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by paulofilmo
Sat May 15, 2010 7:51 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: UK TV Film Recommendations
Replies: 203
Views: 628804

Re: UK TV Film Recommendations

BBC2:
14:15
The Man From Laramie (Film)
Challenging western typifying the partnership between director Anthony Mann and James Stewart, who forgoes the heroics to play the stranger who arrives in New Mexico to find his brother's killer. When a cattle baron tries to silence him the stranger's tenacity doubles, as does the hatred of the local townsfolk, who stand between him and justice.
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Cathy O'Donnell, Alex Nicol, Aline MacMahon
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, U, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
15:55

TCM:
18:30
The Manchurian Candidate (Film)
Classic wartime thriller about two soldiers returning from the Korean war and haunted by nightmares and start to investigate the reasons behind them.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory
(Black and White, 1962, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
21:00

CH4:
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
(Editor's Choice, Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1988, 18, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:35
Saturday Night Fever (Film)
The film that sold a million white jackets, took disco out from the underground and into the charts, revived the careers of The Bee Gees and made a superstar out of Oscar-nominated John Travolta. Travolta plays Tony Manero, a no-hoper paint delivery boy who comes alive on the dance floor, either alone or with partner Stephanie, as they try to win the $500 dancing prize on offer.
Director: John Badham
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Donna Pescow
(Widescreen, 1977, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:50

BBC2:
00:10
The Breakfast Club (Film)
Five school kids - an athlete, a spoiled rich kid, a brainy nerd, an introverted loner and a rebellious punk - are brought together on a day-long detention where they break the rules, bare their souls and find they have more in common than just attending the same high school. One of the plethora of 80s teen films, John Hughes's bittersweet 'brat pack' comedy has many perceptive moments.
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Paul Gleason, Ally Sheedy
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1985, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:45
Scanners (Film)
Innovative sci-fi horror story about a group of people with the ability to control other people's minds and bodies, with often fatal results. The powers - the result of a thalidomide-like drug given to a group of pregnant women - are being used for evil purposes by a child of the experiment. His brother is recruited by the doctor behind the original project to stop the evil sibling and his fellow scanners.
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert A. Silverman
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1981, 18, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
03:25

Film4:
01:30
Lake Tahoe (Film)
Fernando Eimbcke's drama, set in Yucatán, Mexico, stars Diego Cataño as Juan, a teenager who crashes the family car into a telephone pole. Trying to obtain the spare part he needs to get it back on the road, he comes across a disparate range of characters, all the while avoiding going back to his home. But in time, the underlying reasons behind his angst and the anger that led to the accident are revealed.
Director: Fernando Eimbcke
Starring: Diego Cataño, Hector Herrera, Daniela Valentine, Juan Carlos Lara II, Yemil Sefani, Olda López
(Widescreen, In Spanish and English with English Subtitles, 2008, 12, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
by paulofilmo
Sun May 02, 2010 7:16 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: UK TV Film Recommendations
Replies: 203
Views: 628804

Re: UK TV Film Recommendations

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)