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#951 Post by Ads1982 » Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:25 pm

Seoul Station an animated prequel to Train To Busan is on Film 4 at 1:20am.

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#952 Post by jlnight » Sun Feb 09, 2020 9:45 am

The Last Hurrah, Tue 11th Feb, Sony Movies Classic.

Gideon of Scotland Yard, Thu 13th Feb, Sony Movies Classic.

Love Is the Devil, Fri 14th Feb, London Live.

Five Guns West, Sat 15th Feb, Talking Pictures. Also Tue 18th Feb.
The Salesman (2016), Sat 15th Feb, BBC4.

The Ghost of Monk's Island, Sun 16th Feb, Talking Pictures. Also early Tue 18th Feb.
Stir Crazy, Sun 16th Feb, Sony Movies Classic.

All Coppers Are, Tue 18th Feb, London Live.

Spring and Port Wine, Wed 19th Feb, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 27th Feb.

Torn Curtain, Thu 20th Feb, Sony Movies Classic.

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#953 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Feb 11, 2020 4:54 pm

Excellent next week. The big films are Asghar Farhadi's The Salesman on BBC4 at 10.45 p.m. on Saturday 15th (as already noted by jlnight), and the 2017 Rachel Weisz-starring version of the Daphne du Maurier story My Cousin Rachel on Film4 at 9 p.m. on Wednesay 19th.

BBC4's Storyville season continues at 10 p.m. on Monday 17th with Danish documentary Heartbound (which the BBC appear to have bizarrely, and slightly crassly, re-titled as "Fishing For Love: How To Catch A Thai Bride", for some reason!)

A few interesting repeats on Film4 too: Stalker is showing at 12.45 a.m. on Monday 17th. And there appears to be a mini-Michael Winterbottom season going on throughout the week with The Look of Love on Tuesday 16th at midnight, the Colin Firth 'ghostly Italy' romantic film about coming to terms with loss and grief Genova is on at 1.40 a.m. on Wednesday 19th (which I like thinking of as a strangely belated inverted non-horror version of Don't Look Now and Who Saw Her Die!), all building to surprisingly rare repeats of With Or Without You at 1.25 a.m. on Thursday 20th and 24 Hour Party People at 1.35 a.m. on Friday 21st. Though no UK broadcaster has dared to show 9 Songs as yet!

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#954 Post by jlnight » Sat Feb 15, 2020 12:28 pm

S is for Stanley, Fri 21st Feb, Talking Pictures.
Micki and Maude, starts Fri 21st Feb, Sony Movies Classic.
The Pink House (2017), Fri 21st Feb, London Live.
Rasputin the Mad Monk, Fri 21st Feb, Talking Pictures. Also late Mon 24th Feb.
Used Cars, starts Fri 21st Feb, Sony Movies Classic.

Lady Caroline Lamb, Sat 22nd Feb, Talking Pictures. Also Tue 25th Feb.
The Burning, Sat 22nd Feb, Horror.
The Midwife (2017), Sat 22nd Feb, BBC4.
Spanish Fly, Sat 22nd Feb, Talking Pictures. Also Fri 28th Feb.

Noah, Sun 23rd Feb, BBC2.

That'll Be the Day, Mon 24th Feb, Talking Pictures. (been on countless times)

The Pumpkin Eater, Tue 25th Feb, Sony Movies Classic.

120 Bpm, Wed 26th Feb, Film4.

Ex Dominatrix (2017), Fri 28th Feb, London Live.
The Big Sick, Fri 28th Feb, BBC2.

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#955 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Feb 18, 2020 4:21 pm

Interesting again next week. jlnight has noted the big films but its worth noting the highlights again. It is a very French and gay week with 120 Beats Per Minute on Film4 at 11 p.m. on Wednesday 26th (followed by a repeat of The Garden) and The Midwife, with Catherine Deneuve, on BBC4 at 10.45 p.m. on Saturday 22nd. And BBC4's Storyville documentary strand is showing Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life, about the gay porn star, although again they are doing a strange retitling thing and calling it by the blunter, cruder title of "The Rise and Fall of a Porn Superstar", and showing it at 10 p.m. on Monday 24th. It also looks as if it has been cut down to fit a 90 minute time slot, as it runs for 106 minutes according to the imdb page.

