UK TV Film Recommendations

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Film4:
21:00
Die Hard (Film)
High enery action movie 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.
Director: John McTiernan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson, Alexander Godunov, Paul Gleason
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1988, 18, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:35
The Dreamlife of Angels (Film)
Erick Zonga's Lille-set film follows the lives and loves of Isa and Marie, two 20-year old drifters who meet up in a sewing sweatshop. Becoming friends, they idle through life but Marie becomes involved with club owner Chris for the wrong reasons and despite Isa's reservations, starts on a relationship that is less about love and more about pragmatic survival. Intensely intelligent, beautifully acted and movingly told, the two leads deservedly shared the best actress award at Cannes 1998 as well as a host of other European awards.
Director: Erick Zonca
Starring: Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin, Patrick Mercado, Jo Prestia, Francine Massenhave
(In French with Subtitles, 1998, 18, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:45

BBC4:
22:00
The Wave (Film)
A high school teacher's unusual class experiment to demonstrate to his students how dictatorships are formed spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own. Inspired by real events and based on the acclaimed novel by Todd Strasser.
Director: Dennis Gansel
Starring: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul, Jacob Matschenz
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:40

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)
00:15
Bananas (Film)
Brilliant comedy as a timid man ends up involved in a South American revolution in order to impress his girlfriend.
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalbán, Natividad Abascal, Jacobo Morales, Miguel Ángel Suárez
(1971, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
02:05

SkyArts2:
22:00
Cyrano De Bergerac (Film)
GÉrard Depardieu is the gallant wordsmith who lets his big nose get in the way of his love life. Jean-Paul Rappeneau's smart comedy won an Oscar for Best Costume Design.
Director: Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Perez, Jacques Weber, Roland Bertin, Philippe Morier-Genoud
(Stereo, Widescreen, 1990, U, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:20

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TCM:
13:00 (and 20:00, TCM2)
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

SkyArts2:
14:00
Amadeus: Director's Cut (Film)
Extended version of Milos Forman's sumptuous Mozart biopic. Tom Hulce stars as the troubled genius with an Oscar-winning F Murray Abraham as arch rival, Antonio Salieri.
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice, Simon Callow, Christine Ebersole
(Dolby Stereo, Widescreen, 1984, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
17:00

SkyArts1:
00:20
Walter (Film)
Ian McKellen stars in a moving film about a mentally challenged man called Walter, who is at the mercy of society's unfeeling attitudes. Adapted from David Cook's award-winning novel.
Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Ian McKellen, Arthur Whybrow, Barbara Jefford, Frankie Connolly, Jim Broadbent, Garry Cooper
(Stereo, 1982, 18, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:35

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This Thursday morning, Film4 is showing Late Spring.


ITV1:
14:10
Being There (Film)
Black comedy about American gullibility in which a withdrawn old man, appropriately called Chance, is seized upon as some kind of oracle. His elevation to the status of a national celebrity is triggered by a road accident, in which Chance finds himself under a car driven by the wife of a political kingmaker. Soon his charm and honesty have won him the ears of people in the highest public offices.
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1979, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
16:30

ITV1:
22:15
Three Kings (Film)
Satirical action drama set in the aftermath of the Gulf War. Four soldiers, finding a map indicating the location of secret bunkers inside the Iraqi border, go AWOL and head for the bunkers to get the gold looted from Kuwait. However, they find a population being terrorised by Saddam Hussein's forces and desperate for help. They soon realise some things are more important than riches.
Director: David O. Russell
Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Cliff Curtis, Nora Dunn
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1999, 15, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:30

BBC4:
23:50
Belleville Rendez-Vous (Film)
Quirky feature-length animation from the imagination of Sylvain Chomet. Old lady Madame Souza is determined to rescue her Tour de France-obsessed grandson from the Mafia, who have kidnapped him. She is supported by her faithful sidekick, the fat and elderly dog Bruno. An epic adventure leads them across the Atlantic to a vast seaport metropolis named Belleville.
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Starring: Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreau, Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Mari-Lou Gauthier, Charles Linton
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 12, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:05

