UK TV Film Recommendations

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BBC2:
02:20
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Film)
Spectacular historical adventure set in the jungles of South America, where a Spanish conquistador seizes control of a group of 16th-century explorers and sets out to find El Dorado, the lost city of gold. His determination to fulfil his quest leads him to throw caution to the wind and gradually becomes an all-consuming obsession. (German with English subtitles).
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera
(Subtitles, 1972, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
03:50

CH4:
01:05
Solaris (Film)
Steven Soderbergh's re-make of the classic Andrei Torkovsky film stars George Clooney as Chris Kelvin, a therapist sent to mentor a group of astronauts on the Prometheus space station, where the remaining crew are both locked in their own fears, speaking of visions of lost loved ones. Kelvin is, at first, sceptical, but when his deceased wife appears to him, he begins to wonder what influence the mysterious planet Solaris has on the human psyche.
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Viola Davis, Jeremy Davies, Ulrich Tukur, John Cho
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 12, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
02:40

TCM:
21:00
Apocalypse Now (Film)
An American assassin is sent upriver to kill a rogue colonel in Francis Ford Coppola's hellish vision of Joseph Conrad's Heart Of Darkness novel. This monumental Vietnam war movie has a moving soundtrack that captures the mood of the time.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms
(1979, 18, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:00

18:00
Babette's Feast (Film)
Wonderful Oscar winning film based on the short story of a young 19th century woman who changes the lives of the villagers she meets in a small Danish town.
Director: Gabriel Axel
Starring: Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer, Jarl Kulle, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Bibi Andersson
(1987, U, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
20:15


And HappyBirthday, Max von Sydow.
Film4 should have put something on.

Film4:
21:00
Control (Film)
Moving biopic of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis (Sam Riley), who battled depression and epilepsy before taking his own life. Samantha Morton shines as his neglected wife.
Director: Anton Corbijn
Starring: Samantha Morton, Sam Riley, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joe Anderson, Toby Kebbell, Craig Parkinson
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:20

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I was 15/16 the last time I saw this, but it struck me at the time. [ a zero cinematography sort of thing]

Film4:
01:05
My Brother Tom (Film)
Jenna Harrison plays an abused schoolgirl who flees after her teacher rapes her. In nearby woods, she meet Ben Whishaw, who has also suffered abuse at home. The pair form a mutual bond, strengthened when she learns the truth behind his new semi-feral life. Dom Rotheroe's film traces the teenagers' harsh rites of passage, hastened by the shattering of their trust in the world.
Director: Dom Rotheroe
Starring: Jenna Harrison, Ben Whishaw, Honeysuckle Weeks, Michael Erskine, Adrian Rawlins, Judith Scott
(Widescreen, 2001, 18, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
03:15

SkyArts2:
14:00
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (Film)
Reuniting Fritz Lang with the fictional doctor who launched his career, Mabuse pens a manifesto for an empire of crime from his asylum, which turns into reality.
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Oscar Beregi Sr., Paul Bernd, Henry Bless, Gustav Diessl, Paul Henckels, Oskar Höcker
(Black and White, 1933, PG, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
16:00

SkyArts1:
23:20
Elephant (Film)
Acclaimed director Alan Clarke's shockingly frank documentary-style film drama depicting sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Produced by Danny Boyle. Contains scenes of violence.
Director: Alan Clarke
Starring: Gavin Bloomer, Barry Brent, Joe Cauley, Patrick Condren, Andrew Downs, Sam Doyle
(Stereo, Made For TV, 1989, 18, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:05
04:20
Elephant (Film)
Acclaimed director Alan Clarke's shockingly frank documentary-style film drama depicting sectarian violence in Northern Ireland. Produced by Danny Boyle. Contains scenes of violence.
Director: Alan Clarke
Starring: Gavin Bloomer, Barry Brent, Joe Cauley, Patrick Condren, Andrew Downs, Sam Doyle
(Stereo, Made For TV, 1989, 18, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)


