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by paulofilmo
Sun May 30, 2010 8:47 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: UK TV Film Recommendations
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Re: UK TV Film Recommendations

BBC2:
13:00
The Red Shoes (Film)
A magnificent fairy tale about a young ballerina torn between two creative but possessive men - one a struggling composer, the other an autocratic impresario. Forced to choose between her career and a happy marriage, she is persuaded to do one last performance of the role that made her famous, with tragic results.
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: Marius Goring, Jean Short, Gordon Littmann, Julia Lang, Bill Shine, Léonide Massine
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1948, U, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
15:10

Five:
12:35
Dial M for Murder (Film)
Classic Hitchcock tale of a playboy ex-tennis star who arranges to have his wife killed, fearing that he is about to lose her - and her fortune - to another man. When the murder goes wrong, the ruthless husband is willing to do anything to save his own skin.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams, Anthony Dawson, Leo Britt
(Subtitles, 1954, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
14:40

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
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
Starring: Mike Starr, Paul Herman, Don Pardo, Martin Rosenblatt, Helen Miller, Danielle Ferland
(1987, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
17:00

Film4:
23:10
Synecdoche, New York (Film)
Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, a comedy drama, stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard, a frustrated theatre director so bound up in his own work and failings he almost doesn't notice his wife Adele leaving him. When an unexpected grant of $500,000 allows him to realise his dream; he rents a cavernous warehouse and sets about rehearsing a play based on his life and the world around him, with sets modelled on New York and a script comprising of gnomic post-it notes. But will the play ever reach its first night? Kaufman's film is an almost Bergmanesque meditation on life and death which, as with his scripts for Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich, refuses to kowtow to convention but by its very subversion, provides a fascinating, challenging viewing experience.
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Sadie Goldstein, Tom Noonan, Peter Friedman, Charles Techman
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:30
Storytelling (Film)
Todd Solondz's film tells two separate stories. In Fiction, Selma Blair ignores her disabled boyfriend's writing talents to pursue creative-writing professor Robert Wisdom, while Nonfiction sees would-be filmmaker Paul Giamatti shoot a documentary about his friend Mark Webber's life while behind the camera, Giamatti's family is falling apart. Fascinating and challenging, this is a dark look at relationships and family.
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Selma Blair, Leo Fitzpatrick, Robert Wisdom, Maria Thayer, Angela Goethals, Devorah Rose
(Widescreen, 2001, 18, 3 Star)

BBC2:
23:00
[b]The Visitor[/b] (Film)
Recently widowed economics professor Walter Vale reluctantly agrees to give a lecture in New York. When he arrives in the city, he finds that two illegal immigrants have taken up residence in his little-used Manhattan apartment. An unlikely friendship develops between Walter and his unexpected guests - Syrian Tarek and his African girlfriend Zainab. Walter's previously bland and unfulfilling life is gradually transformed by their influence.
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Starring: Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira, Hiam Abbass, Marian Seldes, Maggie Moore
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:40
Channel 4:
01:45
The Unloved (Film)
Oscar-nominated actress Samantha Morton makes her directorial debut with a powerful single drama that gives an intimate child's eye view of life in a children's home. Lucy is 11 years old and lives with her abusive father. One day she decides she's had enough of his beatings and reports the incident to her social worker. But this only lands her in a children's home, where she is left with nothing save for the school uniform she is wearing and an initially hostile older room mate. A friendship grow between the two girls, but when a Christmas party at the home goes terribly wrong, Lucy runs away in search of her mother... Lucy's father and mother are played by Robert Carlyle and Susan Lynch, with Molly Windsor as Lucy and Lauren Socha as Lauren.
Director: Samantha Morton
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Susan Lynch, Molly Windsor, Lauren Socha
(Repeat, Subtitles, Audio Described, Made For TV, 2009) (Get more information on this movie)
03:40

SkyArts2:
22:00
Distant Voices, Still Lives (Film)
Pete Postlethwaite stars in Terence Davies' gritty tale of a working-class family in Liverpool. A wedding and christening evoke memories of the family's past.
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Michael Starke, Freda Dowie, Angela Walsh, Dean Williams, Lorraine Ashbourne, Pete Postlethwaite
(Dolby Stereo, Widescreen, 1988, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:25
Bela Lugosi: The Fallen Vampire (Documentary)
In 1927, the gory role of Dracula attracted few actors, giving an unknown Transylvanian man with poor English the chance to shape one of the greatest horror characters ever created.
(Stereo, 2007)
00:20
Nosferatu (Film)
FW Murnau's expressionist masterpiece was the first film to be based upon Bram Stoker's horror novel. Max Schreck stars as the blood-sucking vampire, Count Orlok.
Director: F.W. Murnau
Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder, Alexander Granach, Georg H. Schnell, Ruth Landshoff
(Black and White, 1922, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:55