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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 22nd January

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11:00


The Spoilers (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Jesse Hibbs takes directorial duties for this fifth retelling of fortune-seeking and treachery on the Alaskan frontier. First made in 1914, and with previous versions featuring Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne, this remake of the western was the first to be shot in colour and stars Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler and Rory Calhoun. Roy Glennister owns the area's largest gold mine, Cherry Malotte makes a killing from charging extortionate prices at her saloon, while Alexander McNamara has plans to swindle both out of their lucrative enterprises. But Glennister catches wind of what's up and events are set in train that lead inexorably to the tale's climactic fist fight.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Starring: Anne Baxter, Jeff Chandler, Rory Calhoun, Ray Danton
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)

12:40


Major Dundee (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Sam Peckinpah's western stars Charlton Heston as the eponymous Union army officer. It's the end of the Civil War and he's guarding Confederate prisoners, Union deserters and ordinary hard-bitten criminals in a remote fort. But when Apaches attack the fort and make off with three children, Dundee must set up a posse including Confederates, led by Captain Tyreen, who face the choice of joining up or being shot. The feud between Dundee and Tyreen is heated up by a sultry Mexican widow, and when the Apaches are finally caught, there's more than one battle in store. Edited for content.
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, James Coburn, Michael Anderson Jr., Senta Berger
(Subtitles, 1965, PG, 4 Star)

15:05


Moonfleet (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Stewart Granger stars in Fritz Lang's adaptation of J Meade Falkner's classic novel as the aristocratic smuggler Jeremy Fox. When he ends up looking after John Mohune, the offspring of a previous affair, Fox tries to provent the young lad from discovering his trade. But it's not long 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 amorous interest of Lady Ashwood.
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Whiteley, Liliane Montevecchi
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)

16:50


Above Us the Waves (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Fact-based, action-packed, tense British Second World War thriller. Three midget submarines, skippered by Commander Frazer and sub lieutenants Duffy and Corbett, plan to destroy the Tirpitz, a German battleship holed up in a seemingly impregnable position in a Norwegian fjord.
Director: Ralph L. Thomas
Starring: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice, Michael Medwin, James Kenney
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1955, U, 3 Star)

18:50


The Land Girls (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel play Stella, Ag and Pru, three very different girls in the Land Army. 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 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, 1998, 15, 2 Star)



21:00


Patriot Games (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Harrison Ford plays an ex-CIA agent who, on a visit to London with his family, foils the assassination of a government minister by the IRA, killing one of the attackers in the process. Swearing vengeance IRA man Sean Bean follows Ford and his family to their seaside home in America where he and his followers plan to exact their revenge. Based on Tom Clancy's novel.
Director: Phillip Noyce
Starring: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, James Fox
(Subtitles, 1992, 15, 4 Star)

23:15


Dazed and Confused (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Described as the American Graffiti for the 90s, Richard Linklater's comedy drama follows groups and individuals as a Texas high school celebrates the beginning of summer with the traditional beer drinking, dope smoking, skirt chasing that all teenagers must go through.
Director: Richard Linklater
Starring: Jason London, Rory Cochrane, Wiley Wiggins, Sasha Jenson, Michelle Burke, Adam Goldberg
(Subtitles, 1993, 18, 4 Star)

01:20


Shut Up and Play the Hits (Documentary) 15 certificate
A chronicle of LCD Soundsystem's farewell concert at Madison Square Garden. The film follows the band's frontman James Murphy during the three days leading up to the respected outfit's last hurrah, as well as including footage of the concert itself.
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 15)

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Film4 Listings for Thursday 23rd January

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11:00


In the City of Sylvia (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
PG Xavier Lafitte and Pilar Lopez de Ayala star in this quiet thriller, despite being almost entirely devoid of dialogue or action. The film follows a young man as he wanders central Strasbourg in search of a woman he met in a bar years before. But he only knows her first name and only has tangential clues to her potential whereabouts - assuming that she is still in the city. And, as his quest continues, an increasingly unsettling edge to his obsession begins to emerge. Beautifully shot and featuring excellent performances, the film is a sensual and hauntingly enigmatic journey that beautifully captures the complexity of human emotions, and in particular, longing.
Director: José Luis Guerín
Starring: Pilar López de Ayala, Xavier Lafitte, Laurence Cordier, Tanja Czichy, Eric Dietrich, Charlotte Dupont
(Widescreen, In French and Spanish with English Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

12:50


Bataan (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Tay Garnett's Second World War film is based on a true story about 13 men left to fight against the advancing troops of the Japanese army. Robert Taylor stars as the sergeant in charge, Bill Dane, who, along with Lt Steve Bentley and Cpl Jake Feingold, is on a mission to stop the Japanese from building a vital bridge into the Philippines' Bataan peninsula. But it becomes increasingly apparent that none of them is likely to survive.
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Robert Taylor, George A. Murphy, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Nolan, Lee Bowman, Robert Walker Jr.
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, PG, 3 Star)

