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26-01-2009, 11:14 PM
Monday 26th January 2009
13:00 Dragonwyck
(1946) Gene Tierney stars as a governess who takes a post at Vincent Price's mansion and marries him, only to discover he is both mad and a murderer in this chilling Gothic drama.
15:05 The Bells of ST Mary's
(1945) Bing Crosby plays Father Chuck O'Malley, sent to St Mary's Academy, an inner-city school threatened with closure which is run by the glacial Sister Mary Benedict (Ingrid Bergman).
17:35 LOVE HAPPY
(1949) The Marx Brothers' final feature together stars Harpo as a man who finds some stolen diamonds, Groucho as a private eye, and Chico as a travelling musician caught up in the plot.
19:15 CARRY ON BEHIND
(1975) Archaeologist Kenneth Williams and his pneumatic assistant Elke Sommer, whose command of English leads to many a misunderstanding, help excavate a Roman villa.
21:00 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
(2005) John Carpenter's thriller stars Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne as a cop and a con who have to hold off the brutal siege of a lonely police station. Very strong language/violence.
23:05 BAD LIEUTENANT
(1992) Abel Ferrara's film stars Harvey Keitel as an alcoholic junkie cop who finds redemption as he searches for a nun's rapist. Adults only: strong language/***ual violence/drug use.
01:00 KEANE
(2004) Damian Lewis haunts a bus station looking for his daughter. Is he sane or will his relationship with Amy Ryan and her daughter tip him over the edge? Strong language.
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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 27th January
13:00
Innocents in Paris (Film)
Picaresque comedy about the British abroad, following a disparate group of people on a weekend tour of the French capital, which sends up both the visitors and stereotypical observations about foreigners. With Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, Claire Bloom, Claude Dauphin, Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards and James Copeland. Directed by Gordon Perry.
Director: Gordon Parry
Starring: Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Claire Bloom, Margaret Rutherford, Claude Dauphin, Jimmy Edwards
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1953, U, 3 Star)
14:55
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)
16:50
Bless This House (Film)
Movie spin-off from the popular 70s TV series, starring Sid James as Sid Abbott, the middle-class, middle-aged father who doesn't understand the youth of the day; in particular his own children, Mike and Sally, who both seem keener to attend demos than get a job. Plus, he's also having problems with his new neighbour Ronald Baines. So when Baines' daughter Kate falls for Mike, comic confusions ensue.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson, Peter Butterworth, Terry Scott, June Whitfield
(Subtitles, 1972, PG, 3 Star)
18:35
The Parent Trap (Film)
Family comedy about identical twin sisters who are separated at birth when their parents divorce. Years later the girls meet at a summer camp and, despite strikingly different personalities, agree to a scheme to reunite their parents. When camp ends, they change places and start their plan with the first goal to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father. A new remake of the 1961 favourite staring Hayley Mills.
Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, PG, 3 Star)
21:00
Braveheart (Film)
Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Oscar-laden epic as William Wallace, the medieval Scottish patriot spurred into revolt against the English when the love of his life is slaughtered. Leading his army into battles that become a war, his advance into England threatens King Edward I's throne before he is captured and executed, but not before becoming a symbol for a free Scotland. The mix of court intrigue, tender love scenes and stirring battles never flags and Gibson rightly took the Oscar for best picture.
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Mel Gibson, James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo, Sean McGinley
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1995, 15, 4 Star)
00:20
Zatôichi (Film)
Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano directs, scripts and stars in this martial arts adventure as Zatôichi, a character well known in Japan through television series and films but rarely seen in the west. Zatôichi is a blind masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman, thanks to his extraordinarily heightened senses. Travelling the country fighting for the weak and oppressed, he joins forces with a young man and woman out to avenge their slaughtered parents, to help them protect a village against a brutal gang led by ronin Hattori. Kitano manages to mix blood-splattering violent stylised fights with genuinely funny moments in this unique samurai movie.
