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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 11th February

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11:00


One of Our Aircraft is Missing (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Bailing out over Holland, the crew of a British bomber dodge Nazi patrols to make their way home with the help of the Dutch resistance. Superior propaganda piece with an Oscar-nominated script from maverick filmmakers Powell and Pressberger.
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Emrys Jones
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1942, U, 4 Star)

13:05


Winchester '73 (Film) Film icon 5 star rating U certificate
Classic western adventure about a man's hunt for a killer, and the quest for a stolen rifle. A man on the trail of his father's murderer wins a prized Winchester 73 rifle in a shooting contest. But when the weapon is stolen, his mission becomes more complex. One of director Anthony Mann's series of westerns that helped revitalise the genre during the 1950s.
Director: Anthony Mann
Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Millard Mitchell, Charles Drake
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1950, U, 5 Star)

14:55


Helen of Troy (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Robert Wise, better known for West Side Story and The Day the Earth Stood Still, turns his hand to sword-and-sandals in this superior drama. Jacques Sernas plays Paris of Troy, who, sailing to Sparta on a diplomatic mission, falls in love with Helen, wife of Menelaus, and takes her back to Troy. But the lovers are pursued by the vengeful Menelaus, whose army besieges the city and, famously, breaches its defences thanks to a huge wooden horse. Stanley Baker plays Achilles, with Cedric Harwicke as Priam, a very young Brigitte Bardot as Andraste, and Harry Andrews as Hector.
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: Rossana Podestà, Jacques Sernas, Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Baker, Niall MacGinnis, Nora Swinburne
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 2 Star)

17:10


The Master of Ballantrae (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
William Keighley's adventure film, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, stars Errol Flynn as Jamie Durrisdeer, a Jacobite forced to flee Scotland from the English. Joining Irish adventurer Francis Burke in the West Indies, he battles pirates for the English and, in doing so, makes a small fortune. Now free to return home, he hopes to marry his sweetheart Lady Alison, only to find she, thinking him dead, is engaged to his brother Henry, the man who betrayed Jamie to the English.
Director: William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux, Felix Aylmer
(Subtitles, 1953, PG, 3 Star)

18:55


America's Sweethearts (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Studio publicist Billy Crystal has a problem or two. The latest film he's promoting stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and John Cusack, happily together and loved by America until they split due to her adultery. Meanwhile, director Christopher Walken has spent the $86m budget but won't let anyone see the finished product and the press screening is imminent... Complicating matters is Julia Roberts, Zeta-Jones sister and PA, who pines after Cusack.
Director: Joe Roth
Starring: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci
(Subtitles, 2001, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Run, Fat Boy, Run (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
David Schwimmer's debut directorial feature stars Simon Pegg as Dennis Doyle, seen in the comedy's opening sequence abandoning a very pregnant Libby Odell at the altar. Five years later, he's an overweight security guard with limited access rights to their son Jake, but still holds a torch for her. When he finds she has a new boyfriend, superfit all-round jock Whit, he decides to win her back by entering the same charity marathon as Whit and beating him. With coaching from his landlord and encouragement of sorts from his friend Gordon, he sets off over the start line, but has he prepared enough to make it to the finish?
Director: David Schwimmer
Starring: Simon Pegg, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria, Dylan Moran, Harish Patel, Ameet Chana
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 12, 3 Star)

22:55


Jackass: Number Two (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius and the rest of the gang return with another series of japes. This time around, they get to swig horse semen, apply leeches to their eyeballs and use Steve-O as human shark bait. These are just some of the stunts, but Johnny Knoxville tops them all, straddling the sort of giant rocket that Wile E Coyote favours - and with almost the same dire consequences... This is the first film in tonight's Spike Jonze double-bill, screened to mark the release of the director's latest film, Her, which is released on Friday 14 February.
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn, Jason Acuña
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 18, 4 Star)

00:45


Adaptation (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Drama about a screenwriter struggling to adapt a novel about an eccentric naturalist who illegally hunts down orchids in the Florida swamps. In an effort to rid himself of writers block he decides to visit the plant thief himself.
Director: Spike Jonze
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Cara Seymour, Tilda Swinton, Ron Livingston
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 12th February