15:05


The Professionals (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Fast-moving, action-packed western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode as soldiers of fortune hired by millionaire rancher Ralph Bellamy to rescue his wife Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by Mexican bandit Jack Palance.
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 4 Star)

17:25


The Producers (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Dark comedy musical, directed by Mel Brooks and starring Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder and Dick Shawn. It's a case of ingenious-con-gone-horribly-wrong when Broadway producer Max Bialystock cooks up a get-rich-quick scheme with his accountant Leo Bloom. They take advantage of the impresario's loyal following of rich, ageing female admirers by persuading far more of them to back his latest production than is financially necessary. The shysters intend to make a killing by staging a performance that's so terrible it won't last beyond the first night - allowing them to pocket the excess funds.
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renée Taylor, Christopher Hewett
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1968, PG, 3 Star)

19:10


Doctor Dolittle (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Betty Thomas's remake of the 1967 film is neatly updated with Eddie Murphy playing Dr John Dolittle, who talks to the animals. Dolittle and his pushy partner Mark Weller hope to strike a lucrative deal with a major corporation, but more and more of Dolittle's time is taken up giving CPR to lab rats and talking a suicidal tiger out of jumping from five storeys up. The film works because Murphy's character is played relatively straight while the creatures are allowed to be cynically sarcastic about him, humans and others species. Special plaudits go to the lab rats voiced by Reni Santoni and John Leguizamo, Chris Rock as Rocky the guinea pig and Norm Macdonald as Dolittle's laconic companion Lucky the dog.
Director: Betty Thomas
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff, Kristen Wilson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, PG, 3 Star)



20:50


The Eagle Interview Special (Entertainment)
Film4 catches up with director Kevin Macdonald and stars Jamie Bell and Channing Tatum on location in Hungary to talk about making the historical action-adventure The Eagle.
(Repeat, Subtitles)

21:00


Men of Steel: The Eagle (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Men of Steel is a short season dedicated to old-school action that's full of mud, blood, battles, swords, sandals, samurai and Scots. It runs from Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 January.
Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell star in Kevin Macdonald's historical adventure, based on Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth. One of the most unthinkable things that could happen to a Roman legion was the loss of its revered eagle standard.
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12)

23:10


Men of Steel: Seven Samurai (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Akira Kurosawa's epic masterpiece, set in 16th-century Japan, tells the story of seven mercenary samurai warriors who agree to defend a village against a gang of ruthless bandits. In a desperate attempt to ward off the next attack from the marauders, the village turns to an ageing, masterless samurai Kambei Shimada and begs him for help. He in turn rounds-up five similarly outcast samurai, who set about preparing to repel the next raid. They are also joined by a farmers' boy called Kikuchiyo, who makes up for his lack of martial skills with bundles of enthusiasm and bravery. The film takes a leisurely approach to setting up the climactic battle, but the tension is expertly built by Kurosawa, who throughout uses the film to provide a masterclass in film-making. Seven Samurai was remade in the US as The Magnificent Seven, which was perhaps only fair, as Kurosawa had taken the westerns of John Ford as inspiration for his samurai movies. First screening on Film4.
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshirô Mifune
(Black and White, Premiere, In Japanese with Subtitles, 1954, PG)

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Film4 Listings for Friday 24th January

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11:00


Carry on Nurse (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Hattie Jacques carved out her famous Matron role in the second Carry On film, with all the usual bawdy comedy, high jinks and double entendres, set on a men's ward full of amorous patients.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Kenneth Connor, Shirley Eaton, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques, Terence Longdon, Bill Owen
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1959, U, 3 Star)

12:45


Halls of Montezuma (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Second World War drama starring Richard Widmark as a commanding officer leading US Marines into the Pacific to capture Japanese prisoners and discover the location of a rocket base.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Hylton
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 3 Star)

15:00


Singin' in the Rain (Film) Film icon 5 star rating U certificate
Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds star in Stanley Donen and Kelly's classic musical, set at the time of the beginning of the talkies. Kelly plays Don Lockwood, a matinee idol, Jean Hagen is Lina Lamont, his bitchy Bronx-accented co-star, and Reynolds plays Kathy Seldon, his true love. It's a film littered with classic sequences, from O'Connor's Make 'Em Laugh to Good Morning and, of course, Kelly's classic routine, Singin' in the Rain.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1952, U, 5 Star)

17:00


Bhowani Junction (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Ava Gardner stars in George Cukor's epic film as Victoria Jones, the Anglo-Indian assistant to Colonel Rodney Savage, who is charged with keeping things under control during the British handover to India. As riots simmer and terrorists seize trains, so their growing relationship is threatened by her anguished search for her identity, symbolising the cultural and political divides of the time.
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Marne Maitland
(Subtitles, 1956, PG, 2 Star)

