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FilmFour & Film Four +1 20.04.12

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11:00
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (Documentary)
Craig McCall's documentary charts the career of the superlative British cinematographer who died in 2009. Jack Cardiff's involvement in the medium began in the silent era as an actor, aged just four. His on-screen career was short, but he switched behind the camera in 1935 and went on to become one of the most respected purveyors of his trade in the history of cinema. Films he lent his magic to include A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes, The African Queen, The Prince and the Showgirl, The Vikings and Death on the Nile, right through to Conan the Destroyer and Rambo: First Blood Part II. He won two Oscars: the first for work on 1947's Black Narcissus, the second an honorary Lifetime Achievement award in 2001. His story is told through interviews with the man himself and those who worked with and admired him, including Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Charlton Heston, John Mills and Alan Parker.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, PG)

12:40
Moonfleet (Film)
Stewart Granger stars in Fritz Lang's adaptation of J Meade Falkner's classic novel as the aristocratic smuggler Jeremy Fox. Landed with John Mohune, the offspring of a previous affair, Fox tries to protect the young lad from knowing his father's trade, but it's only a matter of time before the pair are involved in adventures concerning a treasure map, a valuable diamond and the attentions of the evil Lord Ashwood, as well as the rather more amorous interest of his wife.
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Whiteley, Liliane Montevecchi
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)

14:25
Party Girl (Film)
Nicholas Ray's thrilling, sharply characterised 1930s-set gangster thriller stars Robert Taylor as Tommy Farrell, a disabled lawyer who has grown rich as a mouthpiece for Chicago mobster Rico Angelo but decides to go straight for the love of 'party girl' Vickie Gaye. But will Angelo accept his decision?
Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb, John Ireland, Kent Smith, Claire Kelly
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 4 Star)

16:20
Meet Me in St. Louis (Film)
Judy Garland stars in Vincente Minnelli's classic musical as Esther Smith, second daughter of Anna and Alonzo Smith, who lives with her four siblings. She's eagerly awaiting the St Louis Exposition as much as love with the boy next door, only for her father to threaten to uproot them to New York, where promotion beckons. With showstoppers like The Trolley Song and the tear-jerker Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, this is one of Hollywood's finest musicals.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Leon Ames, Tom Drake
(Subtitles, 1944, U, 5 Star)

18:35
Logan's Run (Film)
Michael Anderson's sci-fi tale takes place in 2274, a time where computers rule a hermetically sealed city which houses the survivors of a holocaust. Life is hedonistic and happy for the city's inhabitants, but unfortunately they must be 'terminated' when they reach the age of 30. When Logan 5, a trained hunter for the system, grows intrigued by a beautiful young woman, Jessica 6, who plans to escape the dome and live her natural span, he is forced to question the fundamental principles of his society, and decides he too must flee to look for the mythical 'sanctuary', the world outside the dome. Edited for content.
Director: Michael Anderson Jr.
Starring: Michael York, Richard Jordan, Jenny Agutter, Roscoe Lee Browne, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Anderson Jr.
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1976, PG, 4 Star)

21:00
Ip Man (Film)
Martial arts cinema legend Donnie Yen stars in Wilson Yip's excitingly choreographed period action-drama, based, very loosely, on the life of the mentor of, among others, Bruce Lee. Ip Man, a grandmaster of the wing chun martial art, lives in Foshan in the Guangdong province of southern China. Foshan is famous as a centre of learning for various martial disciplines, and Man is the most respected of the town's teachers. But his life is complicated by his wife's disapproval of his career, as well as the presence in Foshan of Jin Shan Zhao, a master from the north, who is determined to challenge Man for supremacy. Then, in 1937, during the second Sino-Japanese war, the Japanese march into town and everyone's priorities change... In Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese with English subtitles.
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-wong Fan, Ka-Tung Lam, Yu Xing, You-Nam Wong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

23:05
IP Man 2 (Film)
Martial arts cinema legend Donnie Yen again takes the title role in the second part of Wilson Yip's period action-drama, based, very loosely, on the life of the eponymous grandmaster of the wing chun martial art. It's now the early 1950s and, having survived the Japanese invasion of southern China, Man and his family have pitched up in British-controlled Hong Kong. The penniless martial artist decides to take the obvious career path for someone with his lack of means but wealth of knowledge and starts a school to teach his discipline. He quickly attracts the attention of a group of lads, led by Wong Shun Leung, who, after being given a dramatic and painful demonstration of Man's skills, sign up to the cause. However, Man must also overcome the city's gangs and political factions - and that's not such an easy fight... Film4 premiere.
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Lynn Hung, Simon Yam, Samo Hung, Xiaoming Huang, Siu-wong Fan
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Cantonese and Mandarin with English Subtitles, 2010, 15, 4 Star)

01:15
Sideways (Film)
In Alexander Payne's bittersweet comedy, two buddies, Miles and Jack, embark on Jack's stag week, a tasting trip around California's wine country, with wine buff Miles leading the way. Miles may be a wine expert but he's also a bitter divorcee, depressed and in love with a waitress, Maya, whose presence always leaves him tongue-tied. Jack is a faded actor who can't quite resign himself to marriage when there are still obtainable women in the world, married or not, and when he meets Stephanie at a tasting, he swears Miles to secrecy about the wedding. And so the foursome continue their trip... Alexander Payne's Oscar and BAFTA-winning road trip is a classic of friendship and crisis, with four outstanding leads.
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden-Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke, Jessica Hecht
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, 15, 3 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 21.04.12

