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21-01-2009, 06:58 PM
Film4 Listings for Wednesday 21st January
13:00
The Fly (Film)
Kurt Neumann's classic horror film, scripted by best-selling author James Clavell, stars Patricia Owens as Helene Delambre who tells, in flashback, the story that culminates in her bringing down a hydraulic press on the head and arm of her scientist husband Andre. As she tells her brother-in-law Francois and police Inspector Charas of the matter-transference device Andre had invented and the terrible accident that befalls him, the horror mounts, with an ending that is one of cinema's most terrifying climaxes.
Director: Kurt Neumann
Starring: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson
(1958, 15, 3 Star)
14:50
Dragonwyck (Film)
In 1844, New England farm girl Miranda is invited to work as a governess for her distant relative Nicholas Van Ryn at his Dragonwyck estate. Van Ryn persuades Miranda to be his second wife... after murdering his first.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Anne Revere, Spring Byington
(Black and White, 1946, PG, 3 Star)
16:55
That Riviera Touch (Film)
Film comedy starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise as Eric Simpson and Ernest Clerk, caught up in a comic caper set in the south of France. After being inadvertently implicated in a mix-up involving the Royal Family, the accident-prone duo decide to escape to the French Riviera, only to become caught up in a crime sting involving a jewel thief, a band of smugglers, a femme fatale and a surfeit of collapsing corpses.
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Paul Stassino, Peter Jeffrey, Suzanne Lloyd, Armand Mestral
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)
18:50
Young Sherlock Holmes (Film)
Barry Levinson's family film, scripted by Chris Columbus, stars Nicholas Rowe as Sherlock Holmes and Alan Cox as John Watson who meet up as teenagers at boarding school. Holmes, already exercising his detective skills becomes interested in the seemingly unconnected deaths of prominent men and, thanks to his deductive powers, solves the case before the police can but not before placing himself and Watson in mortal peril. The influence of Steven Spielberg as executive producer can be seen, with scenes that could have appeared in The Goonies or Indiana Jones, but Levinson gives the film its own distinctive style. Nigel Stock plays an eccentric teacher at the school; he played Watson in the 1960s BBC TV series.
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood, Freddie Jones
(Widescreen, 1985, PG, 3 Star)
21:00
Cutthroat Island (Film)
Renny Harlin's action adventure is a good old-fashioned return to the days of swashbuckling pirate movies. Geena Davis plays Morgan Adams, whose pirate father bequeaths her one third of a treasure map. Her two uncles have the other two sections while an evil third uncle, Dawg Brown is after the complete map and the treasure. Matthew Modine plays William Shaw, a convict Adams buys at a slave auction to translate the map's Latin and who soon becomes her love interest. The stage is set for storms, sea battles, swordfights and, of course, the discovery of the treasure and the final confrontation.
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Patrick Malahide, Stan Shaw
(Subtitles, 1995, PG, 3 Star)
23:20
The Long Day Closes (Film)
Award-winning director Terence Davies' autobiographical story of 11-year-old Bud growing up in 50s Liverpool. Surrounded by the love of his family and his discovery of cinema, his perfect contentment is eclipsed only by the struggle to adapt to life at a new school. With Majorie Yates, Anthony Watson and Nicholas Lamont.
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont, Ayse Owens, Tina Malone
(Subtitles, 1992, PG, 4 Star)
01:00
The Ice Storm (Film)
Ang Lee's BAFTA and Cannes-winning drama follows the stories of two families, Ben and Elena Hood and Jim and Janey Carver and their adolescent children, including Christina Ricci and Elijah Wood. Set in Connecticut in the early '70s, it follows their casual affairs, breakdowns, juvenile ***ual experimentation and bad parenting, all of which leads to a dramatic climax of dysfunction during an ice storm that blankets the area with a frozen glaze.
