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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 16th December
13:00
Waterloo Road (Film)
This lively, unpretentious wartime film sends AWOL squaddie Jim Colter back to his South London turf to save his wife Lillie from the advances of a philandering draft-dodger Ted Purvis. Pace, natural characterisation and warm humour elevate a simple story into an entertaining and humane drama that provides a finely-observed depiction of life during the Blitz.
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Starring: John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt, Beatrice Varley
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1944, PG, 4 Star)
14:30
Girls! Girls! Girls! (Film)
Elvis Presley stars in Norman Taurog's musical as Ross Carpenter, a tuna boat fisherman in Hawaii who has two girls after him, ***y singer Robin Gantner and heiress Laurel Dodge, who pretends to be poor to avoid embarrassing him. The plot device - can Ross raise enough money to buy his boat outright? - carries the King through 14 songs, including the now classic Return to Sender.
Director: Norman Taurog
Starring: Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin, Benson Fong, Robert Strauss
(1962, PG, 3 Star)
16:30
All About Eve (Film)
Bette Davis stars in Joseph Mankiewicz's drama as Margo Channing, acid-tongued star of the stage who takes the young, innocent, mousey Eve Harrington under her wing only to find her protege quietly betraying her at every turn until she has climbed the dizzy heights once occupied by Margo. George Sanders stars as the acerbic critic Addison De Witt, with Hugh Marlowe as Margo's writer Lloyd Richards and Gary Merrill as her lover Bill Sampson. The film won six Oscars, including best picture and best director but ironically, Davis and Baxter were both nominated as best actress and the split vote saw neither win.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)
19:10
The Beverly Hillbillies (Film)
Based on the classic TV series, Jim Varney heads up the Clampett family as Jed, who finds oil on his Arkansas farm. Deciding that his daughter Elly May needs to become a 'lady', the family move to Beverly Hills, where their boondock ways are forgiven on account of their wealth. But when widower Jed decides to re-marry, there's no shortage of candidates, as Jed's scheming bank manager Milburn Drysdale and his assistant, Miss Hathaway, try to make sure their own chosen candidate is selected. Penelope Spheeris's film, following her success with Wayne's World, continues in the same comic vein, and fans of the TV series should look out for a cameo role from Buddy Ebson, the original Jed Clampett.
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Starring: Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Lea Thompson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1993, PG, 2 Star)
21:00
Chinatown (Film)
Roman Polanski's classic film, which was nominated for eleven Oscars, winning just one for the script, stars Jack Nicholson as J. J. 'Jake' Gittes, a private eye in 1940s Los Angeles. He's hired by Evelyn Mulwray, who wants evidence of her husband's adulterous affair. What appears to be an open-and-shut case thickens when the real Evelyn Mulwray turns up at his office and the errant husband is found drowned. As Gittes pursues his investigation, he becomes involved with Evelyn's father Noah Cross, a guilty family secret and a water/land-grab conspiracy so lucrative that murder is a small price to pay to protect it.
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1974, 18, 5 Star)
23:35
Days Of Thunder (Film)
Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle, a young hot-shot stock car racer determined to make it as top gun if he can find the right cocktail of car and manager, who comes along in the guise of racing legend Harry Hogge, and make all the right moves. As the pair tour the circuits, the climax build up to Daytona and a showdown between Trickle and his arch-rival Russ Wheeler, who will stop at nothing to beat Trickle. Tony Scott's all action film captures the all-out excitement and speed of the sport while Nicole Kidman as Dr Claire Lewicki provides the love interest.
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, Michael Rooker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1990, 12, 2 Star)
01:40
Eu, Tu, Eles (Film)
Based on a true story, Me You Them is a bittersweet Brazilian romantic comedy that explores the life and loves of Darlene, an independent-minded woman from north-east Brazil. Returning to her home town, Darlene finds that her mother has died and while in mourning she accepts a proposal of marriage. Not content with just one husband, however, in time she finds two other men who move into the house and can fulfil her in ways her first husband Osias is unable to. While life in the poor and arid village may be hard, comedy and romance are never far away as Darlene is forced to juggle the pride, desire, jealousy and tolerance of her three husbands. Directed by Andrucha Waddington.
