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Film4 Listings for Sunday 18th January
13:00
The Addams Family (Film)
Visually striking comedy based on the original comic strip. The blissfully ghoulish lives of Gomez and Morticia Addams are thrown into disarray when a scheming siren attempts to pass off her son as Gomez's long-lost brother Fester. Once installed in the family's spooky mansion, mother and son set their minds on stealing the family fortune.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Wilson, Christina Ricci, Judith Malina
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, PG, 3 Star)
15:00
American Guerilla in The Philippines (Film)
Fritz Lang made five war movies in his long career, four during or just after World War II and this one, released as America was about to embark on the Korean War. Based on a true story, it stars Tyrone Power as Ensign Chuck Palmer, the leader of a group of US servicemen left stranded in the Philippines in 1942 when General MacArthur withdrew from the Japanese invasion. Teaming up with the local resistance, he and his group, including buddy Jim Mitchell, evade the occupying forces and set up a makeshift radio station to bolster morale. Despite the wartime setting, Palmer still finds time for romance with Jeanne Martinez, the widow of a local resistance hero.
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle, Tom Ewell, Robert Patten, Tommy Cook, Juan Torena
(Subtitles, 1950, 15, 3 Star)
17:05
The Lost World (Film)
Claude Rains plays Professor Challenger, a scientist-adventurer who is convinced that dinosaurs still roam small corners of the earth. So he puts together an expedition to venture into the depths of the Amazon, where they are beset by all manner of giant animals, cannibals and geological phenomena that leave the increasingly disparate group fighting for their lives as they seek to find a way home. With Michael Rennie and Jill St John. Directed by Irwin Allen from a story by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Starring: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas
(Subtitles, 1960, 12, 2 Star)
19:10
Crocodile Dundee (Film)
"That's not a knife. This is a knife" is among cinema's best known quotes, as the eponymous Mick "Crocodile" Dundee routs a New York mugger in Peter Faiman's Oscar-nominated comedy. Hogan, a national institution Down Under, broke into the big time with this film, playing an Outback crocodile hunter who attracts the attention of American journalist Sue Charlton. After she shares his life and dangers in the bush, she invites him to New York, an environment that's alien to Dundee but one he adapts to with charm and humour as he and Charlton slowly fall in love. Edited for content.
Director: Peter Faiman
Starring: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, David Gulpilil, Ritchie Singer, Maggie Blinco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1986, PG, 4 Star)
21:00
Keeping Mum (Film)
Rowan Atkinson plays the Reverend Walter Goodfellow, vicar of Little Wallop, who spends all his energies on his sermons, which leaves his neglected wife Gloria the opportunity to conduct a somewhat half-hearted affair with her golf pro Lance. But everything changes when the Goodfellows get a new housekeeper, Grace Hawkins who, in her spare time, is a psychopathic serial killer quite happy to rid her employees of anyone causing them problems... Niall Johnson's delicious black comedy sees the four leads play for well-earned laughs, but unsurprisingly it is Maggie Smith who steals the film.
Director: Niall Johnson
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Emilia Fox, Liz Smith
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)
23:00
Volver (Film)
Pedro Almodóvar's drama stars Penélope Cruz as Raimunda, a single parent looking after her daughter Paula, whose life is turned upside down by a murder. Although Raimunda manages to dispose of the body, further complications arise when her mother Irene, presumed dead, suddenly reappears. But when cir***stances dictate that Raimunda has to re-open a disused restaurant to cover up the murder, she finds that it becomes unexpectedly, and riotously, successful.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)
01:15
Silent Light (Film)
Carlos Reygadas' Cannes-winning film is set in north Mexico's Mennonite community. Johan is a hard-working farmer, married to Esther but having an affair with single woman Marianne. But it is a principle of the faith to be non-condemnatory, and the adulterous affair is a matter for the three principals to somehow cope with - until tragedy strikes, forcing a painful resolution.
