UK TV Film Recommendations

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Not a lot on. Truman Show on Film 4. Goodfellas on ITV4.

However, TOMORROW (Thursday):


Film4:
11:00


The Green Ray
(Film)
Eric Rohmer's picaresque tale of Delphine, a gawky young Parisienne whose indecision about live and love lead to an encounter with the eponymous Green Ray, the diffracted light at sunset that offers an insight into self and lovers.
Director: Éric Rohmer
Starring: Marie Rivière, Amira Chemakhi, Sylvie Richez, María Luisa García, Basile Gervaise, Virginie Gervaise
(In French with Subtitles, 1986, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)

12:55


All About Eve (Film)
Bette Davis stars in Joseph Mankiewicz's classic drama as Margo Channing, acid-tongued star of the stage who takes the young, innocent, mousey Eve Harrington under her wing. But Margo's protégé repays her kindness by quietly betraying her at every turn, until she has climbed the dizzy heights once occupied by the star. George Sanders stars as the acerbic critic Addison De Witt, with Hugh Marlowe as Margo's writer Lloyd Richards and Gary Merrill as her lover Bill Sampson. The film won six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director but Davis and Baxter were both nominated as Best Actress and the split vote meant neither won.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)

15:35


Rope! (Film)
Alfred Hitchcock's thriller is based on a hit stage play and the director shot and edited in such a way as to emulate the play, with a no-cut continuous narrative. John Dall and Farley Granger play Brandon Shaw and Philip Morgan, two roommates who, convinced of their Nietzschean superiority, murder an old school friend, David Kentley. They hide the body in a wooden trunk which becomes the table for a cocktail party they are throwing, to which are invited their old teacher Rupert Cadell, Kentley's father Henry and Kentley's fiancee Janet Walker among others. As the party proceeds, the two murderers' braggadocio arouses Cadell's suspicions and his astute questioning and the duo's arrogance lead to their downfall.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, Douglas Dick
(1948, PG, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)

17:10

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Luther was pretty awesome.

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BBC4:
22:15
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Film)
Poignant drama telling the real-life story of a man left paralysed in the prime of his life who went on to show incredible reserves of spiritual strength to author his memoirs. Once a powerful magazine editor in France, the man was struck down in his 40s by a stroke that left him unable to move a muscle, yet did not affect his mental reflexes. He went on to write his autobiography just by blinking patterns - the only physical activity he could still perform - which followed an alphabetical code.
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Niels Arestrup
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:00

TCM:
15:00 (and 2200, TCM2)
Attack (Film)
A WWII captain, out of his depth, is risking the lives of his men. As morale wanes, not every gun is points at the enemy.
Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebsen
(Black and White, 1956, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
17:05

Film4:
16:55
A Matter of Life and Death (Film)
Majestic fantasy from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger starring David Niven as Peter Carter, an airman who cheats death and falls in love with American radio operator June. Shocked at the "clerical error" that allowed him to live, the celestial bureaucrats invoke a trial, the result of which will decide his fate, with staunch American patriot Abraham Farlan prosecuting. Stunning production design, excellent script and career-best performances give the film a timeless impact. In colour and black and white.
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Bonar Colleano
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1946, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
19:00

SkyArts2:
17:00
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)
18:40

TCM:
23:10
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Film)
Sam Peckinpah's violent crime drama about an American pianist who gets involved with bounty hunters looking for lover of wealthy heiress. Warren Oates plays the down-at-heel tourist, with cameos from Kris Kristofferson, Gig Young and Robert Webber.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández
(1974, 18, 3 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:20


Oh, and Reds is on ITV3 at, I think, 2300.

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BBC4:
22:00
To Kill a Mockingbird (Film)
Oscar-winning film of Harper Lee's novel telling the story of sinister events in a prejudiced Southern town in 30s America through the eyes of two children whose white lawyer father is defending a black farm worker accused of rape. Robert Duvall made his film debut as their mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley.
Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall, John Megna, Frank Overton
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1962, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:05

ITV4:
22:00
The Long Kiss Goodnight (Film)
No-holds-barred action thriller about an amnesiac schoolteacher who discovers she was formerly a government assassin when she hires a low-rent private eye to help fill the gaps in her memory. Together they go on the run in a race against the clock to stop her former taskmasters from putting a heinous plan into action - before they can silence her for good.
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko, Tom Amandes, Brian Cox, Patrick Malahide
(Stereo, Subtitles, Including Entertainment News Update, Audio Described, 1996, 18, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:25
Children of Men (Film)
Futuristic thriller depicting England under totalitarian rule as worldwide infertility leaves the human race on the brink of extinction. Hope arrives in the form of a refugee whose miraculous pregnancy makes her the most important person on Earth.
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, Claire-Hope Ashitey
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, Including Entertainment News Update, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
02:30