Film4 has repeats of Andrei Rublev at midnight on Sunday 23rd and a double of Kirk Douglas films with Last Train From Gun Hill at 1.20 p.m. followed by In Harm's Way at 3.15 p.m. on Monday 24th (ITV4 is showing Spartacus twice over the weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, so there's no escape!)

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#956 Post by jlnight » Mon Feb 24, 2020 3:09 am

Sammy's Super T-Shirt, Sat 29th Feb, Talking Pictures. Also Tue 3rd March.
After the Storm, Sat 29th Feb, BBC4.

The Wrong Box, starts Sun 1st Mar, Sony Movies Classic.

The Conquest of Everest, Mon 2nd Mar, Talking Pictures. Also Sat 7th Mar.

The Blue Lagoon, starts Wed 4th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.

The Uncanny, Fri 6th Mar, Talking Pictures. Also Tue 10th Mar.
Cam Girlz, Fri 6th Mar, London Live.
The Beguiled (2017), Fri 6th Mar, BBC2.

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#957 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Feb 27, 2020 5:09 pm

jlnight has already noted the two biggest films next week with the premiere of Hirokazu Kore-eda's After The Storm on BBC4 on Saturday 29th at 10.50 p.m., and Sofia Coppola's remake of The Beguiled on BBC2 at 11 p.m. on Friday 6th.

Otherwise it is quiet, though Film4 have two premieres, of Gifted at 9 p.m. on Tuesday 3rd (from that trailer I am perhaps too excited about the prospect of a no hold's barred punch up occurring between Octavia Spencer and Lindsay Duncan at some point!) and My Friend Dahmer at 9 p.m. on Thursday 5th.

BBC4's Storyville season continues on Monday 2nd at 10 p.m. with The Accused: Damned or Devoted?, "Following the stories and fates of four people accused of blasphemy in Pakistan"

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#958 Post by jlnight » Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:31 pm

Over the Hill, Sat 7th Mar, Talking Pictures. Also Fri 13th Mar. Alternatively...
Lost Lives (LFF 2019), Sat 7th Mar, BBC2.

Passport To China, starts Sun 8th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.

The Toy, starts Tue 10th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.

Birth of the Dragon, Thu 12th Mar, Film4.

Best and Most Beautiful Things, Fri 13th Mar, London Live.

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#959 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Mar 03, 2020 4:52 pm

The sci-fi film Passengers is showing on Channel 4 at 9 p.m. on Saturday 7th, but the most interesting film of the week is the premiere of the anime film Mary and the Witch's Flower on Film4 at 4.45 p.m., also on Saturday (in its English language version).

Also domino's favourite entry in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation with Renee Zellweger and Matthew McConaughey is showing on the Horror channel at 11 p.m. on Sunday 8th.
jlnight wrote:
Mon Mar 02, 2020 5:31 pm
Lost Lives (LFF 2019), Sat 7th Mar, BBC2.
Here's the trailer for Lost Lives showing on BBC2 at 10 p.m. on Saturday as well.

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#960 Post by jlnight » Sat Mar 07, 2020 4:22 pm

Neighbors, starts Sat 14th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.
A Quiet Place, Sat 14th Mar, Channel 4. Or...
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (LFF 2019), Sat 14th Mar, BBC2.

Trigonometry (eps 1 and 2), Sun 15th Mar, BBC2. (TV, really)

Call Girl (2012), late Mon 16th Mar, Film4.

The Owl and the Pussycat, Tue 17th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.

Ill Met by Moonlight, Thu 19th Mar, London Live.