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Starring: Regina Casé, Lima Duarte, Stênio Garcia, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Nilda Spencer, Diogo Lopes
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Portuguese with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2000, PG, 4 Star)
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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 17th December
13:00
Cattle Empire (Film)
Joel McCrea plays John Cord, a trail boss jailed for five years when his men looted and burned the town of Hamilton. Released from prison, he is attacked by the townsfolk. Saved by town boss Ralph Hamilton, who was blinded in the original riot, Cord is engaged to drive 5,000 head of cattle for Hamilton. But he also accepts a commission from Garth, Hamilton's rival, planning to double cross one of them. As the drive nears its end, Cord's men demand to be let loose in town, and as history looks likely to repeat itself, Cord learns about what really happened five years ago, and who his true enemies are, in Charles Marquis Warren's tough western.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Starring: Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates, Bing Russell, Paul Brinegar
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1958, U, 3 Star)
14:45
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)
16:50
Call Me Madam (Film)
Walter Lang's lively musical, scored by Irving Berlin, stars Ethel Merman as Sally Adams, a wealthy Washington hostess appointed as American ambassador to the European duchy of Lichtenberg. She finds the tiny state's government corrupt, but falls in love with the handsome foreign minister, Cosmo Constantine, the only man who seems to be fighting for his country. Meanwhile, Princess Maria wants to throw over her commitment to marrying a prince in favour of the ambassador's young American attache Kenneth. Will diplomacy or love overcome all?
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Billy de Wolfe, Helmut Dantine
(Subtitles, 1953, U, 4 Star)
19:10
Cheaper by the Dozen (Film)
First made in 1950 with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt take on the roles of Tom and Kate Baker, parents to a dozen children. He's the coach of a smalltown college American football team, she's an author. But when he takes up a job coaching a big college team just as she has to promote her new best seller, the idyllic if slightly chaotic life they and the children have enjoyed starts to spiral out of control. Shawn Levy's warm-hearted family comedy also stars Piper Perabo as Nora, the oldest daughter, who's forced to take charge while Forrest Landis as the youngest, Mark, gets to steal every scene he's in.
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo, Tom Welling, Hilary Duff, Kevin Schmidt
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, PG, 2 Star)
21:00
Fire in The Sky (Film)
Robert Lieberman's intriguing science fiction drama is based on an alleged real-life incident. In 1975, six loggers working in the mountains of Arizona, driving home at night, see a red glow in the sky. Approaching it, they discover a UFO hovering in the sky. One of the party, Travis Walton approaches and is sucked up and the craft disappears. Back in town, the five others have some explaining to do, particularly since they are now suspected of concocting the story to cover Walton's murder. But Walton reappears five days later, naked and confused, with a story of abduction and experimentation that is shown in a graphic, terrifying flashback.
Director: Robert Lieberman
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, Henry Thomas, Bradley Gregg
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1993, 15, 3 Star)
23:10
Birthday Girl (Film)
Ben Chaplin plays John Buckingham, a bank manager in the very English town of St Albans. Despairing at finding love, he orders mail-order Russian bride Nadia and is initially delighted with his "purchase". But things take a darker turn when her two large and menacing cousins arrive and move into their tiny house, and he realises that not everything bought over the internet comes with a guarantee...
Director: Jez Butterworth
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Lynn Evans, Stephen Mangan
(Subtitles, 2001, 15, 3 Star)
00:55
Being John Malkovich (Film)
Spike Jonze's Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning film is based on a simple premise. On the 7½th floor of an office block, John Cusack discovers a door that's a portal into John Malkovich's head for 15 minutes. He and fellow worker Catherine Keener start selling tickets, much to the bemusement of Malkovich, who finds himself regularly invaded. Matters become complicated when Cusack's wife gets involved and what was a partnership becomes a ménage-a-trois. Totally unique, totally bizarre, totally wonderful.
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Orson Bean, Ned Bellamy
(Subtitles, 1999, 15, 5 Star)
13:00
Waterloo Road (Film)
This lively, unpretentious wartime film sends AWOL squaddie Jim Colter back to his South London turf to save his wife Lillie from the advances of a philandering draft-dodger Ted Purvis. Pace, natural characterisation and warm humour elevate a simple story into an entertaining and humane drama that provides a finely-observed depiction of life during the Blitz.