And most of Film4

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BBC1:
22:25
Catch Me If You Can (Film)
True crime story about teenage con man Frank Abagnale Jr - who cashed fake cheques worth over 2.5 million dollars while disguised as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer - and the FBI agent who finally caught him.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 12, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:40

BBC2:
23:00
Educating Rita (Film)
Moving comedy drama based on Willy Russell's hit stage play about a hairdresser who dreams of rising above her drab urban existence through the power of education. For better or worse, she chooses drunken lecturer Frank Bryant as her tutor. Julie Walters gained an Oscar nomination for her film debut.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Michael Caine, Julie Walters, Michael Williams, Maureen Lipman, Jeananne Crowley, Malcolm Douglas
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1983, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:50

BBC4:
22:00
The Counterfeiters (Film)
Austrian drama based on a true story. Salomon 'Sally' Sorowitsch, a talented counterfeiter, is arrested by the Nazis and imprisoned in a concentration camp. When his criminal talents attract attention Sally is placed in a group of professional forgers and forced to make fake foreign currency to help the German war effort. When a friend of Sally refuses to use his talents for Nazi gain, the counterfeiter is faced with the moral dilema of whether to continue with work that could prolong the war.
Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky
Starring: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach, August Zirner, Veit Stübner
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, Black and White, 2007, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:35


SkyArts2:
17:00
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Film)
Hailed as the first feature-length animation in the history of cinema, this captivating film by pioneering animator Lotte Reiniger tells the story of Prince Achmed's magical adventures.
Director: Lotte Reiniger
(Stereo, Black and White, 1926, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
18:10

22:00
F for Fake (Film)
Orson Welles blurs the line between fact and fiction in this fascinating documentary examining forgeries in the art world. But can we believe Welles himself?
Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten, François Reichenbach, Richard Wilson, Paul Stewart
(Stereo, Widescreen, 1974, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:30

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Tomorrow on SkyArts2:
22:00 Les Valseuses

Film4:
14:45
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)
16:55

BBC2:
22:00
Eastern Promises (Film)
Thriller set in the underworld of London's Russian mafia, directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts. When Anna, a midwife, sets out to discover the truth behind the death of a young prostitute, she finds herself snared in the deadly world of sex trafficking.
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Mina E. Mina, Aleksandar Mikic
(Stereo, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 18, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:40
The Ipcress File (Film)
Spy thriller in which agent Harry Palmer is assigned to investigate a bizarre brain drain among scientists, and finds himself embroiled in a world of espionage where nobody can be trusted and nothing is what it seems. Based on the novel by Len Deighton, it spawned two sequels.
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Green, Guy Doleman, Sue Lloyd, Gordon Jackson, Aubrey Richards
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, PG, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:25

Film4:
01:45
Memento (Film)
Complex thriller about a man whose struggle to piece his life back together after the brutal murder of his wife is hindered by his loss of short-term memory, the result of the beating he received at the hands of his wife's killer. As he attempts to track down the culprit, he is unable to retain new information and must arduously write notes, take photographs and tattoo his body with essential clues to the elusive truth.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
(Subtitles, 2000, 15, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)

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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

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BBC 4
22:00
Nuts in May (Drama)
Light-hearted drama about a possessive husband who takes his timorous wife on a camping holiday. His behaviour towards her becomes increasingly domineering and eventually he snaps when she befriends a fellow backpacker.
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Roger Sloman, Anthony O'Donnell, Sheila Kelley, Eric Allan, Stephen Bill, Richenda Carey
(Stereo, Subtitles, Audio Described, Made For TV, PG, 1976, 3 Star)
23:20

more4
22:00
The Cove (Film)
The True Stories strand, presents Louis Psihovos' Oscar-winning documentary which shows in chilling detail the illicit slaughter of dolphins at Taijia, a rural Japanese cove. With the help of Richard O'Barry, a former dolphin trainer for the programme Flipper who has since recanted and become the mammal's strongest ally, the pair are faced by bureaucratic obduracy, police surveillance and attacks by the fishermen. Forced to film undercover and underwater, they use Industrial Light and Magic's latest technology to capture the heartrending massacres.
Director: Louie Psihoyos
Starring: Hayden Panettiere, Louie Psihoyos, Richard O'Barry, Simon Hutchins, Mandy-Rae Cruikshank, Kirk Krack
(Subtitles, 12A, 2009, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
00:00

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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

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Sky Arts 2:
20:00
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, Audio Described, PG, 1984, 4 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
23:00

Film4:
23:00
Fight Club (Film)
Edward Norton and Brad Pitt star in David Fincher's Oscar-nominated drama, the former as a bored executive, the latter as a stranger he meets on a plane who introduces him to a world of ennui-alleviating physical pain: Fight Club, a semi-secret organisation where men vent their frustrations in bare knuckle fighting in dingy basements. But as Norton becomes more involved, he learns more about the shadowy organisation that plans to take on more than each other...
Director: David Fincher
Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier, Richmond Arquette
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 18, 1999, 5 Star) (Get more information on this movie)
01:45

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