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11:00
The Day the Earth Stood Still (Film)
The final day of the latest Films for Life season kicks off with Robert Wise's classic science fiction film, in which a flying saucer piloted by alien Klaatu lands in Washington to warn Earth to change its warring ways or risk destruction. But along the way, Klaatu finds time to learn more about Earthlings' habits in the company of Helen Benson and her son.
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Billy Gray, Frances Bavier
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1951, U, 4 Star)

13:00
Home Alone (Film)
Macaulay Culkin stars as an eight-year-old accidentally left at home when his parents, siblings and relatives set off for their holiday in a mad rush and jet off to France for Christmas without him. At first, he relishes his solitude and freedom, until his idyll is interrupted by two ham-fisted burglars. Can he defend his family home from them? Directed by Chris Columbus and written by John Hughes, both masters of the popular comedy genre, the film made Culkin's name and its title entered common parlance, one of the surest signs of success.
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, Catherine O'Hara
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1990, PG, 3 Star)

15:00
A Matter of Life and Death (Film)
Majestic fantasy from directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. David Niven stars as Peter Carter, an airman who cheats death and falls in love with American radio operator June. Shocked at the 'clerical error' that allowed him to live, the celestial bureaucrats invoke a trial, with staunch American patriot Abraham Farlan prosecuting, the result of which will decide Carter's fate. Stunning production design, an excellent script and career-best performances give the film a timeless impact. In colour and black and white.
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Bonar Colleano
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1946, PG, 4 Star)

17:05
Ponyo (Film)
A charming family fantasy-adventure from Hayao Miyazaki - master of Japanese animation and director of Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke - that reworks Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid. When five-year-old Sosuke is playing down by the water of his fishing town, the last thing he expects to see is a goldfish with a girl's face. Her real name is Brunhilde and she's the daughter of Fujomoto, a powerful human wizard who has renounced life on land for one in the ocean's depths.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Tomoko Yamaguchi, Kazushige Nagashima, Yûki Amami, Jôji Tokoro, Yuria Nara, Hiroki Doi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, U, 4 Star)

19:10
Crocodile Dundee (Film)
'That's not a knife. This is a knife', is among cinema's best-known quotes, as the eponymous Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee routs a New York mugger in Peter Faiman's Oscar-nominated comedy. Hogan, an Australian national institution, broke into the big time with this film, playing an outback crocodile-hunter who attracts the attention of American journalist Sue Charlton. After she shares his life and dangers in the bush, she invites him to New York, an environment that's alien to Dundee but one he adapts to with charm and humour, as he and Charlton slowly fall in love. Edited for language and content.
Director: Peter Faiman
Starring: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, David Gulpilil, Ritchie Singer, Maggie Blinco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1986, PG, 4 Star)

21:00
Das Boot (Film)
Wolfgang Petersen's multi-Oscar nominated film is shown here in the full-length director's cut. It follows the fortunes and dangers of a German U-boat, from slipping from its pens into the Atlantic, its hunting of convoys and flight from vengeful destroyers to its eventual return home. Jurgen Prochnow is the captain and Herbert Grunemeyer the war correspondent attached to the trip, in effect the eyes and ears of the audience, in one of the greatest anti-war films ever made.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge, Bernd Tauber
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In German with English Subtitles, 1981, 12, 5 Star)

01:05
The Host (Film)
Bong Joon-ho's monster-horror movie begins on the banks of the River Han in Seoul. Park Gang Du works on his father's food stand and witnesses a huge mutant creature suddenly rear up out of the water into the riverside park and make off with lunch in the shape of several citizens, including his daughter Hyun-seo. But the monster doesn't eat her straight away. Using her mobile, she calls her father from the creature's lair in the city's sewers. As the Korean and US governments try to deny the incident, it's up to Park and his family to gather what weapons they can and kill the monster. Stunning special effects and a certain tongue-in-cheek tone make this one of the best horrors to come out of Korea in recent times.
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Hie-bong Byeon, Hae-il Park, Du-na Bae, Ah-sung Ko, David Joseph Anselmo
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Korean with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, 15, 4 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 04.05.12

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11:00
Murphy's War (Film)
Peter Yates' Second World War drama stars Peter O'Toole as Murphy, a merchant seaman whose ship was sunk by a German U-boat in a South American river, towards the end of the war. With all other survivors machine-gunned to death in the water, Murphy staggers ashore and learns that the U-boat is lurking upstream by the banks of the jungle. He swears he won't rest until the U-boat has been destroyed, and enlists the help of Dr Hayden of the local missionary settlement and French engineer Philippe Noiret to complete his personal mission of revenge. Edited for violence and language.
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam, Ingo Mogendorf
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, 12, 3 Star)

13:05
A Challenge for Robin Hood (Film)
Director CM Pennington-Richard's reworking of the Robin Hood legend provides lively family entertainment, with Barrie Ingham in the title role.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Starring: Barrie Ingham, Peter Blythe, John Arnatt, Gay Hamilton, John Gugolka, James Hayter
(Subtitles, 1967, U, 2 Star)

15:00
The Poseidon Adventure (Film)
Disaster movie set aboard a luxury cruise liner which is hit by a huge tidal wave and capsizes. With time running out. the passengers are forced to fight for their survival and make their way to the surface through air pockets in the upturned ship.
Director: Ronald Neame, Irwin Allen
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Stella Stevens, Shelley Winters
(Subtitles, 1972, PG, 3 Star)