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Starring: John Mills, Stewart Granger, Alastair Sim, Joy Shelton, Alison Leggatt, Beatrice Varley
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1944, PG, 4 Star)
14:30
Girls! Girls! Girls! (Film)
Elvis Presley stars in Norman Taurog's musical as Ross Carpenter, a tuna boat fisherman in Hawaii who has two girls after him, ***y singer Robin Gantner and heiress Laurel Dodge, who pretends to be poor to avoid embarrassing him. The plot device - can Ross raise enough money to buy his boat outright? - carries the King through 14 songs, including the now classic Return to Sender.
Director: Norman Taurog
Starring: Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin, Benson Fong, Robert Strauss
(1962, PG, 3 Star)
16:30
All About Eve (Film)
Bette Davis stars in Joseph Mankiewicz's drama as Margo Channing, acid-tongued star of the stage who takes the young, innocent, mousey Eve Harrington under her wing only to find her protege quietly betraying her at every turn until she has climbed the dizzy heights once occupied by Margo. George Sanders stars as the acerbic critic Addison De Witt, with Hugh Marlowe as Margo's writer Lloyd Richards and Gary Merrill as her lover Bill Sampson. The film won six Oscars, including best picture and best director but ironically, Davis and Baxter were both nominated as best actress and the split vote saw neither win.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)
19:10
The Beverly Hillbillies (Film)
Based on the classic TV series, Jim Varney heads up the Clampett family as Jed, who finds oil on his Arkansas farm. Deciding that his daughter Elly May needs to become a 'lady', the family move to Beverly Hills, where their boondock ways are forgiven on account of their wealth. But when widower Jed decides to re-marry, there's no shortage of candidates, as Jed's scheming bank manager Milburn Drysdale and his assistant, Miss Hathaway, try to make sure their own chosen candidate is selected. Penelope Spheeris's film, following her success with Wayne's World, continues in the same comic vein, and fans of the TV series should look out for a cameo role from Buddy Ebson, the original Jed Clampett.
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Starring: Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Lea Thompson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1993, PG, 2 Star)
21:00
Chinatown (Film)
Roman Polanski's classic film, which was nominated for eleven Oscars, winning just one for the script, stars Jack Nicholson as J. J. 'Jake' Gittes, a private eye in 1940s Los Angeles. He's hired by Evelyn Mulwray, who wants evidence of her husband's adulterous affair. What appears to be an open-and-shut case thickens when the real Evelyn Mulwray turns up at his office and the errant husband is found drowned. As Gittes pursues his investigation, he becomes involved with Evelyn's father Noah Cross, a guilty family secret and a water/land-grab conspiracy so lucrative that murder is a small price to pay to protect it.
Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1974, 18, 5 Star)
23:35
Days Of Thunder (Film)
Tom Cruise plays Cole Trickle, a young hot-shot stock car racer determined to make it as top gun if he can find the right cocktail of car and manager, who comes along in the guise of racing legend Harry Hogge, and make all the right moves. As the pair tour the circuits, the climax build up to Daytona and a showdown between Trickle and his arch-rival Russ Wheeler, who will stop at nothing to beat Trickle. Tony Scott's all action film captures the all-out excitement and speed of the sport while Nicole Kidman as Dr Claire Lewicki provides the love interest.
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Tom Cruise, Robert Duvall, Nicole Kidman, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes, Michael Rooker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1990, 12, 2 Star)
01:40
Eu, Tu, Eles (Film)
Based on a true story, Me You Them is a bittersweet Brazilian romantic comedy that explores the life and loves of Darlene, an independent-minded woman from north-east Brazil. Returning to her home town, Darlene finds that her mother has died and while in mourning she accepts a proposal of marriage. Not content with just one husband, however, in time she finds two other men who move into the house and can fulfil her in ways her first husband Osias is unable to. While life in the poor and arid village may be hard, comedy and romance are never far away as Darlene is forced to juggle the pride, desire, jealousy and tolerance of her three husbands. Directed by Andrucha Waddington.