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11:00


The Rare Breed (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Light-hearted western about an Englishwoman who, along with her daughter, strives to fulfil the wishes of her recently deceased husband to introduce a rare breed of cattle to the American west. They enlist the help of initially sceptical drifter Sam Burnett and set off on their perilous journey.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Starring: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Brian Keith, Juliet Mills, Don Galloway, David Brian
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)

12:55


Sea of Sand (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Second World War action movie, directed by Guy Green. The Long Range Desert Group, led by Captain Williams and Captain Cotton, sets out on a dangerous mission to blow up a vital enemy petrol dump behind German lines in North Africa. But once the Group get to their target, they discover that it isn't just petrol that's being stored there.
Director: Guy Green
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Vincent Ball, Mikey Craig, Andrew Faulds, Barry Foster, Wolf Frees
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

14:50


Bad Day at Black Rock (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
John Sturges's suspenseful western stars Spencer Tracy as John J Macreedy, a one-armed stranger whose arrival in a small desert town, while looking for a Japanese farmer, arouses hostility and violence among the locals.
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson
(Subtitles, 1955, PG, 4 Star)

16:30


Mysterious Island (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Cy Endfield's science-fiction movie, based on the novel by Jules Verne, stars Michael Craig and Michael Callan as soldiers who try to escape from the American Civil War and inadvertently end up on a South Seas island. Here, accompanied by three other renegades, they encounter two beautiful shipwrecked English ladies and a host of less-than-beautiful monsters. Co-starring Joan Greenwood and with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Director: Cy Endfield
Starring: Mikey Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Beth Rogan
(Subtitles, 1961, U, 3 Star)

18:30


The Legend of Zorro (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones reprise their roles from the 1998 western adventure The Mask of Zorro, in a sequel that takes a more slapstick approach to its swashbuckling than the original. The action takes place a decade after our first encounter with Don Alejandro de la Vega, better known in his guise as the masked champion of the poor, Zorro. With California on the verge of joining the Union as its 31st state, it finally looks as though Don Alejandro will be able to spend more of his time raising his son Joaquin and being with his wife Elena. But an unsettling incident and the emergence of a sinister organisation that's determined to keep California separate brings marital discord for Don Alejandro, danger to his son and a greater need than ever before for Zorro to don his floppy hat, tie on the mask and pick up his sword... Edited for content.
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Michael Emerson, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Alberto Reyes
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Paul (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost both co-wrote and co-star in this sci-fi comedy thriller - directed by Superbad's Greg Mottola - about a couple of geeky British UFO-watchers who encounter a real-life alien. Following a trip to the Comic Con fan gathering, Graeme and Clive are driving an RV around places in the US where UFOs have supposedly been sighted. One night, they witness a car crash, but when they go to inspect the wreckage, they're surprised to discover an extraterrestrial called Paul.
Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nicholas Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 4 Star)

23:05


Attack The Block (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Part-funded and developed by Film4, Joe Cornish's directorial debut is a sci-fi horror-comedy in which extraterrestrials pick the wrong part of London as the 'beachhead' for their invasion. Moses and his crew aren't the most obvious of heroes - they open the movie mugging Sam, a nurse on her way home after a long day caring for others, and their dreams are limited to getting rich from drug dealing. However, just as they have robbed the terrified Sam of her valuables, an alien invader drops from the sky - and is perfunctorily dispatched by Moses. But that was just the first of the creatures and, unlike the rest, it was relatively benign and easy to kill. Now, using the cover of Guy Fawkes' Night, its vicious, blue-fanged compatriots rain down upon the south London council estate, with vengeance on their minds.
Director: Joe Cornish
Starring: Nicholas Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, John Boyega, Terry Notary, Joey Ansah
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

00:50


Riffraff (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Robert Carlyle stars in Ken Loach's drama as Stevie, a Scottish ex-con who gets a job on a building site and becomes embroiled in the tricks of the trade, namely getting away with doing as little work as possible and keeping an eye open for the main chance.
Starring: Emer McCourt, Jim R. Coleman, Ricky Tomlinson
(Subtitles, 1990, 15)

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Film4 Listings for Thursday 13th February