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Starring: Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Elizabeth Fehr, Jacobo Klassen, Peter Wall
(In Plautdietsch/French/Spanish/English With English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2007, 15, 4 Star)
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Film4 Listings for Monday 19th January
13:00
Loving You (Film)
Elvis Presley stars in his second film as Deke Rivers, a delivery man discovered by and recruited to join a country and western band. But Deke's road to stardom is complicated by a romantic dilemma involving the band's publicist and singer. Among the many musical highlights are Teddy Bear and Lonesome Cowboy.
Director: Hal Kanter
Starring: Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Dolores Hart, James Gleason, Ralph Dumke
(1957, PG, 2 Star)
15:00
Anne of the Indies (Film)
Fast-moving, action-packed swashbuckler starring Jean Peters in the title role of a brave buccaneer who falls for Captain Pierre François LaRochelle without realising he has been planted in her crew by the French navy to bring about her capture.
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall, Thomas Gomez, James Robertson-Justice
(Subtitles, 1951, 12, 3 Star)
16:35
The River's Edge (Film)
Allan Dwan was one of the few directors who mastered the art of making B-movies look better than plot or budget allowed. In this thriller, Dwan's final film, Ray Milland plays Nardo Denning, a crook who needs to smuggle his cash into Mexico. His ticket over the border is his ex-girlfriend Margaret who is married to border guard Ben Cameron, but as the trio set out into the mountains and deserts, Cameron uses his knowledge of the territory to outwit the murderous Denning.
Director: Allan Dwan
Starring: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey Jr., Chubby Johnson, Byron Foulger
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 3 Star)
18:20
The Phantom of the Opera (Film)
Joel Schumacher directs this lavish, Oscar-nominated screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical, itself based on the classic horror novel by Gaston Leroux. Emmy Rossum plays Christine Daae, a promising soprano who takes singing lessons from the mysterious Phantom of the Opera. He forces the opera's diva to leave with a regime of fear, leaving his protégé to take centre stage, but she falls for the opera's new patron, Viscount Raoul De Chagny, her childhood sweetheart. Enraged, the Phantom, passionately in love with Christine, kidnaps her to his subterranean lair while unleashing death and terror on the opera house's audience and workers. Can Raoul rescue Christine from his clutches before he has his evil way with her? Edited for content.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Ciarán Hinds
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 12, 4 Star)
21:00
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Film)
Two of the greatest threats to Mankind are about to meet in battle. The shadowy alien terrors that are Predators face the extra-terrestrial monsters called Aliens, in a long-awaited movie that brings the real stars of two of Hollywood's biggest hit sci-fi series together. An archaeological expedition to Antarctica discovers an ancient Aztec temple, consequently awakening a dormant Queen Alien, who immediately starts breeding again. Meanwhile, five teenage Predators are about to arrive to take part in a coming-of-age ritual involving a fight to the death with the Aliens - neither race is likely to take kindly to any humans that get in the way... The stunning computer graphics and great fight sequences will certainly appeal to any devotees of the two great fantasy creations.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, Tommy Flanagan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, 15, 4 Star)
22:45
Black Rain (Film)
Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia star in Ridley Scott's thriller as New York cops Nick Conklin and Charlie Vincent, charged with returning yakusa gangster Sato to Osaka to stand trial. But the pair are tricked in to handing him over to his fellow gangsters and must,with the help of local cop Masahiro Matsumoto, track him down amid the violence and corruption of a city where they are strangers.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Yusaku Matsuda, Shigeru Kôyama
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1989, 18, 3 Star)
01:05
The Return (Film)
Andrei Zvyagintsev's drama in which two young teenage boys Andrey and Ivan return home to find a stranger on the bed, claiming to be their father, who has been absent for 12 years. He announces he's taking them on a fishing trip but as the trio set off, one of the boys begins to think he is a murderous gangster while the other just wants to believe papa has come home. Separated into seven segments, each covering one day of their trip, this is stunning debut from an assured director.
Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Starring: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Natalya Vdovina
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Russian with English Subtitles, 2003, 12, 4 Star)
13:00
The Addams Family (Film)
Visually striking comedy based on the original comic strip. The blissfully ghoulish lives of Gomez and Morticia Addams are thrown into disarray when a scheming siren attempts to pass off her son as Gomez's long-lost brother Fester. Once installed in the family's spooky mansion, mother and son set their minds on stealing the family fortune.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Wilson, Christina Ricci, Judith Malina
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1991, PG, 3 Star)
15:00
American Guerilla in The Philippines (Film)
Fritz Lang made five war movies in his long career, four during or just after World War II and this one, released as America was about to embark on the Korean War. Based on a true story, it stars Tyrone Power as Ensign Chuck Palmer, the leader of a group of US servicemen left stranded in the Philippines in 1942 when General MacArthur withdrew from the Japanese invasion. Teaming up with the local resistance, he and his group, including buddy Jim Mitchell, evade the occupying forces and set up a makeshift radio station to bolster morale. Despite the wartime setting, Palmer still finds time for romance with Jeanne Martinez, the widow of a local resistance hero.
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Tyrone Power, Micheline Presle, Tom Ewell, Robert Patten, Tommy Cook, Juan Torena
(Subtitles, 1950, 15, 3 Star)
17:05
The Lost World (Film)
Claude Rains plays Professor Challenger, a scientist-adventurer who is convinced that dinosaurs still roam small corners of the earth. So he puts together an expedition to venture into the depths of the Amazon, where they are beset by all manner of giant animals, cannibals and geological phenomena that leave the increasingly disparate group fighting for their lives as they seek to find a way home. With Michael Rennie and Jill St John. Directed by Irwin Allen from a story by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Starring: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains, Fernando Lamas
(Subtitles, 1960, 12, 2 Star)
19:10
Crocodile Dundee (Film)
"That's not a knife. This is a knife" is among cinema's best known quotes, as the eponymous Mick "Crocodile" Dundee routs a New York mugger in Peter Faiman's Oscar-nominated comedy. Hogan, a national institution Down Under, broke into the big time with this film, playing an Outback crocodile hunter who attracts the attention of American journalist Sue Charlton. After she shares his life and dangers in the bush, she invites him to New York, an environment that's alien to Dundee but one he adapts to with charm and humour as he and Charlton slowly fall in love. Edited for content.
Director: Peter Faiman
Starring: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, David Gulpilil, Ritchie Singer, Maggie Blinco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1986, PG, 4 Star)
21:00
Keeping Mum (Film)
Rowan Atkinson plays the Reverend Walter Goodfellow, vicar of Little Wallop, who spends all his energies on his sermons, which leaves his neglected wife Gloria the opportunity to conduct a somewhat half-hearted affair with her golf pro Lance. But everything changes when the Goodfellows get a new housekeeper, Grace Hawkins who, in her spare time, is a psychopathic serial killer quite happy to rid her employees of anyone causing them problems... Niall Johnson's delicious black comedy sees the four leads play for well-earned laughs, but unsurprisingly it is Maggie Smith who steals the film.
Director: Niall Johnson
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Emilia Fox, Liz Smith
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)
23:00
Volver (Film)
Pedro Almodóvar's drama stars Penélope Cruz as Raimunda, a single parent looking after her daughter Paula, whose life is turned upside down by a murder. Although Raimunda manages to dispose of the body, further complications arise when her mother Irene, presumed dead, suddenly reappears. But when cir***stances dictate that Raimunda has to re-open a disused restaurant to cover up the murder, she finds that it becomes unexpectedly, and riotously, successful.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)
01:15
Silent Light (Film)
Carlos Reygadas' Cannes-winning film is set in north Mexico's Mennonite community. Johan is a hard-working farmer, married to Esther but having an affair with single woman Marianne. But it is a principle of the faith to be non-condemnatory, and the adulterous affair is a matter for the three principals to somehow cope with - until tragedy strikes, forcing a painful resolution.