SkyArts2:
22:00
Irma Vep (Film)
Mike Figgis introduces Olivier Assayas' French satire on the world of filmmaking, about a has-been director who casts a Hong Kong action star in his remake of Les Vampires.
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Antoine Basler, Nathalie Boutefeu, Alex Descas
(New, Dolby Stereo, Widescreen, 1996, 12, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:35

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Film4:
23:15
You, the Living (Film)
Roy Andersson's intriguing comedic meditation on sorrow and suffering uses 50 vignettes to present individuals who believe their sorrow is theirs alone and no one else suffers as they do. A psychiatrist asks what is the point of trying to help people; a girl imagines her marriage to a rock star she has never met; a bass drum player dismisses his neighbours who complain when he rehearses. What could be a seemingly never-ending litany of woes is leavened by the occasional surreal circumstances. Andersson, better known for Songs from the Second Floor, places his protagonists in and their resolute self-belief in the individuality of their plight.
Director: Roy Andersson
Starring: Jessika Lundberg, Elisabeth Helander, Björn Englund, Leif Larsson, Olle Olson, Birgitta Persson
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Swedish with English Subtitles, Premiere, 2007, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:05

TCM:
23:00
Manhattan (Film)
Oscar nominated romantic comedy about a forty-something who swaps his seventeen year old girlfriend for his best friends mistress. Starring Diane Keaton.
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Anne Byrne Hoffman
(Black and White, 1979, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:00

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Film4:
11:00
L'avventura (Film)
Michelangelo Antonioni's classic Cannes Jury Prize-winning drama examining the emptiness of Italy's bourgeois. A yacht cruising around Sicily, crewed by young bored socialites, lands on a deserted island. One of the party, Anna disappears and despite a search mounted by her friends and the authorities, including her boyfriend Sandro, she seems to have vanished. Sandro and another of her friends, Claudia continue the investigation on the mainland but at the same time, they begin a half-hearted, guilt-ridden romance, as each fills the gap left by Anna for the other.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Starring: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Italian with English Subtitles, 1960, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
13:40

TCM:
09:05 (AM)
Look Back in Anger (Film)
Richard Burton stars as an obnoxious man caught up in a love triangle between his pregnant wife and her best friend. Based on the shocking play by John Osbourne.
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans, Gary Raymond, Glen Byam Shaw
(1958, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)

TCM:
Also, Radio Days (21:00 and 01:10)
Radio Days (Film)
A young boy's coming of age is mirrored by the lives of their stars. Hilarious and nostalgic look at the golden age of American radio.
Director: Woody Allen

Children of Men again on ITV4

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(contentious)
Film4:
01:15
Funny Ha Ha (Film)
Andrew Bujalski's film sat on the shelf until 2007, when it was finally released to critical acclaim. Marnie is 23 years old and encountering that post-university problem. What do you do when the social structures that supported you disappear? As she drifts through temp jobs and relationships with Mitchell and Alex, the film captures her attempts to take control of her life, including a desultory 'to-do' list that she never quite gets round to achieving, but in a wry observational way rather than in a condemnatory fashion. At the end, she's offered a chance that could lead to something better but her surprising decision still leaves an upbeat ending to an engaging directorial debut.
Director: Andrew Bujalski
Starring: Kate Dollenmayer, Mark Herlehy, Christian Rudder, Jennifer L. Schaper, Myles Paige, Marshall Lewy
(2003, 15, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
03:05

Film4:
16:45
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film)
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend" is the famous quote from what is considered to be one of John Ford's finest westerns, and it pretty much sums up the film. Greenhorn lawyer Ransom Stoddard sets up in a frontier town where everyone, bar the tough-but-decent Tom Doniphon, fears the brutal bully Liberty Valance. As Stoddard's influence grows and Valance's wanes, a confrontation between the two seems inevitable. And duly it comes, with a result that shocks the town.
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1962, PG, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
19:10

TCM:
23:40
Coming Home (Film)
Emotional war drama starring Jon Voight in his award winning role as a paraplegic war veteran who finds life difficult after returning to America from the war in Vietnam.
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty
(1978, 18, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
02:10