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, 15, 4 Star)
13:00
The Fly (Film)
Kurt Neumann's classic horror film, scripted by best-selling author James Clavell, stars Patricia Owens as Helene Delambre who tells, in flashback, the story that culminates in her bringing down a hydraulic press on the head and arm of her scientist husband Andre. As she tells her brother-in-law Francois and police Inspector Charas of the matter-transference device Andre had invented and the terrible accident that befalls him, the horror mounts, with an ending that is one of cinema's most terrifying climaxes.
Director: Kurt Neumann
Starring: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman, Betty Lou Gerson
(1958, 15, 3 Star)
14:50
Dragonwyck (Film)
In 1844, New England farm girl Miranda is invited to work as a governess for her distant relative Nicholas Van Ryn at his Dragonwyck estate. Van Ryn persuades Miranda to be his second wife... after murdering his first.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, Vincent Price, Glenn Langan, Anne Revere, Spring Byington
(Black and White, 1946, PG, 3 Star)
16:55
That Riviera Touch (Film)
Film comedy starring Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise as Eric Simpson and Ernest Clerk, caught up in a comic caper set in the south of France. After being inadvertently implicated in a mix-up involving the Royal Family, the accident-prone duo decide to escape to the French Riviera, only to become caught up in a crime sting involving a jewel thief, a band of smugglers, a femme fatale and a surfeit of collapsing corpses.
Director: Cliff Owen
Starring: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Paul Stassino, Peter Jeffrey, Suzanne Lloyd, Armand Mestral
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)
18:50
Young Sherlock Holmes (Film)
Barry Levinson's family film, scripted by Chris Columbus, stars Nicholas Rowe as Sherlock Holmes and Alan Cox as John Watson who meet up as teenagers at boarding school. Holmes, already exercising his detective skills becomes interested in the seemingly unconnected deaths of prominent men and, thanks to his deductive powers, solves the case before the police can but not before placing himself and Watson in mortal peril. The influence of Steven Spielberg as executive producer can be seen, with scenes that could have appeared in The Goonies or Indiana Jones, but Levinson gives the film its own distinctive style. Nigel Stock plays an eccentric teacher at the school; he played Watson in the 1960s BBC TV series.
Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins, Susan Fleetwood, Freddie Jones
(Widescreen, 1985, PG, 3 Star)
21:00
Cutthroat Island (Film)
Renny Harlin's action adventure is a good old-fashioned return to the days of swashbuckling pirate movies. Geena Davis plays Morgan Adams, whose pirate father bequeaths her one third of a treasure map. Her two uncles have the other two sections while an evil third uncle, Dawg Brown is after the complete map and the treasure. Matthew Modine plays William Shaw, a convict Adams buys at a slave auction to translate the map's Latin and who soon becomes her love interest. The stage is set for storms, sea battles, swordfights and, of course, the discovery of the treasure and the final confrontation.
Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Patrick Malahide, Stan Shaw
(Subtitles, 1995, PG, 3 Star)
23:20
The Long Day Closes (Film)
Award-winning director Terence Davies' autobiographical story of 11-year-old Bud growing up in 50s Liverpool. Surrounded by the love of his family and his discovery of cinema, his perfect contentment is eclipsed only by the struggle to adapt to life at a new school. With Majorie Yates, Anthony Watson and Nicholas Lamont.
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Marjorie Yates, Leigh McCormack, Anthony Watson, Nicholas Lamont, Ayse Owens, Tina Malone
(Subtitles, 1992, PG, 4 Star)
01:00
The Ice Storm (Film)
Ang Lee's BAFTA and Cannes-winning drama follows the stories of two families, Ben and Elena Hood and Jim and Janey Carver and their adolescent children, including Christina Ricci and Elijah Wood. Set in Connecticut in the early '70s, it follows their casual affairs, breakdowns, juvenile ***ual experimentation and bad parenting, all of which leads to a dramatic climax of dysfunction during an ice storm that blankets the area with a frozen glaze.
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, 15, 4 Star)