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17-11-2008, 09:23 AM
Film4 Listings for Monday 17th November
13:00
The Silver Fleet (Film)
Ralph Richardson stars in this Powell and Pressburger WWII drama as Dutch shipyard owner Jaap van Leyden, who seems to be working with the Nazis and earns the emnity of the Dutch patriots around him. However, van Leyden is secretly aiming to make his own blow against the German invaders.
Director: Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell, Kathleen Byron
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, U, 4 Star)
14:45
Chance of a Lifetime (Film)
Independently produced drama, directed by Bernard Miles and Julien MItchell as Stevens and Morris, two of a group workers who agree to swap places with Dickinson, their stressed factory owner, and take over and run the plant. The film's sentiments seemed controversial on release but the ending, with management and workers pulling together at the time of crisis, provides a conclusion to suit all political hues.
Director: Bernard Miles, Alan Osbiston
Starring: Basil Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Julien Mitchell, Kenneth More, Geoffrey Keen
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 3 Star)
16:35
Dakota Incident (Film)
Dale Robertson plays bank robber John Banner, who decides to go straight. Pitching up in small town Christian Flats, he offers to drive the stagecoach to Laramie, despite the last one returning with the driver and passengers killed by the Cheyenne. On board is a mix of the good and the bad, including bank teller John Carter, suspected of one of Banner's robberies, showgirl Amy Clarke and Indian-loving Senator Blakely. Ambushed by the Cheyenne, the group must fight for their lives in Lewis R Foster's western, which is enhanced by the spectacular photography of Ernest Haller.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Starring: Linda Darnell, Dale Robertson, John Lund, Ward Bond, Regis Toomey, Skip Homeier
(Subtitles, 1956, U, 2 Star)
18:25
K-19: The Widowmaker (Film)
Based on a real-life incident, Kathryn Bigelow's tense film stars Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson as Alexei Vostrikov, the commander of Russia's first nuclear submarine and Mikhail Polenin, his executive officer, whose first test voyage ends in disaster when the reactor fails. The only hope is for the crew to repair it at the risk of fatal irradiation. But the two men also have very different political agendas, one of which could trigger global conflict rather than maintain the uneasy truce of the Cold War.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Joss Ackland, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo
(Subtitles, 2002, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Film)
Ken Loach's film, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, is a dramatic telling of the Irish Republican's fight against the British in the 1920s and the bloody civil war that broke out following the establishment of the Free State in 1922. Cillian Murphy plays Damien, Padraic Delaney his bother Teddy. Teddy is a committed member of an IRA unit that harries the Black and Tans and the English landowners and, as the British violence grows, Damien reluctantly joins him. But when Free State comes into being, the Republicans suffer internal, murderous splits with Damien finding himself still involved in the armed struggle but this time against his own comrades.
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary O'Riordan, Mary Murphy
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)
23:25
The Cave (Film)
Bruce Hunt's horror film, set in Romania, begins with a prologue in which a group of treasure hunters break into a blocked cave beneath a church. They become entombed and find out the terrible truth of why the cave was sealed centuries before... Thirty years later, a team led by cave diver Jack, his brother Tyler and scientist Nicolai force their way in and descend into a labyrinth of passages and rivers in the search for species unknown to man. But waiting in the dark is a species who knows man... and feasts on their flesh...
Director: Bruce Hunt
Starring: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Rick Ravanello, Marcel Iures, Kieran Darcy-Smith
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 12, 2 Star)
01:25
Kontroll (Film)
This Hungarian black comedy centres on a group of ticket inspectors on the Budapest underground. The system runs on an 'honour' system, with the inspectors, led by Sándor Csányi, meant to check people have tickets. But frankly, they don't care so long as they reach their quota of catches and in addition, there's a hooded killer haunting the system, pushing passengers under trains which is disrupting their work. And there's the bear that's become trapped in the system... Nimród Antal's debut feature veers from the surreal to the comic but is always accessible.
Director: Nimród Antal
Starring: Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch, Sándor Badár, Zsolt Nagy, Bence Mátyási
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Hungarian with English Subtitles, 2003, 15, 4 Star)
13:00
The Silver Fleet (Film)
Ralph Richardson stars in this Powell and Pressburger WWII drama as Dutch shipyard owner Jaap van Leyden, who seems to be working with the Nazis and earns the emnity of the Dutch patriots around him. However, van Leyden is secretly aiming to make his own blow against the German invaders.