17:20
The 39 Steps (Film)
Kenneth More stars as Richard Hannay in the second film adaptation of John Buchan's ripping espionage yarn. It's more than a simple remake of Alfred Hitchcock's original 1935 movie, played this time for light-hearted excitement rather than suspense. And it certainly fulfils its ambition, as Hannay gamely romps around the Scottish countryside in a 48-hour dash to save the day by cracking an international plot to smuggle defence plans out of Britain.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones, Reginald Beckwith, Faith Brook
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1959, U, 3 Star)

19:10
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Film)
In Ivan Reitman's comedy Uma Thurman plays dowdy Jenny Johnson, who falls in love with Matt Saunders, who she meets 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. Saunders soon finds out that hell hath no fury like a woman with super powers scorned. Edited for language and content.
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson, Anna Faris, Rainn Wilson, Eddie Izzard, Stelio Savante
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 3 Star)

21:00
The Sixth Sense (Film)
M Night Shyamalan's chiller about a boy who has the not-entirely-welcome ability to directly contact the dead. Bruce Willis stars as child psychologist Dr Malcolm Crowe, who is asked to help Cole Sear, who claims he can 'see dead people'. Crowe is sceptical at first, but he's gradually convinced that the boy is telling the truth. Crowe believes that actively engaging with the ghostly presences could help both Sear and the spirits to find peace. Overcoming his terror, the lad finds that communicating with the deceased does, at first, seem to be beneficial. But then matters take on their own momentum, leading to one of the director's trademark plot twists.
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Mischa Barton, Donnie Wahlberg
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1999, 15, 5 Star)

23:05
Hostage (Film)
In Florent Emilio Siri's edge-of-the-seat thriller, Bruce Willis plays Jeff Talley, who's working for the Ventura Police Department and looking for a quiet life after a bad experience as a hostage negotiator in Los Angeles. When a car-jacking by three teenagers goes wrong and they take three hostages, he's happy to hand over to the sheriff's department for what is ostensibly a simple case. But then he's back, demanding to take control of the incident: more dangerous elements have kidnapped his family and they want him to retrieve incriminating evidence from the car-jacking - or his family will suffer. Now Talley has to navigate two sets of negotiations, one open, the other known only to him.
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri
Starring: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2005, 15, 3 Star)

01:15
Stay (Film)
Marc Forster's drama stars Ewan McGregor as Sam Foster, a psychiatrist whose patient Henry Latham calmly announces he will kill himself in three days time. As Foster struggles to get inside his mind to stop him, he must also battle with his own demons in a film which uses visual references, edits and strategies to forward the plot in this fascinating Hitchcockian exercise.
Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Kate Burton, Naomi Watts, Elizabeth Reaser, Bob Hoskins
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 08.05.12

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11:00
Niagara (Film)
Gripping film noir thriller starring Marilyn Monroe as Rose Loomis, an amoral young wife conducting a clandestine affair with Patrick. While on holiday at Niagra Falls, their plan to murder her Korean-War-veteran husband goes disastrously wrong, and an innocent honeymoon couple are dragged into the ensuing violence.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
(Subtitles, 1952, PG, 3 Star)

12:45
Sea Wife (Film)
An offbeat melodrama. An RAF officer, a Sea Wife, a nun, a brash businessman and a purser all end up drifting on a life raft in the Indian Ocean after their ship is torpedoed. Romantic and racial tensions divide the four as they hope for rescue in Bob McNaught's taut film.
Director: Bob McNaught
Starring: Joan Collins, Richard Burton, Basil Sydney, Cy Grant, Ronald Squire, Joan Hickson
(Subtitles, 1957, U, 2 Star)

14:25
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (Film)
After losing the campaign in North Africa and refusing his commander-in-chief's orders to fight to the last man, Erwin Rommel returns to Germany, where he is drawn into a plot to assassinate Hitler. WWII drama featuring actual combat footage.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Luther Adler, Everett Sloane, Leo G. Carroll
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1951, PG, 4 Star)

16:10
Howards End (Film)
Helena Bonham Carter and Emma Thompson are the central figures in James Ivory's adaptation of E M Forster's novel of love, treachery and revenge. Bonham Carter falls for Paul Wilcox but is rebuffed. Her sister Thompson becomes friends with his mother who promises her the family house, Howards End. But after her death, the will disappears and it appears the inheritance will disappear. Until the widower, Anthony Hopkins, becomes attracted to Thompson.
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, Joseph Bennett, Emma Thompson, Prunella Scales, Adrian Ross-Magenty
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1992, PG, 4 Star)

18:55
Fame (Film)
Kay Panabaker and Asher Book star in Kevin Tancharoen's update of Alan Parker's 1980 musical about a group of young showbiz wannabes desperate to see their names up in lights. Jenny and Marco are among the latest intake of students at the New York Academy of Performing Arts, and whose stories are among those tracked through the highs and lows - and many, many song and dance routines - of their four-year course there. Also starring Debbie Allen and, as the Academy's teachers, Bebe Neuwirth, Kelsey Grammer and Megan Mullally.
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Starring: Kay Panabaker, Naturi Naughton, Kherington Payne, Megan Mullally, Bebe Neuwirth, Debbie Allen
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 12, 2 Star)

21:00
The Hurt Locker (Film)
Kathryn Bigelow's multiple-Oscar-winning film is a compelling fact-based, Iraq-set bomb disposal drama, scripted by journalist Mark Boal, drawing on his experiences while embedded with a United States Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal team in 2004. The focus is on the complex characters making up Bravo Company, who disable and destroy improvised explosive devices. The days are ticking down to the end of the bomb squad's tour, but their role puts the team in harm's way around the clock. And it doesn't help that one of the team is addicted to risk taking and pays scant attention to standard procedure, putting other lives in danger, as well as his own. The Hurt Locker provides a tense glimpse into the lives of these extraordinary men, and also probes the various psychologies of people whose job could kill them at any moment, as well as - briefly - exploring how they cope once away from their adrenaline-soaked vocation.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

