Thursday 12th July
11:00
Good Morning (Film)
Yasujiro Ozu's film explores the power of speech. Two small boys refuse to speak until their family get a television, but the parents resist because they fear it will kill the art of conversation. Ozu shows, in a series of episodic vignettes, how the ripples of the family's tensions affect the community, ironically using dialogue and relationships to make his case.
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Chishu Ryu, Kuniko Miyake, Haruko Sugimura, Koji Shitara
(In Japanese with Subtitles, 1959, U, 4 Star)
12:55
Victim (Film)
Basil Dearden's classic film stars Dirk Bogarde as a gay barrister who falls victim to blackmailers who are threatening to expose his homosexuality following an affair with a younger man. Bogarde can choose between silence or admission and, in choosing the latter, places an incredible strain on his marriage.
Director: Ringo Lam
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Norman Bird
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1961, 15, 4 Star)
14:55
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)
17:20
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$$$ that even a society of robots isn't interested in the perfection he's offering, especially when the need for perpetual upgrades results in a constant flow of profits. But, with Fender's help and the love of Cappy, he decides to confront the Big Weld and attempt to change society.
Director: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Starring: Halle Berry, Jim Broadbent, Mel Brooks, Lucille Bliss, Paula Abdul, Terry Bradshaw, Drew Carey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, U, 3 Star)
19:05
Monster-in-Law (Film)
Robert Luketic's romantic comedy stars Jennifer Lopez as Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini, who lives on Venice Beach, works as a temp and is lucky enough to be engaged to the ha$$$ome Dr Kevin Fields. But Fields has the mother from Hell, Viola, a disgraced chat show host, just out of rehab, who will do anything short of murder to stop her son marrying Charlie. Fonda is wonderfully OTT as the acid-tongued, relationship-destroying harridan, but Lopez also gives as good as she gets.
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes, Adam Scott, Monet Mazur
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2005, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
Shooter (Film)
Mark Wahlberg stars in Antoine Fuqua's thriller as Bob Swagger, an ex-Special Ops sharpshooter. He's called out of retirement by Col Isaac Johnson to help foil an assassination attempt on the President, but e$$$ up framed as the assassin. Injured and on the run, he can only rely on Sara Fenn, the girlfriend of his ex-partner, and FBI agent Nick Memphis, who's come across evidence of the conspiracy. The three have to evade Johnson and his cohorts in a race to prove their innocence in this intelligent action movie.
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael Pena, Danny Glover, Kate Mara, Elias Koteas, Rhona Mitra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)
23:25
White Noise (Film)
Geoffrey Sax's chiller stars Michael Keaton as architect Jonathan Rivers, who is in deep mourning for his murdered wife Anna. He's approached by Raymond Price who shockingly tells him that Anna is attempting to contact him through the medium of Electronic Voice Phenomenon, the static of radio and TV frequencies that can be used as a channel from the 'other side'. Rivers becomes obsessed, tuning in through the night. But, as well as receiving messages from Anna, he begins to see others who are dead and, more frighteningly, forewarnings of the deaths of others.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Starring: Michael Keaton, Chandra West, Deborah Kara Unger, Ian McNeice, Sarah Strange, Nicholas Elia
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2005, 15, 2 Star)
01:20
White Noise 2: The Light (Film)
Patrick Lussier's chilling sequel to the 2005 orginal stars Nathan Fillion as Abe Dale. When Dale's wife and child are shot dead in front of him by Henry Caine, who then shoots himself, a grief-stricken Dale tries to take his own life. Brought back from the dead at the last minute, he discovers he can see the auras of those about to die. He begins to intervene, and among the lives he saves are those of his nurse Sherry Clarke, with whom he forms a relationship. But then he discovers Caine also suffered a near death experience and, like Dale, started to save those with auras. And that three days past their 'death date', an even more terrible fate overcame them.
Director: Patrick Lussier
Starring: Nathan Fillion, Katee Sackhoff, Ed Anders, Joshua Ballard, Kendall Cross, D. Harlan Cutshall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 3 Star)