The Long Night (2014), Fri 20th Mar, London Live. Or...
Blade Runner 2049, Fri 20th Mar, Sony Movies. Or...
Big Trouble, Fri 20th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.
Long Weekend, late Fri 20th Mar, London Live. (on last year)

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#961 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Mar 14, 2020 6:20 am

I got a bit too excited by jlnight's mention of a TV series about Trigonometry, hoping for one of those dry 80s style Open University lecture series. But its yet another 'three's a crowd' relationship drama series. Sometimes I think television and myself just want different things! (The OU programme is far sexier, of course)

Rather quiet next week (though Hirokazu Kore-eda's I Wish is showing on Film4 at 1.20 a.m. in the early hours of Wednesday 18th), but probably the biggest thing outside of the premiere of A Quiet Place on Channel 4 tonight at 9 p.m. is on BBC4, which is somewhat out of nowhere showing Steve McQueen: The Man & Le Mans at 9 p.m. on Wednesday 18th, a feature documentary all about the making of the 1971 Le Mans film. But not the film itself! I cannot actually recall the last time that Le Mans was ever shown on UK television!

I guess it coincides with the release of that Ford v Ferrari film on home video this week? It is part of what seems to be a 'Le Mans night' on BBC4 with Hunt v Lauda: F1s Greatest Racing Rivals following at 10.35 p.m. and Sir Chris Hoy: 200 mph at Le Mans at 11.25 p.m.

But I kind of wish they'd shown the Le Mans film as well for much needed context! I guess though that it might bode well for that Lost Souls film to maybe turn up without having to show the 1996 Island of Dr Moreau as well!

And Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema series is back on BBC4 at 9 p.m. on Thursday 19th with an episode devoted to superheroes.

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#962 Post by jlnight » Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:03 pm

Diego Maradona, Sat 21st Mar, Channel 4. Or...
Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool, Sat 21st Mar, BBC2. (followed by Personal Shopper). Or...
Apprentice (2016), Sat 21st Mar, BBC4.

Mindhorn, Sun 22nd Mar, BBC2.

OJ: Made in America (repeat), starts Mon 23rd Mar, BBC4. (double bills on Tues and Weds).

Ship of Fools, Tue 24th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.
The Nile Hilton Incident, late Tue 24th Mar, Film4.

The Wind and The Lion, Thu 26th Mar, Sony Movies Classic. (been on countless times).
Cromwell, Thu 26th Mar, BBC4.

Young Winston, Fri 27th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.
Das Boot, Fri 27th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.

Cam Girlz, which I highlighted on London Live a few weeks back, is actually a documentary called Cam Girl (2018), directed by Jacky Goldberg and also known by the title Flesh Memory. Apologies for that!

The first two episodes of Trigonometry were scheduled to screen at the London Film Festival but they were apparently pulled at the last minute. No idea why.

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#963 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Mar 17, 2020 1:44 pm

BBC1 had an impromptu showing of Guardians of the Galaxy last Saturday that replaced the scheduled football, so I have seen my second Marvel film now. It was pretty good, good enough that I was not planning to watch it at all and ended up not being able to pull myself away, though also rather weird to see Peter Serafinowicz and Glenn Close together in a scene! There's more football scheduled for this upcoming Saturday so I'm excited to see what film they will replace it with! (Its a strangely nostalgic feeling to actually be anticipating a big film in the BBC1 Saturday night early evening schedule for the first time since the mid 1990s! But that will only last until the next reality gameshow series revs up at some point)

As jlnight notes, the big evening next week is Saturday 21st, though it is where Asif Kapadia's documentary about Diego Maradona at 9 p.m. on Channel 4 and the bizarre sight of Annette Bening as Gloria Grahame in the North West of England in Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool on BBC2 at 9 p.m. both end up clashing with the most interesting film of the week: Apprentice at 10.30 p.m. on BBC4.

Film4 has The Nile Hilton Incident at 1.45 a.m. in the early hours of Wednesday 25th.