23:35
Fever Pitch (Film)
Colin Firth stars as Paul Ashworth, a man besotted by one woman and 11 men in David Evans' film of Nick Hornby's award-winning 'autobiography'. Raised on a diet of football in general and Arsenal in particular, as his team mount a challenge for the 1988/9 title, he has to cope with falling in love with Sarah Hughes, a fellow teacher. But can she even begin to understand why a man can have two passionate loves in his life? This screening marks the 20th anniversary of the book's publication.
Director: David Stuart Evans
Starring: Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell, Mark Strong, Luke Aikman, Neil Pearson, Lorraine Ashbourne
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, 15, 3 Star)

01:35
Crush (Film)
In the Cotswolds, a trio of single middle-aged women meet to compare notes for their regular award of Saddest Person of the Week. Staunton and Chancellor reckon it should be MacDowell, but she has a shock for them: she is having an affair with a former pupil at the school where she teaches. But their affair begins to become too serious in John McKay's romantic comedy-drama.
Director: John McKay
Starring: Andie MacDowell, Imelda Staunton, Anna Chancellor, Kenny Doughty, Bill Paterson, Caroline Holdaway
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2001, 15, 3 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 09.05.12

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11:00
The Frogmen (Film)
Powerful Second World War action thriller centred on the exploits of divers in an underwater demolition team, headed by Lt Cmdr John Lawrence as they fight the Japanese.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Starring: Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Jeffrey Hunter, Warren Stevens, Robert Wagner
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, PG, 1953, 3 Star)

12:55
Distant Drums (Film)
Capt Quincy Wyatt is leading a military expedition against a ring of gun-runners in the treacherous Florida swamplands when he and his men are surrounded by hordes of hostile Seminole Indians. As the Indians force him deeper and deeper into the unyielding Everglades, Wyatt has to take drastic action to ensure the safety of his men.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Gary Cooper, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Ray Teal, Arthur Hunnicutt, Robert Barrat
(Subtitles, U, 1951, 3 Star)

14:55
Danger Within (Film)
Don Chaffey's intriguing thriller is set in a Second World War PoW camp where all attempts to escape are stopped suspiciously quickly by the Germans. Suspecting a planted stool pigeon is revealing their plans, Lt Col David Baird, head of the escape committee, overrides senior British officer Lt Col Huxley with an audacious plan for a daylight escape of 400 prisoners - which will also expose the traitor in their midst.
Director: Don Chaffey
Starring: Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Donald Houston
(Black and White, Subtitles, U, 1958, 3 Star)

16:55
The Hindenburg (Film)
Robert Wise's dramatic retelling of 1937's ill-fated transatlantic flight suggests conspiracy and cover-up were at the heart of the tragedy. Following a swirl of rumours about sabotage, Colonel Franz Ritter is assigned to the airship's flight as chief of security. He travels from Europe with an interesting set of passengers: from Anne Bancroft's countess to scheming businessmen, an entertainer, a Gestapo man and others with potentially suspicious reasons for being on that particular flight. The film's conspiracy theory hints that the full facts will never be known, as its story builds to its dramatic conclusion in the airspace over New Jersey.
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess Meredith
(Widescreen, Subtitles, PG, 1975, 3 Star)

19:20
The Man (Film)
When dental supplies salesman Andy Fiddler arrives in Detroit, he's mistaken by smooth-talking career criminal Joey for an international arms dealer he's set to meet. At the same time, federal agent Derrick Vann is after the gang who were responsible for the theft of weapons from the agency's storage unit. Vann lifts Fiddler, but soon realises he's innocent. But if he can get Fiddler to keep up the pretence, he'll be able to bust Joey's gang. Les Mayfield's crime caper makes the most of the trusted formula of two misfit characters to comedic effect and also features some smart action.
Director: Les Mayfield
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, Luke Goss, Miguel Ferrer, Susie Essman, Anthony Mackie
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, 12, 2005, 2 Star)

21:00
Don't Say a Word (Film)
Psychiatrist Nathan Conrad has only got a few hours to delve inside the troubled mind of mute Elisabeth Burrows, or his kidnapped daughter will die.
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Guy Torry, Jennifer Esposito
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2001, 3 Star)

23:10
Cold Weather (Film)
Director Aaron Katz blends drama, mystery and comedy in this story about Doug's investigation of the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend Rachel. After dropping out of his forensic science university course, Doug returns to his hometown of Portland, Oregon, where he settles into a new life living with his sister Gail, reading detective novels and working at the local ice factory. His colleague Carlos quickly becomes a close friend. When Rachel suddenly disappears, Doug puts his expertise to work. With Gail and Carlos eagerly in tow, Doug's investigation delves into the mysteries of personal relationships and uncovers more than one secret. Film4 premiere.
Director: Aaron Katz
Starring: Cris Lankenau, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Raúl Castillo, Robyn Rikoon, Jeb Pearson, Brendan McFadden
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2010, 3 Star)