TCM:
23:25
Network (Film)
When a TV news anchor is fired, he lets loose a rant on his final show, but little did he think it would make him a celebrity. Oscar winning drama.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy, Ned Beatty
(1976, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:40

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Film4:

11:00
Late Spring (Film)
Yasujiro Ozu's film stars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko, he a widower, she his daughter and the two live together amicably enough until he decides she should be married and sets about arranging a match. Behind this simple plot, Ozu shows the pair's essential humanity even when each is implacably opposed to the other's wishes.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Starring: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki, Jun Usami
(Black and White, In Japanese with Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
13:10


22:45

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Film)
Jim Sharman's now-classic camp rock musical stars Tim Curry as sweet transvestite Frank N Furter, who is disturbed by stranded teenagers Brad Majors and Janet Weiss just as he's making the Perfect Man. Trapped in his remote castle with his servants Magenta and Riff-Raff and Furter's eccentric mix of partygoers, can they survive a night of depravity with their virtues intact? With a shed-load of iconic songs and references to almost B horror and sf movie ever made liberally scattered throughout, the film has become a legend.
Director: Jim Sharman
Starring: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Nell Campbell
(Widescreen, 1975, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)

00:40


Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Film)
His/her tale told in flashback via his/her songs, Hedwig was born in the GDR and wanted to be a woman from an early age. Promise of marriage to a US army serviceman, providing he had a sex change operation, promised a way out, but one botched operation later, leaving the 'angry inch', he/she's dumped alone in America. Hooking up with Tommy Gnosis, the two form a band but then Gnosis quits, stealing Hedwig's material and going on to stadium-filling fame while a bitter Hedwig is reduced to supper club gigs, shadowing Tommy's tour with a set of songs that tell the story of his/her life.
Director: John Cameron Mitchell
Starring: John Cameron Mitchell, Michael Pitt, Miriam Shor, Stephen Trask, Theodore Liscinski, Rob Campbell
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2001, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)

02:25

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BBC2:
21:45
There Will be Blood (Film)
Oscar-winning epic directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, set in early 20th century Texas. Daniel Day Lewis plays oilman Daniel Plainview, a shrewd, self-made tycoon who will stop at nothing to expand his control of the developing oil industry - despite eliciting contempt from his nemesis, local preacher Eli Sunday.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Jacob Stringer, Joseph Mussey, Barry Del Sherman
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:15
(followed by Westworld)

TCM:
19:15
Paths of Glory (Film)
Stanley Kubrick's compelling film about three soldiers who are put on trial after a failed attack during WWI.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready, Wayne Morris, Richard Anderson
(Black and White, 1957, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
21:00

TCM:
23:20
Blue Velvet (Film)
David Lynch's highly acclaimed macabre masterpiece about a college student who discovers a severed human ear in a grass field who leads him to a dark and surreal story..
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell
(1986, 18, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:50

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Just a great weekend.

And looks like they're playing Mad Men again from the start,
BBC1 23:00 Mad Men (Drama) Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Series 1, episode 1.

BBC2:
11:30
Spellbound (Film)
Gripping Hitchcock thriller in which a psychoanalyst falls in love with her new boss, knowing that he is an amnesiac who may be a killer and an impostor. Characteristically Hitchcockian twists blur reality and imagination as the psychoanalyst struggles to restore his memory. A dream sequence designed by Salvador Dali adds to the suspense.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Edwardes 'J.B.' and John Brown, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1945, PG, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
13:20
Notorious (Film)
Classic romantic thriller in which the daughter of a convicted traitor is enlisted by the CIA to help foil a Nazi plot. Although she is initially reluctant to help those who precipitated the downfall of her father, the suave American agent sent to enlist her proves too persuasive and she agrees to marry a Nazi collaborator to obtain insider information. However, her new husband soon realises their marriage is not what it seems.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1946, U, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
15:00