19:10


New in Town (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Renie Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr star in this romantic comedy from Danish director Jonas Elmer. Ambitous food company executive Lucy Hill is in two minds when she's assigned to 'streamline' an underperforming factory in snowbound Minnesota. On the one hand it offers the opportunity for another promotion, on the other she'll have to abandon her beloved Miami. But ambition wins out, and it's not long before she's in New Ulm, where she gets a frosty reception from the locals, who unsurprisingly aren't happy that she's arrived to make a number of them redundant. It's not just the general unfriendliness that she must bear, she also has to deal with single parent Ted Mitchell, the union boss who's out to save as many of the plant's employees as possible. They don't get off to a great start, but as time goes by their attitudes begin to thaw... Edited for content.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan Fallon, J.K. Simmons, Mike O'Brien, Frances Conroy
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Men of Steel: 13 Assassins (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Takashi Miike's historical martial arts action-drama begins as a slow-burning exploration of the notions of honour and noble sacrifice and then bursts into a relentlessly kinetic, sword-flashingly exciting and violent climax. The story opens in the peace and harmony of early 1840s Japan, where the omnipotence of the samurai and their bushido code is just starting to slip from its apogee. And that's a problem because it has coincided with the rise of a particularly viciously nasty overlord, Naritsugu Matsudaira, who has begun to terrorise the population under his control. That would be bad enough, but Matsudaira's connections make him a likely candidate for the Shogunate - and that would spell disaster for the whole of Japan.
Starring: Goro Inagaki, Koji Yakusho
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2010, 15)

23:25


No Country for Old Men (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Ethan and Joel Coen's Oscar-laden thriller stars Josh Brolin as Llewelyn Moss, a trailer-dwelling welder and hunter. Hunting deer in the desert, he comes across a drugs exchange which has gone bloodily wrong, and among the detritus is a case containing $2m. He decides to appropriate the money, but it's not a wise move: he soon has the deadly assassin Anton Chigurh on his trail, as well as Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, and smiling bounty hunter Carson Wells. As Moss tries to keep hold of the cash, and preserve both his own life and that of his wife Carla, a deadly game of cat-and-mouse is played out across the Tex-Mex border, as pursuers and the pursued try to gain the upper hand. In English, and Spanish with English subtitles. This screening is timed to tie-in with the release of the Coen brothers' latest movie, Inside Llewyn Davis.
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 4 Star)

01:45


Tiny Furniture (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Writer-director Lena Dunham makes her feature debut and stars with real-life family members Laurie Simmons and Grace Dunham in this subtle comedy-drama. Aura has just finished her film studies degree and has returned home to the swanky New York apartment owned by her mother, the acclaimed artist Siri. It's supposed to be a brief stopping point for Aura while she decides what she's going to do with the rest of her life. But her attempts to find work are half-hearted and her romantic ventures awkwardly misjudged. And, as each little knock-back further chips away at her confidence, she's seemingly becoming ever more trapped.
Director: Lena Dunham
Starring: Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, Rachel Howe, Merritt Wever, Amy Seimetz
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Saturday 25th January

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11:00


To be Announced (Film) Film icon
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13:00


Step Up 3 (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Rick Malambri, Adam G Sevani and Sharni Vinson star in this dance spectacular. A crew of New York street dancers must win the top prize in a competition or face losing the building where they live and try out their new choreography routines. Along the way, the plot encompasses love stories and even a police chase, but of course it's really all about the dancing - which bursts forth in abundance and enough variety to please any hoofing fan. Indeed, the coruscating dance routines, from a cast composed largely of professional dancers rather than actors, are undoubtedly the film's main strength.
Director: Jon Chu
Starring: Rick Malambri, Adam G. Sevani, Sharni Vinson, Alyson Stoner, Keith Stallworth, Kendra Andrews
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 2 Star)

15:10


I Wanna Hold Your Hand (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Robert Zemeckis made his directorial debut with this comedy about four girls and their determined efforts to meet the Beatles. It's 1964 and the four lads from Liverpool are surfing a wave of excitement as their music conquers the USA. Now the Fab Four have been booked to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show in New York, and this provides four young women with the opportunity to meet British band. Each woman has a different, but equally pressing, motive for their quest - but will they succeed?
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman, Theresa Saldana, Wendie Jo Sperber
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1978, PG, 3 Star)

17:05


Flash Gordon (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
A glorious update of the 30s comic strip and film series, where the American football star Flash Gordon, is transported with innocent Dale Arden by Dr Zarkov into the realm of the most evil ruler in the universe, the Emperor Ming. Only by uniting those under Ming's merciless rule to join him in final battle can Flash save Earth from destruction and end Ming's tyranny.
Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Topol, Ornella Muti, Timothy Dalton, Brian Blessed
(Subtitles, 1980, PG, 3 Star)

19:15


John Tucker Must Die (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Betty Thomas's romcom 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)



21:00


Men of Steel: Braveheart (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Oscar-laden epic as William Wallace, the medieval Scottish patriot spurred into revolt against the English when the love of his life is slaughtered. Leading his army into battles that become a war, his advance into England threatens King Edward I's throne before he is captured and executed, but not before becoming a symbol for a free Scotland. The mix of court intrigue, tender love scenes and stirring battles never flags and Gibson's film was to take five Oscars.
Starring: Catherine McCormack, Patrick McGoohan
(Subtitles, 1995, 15)