01:10
Hostage (Film)
In Florent Emilio Siri's edge-of-the-seat thriller, Bruce Willis plays Jeff Talley, who's working for the Ventura Police Department and looking for a quiet life after a bad experience as a hostage negotiator in Los Angeles. When a car-jacking by three teenagers goes wrong and they take three hostages, he's happy to hand over to the sheriff's department for what is ostensibly a simple case. But then he's back, demanding to take control of the incident: more dangerous elements have kidnapped his family and they want him to retrieve incriminating evidence from the car-jacking - or his family will suffer. Now Talley has to navigate two sets of negotiations, one open, the other known only to him.
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri
Starring: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 2005, 3 Star)

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 10.05.12

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11:00
Offside (Film)
Jafar Panahi directs this charming, witty drama that follows the fortunes of an unnamed teenage Iranian football fan, played by Ayda Sadeqi. She tries to sneak into Iran's World Cup qualifier against Bahrain, but women are banned from watching football and her disguise is penetrated. Placed in a corral with other women who tried to sneak in, where they are guarded by young conscript soldiers, the film plays out during the duration of the match, as the women taunt the soldiers about the rules that exclude them, while trying to follow the game by the crowd's noise. Shot on digital video cameras with a non-professional cast, the film is both challenging and uplifting, with one sequence, where one of the women must be escorted to the men's toilet, wonderfully absurd.
Director: Jafar Pahani
Starring: Sima Mobarak-Shahi, Shayesteh Irani, Ayda Sadeqi, Golnaz Farmani, Mahnaz Zabihi, Nazanin Sediq-zadeh
(In Persian with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, PG, 4 Star)

12:50
Murphy's War (Film)
Peter Yates' Second World War drama stars Peter O'Toole as Murphy, a merchant seaman whose ship was sunk by a German U-boat in a South American river, towards the end of the war. With all other survivors machine-gunned to death in the water, Murphy staggers ashore and learns that the U-boat is lurking upstream by the banks of the jungle. He swears he won't rest until the U-boat has been destroyed, and enlists the help of Dr Hayden of the local missionary settlement and French engineer Philippe Noiret to complete his personal mission of revenge. Edited for violence and language.
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam, Ingo Mogendorf
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, 12, 3 Star)

14:55
Avalanche Express (Film)
Robert Shaw's last film, in which he stars as a Russian defecting to the West by train under the guard of rogue CIA agent Lee Marvin. Marvin plans to use the journey to flush out his arch-enemy, Russian agent Nikolai Bunin, whose renegade group is planning to unleash biological warfare on the West.
Director: Monte Hellman, Mark Robson
Starring: Lee Marvin, Robert Shaw, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Joe Namath, Horst Buchholz
(Subtitles, 1979, PG, 2 Star)

16:40
Carry on Spying (Film)
When the dastardly organisation STENCH steals a top secret chemical formula, it's clear the British secret service must do something - and quick. Unfortunately, their sole available resource is Agent Desmond Simpkins and his bumbling trainees Crump, Bind and Honeybutt. Nevertheless, the country's finest are soon in hot pursuit of the terrorists, on a trail that will take them as far afield as Austria and Algeria. The only thing that stands between them and success is their incompetence. Gerald Thomas's spy spoof also stars Jim Dale and Eric Barker.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins, Charles Hawtrey, Eric Barker, Dilys Laye
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, Black and White, 1964, PG, 3 Star)

18:25
The Great Debaters (Film)
Denzel Washington directs and star in this fact-based civil rights drama. He tells the inspirational story of how a small black college in Marshall, Texas, defied the racist norms of 1930s America to take on the pampered white frat boys of the Ivy League in the national debating championship. Washington stars as Melvin B Tolson, the professor who set up a debating forum for the students at Wiley College, which proved so popular and successful under his tutelage that they collectively took the brave decision to compete not only against bigger black colleges, but also to take on white academia. Though uplifting, the team's journey graphically demonstrates the appalling injustices, violence and contempt that African Americans were then forced to endure.
Director: Denzel Washington
Starring: Denzel Washington, Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, Denzel Whitaker, Jermaine Williams, Forest Whitaker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 4 Star)

21:00
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (Film)
Stephen Sommers' Hasbro-produced action-adventure, starring Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller and Christopher Eccleston. When a devastatingly powerful new weapons system, designed by James McCullen, is attacked in transit by the evil Baroness, it's clear that something bad is afoot. Thankfully, the finest of America's finest, the GI Joes, are on hand to repulse the attempted theft. But it's not long before the shadowy terrorist organisation Cobra mounts another, more successful, raid and hightails it with the missiles. Luckily, one of the Joes, Duke recognises the Baroness, giving the goodies the lead they need to track down the baddies before too much damage can be done - though not before many explosions, a double-crossing and a major Parisian landmark is wiped off the face of the Earth.
Director: Stephen Sommers
Starring: Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rachel Nichols, Dennis Quaid
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

23:15
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Film)
Tim Burton's gore-splashed Gothic take on Stephen Sondheim's musical stars Johnny Depp in the title role. He was once an innocent barber, Benjamin Barker, happily married to Lucy with a daughter, Johanna. But evil Judge Turpin coveted Lucy, had Barker deported and had his wicked way with Lucy who, in despair, killed herself. Barker returns, ravaged by time and unrecognisable, seeking vengeance, and sets up as a barber offering a murderously close shave. Joining him in his endeavours is Mrs Lovett, who runs the pie shop beneath his salon and uses his victims to make lip-smacking pies. As Sweeney grows close to his target, a secret from the past changes everything.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 18, 4 Star)