ITV1:
22:35
Full Metal Jacket (Film)
A powerful study of warfare, from basic training to the killing fields of Vietnam. The dehumanising effects of US marine corps training constitute the first part of the film, which deals with the recruits' reactions to a relentless drill sergeant. But it is not until the soldiers reach Southeast Asia that the brutal consequences of their military commitment are fully realised.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, R. Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard
(Editor's Choice, Stereo, Followed by Itv News Headlines, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1987, 18, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:50

More4:
21:00
Brassed Off (Film)
This award-winning FilmFour production marked the directorial debut of writer/director Mark Herman. Brassed Off is the passionate, moving story of a small mining community struggling to survive when its chief industry is closed down to devastating effect, leaving the colliery brass band as its only point of pride.
Director: Mark Herman
Starring: Pete Postlethwaite, Tara Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Stephen Tompkinson, Jim Carter, Philip Jackson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1996, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:05
00:10
Brassed Off (Film)
02:20

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Five
13:15
The Asphalt Jungle (Film)
Drama about an ex-con's attempt to pull off one last heist, with the help of a crooked lawyer. But just when the painstaking planning appears to be paying off, the gang is dealt a shattering blow and their ambitious enterprise is reduced to a desperate bid to evade the police net tightening around them. Featuring an early appearance by Marilyn Monroe.
Director: John Huston
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1950, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
15:25
18:05
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Film)
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as the infamous bank and train robbers who, finally tracked by a persistent posse, decamp for the quiet life in Bolivia with Katharine Ross, Sundance's girl, where they pass into legend. George Roy Hill's classic western offers one of cinema's most enduring pairings.
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross, Strother Martin, Henry Jones, Jeff Corey
(Editor's Choice, Subtitles, 1969, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
20:00

TCM:
13:00
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Film)
Seminal 60s tale of rebellion and class warfare with BAFTA- winner Courtenay as Colin, the angry young man whose speed and stamina could help his ambitious borstal warden snatch the cup from the toffs' team. But Colin is running his own race.
Director: Tony Richardson
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen, James Bolam, Joe Robinson
(Black and White, 1962, 12, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
15:00
TCM:
23:15
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Film)
Comedy about two drag queens and a transexual who travel across the Outback to perform at a drag show. Starring Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce.
Director: Stephan Elliott
Starring: Terence Stamp, Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Bill Hunter, Rebel Russell, John Casey
(1994, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:10

Ch4:
03:10
Champion (Film)
A boxer uses women, mobsters and his disabled brother to get the middleweight title.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1949, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
04:45

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SkyArts2:

22:00
Fantastic Planet (Animation)
Mike Figgis introduces Rene Laloux's landmark sci-fi animation. An allegory of the Communist occupation of Czechoslovakia, blue giants keep humans as pets in their surrealist world.
(New)

23:15
Playtime (Arts)
Regarded by many as Jacques Tati's masterpiece, Playtime features the actor/director in his fourth outing as the loveable buffoon Mr Hulot, battling modern life in a bustling metropolis.
(Stereo, Widescreen)
01:15

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Tomorrow morning, Film4:

11:00
Pather Panchali (Film)
Satayajit Ray's masterly debut film, winner at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, is the first film in his celebrated Apu trilogy, tracing the life of Apu, a young boy witnessing family loves and troubles in a small Bengal village.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Starring: Kanu Bannerjee, Karuna Bannerjee, Subir Bannerjee, Uma Das Gupta, Chunibala Devi, Runki Bannerjee
(Black and White, In Bengali with English Subtitles, 1955, U, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
13:30

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paulofilmo wrote:13:15
The Asphalt Jungle (Film)

heh, I accidentally caught this during lunch. it was the colorized version, I couldn't believe how incredibly cheap and outdated it looked. good think I'd seen the original before :roll:

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Another round of classic Indian films starting on Channel 4 tonight. That last round was incredible.
Busy day.