00:20


Diary of the Dead (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
As the mainstream media tries to cover-up a zombie apocalypse, the viewer sees the real truth through the lens of a student filmmaker's camcorder. Interspersed with internet clips and images from surveillance cameras the filmmaker, his girlfriend and his fellow students edit together the ultimate reality video diary.
Director: George A. Romero
Starring: Michelle Morgan, Joshua Close, Shawn Roberts, Amy Ciupak Lalonde, Joe Dinicol, Scott Wentworth
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 18, 3 Star)

02:10


A Dirty Shame (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
With the tagline 'Threatening the very limits of common decency', it's unsurprising that this comedy comes from John Walters. Tracey Ullman stars as Sylvia Stickles, a suburban housewife in Baltimore who is sexually repressed until a bump on the head puts her clitoris 'in crisis'. Ray-Ray Perkins introduces her to an underworld of fetishists, including bear lovers and mallet-whacking enthusiasts, who help her overcome her itch. Walters' sideswipe at American moral duplicity is larded with jokes galore and is cheerfully vulgar in its bad taste.
Director: John Waters
Starring: Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Shepherd, Mink Stole
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2004, 18, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Sunday 26th January

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11:00


Panic in the Streets (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Richard Widmark stars in Elia Kazan's thriller as Clint Reed, the public health cop on the trail of Blackie and Raymond Fitch, two gangland killers on the loose who are, unknown to them, infected with a deadly plague that could wipe out the city.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, PG, 4 Star)

13:00


Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Gurinder Chadha's charming coming-of-age comedy stars Georgia Groome as Georgia Nicholson, who's about to turn 15 and is eager to meet boys. When brothers Tom and Robbie join her school, she and her best mate Jas set their sights on them, but while Jas scores, Georgia loses out to 'slaggy' Lindsay. And her bickering parents seem to be heading for a divorce. As her birthday approaches, will her life fall apart or into place?
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Tommy Bastow
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)

14:55


The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
When his bride-to-be is shrunk by an evil magician, Sinbad has no choice but to head for the island of Colossa. There he must overcome a series of daunting adversaries and obstacles in a bid to retrieve both Aladdin's lamp and a piece of eggshell from the giant roc bird, which will restore his fiancé to normal size. Directed by Nathan Juran, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango, Danny Green
(Subtitles, 1958, U, 4 Star)

16:40


Doctor Dolittle (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Betty Thomas's remake of the 1967 film is neatly updated with Eddie Murphy playing Dr John Dolittle, who talks to the animals. Dolittle and his pushy partner Mark Weller hope to strike a lucrative deal with a major corporation, but more and more of Dolittle's time is taken up giving CPR to lab rats and talking a suicidal tiger out of jumping from five storeys up. The film works because Murphy's character is played relatively straight while the creatures are allowed to be cynically sarcastic about him, humans and others species. Special plaudits go to the lab rats voiced by Reni Santoni and John Leguizamo, Chris Rock as Rocky the guinea pig and Norm Macdonald as Dolittle's laconic companion Lucky the dog.
Director: Betty Thomas
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt, Peter Boyle, Richard Schiff, Kristen Wilson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, PG, 3 Star)

18:25


The Way Back (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Based on the bestselling-but-disputed 'true story' by Polish army lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz, Peter Weir's epic adventure tells the story of a group of prisoners escaping from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and making their way 4000 miles to India. Polish prisoner Janusz is the leader, and among his group are the cynical 'Mr Smith', Yugoslavian accountant Zoran and Colin Farrell's gangster Valka, who is escaping gambling debts as much as the prison itself. Once they're out, they're joined by Polish orphan Irena, but the bitterly inhospitable Siberian landscape presents the group with challenges far more formidable than breaching the prison walls. Weir brings the battle of humans versus elements to visceral life, and the compelling drama has a truly panoramic scope.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Dragos Bucur, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Alexandru Potocean, Saoirse Ronan, Gustaf Skarsgård
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 4 Star)



21:00


Kick-Ass (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Matthew Vaughn's violent-but-hilarious action movie is a knowing take on the superhero genre, based on Mark Millar and John Romita Jr's comic-book series. Avid comic fan and New York high schooler Dave Lizewski has begun to wonder why his contemporaries are keener on vapid celebrity than wanting to emulate his heroes and try to make the world a better place. Thus Lizewski orders a simply hideous skiing outfit and dons it to become Kick-Ass, scourge of New York's criminals.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong, Chloë Grace Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Lyndsy Fonseca
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 18, 4 Star)

23:15


Blue Valentine (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams star in Derek Cianfrance's drama that lays bare the final throws of a dying relationship. Cindy holds down a career in nursing, with all its attendant pressures, while her husband Dean has taken on the role of looking after their young daughter Frankie, as well as picking up house-moving or painting jobs when they crop up. When they met, he was an enthusiastic believer in romantic love, she - in addition to being won over by his devotion to her - was keen to avoid the manipulative and chauvinistic influences of her father and her then boyfriend. But now they've been together six years and an everyday event is set to have dramatic consequences, which initially upsets their daughter but quickly lights the touchpaper that finally explodes their marriage.
Director: Derek Cianfrance
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Faith Wladyka, John Doman, Mike Vogel, Marshall Johnson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 4 Star)