00:35
Sweet Smell of Success (Film)
Dark drama about a popular but vicious New York newspaper columnist who enlists the help of an unscrupulous press agent to break up his sister's romance with a jazz musician. The agent, who will do anything to get newspaper coverage for his clients, enters into a sleazy alliance with the columnist, unaware that he is in danger of being double-crossed himself. With a jazz score by Elmer Bernstein.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene, Barbara Nichols
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
02:10

BBC4:
22:00
The Silence of Lorna (Film)
Award-winning drama about an Albanian immigrant living in Belgium, in a fake marriage to a local drug addict. She dreams of leaving her dull job to set up a snack bar with her boyfriend, but just how far will she go to achieve her dream?
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Starring: Fabrizio Rongione, Olivier Gourmet, Morgan Marinne, Jérémie Rénier, Alban Ukaj, Arta Dobroshi
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 15) (Get more information on this movie)
23:40

TCM:
23:15
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:

SkyArts1:
01:15
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)
02:00

SkyArts2:
22:00
My Life as a Dog (Film)
Award-winning Swedish film based on Reidar Jonsson's novel. When his mother becomes ill, a mischievous young dog lover is sent to stay with his uncle. English subtitles.
Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring: Anton Glanzelius, Tomas von Brömssen, Anki Lidén, Melinda Kinnaman, Kicki Rundgren, Lennart Hjulström
(Stereo, Widescreen, 1985, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:40

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Film4:
23:10


Killer of Sheep (Documentary)
Charles Burnett's critically acclaimed film, set in South Central Los Angeles, stars Henry Gayle Sanders as Stan, an abbatoir worker. Married with two children, he is distant from his wife, preferring instead to help a friend fix his car up. In following this quest, Burnett draws on a rich cast of characters, showing the lives they live with dreams and ambitions which are crushed by lack of opportunity. The film was made by Burnett for his master's thesis at the UCLA film school but couldn't be shown until recently because he initially couldn't afford to clear the rights to the soundtrack.
(Black and White, 1977, 15)

00:45

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Film4:
01:45
Miller's Crossing (Film)
One of the Coen Brothers' early films, this tale stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan, lieutenant to city crime boss Leo during Prohibition. Trouble brews when rival gang leader Caspar asks Leo to rub out the double-dealing Bernie. But Bernie is the brother of Leo's mistress and as the violence erupts, the amoral Tom has to forget friendship and loyalties in order to stay alive. Meticulously shot by Barry Sonnenfeld, and with a supporting cast including Steve Buscemi and Frances McDormand, the Coen Brothers' hallmark humour interleaves with the violence to create a finely polished, riveting addition to the gangster genre.
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, Jon Polito, J.E. Freeman, Albert Finney
(Subtitles, 1990, 18, 4 Star)

SkyArts2:
05:30
Tale of Tales (Animation)
This film, based on the childhood memories of director Yuri Norstein, communicates thoughts and emotions that would have been impossible to achieve through live action.
(Stereo)

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BBC2:
00:20
The Pumpkin Eater (Film)
Powerful drama based on the novel by Penelope Mortimer. A mother of six suffers a nervous breakdown after learning that her third husband has been unfaithful. When she discovers that she is pregnant again, she is wracked with indecision about her future. Harold Pinter wrote the screenplay, and Anne Bancroft received an Oscar nomination for her performance.
Director: Jack Clayton
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray, Cedric Hardwicke, Rosalind Atkinson
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1964, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
02:05

BBC4:
22:00
The Market: A Tale of Trade (Film)
Drama in which a Turkish small time black marketeer wants to enter the cell phone business. To get enough money, he promises the local doctor to get medicine for sick children.
Director: Ben Hopkins
Starring: Tayanç Ayaydin, Genco Erkal, Senay Aydin, Hakan Sahin, Rojîn Ulker, Övül Avkiran
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:30

