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13:00 VICTIM
(1961) Basil Dearden's film stars Dirk Bogarde as a married, but secretly ***, barrister who risks his reputation to track down blackmailers who are targetting his fellow ***s.
15:00 INNOCENTS IN PARIS
(1953) Picaresque comedy about the British abroad that sends up both the British and foreigners. With Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford and Claire Bloom.
16:45 THE GIFT HORSE
(1952) Trevor Howard captains an ancient US warship gifted to the British navy, which is chosen to lead the raid on St Nazaire in 1942. With Richard Attenborough.
18:50 TIMELINE
(2003) Richard Donner's time-travel film in which a group of archaeology students travel back to 14th-century France to rescue their professor (Billy Connolly) from war and plague.
21:00 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III
(2006) Tom Cruise stars as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, master of disguise and the double bluff. He's up against Philip Seymour Hoffman, who is planning to sell a deadly weapon. Violent scenes.
23:20 BIG NOTHING
(2006) Simon Pegg and David Schwimmer star as computer helpdeskers who decide to blackmail those accessing ****, but as the body count rises, their plans go awry. Violence/strong language.
01:05 LA CIENAGA
(2000) Two cousins look after their children and hopeless husbands as their Argentinian city is gripped by a stultifying heatwave in Lucrecia Martel's allegory of the country's decline.
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Film4 Listings for Monday 6th April
13:00
Sailor Beware! (Film)
Peggy Mount raises the decibel levels of this durable British farce, playing Emma Hornett, the formidable mother of delightful Shirley, scaring the daylights out of her daughter's naval fiancé Albert Tufnell. Sailor Beware! benefits from an abundance of music hall mirth, and a supporting cast that includes Gordon Jackson, Thora Hird and Cyril Smith.
Director: Gordon Parry
Starring: Peggy Mount, Cyril Smith, Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis, Esma Cannon, Joy Webster
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1957, U, 3 Star)
14:40
The Mudlark (Film)
Despite the urging of Disraeli, Queen Victoria hasn't left Windsor in years... until a street urchin persuades her. On the bank of the Thames, the little scavenger uncovers a medallion bearing the queen's head and gains Her Majesty's favour.
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrea Aureli, Beatrice Campbell, Finlay Currie, Anthony Steel
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)
16:35
In Custody (Film)
The feature film directorial debut of Ismail Merchant sees his adaptation of Anita Desai's poignant tale about a poet past his best. Deven is a teacher who has been commissioned to interview legendary Urdu poet, Nur, whom he has idolised for years. However, when Deven arrives for the interview, he discovers a broken man surrounded by hangers on and pulled in two different directions by his two wives.
Director: Ismail Merchant
Starring: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri
(In Urdu and Hindi With English Subtitles, 1993, 15, 3 Star)
19:00
Bad News Bears (Film)
Michael Ritchie's cult sports comedy stars Walter Matthau as the curmudgeonly Morris Buttermaker, hired to coach a little league baseball team of no-hopers. The team, comprised of underprivileged kids playing in a league of WASP aspiration, are joined by ringer Amanda Whurlitzer and finally, under Buttermaker's alcohol-fuelled tutelage, get ready to win a game at last.
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Walter Matthau, Chris Barnes, Tatum O'Neal, Ben Piazza, Vic Morrow, Erin Blunt
(Widescreen, 1976, PG, 3 Star)
21:00
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Film)
Uma Thurman plays dowdy Jenny Johnson, who falls in love with Matt Saunders when they happen to meet on the subway. But when he finds her a little too possessive he dumps her, a decision he soon regrets. Because Jenny Johnson has an alter-ego: superhero G-Girl; and, as Saunders soon finds out in Ivan Reitman's comedy, hell hath no fury like a woman with super powers scorned.
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson, Eddie Izzard, Stelio Savante
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 3 Star)
22:55
Asylum (Film)
David Mackenzie's 60s-set drama stars Natasha Richardson as Stella Raphael, whose psychiatrist husband Max has been appointed as head of a maximum security hospital. Stuck in a loveless marriage and bored, she begins to take an active interest in one of the patients, Edgar Stark, which develops into a physical relationship. But what she doesn't realise is that Stark is dangerously insane and both he and Stella are being manipulated by the devious Dr Peter Cleave, bitter at being overlooked for the top job and eager for revenge.
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Hugh Bonneville, Gus Lewis, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Wanda Ventham
(Widescreen, 2005, 15, 3 Star)
00:50
A Lesson in Love (Film)
One of Ingmar Bergman's lighter films, Gunnar Björnstrand plays an eminent gynaecologist who embarks on an affair with a patient. In revenge, his wife Eva Dahlbeck leaves for Copenhagen and an ex-lover but when Björnstrand's affair ends, he sets off in pursuit of Dahlbeck, determined to win her back despite the attentions of her lover.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Yvonne Lombard, Harriet Andersson, Åke Grönberg, Olof Winnerstrand
(In Swedish With Subtitles, 1954, PG, 3 Star)
(1961) Basil Dearden's film stars Dirk Bogarde as a married, but secretly ***, barrister who risks his reputation to track down blackmailers who are targetting his fellow ***s.