01:30


To be Announced (Film) Film icon
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Film4 Listings for Monday 27th January

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11:00


Moonfleet (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Stewart Granger stars in Fritz Lang's adaptation of J Meade Falkner's classic novel as the aristocratic smuggler Jeremy Fox. When he ends up looking after John Mohune, the offspring of a previous affair, Fox tries to provent the young lad from discovering his trade. But it's not long 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 amorous interest of Lady Ashwood.
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors, Jon Whiteley, Liliane Montevecchi
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)

12:45


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14:45


Detective Story (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Kirk Douglas stars in William Wyler's claustrophobically powerful police drama. Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler's clever adaptation of Sidney Kingsley's stage hit won them one of the film's four Oscar nominations. The events take place during a single day in a New York police precinct station and focus on Detective James McLeod, whose obsessive pursuit of criminals, whatever the cost to them or himself, finally explodes into violence when he vengefully pursues a seedy abortionist who has been involved with his wife. There are also strong supporting roles from Joseph Wiseman and William Bendix. Wyler picked up a Best Director nomination and Lee Grant's turn as a shoplifter earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready, Horace McMahon
(Black and White, 1951, PG, 4 Star)

16:55


Ten Tall Men (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Lively spoof adventure starring Burt Lancaster as Mike Kincaid, a French Foreign Legion sergeant leading nine men on a dangerous mission to prevent a Berber attack on a North African desert fort.
Director: Willis Goldbeck
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias, John Dehner
(1951, 15, 3 Star)

18:50


Sugarland Express (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature, based on a true story, stars William Atherton as a convict who is sprung from prison by his wife to stop the authorities from taking over the care of their baby. Kidnapping the child, along with hostage police officer Slide, they set off for freedom across the plains of Sugarland, Texas, with the law in close pursuit. The film was coolly received on release but has now become a cult classic.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Gregory Walcott, Steve Kanaly
(1974, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Gary Oldman stars in Tomas Alfredson's adaptation of John Le Carr?'s classic cold war spy novel about a British intelligence officer who comes out of retirement to track down a Russian operative working within MI6. Following the capture of a British agent in Communist Hungary, veteran spy George Smiley is forced out of his job. However, after a field agent raises suspicions that there's a mole at the top of the chain of command, he is secretly called upon by the government to investigate. He enlists the help of trusted confidant Peter Guillam, and sets about trying to find out if the allegation is true - and if it is, which of his former colleagues is the defector. Also starring Colin Firth. The film received rave reviews upon its release, and at the 84th Academy Awards it received three nominations: for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Oldman as Best Actor.
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Mark Strong, John Hurt, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Kálloy Molnár, Ilona Kassai, Imre Csuja
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 4 Star)

23:35


Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Shane Meadows' spaghetti western homage, set in Nottingham, stars Robert Carlyle as an ex-con back in town to look up old girlfriend Shirley. But Dek, who's also set his sights on her, won't give up without a fight.
Director: Shane Meadows
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Vanessa Feltz, Ricky Tomlinson, Kathy Burke, Vicki Patterson, Shirley Henderson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)

01:40


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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 28th January

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11:00


The Professionals (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Fast-moving, action-packed western starring Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan and Woody Strode as soldiers of fortune hired by millionaire rancher Ralph Bellamy to rescue his wife Claudia Cardinale, who has been kidnapped by Mexican bandit Jack Palance.
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale
(1966, PG, 4 Star)

13:25


The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Ingrid Bergman stars as Gladys Aylward in Oscar-nominated Mark Robson's dramatic film, loosely based on fact. Rejected for missionary work in China, Aylward makes her own way there and wins over a powerful mandarin to Christianity despite his initial suspicions. But the test of her faith comes when the Chino-Japanese war breaks out in 1940 and she must guide 100 children to safety through enemy territory.
Director: Mark Robson
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Curd Jürgens, Robert Donat, Michael David, Athene Seyler, Ronald Squire
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

16:30


The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
John Ford's western is the story of greenhorn lawyer Ransom Stoddard, who 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, 1962, PG, 3 Star)

18:55


The Jewel of the Nile (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito all reprise their roles from Romancing the Stone, in Lewis Teague's comedy action-adventure. Daredevil adventurer Jack Colton and romantic novelist Joan Wilder become embroiled in a white-knuckle race to find a famous jewel that will help restore the rightful heir to the throne of a troubled nation.
Director: Lewis Teague
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Spiros Focás, Avner Eisenberg, Paul David Magid
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 3 Star)