Five:
13:40
Lawrence of Arabia (Film)
Peter O'Toole is the eponymous hero who united the warring Arab tribes to take on the Turks in World War One and, in so doing, entered both the history books and the mythology of England's past. David Lean's multi-Oscar winning epic is one of cinema's most sumptuously-shot classics, and O'Toole brings to the role a hesitant demeanour that hints at Lawrence's sexual ambiguity while never masking his steely self-belief.
Director: David Lean
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer
(Editor's Choice, Subtitles, 1962, PG, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
17:50

SkyArts2:
(haven't seen the modern set with the CSO, but the West-Eastern Divan doing Beet's Ninth is amazing: 11:05am)
15:30
Knowledge is the Beginning (Arts)
Award winning film following the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Founded by conductor Daniel Barenboim, it unites young Arab and Jewish musicians, surmounting prejudices. Flashing images.
(Stereo, Widescreen)
17:05
Man Who Planted Trees (Documentary)
This Oscar-winning short story tells of a shepherd's successful efforts to reforest a desolate Alpine valley throughout the first half of the 20th century.
(Stereo, 1987)
17:35

SkyArts2:
22:00
Festen (Film)
Considered by many to be the first film to truly embrace the Dogma philosophy, Thomas Vinterberg's Festen is a dark comic tale exploring bitterness and bubbling family tensions.
Starring: Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen, Birthe Neumann, Trine Dyrholm
(Stereo, 1998, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:45

ITV1:
23:45
The Birds (Film)
Hitchcock's disturbing classic about an isolated Californian community which is subjected to a series of terrifying attacks by hundreds of birds. Based on a short story by Daphne Du Maurier.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies
(Followed by Itv News Headlines, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1963, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:50

BBC2:
00:00
Harper (Film)
Thriller in which a shabby gumshoe is hired by a wealthy but embittered woman to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her husband. The detective must make his way through a dangerous and complex cross-section of southern California life before he cracks the case. William Goldman wrote the screenplay, based on Ross Macdonald's novel The Moving Target.
Director: Jack Smight
Starring: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1966, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:55
Let's Get Lost (Film)
Whether in his golden youth or premature old age, legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker's musical virtuosity always shone through. In this frank and revealing documentary made a year before his death, interviews, recording sessions, archive footage and home movies are used by director Bruce Weber to show a man ravaged by his long involvement with drugs.
Director: Bruce Weber
Starring: Chet Baker, Carol Baker, Vera Baker, Paul Baker, Dean Baker, Missy Baker
(Stereo, Black and White, Subtitles, 1988, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
03:55

Ch4:
00:10
Chaudhvin Ka Chand (Film)
Channel 4 presents four Indian classic films 50 years since they were first made. The first is Guru Dutt's story of two friends, Aslam and Nawab who fall in love with the same girl, Jameela. Misunderstandings and plain bad luck drive the narrative and ultimately lead to tragedy but at the heart of the story is the importance of sacrifice and friendship, popular themes in Indian film. Colour photography came late to Indian cinema, and so it became the practice in many early 1960s films to include some song sequences in colour. The title song sung by Mohammed Rafi was filmed in colour and remains one of the most popular Hindi film songs ever. The next up in this short season is Jis Des Main Ganga Behti Ha i, which airs tomorrow night.
Director: M. Sadiq
Starring: Waheeda Rehman, Guru Dutt, Minoo Mumtaz, Johnny Walker, Mumtaz Begum
(Black and White, In Urdu/Hindi with English Subtitles, 1960, PG, 2 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
03:00

Film4:
01:15
Talk to Her (Film)
Pedro Almodóvar's Oscar-winning film stars Javier Cámara as a male nurse fixated by a dance student, and Darío Grandinetti as Marco, a journalist who interviews a bullfighter on the eve of a fight. When the two women are separately injured and left in a coma, the two men meet and their mutual concerns for each of their "patients" sees them form a bond as they care for the two women.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chaplin, Mariola Fuentes
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2002, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)

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