Film4:
02:25
Killer of Sheep (Documentary)
Charles Burnett's critically acclaimed film, set in South Central Los Angeles, stars Henry Gayle Sanders as Stan, an abbatoir worker. Married with two children, he is distant from his wife, preferring instead to help a friend fix his car up. In following this quest, Burnett draws on a rich cast of characters, showing the lives they live with dreams and ambitions which are crushed by lack of opportunity. The film was made by Burnett for his master's thesis at the UCLA film school but couldn't be shown until recently because he initially couldn't afford to clear the rights to the soundtrack.
(Black and White, 1977, 15)



Sky Arts2:


17:30


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)

18:05


Tim Marlow on Picasso: Peace and Freedom (Arts)
Tim Marlow leads an engaging tour of the Peace and Freedom exhibition at the Tate Liverpool, giving an insight into the Spanish artist's life as a political activist.
(Stereo, Widescreen, 2010)

18:30


André Rieu (Music)
Romantic Paradise.
The charismatic violinist and his Johann Strauss Orchestra serenade their audience in Cortona with a magical and starlit performance that includes Rota's Love Theme from The Godfather.
(Stereo, New Episode, Widescreen)

20:00


Ballets Russes (Film)
An intimate portrait of the pioneering ballet company. Home movies, seldom seen performances and interviews with former members map the group's history.
Director: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Starring: Irina Baronova, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne Craig, Frederic Franklin, Alan Howard, Nathalie Krassovska
(Stereo, Widescreen, 2005, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)




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.

23:15

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Tomorrow, 11am, Film4: Rohmer's My Girlfriend's Boyfriend.

Film4:
21:00
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Film)
McMurphy, a social misfit who finds himself locked up in an insane asylum through his own choice to avoid a prison sentance. Whilst there he encourages his fellow inmates (DeVito, Lloyd and Dourif among them) into acts of rebellion, joyous freedom and self-expression. The authorities, principally in the shape of the formidable Nurse Ratched, react with increasing violence to McMurphy's dangerous ideas with terrible final consequences for McMurphy.
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Michael Berryman, Danny DeVito, Peter Brocco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1975, 18, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:40

Ch4:
01:40
Long Day's Journey Into Night (Film)
Sidney Lumet's film of Eugene O'Neill's classic play is a who's who of the screen. Ralph Richardson plays James Tyrone, a once great actor who has allowed his talent to fade, while Oscar-nominated Katharine Hepburn, in what was her first screen role for three years, plays his morphine-addicted wife. Jason Robards Jr plays Jamie, their drunken womanising son, while Dean Stockwell plays Edmund, the weaker youngest son, who is based on O'Neill himself. The action takes place over one long night as a gathering reveals the secrets illuminating the individual and collective plights of a once proud family.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, Jeanne Barr
(Black and White, Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Signed, 1962, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
04:30

Film4:
01:20
Frailty (Film)
Actor Bill Paxton's directorial debut is a chilling, provocative and original thriller. Paxton plays a widowed blue-collar worker who one day has a revelation: he must destroy those revealed to him as demons. And so begin the serial killings of 'God's Hand Killer' across Texas. But he also has two young sons, the younger of whom idolises him and believes in the cause, while his older brother is revolted but cannot bring himself to stop his father. Then, 20 years later, the elder son walks into a police station and finally confesses all to FBI agent. As he does, so a horrific tale unfolds in flashback.
Director: Bill Paxton
Starring: Bill Paxton, Matthew McConaughey, Powers Boothe, Matt O'Leary, Jeremy Sumpter, Luke Askew
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2001, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
03:20

TCM:
13:00
Separate Tables (Film)
Wonderfully entertaining adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play about a group of neurotic guests in an English seaside hotel. Starring Burt Lancaster and Rita Hayworth.
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster, Gladys Cooper
(Black and White, 1958, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
15:00

TCM:
23:00
Salvador (Film)
James Woods stars as a US Journalist who travels to El Salvador looking to chronicle the military dictatorship of the 1980s.
Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo, Tony Plana
(1986, 18, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:20

SkyArts2:
00:00
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.
01:15

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