21:00


The Fourth Kind (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
As Spielberg taught the world in his 1977 blockbuster, the third kind of alien encounter is contact. Apparently the fourth kind is abduction, and Olatunde Osunsanmi's sci-fi thriller purports to tell the story of what happened to a number of people who disappeared in Nome, Alaska. Based on real events, the film juxtaposes supposedly archive footage of therapy sessions with dramatic reconstructions as Dr Abigail Tyler investigates the uncanny similarities in the testimony of a number of her insomniac patients. A split screen format is used to establish a sense of authenticity, and fans of the genre should find sufficient jolts and paranoia to satisfy their appetites.
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Corey Johnson, Enzo Cilenti, Elias Koteas
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 3 Star)



22:55


The Negotiator (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
When police hostage negotiator Danny Roman unwittingly gets involved in a colleague's attempt to expose financial fraud within the force he gets into very deep water. With his colleague found shot dead, and the embezzlement being pinned on him, Roman takes hostages from the Internal Affairs Department, including his chief accuser Terence Niebaum, in an attempt to buy himself time to prove his innocence. Roman demands the presence of Chris Sabian, a fellow hostage negotiator who works on the other side of the city, and who Roman hopes is unconnected to the plot to frame him. But can such a reckless strategy have any chance of paying off? F Gary Gray's action-thriller also stars David Morse, Siobhan Fallon and Paul Giamatti.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Spacey, David Morse, Ron Rifkin, John Spencer, J.T. Walsh
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, 15, 4 Star)

01:35


Witness (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
In Peter Weir's tough, Oscar-winning romantic drama, Oscar-nominee Harrison Ford plays detective John Book, who is assigned to guard Amish mother Rachel Lapp and her son Samuel, who witnessed a murder at Philadelphia railway station. But the killers are after them and the three must hide out in Lapp's community, where Book's aggressive, hard-bitten manner clashes with the gentler beliefs of the Amish.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Harrison Ford, Kelly McGillis, Josef Sommer, Lukas Haas, Jan Rubes, Alexander Godunov
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1985, 12, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 29th January

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11:00


Bhowani Junction (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Ava Gardner stars in George Cukor's epic period drama as Victoria Jones, the Anglo-Indian assistant to Colonel Rodney Savage, who is charged with keeping things under control during the British handover to India. As riots simmer and terrorists seize trains, so their growing relationship is threatened by her anguished search for her identity, symbolising the cultural and political divides of the time.
Director: George Cukor
Starring: Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger, Bill Travers, Abraham Sofaer, Francis Matthews, Marne Maitland
(Subtitles, 1956, PG, 2 Star)

13:10


The Outrage (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Director Martin Ritt's powerful and engrossing western reworking of Kurosawa's 1951 classic Rashomon. Juan Carrasco a Mexican bandit kidnaps a husband and wife, subsequently killing the former and raping the latter. His story is told by four of the protagonists in four different ways.
Director: Martin Ritt
Starring: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Edward G. Robinson, William Shatner, Howard Da Silva
(Black and White, 1964, 15, 3 Star)

15:00


20 Million Miles to Earth (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
A US rocketship, returning from an exploratory flight to Venus, crashes into the sea off Sicily and only Colonel Calder survives. When a sealed container from the wreck is opened by zoologist Dr Leonardo and his granddaughter Marisa, a gelatinous mass inside turns into a clawed monster that doubles in size overnight and escapes, with horrific consequences.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Browne Henry, Tito Vuolo
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1957, PG, 3 Star)

16:40


Double Indemnity (Film) Film icon 5 star rating PG certificate
Billy Wilder's classic, Oscar-nominated film noir stars Fred MacMurray as insurance agent Walter Neff. While making a renewal call, he meets the luminous, seductive blonde Phyllis Dietrichson. Soon, the pair are involved in a passionate affair, but it can only be consummated after her husband's death. The murder goes ahead but Neff's boss, Barton Keyes has a niggling doubt about paying out on the policy, causing Walter and Phyllis's passion to slowly sour. Told in flashback through Neff's narrative, the hard-edged, cynical tone matched the mood of the period and, while the censorious Hays Code is followed to the letter, the glimpse of Phyllis's ankle bracelet was one of the era's enduring erotic images.
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather, Tom Powers
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1944, PG, 5 Star)

18:50


Grease (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John star as Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsen, who had a summer romance and then meet again at high school. He tries to protect his macho persona from her squeaky clean image, but the tables are turned when Sandy, in a leather costume so tight Newton-John had to be sewn into it, wins his heart. Randal Kleiser's film, based on the original musical, is jammed with show-stopping songs and a stand-out supporting cast, with Stockard Channing as tough girl Rizzo almost eclipsing Sandy.
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1978, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


The Eagle (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell star in Kevin Macdonald's historical adventure, based on Rosemary Sutcliff's 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth. One of the most unthinkable things that could happen to a Roman legion was the loss of its revered eagle standard. But that was the sorry fate of the Ninth's emblem when it was marched into the mists of Caledonia, only to vanish along with every soldier in the legion.
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Starring: Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Donald Sutherland, Mark Strong, Denis O'Hare, Paul Ritter
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12, 3 Star)