The second episode of Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema is on BBC4 on Thursday 26th, covering "British History Movies", which is why Cromwell is showing afterwards at 10 p.m. Simultaneously ITV2 have realised after only ever showing it at 1 a.m. during the last two Christmas seasons that they have the zeitgeist film of the moment and are finally showing Steven Soderbergh's Contagion at primetime at 9 p.m on the same evening.

On Friday 27th at 10.45 p.m. BBC1 are showing Peter Weir's Witness for the first time in a while (I think the last time was in 2012?). And Dario Argento's Inferno is on Film4 at 2 a.m. on Saturday 28th.
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#964 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Mar 21, 2020 8:01 am

So Marvel's Avenger's Assemble is the stopgap film pressed into service on BBC1 in today's early evening schedules to replace football.

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#965 Post by reaky » Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:38 pm

Colin, you’ll catch up with the entire Marvel catalogue at this rate! Good rule of thumb: avoid all the 2s except Captain America’s.

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#966 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:18 am

Would skipping them miss out any important plot developments though, or are they like irrelevant in the long term, as with Star Wars Episode 8? Actually that reminds me of that line in American Dad:
American Dad wrote:"That's 2 Fast 2 Furious. Which means you've already seen the first one! How else could you possibly follow the highly cerebral storyline!"

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#967 Post by knives » Mon Mar 23, 2020 9:39 am

reaky wrote:
Sat Mar 21, 2020 3:38 pm
Colin, you’ll catch up with the entire Marvel catalogue at this rate! Good rule of thumb: avoid all the 2s except Captain America’s.
GotG 2 is the best in that series. It's practically a Star Trek ToS episode staring idiots and Kurt Russell.

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#968 Post by jlnight » Mon Mar 23, 2020 11:44 am

The Odyssey, Sun 29th Mar, BBC4.

Target for Tonight, Mon 30th Mar, Talking Pictures.
Berlin Express, Mon 30th Mar, Sony Movies Classic.
True Romance, starts Mon 30th Mar, Sony Movies.

The Silencers, Wed 1st Apr, Sony Movies Classic.
Leaning into the Wind, late Wed 1st Apr, Film4.

Murderers' Row, Thu 2nd Apr, Sony Movies Classic.

The Ambushers, Fri 3rd Apr, Sony Movies Classic.

All the Matt Helm films, including The Wrecking Crew, are on Sun 5th Apr.

The Thames TV series Out starts late on Sat 28th Mar on Talking Pictures. Rumpole's Return, the feature length episode of Rumpole of the Bailey, is on the following night.

Ill Met by Moonlight and The Long Night never screened in the end.

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#969 Post by reaky » Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:28 pm

colinr0380 wrote:Would skipping them miss out any important plot developments though, or are they like irrelevant in the long term, as with Star Wars Episode 8? Actually that reminds me of that line in American Dad:
American Dad wrote:"That's 2 Fast 2 Furious. Which means you've already seen the first one! How else could you possibly follow the highly cerebral storyline!"
Irritatingly, when you get to Avengers Endgame there are significant callbacks to Thor 2 and Avengers Age of Ultron, two of the weaker entries.

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#970 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:11 pm

The big films of next week are probably the premiere of Happy Death Day on Film4 at 9 p.m. on Friday 3rd and the Boston marathon bombing survivor film directed by David Gordon Green, Stronger, on BBC2 at 9 p.m. on Saturday 28th, which clashes with Girls Trip on Channel 4 at 9 p.m. also on Saturday 28th.

Similarly on Sunday 29th the premiere of Jawbone at 10.45 p.m. on BBC2 (with Ray Winstone and Ian McShane in a boxing drama 'grit off') clashes with the lifestory of Jacques Cousteau film noted by jlnight on BBC4 at 10 p.m., The Odyssey.

Also noted by jlnight is the other Film4 premiere of the week Leaning Into The Wind at 1.40 a.m. in the early hours of Thursday 2nd.

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#971 Post by jlnight » Sun Mar 29, 2020 5:39 am

Hellraiser, Fri 3rd Apr, Horror.