01:30
Sideways (Film)
In Alexander Payne's bittersweet comedy, two buddies, Miles and Jack, embark on Jack's stag week, a tasting trip around California's wine country, with wine buff Miles leading the way. Miles may be a wine expert but he's also a bitter divorcee, depressed and in love with a waitress, Maya, whose presence always leaves him tongue-tied. Jack is a faded actor who can't quite resign himself to marriage when there are still obtainable women in the world, married or not, and when he meets Stephanie at a tasting, he swears Miles to secrecy about the wedding. And so the foursome continue their trip... Alexander Payne's Oscar and BAFTA-winning road trip is a classic of friendship and crisis, with four outstanding leads.
Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden-Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, Marylouise Burke, Jessica Hecht
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, 15, 3 Star)

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11:00
Love is a Many Splendored Thing (Film)
Tensions mount in Henry King's romantic weepy, set in late 1940s Hong Kong, as refugees pour in from Communist China. So, when married American journalist Mark Elliot falls in love with widowed Eurasian doctor Han Suyin, the chances of their relationship working is not good; 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.
Director: Henry King
Starring: William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson, Virginia Gregg
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 2 Star)

13:05
Up Periscope (Film)
Set on a submarine in the Pacific during World War II, Up Periscope stars James Garner as Lieutenant Ken Braden, a laid-back, inventive and comic Navy man who is assigned to a sabotage mission on a Japanese-held island. But when he discovers that Sally, the woman he's been falling in love with, has been checking out his suspect US Navy frogman qualifications, he must put his personal life behind him and concentrate on the mission at hand.
Director: Gordon Douglas
Starring: James Garner, Edmond O'Brien, Andra Martin, Alan Hale Jr., Carleton Carpenter, Frank Gifford
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1959, PG, 4 Star)

15:15
I Was Monty's Double (Film)
Rollicking adventure about a true-life Second World War impersonator of General Bernard Montgomery. Small-part actor ME Clifton James reprises his real-life wartime role in order to fool the Germans. Starring John Mills, Cecil Parker and a host of popular British actors in cameo roles.
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: M.E. Clifton-James, John Mills, Cecil Parker, Patrick Allen, Patrick Holt, Leslie Phillips
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1958, U, 2 Star)

17:15
Carry on Cabby (Film)
Gerald Thomas's war-of-the-sexes comedy concerns an on-going battle between two rival taxi companies run by a feuding husband and wife. When her husband Charlie Hawkins neglects to celebrate their wedding anniversary, Peggy takes revenge by secretly setting up her own cab business. Entirely female-staffed, Peggy's GlamCabs soon finds favour with the lecherous local male clientele and quickly inflicts a serious financial blow to Charlie's Speedee Taxis empire. However, Peggy's victory is a pyrrhic one, only serving to push the couple further apart. But a bank robbery is set to provide the couple with a chance for reconciliation... Kenneth Williams was missing from the cast this time round, but the film features Carry On debuts for Jim Dale and writer Talbot Rothwell, who would provide scripts for the next 19 editions of the series.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Esma Cannon, Liz Fraser
(Black and White, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1963, U, 3 Star)

19:05
Monster-in-Law (Film)
Robert Luketic's romantic comedy stars Jennifer Lopez as Charlotte 'Charlie' Cantilini, who lives on Venice Beach, works as a temp and is lucky enough to be engaged to the handsome Dr Kevin Fields. But Fields has the mother from Hell, Viola, a disgraced chat show host, just out of rehab, who will do anything short of murder to stop her son marrying Charlie. Fonda is wonderfully OTT as the acid-tongued, relationship-destroying harridan, but Lopez also gives as good as she gets.
Director: Robert Luketic
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes, Adam Scott, Monet Mazur
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2005, 12, 3 Star)

21:00
Fatal Attraction (Film)
Controversial thriller about a glamorous career woman who loses control when her married lover, a Manhattan attorney, ends their brief affair. Unable to accept his rejection, she pursues him at the office and then at his home, eventually drawing his wife and daughter into the confrontation. Violence and bloodshed figure in the intensifying nightmare before its harrowing conclusion.
Director: Adrian Lyne
Starring: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer, Ellen Hamilton Latzen, Stuart Pankin, Ellen Foley
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1987, 18, 4 Star)

23:20
Four Brothers (Film)
Four adopted brothers reunite when their mother is killed in a botched robbery. In the course of finding those responsible they soon realise the crime is not as straight forward as it at first seems and the revenge they seek will not be easy to obtain.
Director: John Singleton
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin, Garrett Hedlund, Terrence Howard, Josh Charles
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 15, 3 Star)

01:30
Enduring Love (Film)
Roger Michell's drama, based on Ian McEwan's novel, of unrequited love stars Daniel Craig as Joe, out with his girlfriend Claire for a picnic in the countryside. Suddenly, over the trees, appears a hot-air balloon that lands, tipping out the pilot, and then rises again, leaving a young boy stranded in the basket. Joe and other bystanders grab the trailing ropes but, one by one, they are forced to let go as the balloon ascends, except for one person who is borne aloft, before falling to his fate. Joe and Jed find his body. For Claire and Joe, life returns to a semblance of normality, until Joe starts running into Jed - again and again. And as Jed's obsession grows, so does the danger to Joe and Claire.
Director: Roger Michell
Starring: Daniel Craig, Samantha Morton, Bill Weston, Jeremy McCurdie, Lee Sheward, Nick Wilkinson
(Subtitles, 2004, 15, 3 Star)