23:10


Daredevil (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Mark Steven Johnson's superhero-fantasy morality play stars Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, a guilt-wracked blind vigilante with a penchant for wearing red leather. During his childhood, an accident involving toxic waste blinded Murdock, but it also enhanced his other senses and gave him a kind of 'radar vision'. The incident was partially caused by his discovery that his father was involved with the Mob.
Director: Mark Steven Johnson
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Colin Farrell, Michael Clarke Duncan, Jon Favreau, Scott Terra
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2003, 15, 2 Star)

01:15


Potiche (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu star in this flightily satirical French-Belgian comedy about a trophy wife who is asked to take over her husband's factory after he falls ill. Suzzana Pujol is a repressed - and oppressed - provincial housewife in 1970s France. Her husband treats her as he treats the 300 or so employees that work at his umbrella factory - with distain bordering on agression. Her family view her as something of a relic - symbolic of a generation of women content to be seen but not heard - and routinely patronise her when they visit.
Director: François Ozon
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard, Judith Godrèche, Jérémie Renier
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Thursday 30th January

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11:00


A Useful Life (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj's drama is a lovingly droll tribute to cinema itself. Employing a variety of generic styles, from neorealism to slapstick, it tells the tale of Jorge, the middle-aged projectionist and factotum of an art house cinema in Montevideo. But the kind of movies he loves have fallen out of fashion and - through dwindling audiences, mechanical breakdowns, funding withdrawal and other problems - his beloved picture house is suffering death by a thousand cuts. When the inevitable happens and the doors close for good, Jorge finds himself thrust out into the real world. Thus the bachelor gently begins his re-integration into real life by tentatively dating Paola, a younger lawyer who attended his screenings.
Director: Federico Veiroj
Starring: Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martinez Carril, Paola Venditto
(Black and White, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2010, U, 3 Star)

12:20


Halls of Montezuma (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Second World War drama starring Richard Widmark as a commanding officer leading US Marines into the Pacific to capture Japanese prisoners and discover the location of a rocket base.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Hylton
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 3 Star)

14:35


Panic in the Streets (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Richard Widmark stars in Elia Kazan's thriller as Clint Reed, the public health cop on the trail of Blackie and Raymond Fitch, two gangland killers on the loose who are, unknown to them, infected with a deadly plague that could wipe out the city.
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jack Palance, Zero Mostel, Dan Riss
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, PG, 4 Star)

16:30


The Last Frontier (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Portraying the character of Jed, Victor Mature gets to flex his muscles and his acting abilities in this gripping western from Anthony Mann. Notable for some excellent action sequences and its stunning Mexican locations, The Last Frontier is an archetypal cavalry-versus-Indians saga, as three frontiersmen are glad to accept an offer to become Indian scouts for a cavalry fort. But tension arises between the fort's colonel and Jed when the frontiersman displays his clear liking for the officer's wife, Corinna.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey
Starring: Lon Chaney Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Ralph Bushman, William Desmond, Joe Bonomo, Pete Morrison
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1932, PG, 3 Star)

18:25


The Way Back (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Based on the bestselling-but-disputed 'true story' by Polish army lieutenant Slavomir Rawicz, Peter Weir's epic adventure tells the story of a group of prisoners escaping from a Siberian gulag in 1940 and making their way 4000 miles to India. Polish prisoner Janusz is the leader, and among his group are the cynical 'Mr Smith', Yugoslavian accountant Zoran and Colin Farrell's gangster Valka, who is escaping gambling debts as much as the prison itself. Once they're out, they're joined by Polish orphan Irena, but the bitterly inhospitable Siberian landscape presents the group with challenges far more formidable than breaching the prison walls. Weir brings the battle of humans versus elements to visceral life, and the compelling drama has a truly panoramic scope. Edited for content.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Dragos Bucur, Colin Farrell, Ed Harris, Alexandru Potocean, Saoirse Ronan, Gustaf Skarsgård
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 4 Star)



21:00


Heat (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 15 certificate
Michael Mann's astonishingly accomplished thriller has a wish list of leads including Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer and Jon Voight. The plot is simple - Pacino is the cop on the trail of a gang of armed robbers led by De Niro. But it is the characterisations, the multi-layered plotting and the action scenes that stand out in a film that was described by Time Out on its release as 'simply the best American crime movie and, indeed, one of the finest movies, period, in over a decade'.
Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora
(Subtitles, 1995, 15, 5 Star)

00:20


Trees Lounge (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Steve Buscemi stars in, and makes his directorial debut with, this comedy-drama about a Long Island bum whose life is a complete mess. Tommy has been sacked from his engineering job by his boss Rob for 'borrowing' some money from the till; his girlfriend Theresa has taken up with Rob; and Tommy's relatives have him firmly marked down as the black sheep of the family. So it's little wonder that he spends his time in the Trees Lounge bar getting legless with his pal Mike. But, quite unexpectedly, a family tragedy gives Tommy the opportunity to turn his life around... Also starring Chlo? Sevigny, Samuel L Jackson and John Ventimiglia. First screening on Film4.
Director: Steve Buscemi
Starring: Carol Kane, Mark Boone Junior, Steve Buscemi, Bronson Dudley, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Buscemi
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1996, 15, 3 Star)

