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16-11-2008, 09:08 PM
Film4 Listings for Sunday 16th November
13:00
Congo (Film)
Frank Marshall's all-out-action film stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Tim Curry and Ernie Hudson as a disparate group who embark on a safari into the heart of the Congo. Each has different reasons for setting out into the unknown. But having survived volcanoes and hungry hippo attacks, nothing could have prepared them for the greatest danger: a troop of intelligent killer apes who, as one critic wrote, "...make King Kong look like the Jolly Green Giant". Based on Michael Crichton's bestseller, Marshall's film is great fun, with wonderful cliff-hanging moments and, in Dr Karen Ross, a character who can out-tough Indiana Jones any day. Edited for content.
Director: Frank Marshall
Starring: Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1995, 12, 2 Star)
15:00
Black Narcissus (Film)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Oscar-winning classic film of repressed desires and lust among a community of Anglican nuns in the Himalayan hills. Deborah Kerr stars as their leader, Sister Clodagh, trying to hold their faith together in spite of the very un-nun like leanings of Sister Ruth who becomes infatuated with local landowner Mr Dean.
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Sabu, Esmond Knight
(Subtitles, 1947, U, 4 Star)
17:00
Hell and High Water (Film)
Sam Fuller's Cold War thriller stars Richard Widmark as Captain Adam Jones, an ex-WWII submarine commander. Jones is hired by Professor Montel to take him in a refurbished submarine to an Arctic Island where the Reds are planning to start WWIII by dropping a nuclear **** on Korea which America will be blamed for. Can Taylor and his crew thwart the Commie menace and can he win the heart of Montel's daughter Denise? Such is the virulent anti-communist message of the film that it was banned in France while one British critic called it, "a disgrace and an insult".
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans, David Wayne
(Subtitles, 1954, U, 2 Star)
19:10
Napoleon Dynamite (Film)
Jared Hess's high-school comedy stars Jon Heder as the eponymous Napoleon Dynamite, who is on the lowest rung of the nerd ladder - even his best friend Pedro Sanchez beats him to a date for the high-school dance. But when Pedro asks Napoleon to be his campaign manager for the school election, how can he refuse? Napoleon's home life is equally strange: his brother Kip, whose waking hours are spent online in chat rooms, and his uncle Rico, who is stuck in 1982, are his only relatives. Add in a time-travel machine and cow-judging competitions for a compellingly weird film.
Director: Jared Hess
Starring: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Diedrich Bader, Tina Majorino
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, PG, 3 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
G.I. Jane (Film)
When a female US Senator persuades a Navy representative that there should be full gender integration in the force, he offers the chance for a female officer to undergo elite Navy SEALS training. Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil is the chosen officer but will she last the course and triumph over everyone who expects her to fail?
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Daniel von Bargen, John Michael Higgins
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, 15, 3 Star)
01:20
Quills (Film)
Oscar-nominated Geoffrey Rush stars as the Marquis de Sade, imprisoned in the Charenton Asylum for the Insane for his scandalous writings and behaviour. Tormented by the asylum's doctor Royer-Collard and the priest The Abbe du Coulmier, he still manages to smuggle out pages of manuscript thanks to laundress Maddy LeClerc in Philip Kaufman's stunning drama.
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Malahide
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2000, 18, 4 Star)
13:00
Congo (Film)
Frank Marshall's all-out-action film stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Tim Curry and Ernie Hudson as a disparate group who embark on a safari into the heart of the Congo. Each has different reasons for setting out into the unknown. But having survived volcanoes and hungry hippo attacks, nothing could have prepared them for the greatest danger: a troop of intelligent killer apes who, as one critic wrote, "...make King Kong look like the Jolly Green Giant". Based on Michael Crichton's bestseller, Marshall's film is great fun, with wonderful cliff-hanging moments and, in Dr Karen Ross, a character who can out-tough Indiana Jones any day. Edited for content.
Director: Frank Marshall
Starring: Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1995, 12, 2 Star)
15:00
Black Narcissus (Film)
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Oscar-winning classic film of repressed desires and lust among a community of Anglican nuns in the Himalayan hills. Deborah Kerr stars as their leader, Sister Clodagh, trying to hold their faith together in spite of the very un-nun like leanings of Sister Ruth who becomes infatuated with local landowner Mr Dean.
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons, David Farrar, Sabu, Esmond Knight
(Subtitles, 1947, U, 4 Star)
17:00
Hell and High Water (Film)
Sam Fuller's Cold War thriller stars Richard Widmark as Captain Adam Jones, an ex-WWII submarine commander. Jones is hired by Professor Montel to take him in a refurbished submarine to an Arctic Island where the Reds are planning to start WWIII by dropping a nuclear **** on Korea which America will be blamed for. Can Taylor and his crew thwart the Commie menace and can he win the heart of Montel's daughter Denise? Such is the virulent anti-communist message of the film that it was banned in France while one British critic called it, "a disgrace and an insult".
Director: Samuel Fuller
Starring: Richard Widmark, Bella Darvi, Victor Francen, Cameron Mitchell, Gene Evans, David Wayne
(Subtitles, 1954, U, 2 Star)
19:10
Napoleon Dynamite (Film)
Jared Hess's high-school comedy stars Jon Heder as the eponymous Napoleon Dynamite, who is on the lowest rung of the nerd ladder - even his best friend Pedro Sanchez beats him to a date for the high-school dance. But when Pedro asks Napoleon to be his campaign manager for the school election, how can he refuse? Napoleon's home life is equally strange: his brother Kip, whose waking hours are spent online in chat rooms, and his uncle Rico, who is stuck in 1982, are his only relatives. Add in a time-travel machine and cow-judging competitions for a compellingly weird film.
Director: Jared Hess
Starring: Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Diedrich Bader, Tina Majorino
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, PG, 3 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
G.I. Jane (Film)
When a female US Senator persuades a Navy representative that there should be full gender integration in the force, he offers the chance for a female officer to undergo elite Navy SEALS training. Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil is the chosen officer but will she last the course and triumph over everyone who expects her to fail?
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Daniel von Bargen, John Michael Higgins
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1997, 15, 3 Star)
01:20
Quills (Film)
Oscar-nominated Geoffrey Rush stars as the Marquis de Sade, imprisoned in the Charenton Asylum for the Insane for his scandalous writings and behaviour. Tormented by the asylum's doctor Royer-Collard and the priest The Abbe du Coulmier, he still manages to smuggle out pages of manuscript thanks to laundress Maddy LeClerc in Philip Kaufman's stunning drama.
Director: Philip Kaufman
Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Malahide
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2000, 18, 4 Star)