15:00 INNOCENTS IN PARIS
(1953) Picaresque comedy about the British abroad that sends up both the British and foreigners. With Alastair Sim, Ronald Shiner, Margaret Rutherford and Claire Bloom.
16:45 THE GIFT HORSE
(1952) Trevor Howard captains an ancient US warship gifted to the British navy, which is chosen to lead the raid on St Nazaire in 1942. With Richard Attenborough.
18:50 TIMELINE
(2003) Richard Donner's time-travel film in which a group of archaeology students travel back to 14th-century France to rescue their professor (Billy Connolly) from war and plague.
21:00 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III
(2006) Tom Cruise stars as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, master of disguise and the double bluff. He's up against Philip Seymour Hoffman, who is planning to sell a deadly weapon. Violent scenes.
23:20 BIG NOTHING
(2006) Simon Pegg and David Schwimmer star as computer helpdeskers who decide to blackmail those accessing ****, but as the body count rises, their plans go awry. Violence/strong language.
01:05 LA CIENAGA
(2000) Two cousins look after their children and hopeless husbands as their Argentinian city is gripped by a stultifying heatwave in Lucrecia Martel's allegory of the country's decline.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Film4 Listings for Monday 6th April
13:00
Sailor Beware! (Film)
Peggy Mount raises the decibel levels of this durable British farce, playing Emma Hornett, the formidable mother of delightful Shirley, scaring the daylights out of her daughter's naval fiancé Albert Tufnell. Sailor Beware! benefits from an abundance of music hall mirth, and a supporting cast that includes Gordon Jackson, Thora Hird and Cyril Smith.
Director: Gordon Parry
Starring: Peggy Mount, Cyril Smith, Shirley Eaton, Ronald Lewis, Esma Cannon, Joy Webster
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1957, U, 3 Star)
14:40
The Mudlark (Film)
Despite the urging of Disraeli, Queen Victoria hasn't left Windsor in years... until a street urchin persuades her. On the bank of the Thames, the little scavenger uncovers a medallion bearing the queen's head and gains Her Majesty's favour.
Director: Jean Negulesco
Starring: Irene Dunne, Alec Guinness, Andrea Aureli, Beatrice Campbell, Finlay Currie, Anthony Steel
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)
16:35
In Custody (Film)
The feature film directorial debut of Ismail Merchant sees his adaptation of Anita Desai's poignant tale about a poet past his best. Deven is a teacher who has been commissioned to interview legendary Urdu poet, Nur, whom he has idolised for years. However, when Deven arrives for the interview, he discovers a broken man surrounded by hangers on and pulled in two different directions by his two wives.
Director: Ismail Merchant
Starring: Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Om Puri
(In Urdu and Hindi With English Subtitles, 1993, 15, 3 Star)
19:00
Bad News Bears (Film)
Michael Ritchie's cult sports comedy stars Walter Matthau as the curmudgeonly Morris Buttermaker, hired to coach a little league baseball team of no-hopers. The team, comprised of underprivileged kids playing in a league of WASP aspiration, are joined by ringer Amanda Whurlitzer and finally, under Buttermaker's alcohol-fuelled tutelage, get ready to win a game at last.
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Walter Matthau, Chris Barnes, Tatum O'Neal, Ben Piazza, Vic Morrow, Erin Blunt
(Widescreen, 1976, PG, 3 Star)
21:00
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Film)
Uma Thurman plays dowdy Jenny Johnson, who falls in love with Matt Saunders when they happen to meet on the subway. But when he finds her a little too possessive he dumps her, a decision he soon regrets. Because Jenny Johnson has an alter-ego: superhero G-Girl; and, as Saunders soon finds out in Ivan Reitman's comedy, hell hath no fury like a woman with super powers scorned.
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson, Eddie Izzard, Stelio Savante
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 3 Star)
22:55
Asylum (Film)
David Mackenzie's 60s-set drama stars Natasha Richardson as Stella Raphael, whose psychiatrist husband Max has been appointed as head of a maximum security hospital. Stuck in a loveless marriage and bored, she begins to take an active interest in one of the patients, Edgar Stark, which develops into a physical relationship. But what she doesn't realise is that Stark is dangerously insane and both he and Stella are being manipulated by the devious Dr Peter Cleave, bitter at being overlooked for the top job and eager for revenge.
Director: David Mackenzie
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Hugh Bonneville, Gus Lewis, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Wanda Ventham
(Widescreen, 2005, 15, 3 Star)
00:50
A Lesson in Love (Film)
One of Ingmar Bergman's lighter films, Gunnar Björnstrand plays an eminent gynaecologist who embarks on an affair with a patient. In revenge, his wife Eva Dahlbeck leaves for Copenhagen and an ex-lover but when Björnstrand's affair ends, he sets off in pursuit of Dahlbeck, determined to win her back despite the attentions of her lover.
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Yvonne Lombard, Harriet Andersson, Åke Grönberg, Olof Winnerstrand
(In Swedish With Subtitles, 1954, PG, 3 Star)