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Ookusu, Gadarukanaru Taka, Daigorô Tachibana, Yuuko Daike
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2003, 18, 3 Star)
13:00 Dragonwyck
(1946) Gene Tierney stars as a governess who takes a post at Vincent Price's mansion and marries him, only to discover he is both mad and a murderer in this chilling Gothic drama.
15:05 The Bells of ST Mary's
(1945) Bing Crosby plays Father Chuck O'Malley, sent to St Mary's Academy, an inner-city school threatened with closure which is run by the glacial Sister Mary Benedict (Ingrid Bergman).
17:35 LOVE HAPPY
(1949) The Marx Brothers' final feature together stars Harpo as a man who finds some stolen diamonds, Groucho as a private eye, and Chico as a travelling musician caught up in the plot.
19:15 CARRY ON BEHIND
(1975) Archaeologist Kenneth Williams and his pneumatic assistant Elke Sommer, whose command of English leads to many a misunderstanding, help excavate a Roman villa.
21:00 ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
(2005) John Carpenter's thriller stars Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne as a cop and a con who have to hold off the brutal siege of a lonely police station. Very strong language/violence.
23:05 BAD LIEUTENANT
(1992) Abel Ferrara's film stars Harvey Keitel as an alcoholic junkie cop who finds redemption as he searches for a nun's rapist. Adults only: strong language/***ual violence/drug use.
01:00 KEANE
(2004) Damian Lewis haunts a bus station looking for his daughter. Is he sane or will his relationship with Amy Ryan and her daughter tip him over the edge? Strong language.
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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 27th January
13:00
Innocents in Paris (Film)
Picaresque comedy about the British abroad, following a disparate group of people on a weekend tour of the French capital, which sends up both the visitors and stereotypical observations about foreigners. With Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford, Claire Bloom, Claude Dauphin, Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards and James Copeland. Directed by Gordon Perry.
Director: Gordon Parry
Starring: Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Claire Bloom, Margaret Rutherford, Claude Dauphin, Jimmy Edwards
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1953, U, 3 Star)
14:55
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)
16:50
Bless This House (Film)
Movie spin-off from the popular 70s TV series, starring Sid James as Sid Abbott, the middle-class, middle-aged father who doesn't understand the youth of the day; in particular his own children, Mike and Sally, who both seem keener to attend demos than get a job. Plus, he's also having problems with his new neighbour Ronald Baines. So when Baines' daughter Kate falls for Mike, comic confusions ensue.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson, Peter Butterworth, Terry Scott, June Whitfield
(Subtitles, 1972, PG, 3 Star)
18:35
The Parent Trap (Film)
Family comedy about identical twin sisters who are separated at birth when their parents divorce. Years later the girls meet at a summer camp and, despite strikingly different personalities, agree to a scheme to reunite their parents. When camp ends, they change places and start their plan with the first goal to scare off a gold-digger pursuing their father. A new remake of the 1961 favourite staring Hayley Mills.
Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, PG, 3 Star)
21:00
Braveheart (Film)
Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Oscar-laden epic as William Wallace, the medieval Scottish patriot spurred into revolt against the English when the love of his life is slaughtered. Leading his army into battles that become a war, his advance into England threatens King Edward I's throne before he is captured and executed, but not before becoming a symbol for a free Scotland. The mix of court intrigue, tender love scenes and stirring battles never flags and Gibson rightly took the Oscar for best picture.
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Mel Gibson, James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo, Sean McGinley
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1995, 15, 4 Star)
00:20
Zatôichi (Film)
Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano directs, scripts and stars in this martial arts adventure as Zatôichi, a character well known in Japan through television series and films but rarely seen in the west. Zatôichi is a blind masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman, thanks to his extraordinarily heightened senses. Travelling the country fighting for the weak and oppressed, he joins forces with a young man and woman out to avenge their slaughtered parents, to help them protect a village against a brutal gang led by ronin Hattori. Kitano manages to mix blood-splattering violent stylised fights with genuinely funny moments in this unique samurai movie.
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Ookusu, Gadarukanaru Taka, Daigorô Tachibana, Yuuko Daike
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2003, 18, 3 Star)