02:10


Rita, Sue and Bob Too (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
A comedy that develops into something darker, Alan Clarke's film stars Siobhan Finneran and Michelle Holmes as Sue and Rita, two teenage friends who babysit for Bob and Michelle. When Michelle goes off sex, Bob starts looking to the babysitters for more than just childcare.
Director: Alan Clarke
Starring: Michelle Holmes, Siobhan Finneran, George Costigan, Lesley Sharp, Kulvinder Ghir, Willie Ross
(Subtitles, 1987, 18, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Friday 31st January

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11:00


Murphy's War (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
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.
Director: Peter Yates
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, John Hallam, Ingo Mogendorf
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, 12, 3 Star)

13:10


Detective Story (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Kirk Douglas stars in William Wyler's claustrophobically powerful police drama. Philip Yordan and Robert Wyler's clever adaptation of Sidney Kingsley's stage hit won them one of the film's four Oscar nominations. The events take place during a single day in a New York police precinct station and focus on Detective James McLeod, whose obsessive pursuit of criminals, whatever the cost to them or himself, finally explodes into violence when he vengefully pursues a seedy abortionist who has been involved with his wife. There are also strong supporting roles from Joseph Wiseman and William Bendix. Wyler picked up a Best Director nomination and Lee Grant's turn as a shoplifter earned her a Best Supporting Actress nomination.
Director: William Wyler
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready, Horace McMahon
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1951, PG, 4 Star)

15:15


Sink the Bismarck! (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Lewis Gilbert's Second World War film stars Kenneth More as Captain John Shepherd, charged with masterminding the British attack on Germany's largest battleship, The Bismarck. As the ship, captained by Captain Lindemann, breaks out from its anchorage in Norway to join the rest of the German fleet at Brest, Shepherd, from his control room in London's Admiralty building, sends out the British ships to take on her might. The mix of war footage, newsreels and superb models conveys the climatic sea battles, while More, nursing the loss of his wife in an air raid, gives a strong performance as the unflappable Shepherd.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner, Laurence Naismith, Karel Stepanek, Maurice Denham
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1960, U, 4 Star)

17:10


The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
When his bride-to-be is shrunk by an evil magician, Sinbad has no choice but to head for the island of Colossa. There he must overcome a series of daunting adversaries and obstacles in a bid to retrieve both Aladdin's lamp and a piece of eggshell from the giant roc bird, which will restore his fiancé to normal size. Directed by Nathan Juran, with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Director: Nathan Juran
Starring: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango, Danny Green
(Subtitles, 1958, U, 4 Star)

19:05


Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Gurinder Chadha's charming coming-of-age comedy stars Georgia Groome as Georgia Nicholson, who's about to turn 15 and is eager to meet boys. When brothers Tom and Robbie join her school, she and her best mate Jas set their sights on them, but while Jas scores, Georgia loses out to 'slaggy' Lindsay. And her bickering parents seem to be heading for a divorce. As her birthday approaches, will her life fall apart or into place? Edited for content.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Georgia Groome, Eleanor Tomlinson, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Tommy Bastow
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Braveheart (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Mel Gibson directs and stars in this Oscar-laden epic as William Wallace, the medieval Scottish patriot spurred into revolt against the English when the love of his life is slaughtered. Leading his army into battles that become a war, his advance into England threatens King Edward I's throne before he is captured and executed, but not before becoming a symbol for a free Scotland. The mix of court intrigue, tender love scenes and stirring battles never flags and Gibson's film was to take five Oscars.
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Mel Gibson, James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo, Sean McGinley
(Subtitles, 1995, 15, 4 Star)

00:20


Friday the 13th (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
After his sister goes missing at Camp Crystal Lake, Clay Miller returns to search for her. While there, he comes across a group of carefree teenagers on a camping trip. Unfortunately, the fun-loving friends are unaware that hockey-masked killer Jason is on the loose.
Director: Marcus Nispel
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker, Amanda Righetti, Travis Van Winkle, Aaron Yoo, Derek Mears
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 18, 3 Star)

02:15


Paprika (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Satoshi Kon directs and co-wrote this animated adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's sci-fi novel about machines that allow dreams to be penetrated. Originally developed for therapeutic purposes, the theft and misuse of these devices kicks off the plot, with scientists, detectives and the winged sprite Paprika among those crossing between dreams and reality, searching for the machines and the rogue employee responsible for their theft and the ensuing chaos. An intelligent, adult anime which reportedly inspired aspects of Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception, Kon's film is a richly surreal and visually distinctive treat.
Director: Satoshi Kon
Starring: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Furuya, Kôichi Yamadera, Katsunosuke Hori, Toru Emori, Akio Ôtsuka
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)