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11:00
The Moonraker (Film)
This cavalier romantic thriller is essentially the Scarlet Pimpernel relocated in place and time across the Channel during the English Civil War. George Baker plays the eponymous hero, fighting off the Roundhead foe as he single-handedly saves the country's aristocracy, smuggling them to safety in France. But when Charles II decides to take the trip, Cromwell's cronies are waiting in the wings. Marius Goring and John Le Mesurier beef up the supporting cast, while stunning Sylvia Syms provides the romantic interest in a dashing yarn of love, courage and betrayal.
Director: David MacDonald
Starring: George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Peter Arne, Marius Goring, Richard Leech, Clive Morton
(Subtitles, PG, 1958, 3 Star)

12:40
David and Bathsheba (Film)
In the 50s, Hollywood developed a penchant for biblical tales, including King of Kings, The Ten Commandments and Quo Vadis. Henry King's film deserves to rank alongside them, with Gregory Peck as King David and Susan Hayward as the beautiful Bathsheba, for whose adulterous love David risks his throne, country and even the wrath of God. Told in occasional flashback, the film sees him conquer Goliath and lead his armies to victory before the prophet Nathan brings the word of Jehovah and His judgement, when David atones for his sins.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore, James Robertson Justice, Jayne Meadows
(Subtitles, 15, 1951, 3 Star)

14:55
Moonfleet (Film)
Stewart Granger stars in Fritz Lang's adaptation of J Meade Falkner's classic novel as the aristocratic smuggler Jeremy Fox. Landed with John Mohune, the offspring of a previous affair, Fox tries to protect the young lad from knowing his father's trade, but it's only a matter of time before the pair are involved in adventures concerning a treasure map, a valuable diamond and the attentions of the evil Lord Ashwood, as well as the rather more amorous interest of his wife.
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Whiteley, Liliane Montevecchi
(Subtitles, PG, 1955, 3 Star)

16:40
23 Paces to Baker Street (Film)
Thriller starring Van Johnson as Phillip Hanson, a blind playwright who overhears a kidnapping plot in a pub. He approaches the police, but, as his only clue is the perfume that one of the suspects wore, the coppers are unimpressed. Determined to stop the crime, Johnson teams up with his fiancé and secretary, and the detectives set out to bring the villains to book.
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood
(Subtitles, Audio Described, U, 1956, 4 Star)

18:45
The Land Girls (Film)
Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel play Stella, Ag and Pru, three very different girls in the Land Army; the volunteer force that replaced agricultural workers called up for service in the Second World War. Sent to a Dorset farm, they all fall for the farmer's son Joe Lawrence and the scene is set for romance, heartbreak and tragedy. David Leland's genuinely moving film evokes not just the spirit of the times but also the beauty of the Dorset countryside in winter.
Director: David Leland
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh, Tom Georgeson, Maureen O'Brien
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 15, 1998, 2 Star)

21:00
Taken (Film)
Liam Neeson stars as former CIA operative Bryan Mills, who's desperate to track down his kidnapped daughter in Pierre Morel's Luc Besson-produced action thriller. Mills' life hasn't panned out well; his dedication to the CIA wrecked his marriage and made him neglect his daughter Kim. Now, retired from the Agency, he wants to make things up to Kim. But to do so, he has to contend with his ex-wife's animosity and Kim's new step-father's wealth. So when he has an opportunity to advance Kim's pop star ambitions he jumps at the chance, even if that means her and a friend crossing the Atlantic to brave 'the dangers of Europe'. As things turn out, he has a point; in Paris, the two girls are kidnapped by vicious Eastern European sex traffickers. As they are being abducted, Bryan tells one of the baddies, via Kim's mobile phone: 'I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you'.
Director: Pierre Morel
Starring: Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace, Holly Valance, Famke Janssen, Radivoje Bukvic, Leland Orser
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15, 2008, 4 Star)

22:50
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Film)
Tim Burton's gore-splashed Gothic take on Stephen Sondheim's musical stars Johnny Depp in the title role. He was once an innocent barber, Benjamin Barker, happily married to Lucy with a daughter, Johanna. But evil Judge Turpin coveted Lucy, had Barker deported and had his wicked way with Lucy who, in despair, killed herself. Barker returns, ravaged by time and unrecognisable, seeking vengeance, and sets up as a barber offering a murderously close shave. Joining him in his endeavours is Mrs Lovett, who runs the pie shop beneath his salon and uses his victims to make lip-smacking pies. As Sweeney grows close to his target, a secret from the past changes everything.
Director: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jamie Campbell Bower
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 18, 2008, 4 Star)

01:05
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (Film)
Nicole Kidman plays Diane Arbus, the legendary photographer, in Steven Shainberg's imagined biography of her rise to fame. She breaks out of the shadow of her photographer husband Allan through a relationship with a neighbour, Lionel Sweeney, who has a physical hereditary trait that fascinates Arbus both as a photographer and as a woman.
Director: Steven Shainberg
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Ty Burrell, Harris Yulin, Jane Alexander, Emmy Clarke
(Widescreen, 15, 2006, 3 Star)

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11:00
Whisky (Film)
Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll's Cannes-winning film is a Uruguayan comedy-drama that relies on subtlety for its effect. Jacobo Koller runs a near-derelict sock factory and leads a life of quiet desperation. When his more successful brother Herman announces a surprise visit after many years' absence, Jacobo is desperate to prove he's successful at something and asks his near-mute assistant Marta Acuña to pose as his wife. His brother arrives and, instead of farce, the weekend turns into something more wickedly comic. The film's title, deliberately ironic, comes from what Uruguayans say instead of 'cheese' to get a smile for the camera. Sadly, this was Rebella's last film: he committed suicide in 2006, aged just 36.
Director: Pablo Stoll, Juan Pablo Rebella
Starring: Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, Daniel Hendler, Verónica Perrotta
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2004, 15, 4 Star)

