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by paulofilmo
Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:56 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: UK TV Film Recommendations
Replies: 203
Views: 631847

Re: UK TV Film Recommendations

Film4:
16:30
Sunset Boulevard (Film)
Billy Wilder's classic acerbic look at 1950s Hollywood was nominated for 11 Oscars and is probably the first film to have the opening narration spoken by a corpse. Joe Gillis is a penniless screenwriter who pitches up by accident at the mansion of silent star Norma Desmond, who is still dreaming of a comeback. She inveigles him to stay and work on her script but, with time, he becomes her gigolo, under the watchful eye of butler Max Von Mayerling.
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
18:40

ITV4:
21:00
Unforgiven (Film)
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this powerful and intellegent look at the myths of the Old West. Winner of three Oscars for best picture, best director and best supporting actor for Gene Hackman.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris, Jaimz Woolvett, Saul Rubinek
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, Including Entertainment News Update, Audio Described, 1992, 15, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:40

SkyArts2:
00:00
Les Valseuses (Film)
Bertrand Blier's comedy drama. Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere star as two young rogues on a spree around the French countryside, using and discarding women, conning and thieving.
Director: Bertrand Blier
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Fossey, Christian Alers
(Dolby Stereo, Widescreen, 1974, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
02:00
by paulofilmo
Sun Jul 18, 2010 11:27 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: UK TV Film Recommendations
Replies: 203
Views: 631847

Re: UK TV Film Recommendations

BBC4:
22:00
XXY (Film)
Drama about a teenage hermaphrodite. Alex lives with her parents, whose reaction to her indeterminate gender has been to exile the family to a small island community in Uruguay. As she comes of age, her parents feel it is time for them to decide if she is to be a woman or a man. Her mother invites some old friends from Argentina to visit for the weekend, one of whom happens to be a surgeon. They also bring their teenage son, who knows nothing of Alex's story but is intrigued by this tomboy.
Director: Lucía Puenzo
Starring: Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Germán Palacios, Carolina Pelleritti, Martín Piroyansky, Inés Efron
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:25

SkyArts2:
22:00
Les Valseuses (Film)
Bertrand Blier's comedy drama. Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere star as two young rogues on a spree around the French countryside, using and discarding women, conning and thieving.
Director: Bertrand Blier
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Fossey, Christian Alers
(New, Dolby Stereo, Widescreen, 1974, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:00

Film4:
23:00
The Fly (Film)
Jeff Goldblum plays solitary scientist Seth Brundle in David Cronenberg's 80s classic horror movie. Seth is obsessed with matter-transfer, but finds his work is interrupted by science journalist Veronica Quaife. She becomes fascinated by his work and by him, but when she goads Seth to experiment on a life form, he chooses himself - and, unwittingly fuses his body cells with those of a fly, an insectoid companion... On emerging from his pod he finds that he is not the man he used to be.
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo
(Subtitles, 1986, 18, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:50

TCM:
21:00
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. Also stars Jane Fonda as the woman whom he mets and falls in love with.
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)
23:30
Women in Love (Film)
Acclaimed adaptation of D H Lawrence's novel, in which a group of childhood friends become two married couples. But when they take a shared honeymoon in Switzerland, previously repressed desires and emotions surface in this erotically charged drama.
Director: Ken Russell
Starring: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden, Eleanor Bron, Alan Webb
(1969, 18, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
02:00

WiL is the better film