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06-11-2008, 09:50 AM
Film4 Listings for Thursday 6th November
13:00
The Long Memory (Film)
Tough, gripping British thriller starring John Mills as Phillip Davidson, who is released from jail after serving 12 years for a murder he did not commit. Determined to seek revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment, he at first shuts himself away in a deserted barge on the Thames Estuary where he is kept under police surveillance and hounded by pressmen after a story. Only a sympathetic refugee girl, Ilse, is slowly able to get through to him and persuade him of the futility of trying to get back at the perjurers who sent him to jail.
Director: Robert Hamer
Starring: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Martin-Harvey
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1953, PG, 3 Star)
14:50
The Bravados (Film)
Henry King's brooding western stars Gregory Peck as a stranger who arrives in a small town to see four bank robbers hanged. He's convinced they raped and murdered his wife and, when they break out of prison, taking Emma Steimmetz *******, he tracks them down and begins to kill them one by one. Then, just as he is about to execute the last, he finds out a truth that makes him reconsider not just his purpose but his beliefs.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)
16:50
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (Film)
In Hong Kong of 1949, tensions mount as refugees pour in from Communist China. So when married American journalist Mark Elliot falls in love with widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin, they come under intense pressure to end their affair from English socialite Mrs Palmer-Jones, Suyin's communist colleague Dr Sen and the city's vicious gossip-mongers. Their happiness is short-lived, however; Suyin is sacked from her job, Mark's estranged wife refuses to give him a divorce, and finally his newspaper sends him to cover the Korean War. Mark is killed, but his death only cements Suyin's belief that their love is eternal in Henry King's romantic weepy.
Director: Henry King
Starring: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson, Virginia Gregg
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 2 Star)
18:55
Guns at Batasi (Film)
BAFTA-winning Richard Attenborough stars in John Guillermin's drama as RSM Lauderdale, martinet of the sergeants' mess of a British army garrison in one of HMQ's last remaining African colonies. When a coup d'etat is declared by British-educated Lt Boniface, the British officers, including Lt Col John Deal, find themselves caught in a tricky political situation. But for someone like Lauderdale, with his entrenched values and beliefs, duty calls before any compromise, as he prepares to defend those he is responsible for.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow, Cecil Parker
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1964, PG, 3 Star)
21:00
I, Robot (Film)
Set just three decades in the future, Alex Proyas's all-action science fiction film is inspired by Isaac Asimov's 1950s short story. The science of robotics is so advanced that humanoid-looking servants have been developed, ready to obey any command from a human. When the chief designer of US Robotics, the biggest manufacturer of this new brand, is found dead in the company's atrium after a fall from the upper floor, it has all the hallmarks of suicide, and Chicago cop Del Spooner is assigned to the case. But, because of a previous trauma, Spooner is a technophobe and doesn't believe that all robots are harmless. Despite opposition from both his superiors and the company, he investigates further and soon his suspicions centre on one robot, Sonny. Is "he" one of an army of conscious, violent robots ready to challenge their human masters?
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Adrian Ricard
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, 12, 4 Star)
23:10
The Shape of Things (Film)
Neil Labute's film stars Paul Rudd as Adam, whose life is going nowhere. One day, in his job as a museum guard, he intervenes to stop Evelyn from defacing a piece and, intrigued by each other, the pair start an affair. Adam's best friends, Jenny and Phillip, begin to notice changes in him: contact lenses instead of geeky glasses, stylish clothing, even a nose job. But they also begin to question Evelyn's influence on him and them, and slowly the relationships and loyalties between the four become stretched to breaking point, until a dangerously passionate denouement looms.
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Gretchen Mol, Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Fred Weller
(Widescreen, 2003, 15, 3 Star)
01:05
9th Company (Film)
Fyodor Bondarchuk's tough war-set drama follows a group of Russian army recruits from training through to posting in late 80s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand. The director plays one of the recruits, Khokhol, with Mikhail Porechenkov as their tough drill sergeant Praporshik Dygalo, who presciently reminds them that in all of history, no one has ever managed to conquer Afghanistan.
Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk
Starring: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksei Chadov, Mikhail Yevlanov, Ivan Kokorin, Artyom Mikhalkov, Konstantin Kryukov
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Russian with English Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)
13:00
The Long Memory (Film)
Tough, gripping British thriller starring John Mills as Phillip Davidson, who is released from jail after serving 12 years for a murder he did not commit. Determined to seek revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment, he at first shuts himself away in a deserted barge on the Thames Estuary where he is kept under police surveillance and hounded by pressmen after a story. Only a sympathetic refugee girl, Ilse, is slowly able to get through to him and persuade him of the futility of trying to get back at the perjurers who sent him to jail.
Director: Robert Hamer
Starring: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Martin-Harvey
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1953, PG, 3 Star)
14:50
The Bravados (Film)
Henry King's brooding western stars Gregory Peck as a stranger who arrives in a small town to see four bank robbers hanged. He's convinced they raped and murdered his wife and, when they break out of prison, taking Emma Steimmetz *******, he tracks them down and begins to kill them one by one. Then, just as he is about to execute the last, he finds out a truth that makes him reconsider not just his purpose but his beliefs.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)
16:50
Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (Film)
In Hong Kong of 1949, tensions mount as refugees pour in from Communist China. So when married American journalist Mark Elliot falls in love with widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin, they come under intense pressure to end their affair from English socialite Mrs Palmer-Jones, Suyin's communist colleague Dr Sen and the city's vicious gossip-mongers. Their happiness is short-lived, however; Suyin is sacked from her job, Mark's estranged wife refuses to give him a divorce, and finally his newspaper sends him to cover the Korean War. Mark is killed, but his death only cements Suyin's belief that their love is eternal in Henry King's romantic weepy.
Director: Henry King
Starring: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson, Virginia Gregg
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 2 Star)
18:55
Guns at Batasi (Film)
BAFTA-winning Richard Attenborough stars in John Guillermin's drama as RSM Lauderdale, martinet of the sergeants' mess of a British army garrison in one of HMQ's last remaining African colonies. When a coup d'etat is declared by British-educated Lt Boniface, the British officers, including Lt Col John Deal, find themselves caught in a tricky political situation. But for someone like Lauderdale, with his entrenched values and beliefs, duty calls before any compromise, as he prepares to defend those he is responsible for.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Jack Hawkins, Flora Robson, John Leyton, Mia Farrow, Cecil Parker
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1964, PG, 3 Star)
21:00
I, Robot (Film)
Set just three decades in the future, Alex Proyas's all-action science fiction film is inspired by Isaac Asimov's 1950s short story. The science of robotics is so advanced that humanoid-looking servants have been developed, ready to obey any command from a human. When the chief designer of US Robotics, the biggest manufacturer of this new brand, is found dead in the company's atrium after a fall from the upper floor, it has all the hallmarks of suicide, and Chicago cop Del Spooner is assigned to the case. But, because of a previous trauma, Spooner is a technophobe and doesn't believe that all robots are harmless. Despite opposition from both his superiors and the company, he investigates further and soon his suspicions centre on one robot, Sonny. Is "he" one of an army of conscious, violent robots ready to challenge their human masters?
Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood, Adrian Ricard
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, 12, 4 Star)
23:10
The Shape of Things (Film)
Neil Labute's film stars Paul Rudd as Adam, whose life is going nowhere. One day, in his job as a museum guard, he intervenes to stop Evelyn from defacing a piece and, intrigued by each other, the pair start an affair. Adam's best friends, Jenny and Phillip, begin to notice changes in him: contact lenses instead of geeky glasses, stylish clothing, even a nose job. But they also begin to question Evelyn's influence on him and them, and slowly the relationships and loyalties between the four become stretched to breaking point, until a dangerously passionate denouement looms.
Director: Neil LaBute
Starring: Gretchen Mol, Paul Rudd, Rachel Weisz, Fred Weller
(Widescreen, 2003, 15, 3 Star)
01:05
9th Company (Film)
Fyodor Bondarchuk's tough war-set drama follows a group of Russian army recruits from training through to posting in late 80s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand. The director plays one of the recruits, Khokhol, with Mikhail Porechenkov as their tough drill sergeant Praporshik Dygalo, who presciently reminds them that in all of history, no one has ever managed to conquer Afghanistan.
Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk
Starring: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Aleksei Chadov, Mikhail Yevlanov, Ivan Kokorin, Artyom Mikhalkov, Konstantin Kryukov
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Russian with English Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)