Director: Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell, Kathleen Byron
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, U, 4 Star)
14:45
Chance of a Lifetime (Film)
Independently produced drama, directed by Bernard Miles and Julien MItchell as Stevens and Morris, two of a group workers who agree to swap places with Dickinson, their stressed factory owner, and take over and run the plant. The film's sentiments seemed controversial on release but the ending, with management and workers pulling together at the time of crisis, provides a conclusion to suit all political hues.
Director: Bernard Miles, Alan Osbiston
Starring: Basil Radford, Niall MacGinnis, Bernard Miles, Julien Mitchell, Kenneth More, Geoffrey Keen
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 3 Star)
16:35
Dakota Incident (Film)
Dale Robertson plays bank robber John Banner, who decides to go straight. Pitching up in small town Christian Flats, he offers to drive the stagecoach to Laramie, despite the last one returning with the driver and passengers killed by the Cheyenne. On board is a mix of the good and the bad, including bank teller John Carter, suspected of one of Banner's robberies, showgirl Amy Clarke and Indian-loving Senator Blakely. Ambushed by the Cheyenne, the group must fight for their lives in Lewis R Foster's western, which is enhanced by the spectacular photography of Ernest Haller.
Director: Lewis R. Foster
Starring: Linda Darnell, Dale Robertson, John Lund, Ward Bond, Regis Toomey, Skip Homeier
(Subtitles, 1956, U, 2 Star)
18:25
K-19: The Widowmaker (Film)
Based on a real-life incident, Kathryn Bigelow's tense film stars Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson as Alexei Vostrikov, the commander of Russia's first nuclear submarine and Mikhail Polenin, his executive officer, whose first test voyage ends in disaster when the reactor fails. The only hope is for the crew to repair it at the risk of fatal irradiation. But the two men also have very different political agendas, one of which could trigger global conflict rather than maintain the uneasy truce of the Cold War.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Joss Ackland, Sam Spruell, Peter Stebbings, Christian Camargo
(Subtitles, 2002, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (Film)
Ken Loach's film, which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes, is a dramatic telling of the Irish Republican's fight against the British in the 1920s and the bloody civil war that broke out following the establishment of the Free State in 1922. Cillian Murphy plays Damien, Padraic Delaney his bother Teddy. Teddy is a committed member of an IRA unit that harries the Black and Tans and the English landowners and, as the British violence grows, Damien reluctantly joins him. But when Free State comes into being, the Republicans suffer internal, murderous splits with Damien finding himself still involved in the armed struggle but this time against his own comrades.
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary O'Riordan, Mary Murphy
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)
23:25
The Cave (Film)
Bruce Hunt's horror film, set in Romania, begins with a prologue in which a group of treasure hunters break into a blocked cave beneath a church. They become entombed and find out the terrible truth of why the cave was sealed centuries before... Thirty years later, a team led by cave diver Jack, his brother Tyler and scientist Nicolai force their way in and descend into a labyrinth of passages and rivers in the search for species unknown to man. But waiting in the dark is a species who knows man... and feasts on their flesh...
Director: Bruce Hunt
Starring: Cole Hauser, Morris Chestnut, Eddie Cibrian, Rick Ravanello, Marcel Iures, Kieran Darcy-Smith
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 12, 2 Star)
01:25
Kontroll (Film)
This Hungarian black comedy centres on a group of ticket inspectors on the Budapest underground. The system runs on an 'honour' system, with the inspectors, led by Sándor Csányi, meant to check people have tickets. But frankly, they don't care so long as they reach their quota of catches and in addition, there's a hooded killer haunting the system, pushing passengers under trains which is disrupting their work. And there's the bear that's become trapped in the system... Nimród Antal's debut feature veers from the surreal to the comic but is always accessible.
Director: Nimród Antal
Starring: Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch, Sándor Badár, Zsolt Nagy, Bence Mátyási
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Hungarian with English Subtitles, 2003, 15, 4 Star)