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Starring: Cornelio Wall, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz, Elizabeth Fehr, Jacobo Klassen, Peter Wall
(In Plautdietsch/French/Spanish/English With English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2007, 15, 4 Star)
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Film4 Listings for Monday 19th January
13:00
Loving You (Film)
Elvis Presley stars in his second film as Deke Rivers, a delivery man discovered by and recruited to join a country and western band. But Deke's road to stardom is complicated by a romantic dilemma involving the band's publicist and singer. Among the many musical highlights are Teddy Bear and Lonesome Cowboy.
Director: Hal Kanter
Starring: Elvis Presley, Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey, Dolores Hart, James Gleason, Ralph Dumke
(1957, PG, 2 Star)
15:00
Anne of the Indies (Film)
Fast-moving, action-packed swashbuckler starring Jean Peters in the title role of a brave buccaneer who falls for Captain Pierre François LaRochelle without realising he has been planted in her crew by the French navy to bring about her capture.
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Starring: Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Debra Paget, Herbert Marshall, Thomas Gomez, James Robertson-Justice
(Subtitles, 1951, 12, 3 Star)
16:35
The River's Edge (Film)
Allan Dwan was one of the few directors who mastered the art of making B-movies look better than plot or budget allowed. In this thriller, Dwan's final film, Ray Milland plays Nardo Denning, a crook who needs to smuggle his cash into Mexico. His ticket over the border is his ex-girlfriend Margaret who is married to border guard Ben Cameron, but as the trio set out into the mountains and deserts, Cameron uses his knowledge of the territory to outwit the murderous Denning.
Director: Allan Dwan
Starring: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey Jr., Chubby Johnson, Byron Foulger
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 3 Star)
18:20
The Phantom of the Opera (Film)
Joel Schumacher directs this lavish, Oscar-nominated screen version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical, itself based on the classic horror novel by Gaston Leroux. Emmy Rossum plays Christine Daae, a promising soprano who takes singing lessons from the mysterious Phantom of the Opera. He forces the opera's diva to leave with a regime of fear, leaving his protégé to take centre stage, but she falls for the opera's new patron, Viscount Raoul De Chagny, her childhood sweetheart. Enraged, the Phantom, passionately in love with Christine, kidnaps her to his subterranean lair while unleashing death and terror on the opera house's audience and workers. Can Raoul rescue Christine from his clutches before he has his evil way with her? Edited for content.
Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson, Minnie Driver, Ciarán Hinds
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 12, 4 Star)
21:00
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Film)
Two of the greatest threats to Mankind are about to meet in battle. The shadowy alien terrors that are Predators face the extra-terrestrial monsters called Aliens, in a long-awaited movie that brings the real stars of two of Hollywood's biggest hit sci-fi series together. An archaeological expedition to Antarctica discovers an ancient Aztec temple, consequently awakening a dormant Queen Alien, who immediately starts breeding again. Meanwhile, five teenage Predators are about to arrive to take part in a coming-of-age ritual involving a fight to the death with the Aliens - neither race is likely to take kindly to any humans that get in the way... The stunning computer graphics and great fight sequences will certainly appeal to any devotees of the two great fantasy creations.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, Tommy Flanagan
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, 15, 4 Star)
22:45
Black Rain (Film)
Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia star in Ridley Scott's thriller as New York cops Nick Conklin and Charlie Vincent, charged with returning yakusa gangster Sato to Osaka to stand trial. But the pair are tricked in to handing him over to his fellow gangsters and must,with the help of local cop Masahiro Matsumoto, track him down amid the violence and corruption of a city where they are strangers.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Yusaku Matsuda, Shigeru Kôyama
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1989, 18, 3 Star)
01:05
The Return (Film)
Andrei Zvyagintsev's drama in which two young teenage boys Andrey and Ivan return home to find a stranger on the bed, claiming to be their father, who has been absent for 12 years. He announces he's taking them on a fishing trip but as the trio set off, one of the boys begins to think he is a murderous gangster while the other just wants to believe papa has come home. Separated into seven segments, each covering one day of their trip, this is stunning debut from an assured director.
Director: Andrei Zvyagintsev
Starring: Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko, Natalya Vdovina
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Russian with English Subtitles, 2003, 12, 4 Star)