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by paulofilmo
Sun Jul 25, 2010 9:22 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: UK TV Film Recommendations
Replies: 203
Views: 628760

Re: UK TV Film Recommendations

Film4:
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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:
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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)
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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

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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
by paulofilmo
Sat May 15, 2010 7:51 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: UK TV Film Recommendations
Replies: 203
Views: 628760

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)
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Film4:
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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)