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Starring: Regina Casé, Lima Duarte, Stênio Garcia, Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos, Nilda Spencer, Diogo Lopes
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Portuguese with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2000, PG, 4 Star)
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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 17th December
13:00
Cattle Empire (Film)
Joel McCrea plays John Cord, a trail boss jailed for five years when his men looted and burned the town of Hamilton. Released from prison, he is attacked by the townsfolk. Saved by town boss Ralph Hamilton, who was blinded in the original riot, Cord is engaged to drive 5,000 head of cattle for Hamilton. But he also accepts a commission from Garth, Hamilton's rival, planning to double cross one of them. As the drive nears its end, Cord's men demand to be let loose in town, and as history looks likely to repeat itself, Cord learns about what really happened five years ago, and who his true enemies are, in Charles Marquis Warren's tough western.
Director: Charles Marquis Warren
Starring: Joel McCrea, Gloria Talbott, Don Haggerty, Phyllis Coates, Bing Russell, Paul Brinegar
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1958, U, 3 Star)
14:45
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)
16:50
Call Me Madam (Film)
Walter Lang's lively musical, scored by Irving Berlin, stars Ethel Merman as Sally Adams, a wealthy Washington hostess appointed as American ambassador to the European duchy of Lichtenberg. She finds the tiny state's government corrupt, but falls in love with the handsome foreign minister, Cosmo Constantine, the only man who seems to be fighting for his country. Meanwhile, Princess Maria wants to throw over her commitment to marrying a prince in favour of the ambassador's young American attache Kenneth. Will diplomacy or love overcome all?
Director: Walter Lang
Starring: Ethel Merman, Donald O'Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Billy de Wolfe, Helmut Dantine
(Subtitles, 1953, U, 4 Star)
19:10
Cheaper by the Dozen (Film)
First made in 1950 with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt take on the roles of Tom and Kate Baker, parents to a dozen children. He's the coach of a smalltown college American football team, she's an author. But when he takes up a job coaching a big college team just as she has to promote her new best seller, the idyllic if slightly chaotic life they and the children have enjoyed starts to spiral out of control. Shawn Levy's warm-hearted family comedy also stars Piper Perabo as Nora, the oldest daughter, who's forced to take charge while Forrest Landis as the youngest, Mark, gets to steal every scene he's in.
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Piper Perabo, Tom Welling, Hilary Duff, Kevin Schmidt
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, PG, 2 Star)
21:00
Fire in The Sky (Film)
Robert Lieberman's intriguing science fiction drama is based on an alleged real-life incident. In 1975, six loggers working in the mountains of Arizona, driving home at night, see a red glow in the sky. Approaching it, they discover a UFO hovering in the sky. One of the party, Travis Walton approaches and is sucked up and the craft disappears. Back in town, the five others have some explaining to do, particularly since they are now suspected of concocting the story to cover Walton's murder. But Walton reappears five days later, naked and confused, with a story of abduction and experimentation that is shown in a graphic, terrifying flashback.
Director: Robert Lieberman
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Craig Sheffer, Peter Berg, Henry Thomas, Bradley Gregg
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1993, 15, 3 Star)
23:10
Birthday Girl (Film)
Ben Chaplin plays John Buckingham, a bank manager in the very English town of St Albans. Despairing at finding love, he orders mail-order Russian bride Nadia and is initially delighted with his "purchase". But things take a darker turn when her two large and menacing cousins arrive and move into their tiny house, and he realises that not everything bought over the internet comes with a guarantee...
Director: Jez Butterworth
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz, Kate Lynn Evans, Stephen Mangan
(Subtitles, 2001, 15, 3 Star)
00:55
Being John Malkovich (Film)
Spike Jonze's Oscar-nominated, BAFTA-winning film is based on a simple premise. On the 7½th floor of an office block, John Cusack discovers a door that's a portal into John Malkovich's head for 15 minutes. He and fellow worker Catherine Keener start selling tickets, much to the bemusement of Malkovich, who finds himself regularly invaded. Matters become complicated when Cusack's wife gets involved and what was a partnership becomes a ménage-a-trois. Totally unique, totally bizarre, totally wonderful.
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich, Orson Bean, Ned Bellamy
(Subtitles, 1999, 15, 5 Star)