12:55
The Well (Film)
Leo C Popkin and Russell Rouse's film is a fascinating drama set in a small midwest town, making an argument for racial tolerance in post-war America. When a black girl goes missing, and rumours circulate that she was last seen with a white man, Claude Packard, Sheriff Ben Kellogg has his hands full trying to quell tensions between the black community, who fear Packard will be treated leniently, and white reactionaries, who worry he will be lynched. But just when it looks as though racial violence will break out, it turns out that the girl has fallen into a disused well, and the whole community, including Packard, who works as a mining engineer, must put aside their differences and unite in a bid to rescue her.
Director: Leo C. Popkin, Russell Rouse
Starring: Richard Rober, Gwendolyn Laster, Maidie Norman, George Hamilton, Ernest Anderson, Dick Simmons
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1951, PG, 4 Star)

14:40
Campbell's Kingdom (Film)
Having been diagnosed with a terminal disease, Bruce Campbell returns to a town in the Canadian Rockies to prove his grandfather's theory that there is oil in the hills. However, no one believes him and, to make matters worse, Owen Morgan plans to build a dam and flood the land where the oil supposedly lies.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Mikey Craig, Barbara Murray, Robert Brown, John Laurie
(Subtitles, 1958, U, 3 Star)

16:40
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film)
118 min U
'When the legend becomes fact, print the legend' is the famous quote from what is considered to be one of John Ford's finest westerns, and it pretty much sums up the film. Greenhorn lawyer Ransom Stoddard sets up in a frontier town where everyone, bar the tough-but-decent Tom Doniphon, fears the brutal bully Liberty Valance. As Stoddard's influence grows and Valance's wanes, a confrontation between the two seems inevitable. And it duly comes, with a result that shocks the town.
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1962, PG, 3 Star)

19:05
Big Momma's House 2 (Film)
Martin Lawrence hits the dressing-up box again as FBI agent and master of disguise Malcolm Turner, in John Whitesell's comedy sequel. This time he's transformed into his gargantuan grandmother alter-ego Hattie Mae Pierce to go undercover as a childminder in the home of the criminal mastermind behind a new computer virus that poses a threat to the free world. It's robust visual gags and pratfalls all the way, as Lawrence navigates Big Momma past the perils of childcare as well as espionage, and tries to negotiate a series of slapstick situations without getting her bloomers in a twist.
Director: John Whitesell
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Emily Procter, Zachary Levi, Mark Moses, Kat Dennings
(Edited for Language, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, PG, 2 Star)

21:00
John Tucker Must Die (Film)
Betty Thomas's rom-com stars Jesse Metcalfe as John Tucker, high school stud. He romances three very different girls, Heather, Carrie and Beth in rapid succession before dumping each of them. Through Kate, a waitress at the restaurant where he dined them, they find out about his peccadilloes and recruit Kate to date him - then break him. As Kate's confidence in her role grows, so John finds himself wearing women's underwear and ending up in the wrong bed... Director Thomas manages to keep all the characters, even John, endearing enough and with whip-smart one-liners, the film avoids collapsing into clich?
Director: Betty Thomas
Starring: Jesse Metcalfe, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbel, Penn Badgley
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

22:45
Law Abiding Citizen (Film)
A brutal, gory revenge thriller starring Gerald Butler and directed by F Gary Gray. Could anything be worse than seeing your wife and child brutally killed in front of you? Well, probably not, but seeing one of their killers walk free after striking a bargain with the prosecuting lawer wouldn't make things any easier. And so it is for Clyde Shelton. But the experience doesn't destroy him; instead it eats away at him for a decade, at which point he snaps and takes sadistic revenge on the freed murderer. And then, even after he himself has been jailed, he embarks on a deadly campaign against everyone else connected with the case - including the police and legal representatives.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Michael Irby
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 18, 4 Star)

00:50
Tales From the Golden Age: Legend of the Party Activist (Arts)
Cristian Mungiu's collection of five short comedies, directed by himself, Razvan Marculescu, Constantin Popescu and Ioana Uricaru, takes a bitingly satirical look at life in Romania during the final years of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's regime. The individual episodes give an idea of how surreal and absurd the lot of the ordinary Romanian could be made by the machinations of their nation's brand of communism. The stories take the form of blackly comical folk tales: The Legend of the Official Visit tells how villagers could be forced to jump through hoops to satisfy official representatives on even the most fleeting of stops.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12)

03:25
Tales From the Golden Age: Legend of the Party Activist (Comedy)
A chance to see the episode that was left out of the UK release of director Cristian Mungiu's omnibus of satirical short comedies about life in Romania under the Ceausescu regime. Originally, Tales from the Golden Age was conceived as comprising six parts, but when distributors bought the film, each episode was supplied on a separate reel - enabling them to assemble the film how they wished. Although it wasn't Mugiu's choice to omit this episode, according to an interview with the BFI, he took a philosophical view of the practice, seeing in it reflections of how in Communist times people never knew what they were going to get.
(Subtitles, 2009, 12)

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11:00am Campbell's Kingdom
1:05pm Moonfleet
2:50pm Sea of Sand
4:45pm Up Periscope
6:55pm Another Stakeout


9:00pm
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
In Tim Story's sequel to the foursome's first adventure, the superheroes are suffering from very hum...
10:45pm Employee of the Month
Greg Coolidge's comedy is set in a department store and stars Dane Cook as Zack, who works in the pa...
12:50am The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci's dazzlingly stylish political drama, based on Alberto Moravia's novel, stars Je...