Ghost Stories, Sat 4th Apr, BBC2.

The Man Who Could Work Miracles, Mon 6th Apr, Sony Movies Classic.

Funny Girl, Tue 7th Apr, Sony Movies Classic.
My Life as a Courgette, late Tue 7th Apr, Film4.

The Secret of Dorian Gray (1970), Thu 9th Apr, Talking Pictures. Also late Sat 18th Apr.

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#972 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Apr 03, 2020 4:36 pm

Happy Death Day appears to have been pulled from Film4's schedule this evening, replaced with a repeat of Blades of Glory.

Pretty good next week. Saturday 4th is the best day, though again everything clashes. War For The Planet of the Apes is on Channel 4 at 9 p.m., though I'm more interested in the first two episodes (out of eight) of Norwegian thriller Twin on BBC4 at 9 p.m. and then as jlnight notes Ghost Stories is showing at 10.45 p.m. on BBC2 (which is the film I am most interested in this week)

BBC1 has a rare big film premiere with A Monster Calls at 10.30 p.m. on Sunday 5th, which seems in the same vein as Bridge To Terabithia.

The Horror channel is following up Hellraiser tonight with Hellbound: Hellraiser II at 11.15 p.m. on Good Friday.
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#973 Post by jlnight » Sat Apr 04, 2020 3:07 pm

The Thing From Another World, It Came From Beneath the Sea, This Island Earth, and Earth Vs the Flying Saucers, all Sat 11th Apr, Horror.
The Magic Christian, Sat 11th Apr, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 16th Apr.

The Giant Claw, The Incredible Shrinking Man, 20 Million Miles to Earth, and Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, all Sun 12th Apr, Horror.
Castle Keep, Sun 12th Apr, Sony Movies Action.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (preceded by The Swimmer), Sun 12th Apr, Sony Movies Classic.

The Hunter (1980), Mon 13th Apr, Talking Pictures. Also late Sat 25th Apr.
The Knack ...and How to Get It, starts Mon 13th Apr, Sony Movies Classic.

The Long Ships, Tue 14th Apr, BBC2.

Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, Fri 17th Apr, Horror. Or...
Border (2018), Fri 17th Apr, Film4.

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#974 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Apr 09, 2020 2:05 pm

Quite an eclectic mix next week: Stephen Frears's follow up to Mrs Brown also stars Judi Dench tackling another stage in the life of Queen Victoria with Victoria & Abdul on BBC2 on Saturday 11th at 9.15 p.m.

Channel 4 has Transformers spin-off Bumblebee at 5.45 p.m. on Sunday 12th. Film4 is showing horror film The Ritual at 9 p.m. on Tuesday 14th and as jlnight notes Border is on Film4 at 11.20 p.m. on Friday 17th.

But most interesting are the first two episodes of Devs showing on BBC2 at 9 p.m. on Wednesday 15th and Thursday 16th, directed by Alex Garland and starring Sonoya Mizuno and Karl Glusman (the star of Gaspar Noe's Love).

Repeat-wise BBC2 is showing The Greatest Story Ever Told, with Max Von Sydow at Jesus, at 12 noon on Saturday 11th and Clouds of Sils Maria is on BBC2 at 11 p.m. also on Saturday 11th. Loveless is on Channel 4 at 1 a.m. in the early hours of Easter Monday. And BBC4 are repeating Wolf Hall in double bills from 10 p.m. over three nights from Easter Sunday to Tuesday 14th, presumably to tie in with the release of Hilary Mantel's final book in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light.

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#975 Post by antnield » Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:43 pm

colinr0380 wrote:
Thu Apr 09, 2020 2:05 pm
Quite an eclectic mix next week: Stephen Frears's follow up to Mrs Brown also stars Judi Dench tackling another stage in the life of Queen Victoria with Victoria & Abdul on BBC2 on Saturday 11th at 9.15 p.m.
Frears also directs ITV's new three-part drama based on the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? scandal, Quiz, showing on consecutive nights from Monday.

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