director: Peter Collinson
Starring: Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley, Rossano Brazzi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1969, PG, 4 Star)




21:00   
The Illusionist (Film)
Neil Burger's period mystery-romance starring Edward Norton, Jessica Biel and Paul Giamatti. In 1900s Vienna there's only one show in town - and that's the one featuring mesmeric entertainer Eisenheim. His magical abilities are wowing the crowds, with an act that ranges from mere tricks to an apparent capacity to raise the dead. However, he has also long been in love with Duchess Sophie von Teschen, which puts him in dangerous competition with the violent, scheming Crown Prince Leopold. And, after Eisenheim uses one of his performances as an opportunity to humiliate the Crown Prince, Leopold jumps at the opportunity to have the magician arrested by Inspector Uhl on grou$$$ of necromancy. It's only then, during Eisenheim's interrogation, that we learn the full story of his life and the political plot upon which he's stumbled.
Director: Neil Burger
Starring: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan, Jake Wood
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, PG, 4 Star)


23:10   
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Film)
Hark Tsui's action-murder-mystery is set in late seventh-century China, during the Tang dynasty. Andy Lau stars as the eponymous sleuth who, despite having languished in prison for treason, is released and charged with investigating the strange deaths of officials working on a monument that's intended to mark the inauguration of Empress Wu Zetian. Dee soon fi$$$ himself at the centre of a maelstrom of plots and murderous animosities - but who is at the heart of the conspiracy to disrupt the coronation of China's first female ruler, and will he survive long enough to find out? Tsui's exhilarating thriller zips along at a smart pace, with great CGI effects and tonnes of martial-arts set-pieces.
Director: Hark Tsui
Starring: Tony Leung Ka Fai, Chao Deng, Carina Lau, Bingbing Li, Andy Lau, Jean-Michel Casanova
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2010, 12, 3 Star)


01:35   
The Host (Film)
Bong Joon-ho's monster-horror movie begins on the banks of the River Han in Seoul. Park Gang Du works on his father's food stand and witnesses a huge mutant creature suddenly rear up out of the water into the riverside park and make off with lunch in the shape of several citizens, including his daughter Hyun-seo. But the monster doesn't eat her straight away. Using her mobile, she calls her father from the creature's lair in the city's sewers. As the Korean and US governments try to deny the incident, it's up to Park and his family to gather what weapons they can and kill the monster. Stunning special effects and a certain tongue-in-cheek tone make this one of the best horrors to come out of Korea in recent times.
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park, Du-na Bae, Ah-sung Ko, David Joseph Anselmo
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Korean with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, 15, 4 Star)

Sunday 8th July   



11:00   
Went The Day Well? (Film)
Classic Second World War Ealing propaganda thriller, based on a story by Graham Greene, and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. The storyline evokes with a convincing passion the determination of a nation that had to be defended against an invader. The setting is a small English village that is so cut off that the arrival of a car is an event. When lorryloads of Royal Engineers led by Major Ortler turn up, the villagers have no reason to suspect that they are really disguised German paratroopers, and that the squire, Oliver Wilsford, is a Fifth Columinst. The villagers eagerly billet the soldiers but slowly their suspicions are aroused. However, the Germans move first and the village is held captive. Suspense mounts as the villagers attempt to outwit the enemy.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Starring: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr, Basil Sydney, David Farrar
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1944, 12, 2 Star)


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


15:00   
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)


16:55   
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)


19:00   
Coraline (Film)
Director Henry Selick delivers a deliciously dark stop-motion animated adventure for children who don't mind a scare or two, based on Neil Gaiman's much-praised book. Coraline Jones and her parents have just moved into the Pink Palaces Apartments in Oregon, where they find themselves surrounded by eccentric neighbours, including a pair of ageing burlesque performers. It should be an exciting time, but Coraline's parents are too busy working as horticultural journalists to spend any time with her, so she is deeply bored. That is until she discovers a mysterious door that only appears after dark.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, PG, 4 Star)




21:00   
What Happens in Vegas (Film)
Career woman Joy heads off to Las Vegas to cheer herself up after being very publicly dumped by her boyfriend. Fate leads her to meeting amiable slacker Jack and the new frie$$$ soon enjoy a boozy evening. Later, and by now rather drunk, they end up getting hitched. As reality dawns the next morning, the duo plan to divorce as quickly as they married. But Jack then wins a massive amount of money, after putting one of Joy's coins in a slot machine. Their squabble over the money leads to a judge freezing the assets and sentencing them to make a go of their marriage - for at least six months. Tom Vaughan's romantic comedy also stars Queen Latifah as the marriage guidance expert who tries to keep the couple together.
Director: Tom Vaughan
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Rob Corddry, Lake Bell, Jason Sudeikis, Treat Williams
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)


22:55   
Happy-Go-Lucky (Film)
Mike Leigh's Oscar-nominated comedy/drama stars Sally Hawkins as Poppy, a perpetually optimistic primary school teacher. After introducing her frie$$$, and setting up Poppy's character, Leigh moves the plot along with the introduction of Scott, Poppy's misanthropic driving instructor, who is her exact opposite. As her lessons progress, in tandem with a tentative romance, the relationship between the pair develops.
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Sally Hawkins, Elliot Cowan, Alexis Zegerman, Andrea Riseborough, Sinead Matthews, Kate O'Flynn
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15, 4 Star)


01:15   
To be Announced (Film)
More information will be available closer to broadcast.

Tuesday 10th July   
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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 10th July


Listings: all day morning afternoon evening late night
11:00   
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. Directed by Richard Brooks. Edited for language and violence.
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
(1966, PG, 4 Star)


13:20   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)


15:10   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)


17:10   
Carry on Sergeant (Film)
The first of the Carry On movies was inspired by RF Delderfield's novel The Bull Boys. William Hartnell plays Sergeant Grimshawe, the retiring army training sergeant faced with possibly the worst group of national service recruits ever to have been called up, including Charlie Sage, Horace Strong, Peter Golightly and James Bailey.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen, Charles Hawtrey
(Black and White, 1958, PG, 3 Star)


18:50   
Only You (Film)

Director: Norman Jewison
Starring: Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Joaquim de Almeida, Fisher Stevens, Billy Zane
(1994, PG, 3 Star)




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   
Pride and Glory (Film)
Gavin O'Connor's New York-set police corruption thriller starring Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight. Full.
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Starring: Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Jon Voight, Noah Emmerich, Jennifer Ehle, John Ortiz
(Widescreen, 2008, 15, 4 Star)


01:20   
To be Announced (Film)
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(PG)