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11:00


Sanjuro (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Akira Kurosawa's producers asked him to resurrect the lead character of his 1961 hit Yojimbo and he duly complied, though with a very different take on the jidaigeki genre. The role of Sanjuro is again taken by the splendid Toshiro Mifune, but this isn't a straightforward sequel: it's set in an earlier time and is played for laughs. While resting at a shrine, the ronin Sanjuro overhears nine young samurai discussing plans to tackle the corruption they believe emanates from the lord chamberlain, Mutsuta.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Yûzô Kayama, Reiko Dan, Takashi Shimura
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1962, 18, 4 Star)

12:55


Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
After her acclaimed performance in Black Narcissus, Deborah Kerr donned the wimple again, this time for director John Huston, as a nun stranded on a Japanese-held Pacific island with laconic Marine corporal Robert Mitchum, her only companion and hope of salvation.
Director: John Huston
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star)

15:00


The Mistress of Spices (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
In Paul Mayeda Berges's mystical romantic drama, former Miss World Aishwarya Rai plays Tilo, a member of a secret clan of women who draw on the mystical properties of Indian spices to cure anything from heartache to heartburn. Practising her delicate skills in California, she is courted by both homesick taxi driver Haroun and sexy architect Doug but which one will steal her heart? Edited for content.
Director: Paul Mayeda Berges
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Dylan McDermott, Nitin Ganatra, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Caroline Chikezie, Anupam Kher
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 3 Star)

16:50


Kim (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Based on Rudyard Kipling's famous tale, Victor Saville's epic adventure stars Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali, the 'Red Beard', a dashing thief who befriends Kim, the orphaned son of a British soldier, and sees him through escapades including the thwarting of Russian agitators in the Khyber Pass and a sojurn with a holy lama.
Director: Victor Saville
Starring: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)

19:05


Step Up 2: The Streets (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Briana Evigan stars in this musical drama whose focus is firmly on its spectacular dance sequences. Following her mother's death, Andie finds comfort in her love of dancing. She's a member of the Baltimore 410 crew, reigning champions of an underground freestyle dancing competition called The Streets. However, unhappy at her school performance and the 410's shady reputation, Andie's guardian Sarah threatens to send the teen to live with her aunt in Texas. Andie evades that fate by enrolling in the Maryland School of the Arts. But the move alienates her from the 410 and estrangement turns to fierce rivalry when Andie puts together a new crew with her MSA friends, who set their sights on taking The Streets title for themselves.
Director: Jon Chu
Starring: Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman, Adam G. Sevani, Will Kemp, Cassie Ventura, Danielle Polanco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


The Adjustment Bureau (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Film4 kicks off a season of science fiction films that explore everything from altered states to the far-flung reaches of space. Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi's directorial debut - a romance meets sci-fi thriller, based on a short story by Philip K Dick. David Norris is a youthful congressman running for the Senate in New York - and everything couldn't be going more smoothly for him, until two events take place: an encounter with Elise Sellas and an episode of public drunkenness.
Director: George Nolfi
Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Kastriner, Phyllis MacBryde, Natalie Carter, Chuck Scarborough
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12, 4 Star)

23:05


Cypher (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Director Vincenzo Natali, famed for the cult sci-fi classic Cube, keeps his audience on their toes again with this slick psychological thriller. Jeremy Northam plays Morgan Sullivan, who swaps his dull life to become Jack Thursby, an industrial spy for a secretive organisation. But what does the mysterious, beautiful Rita Foster know of his work? Why does he find himself easily persuaded to become a double-agent? What is the secret on the computer disc he must deliver to a top secret facility? And who is the mysterious cyber-mercenary, Sebastian Rooks, who agrees to help him?
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Jeremy Northam, Lucy Liu, Nigel Bennett, Timothy Webber, David Hewlett, Kari Matchett
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 15, 4 Star)

01:00


35 Shots of Rum (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Claire Denis's drama is set in the Parisian suburbs where, in an apartment block, train driver and single father Lionel and his student daughter Josephine share a flat and perhaps more. Upstairs lives Noe, for whom Josephine has a thing, while, along the corridor, taxi driver Gabrielle has carried a torch for Lionel for years. But changes are coming into their lives, threatening to pull at the ties that bind them all.
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogue, Grégoire Colin, Jean-Christophe Folly, Djédjé Apali
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2008, 12, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Friday 14th February

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11:00


The Anderson Tapes (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Sidney Lumet's thriller stars Sean Connery as a master burglar who moves into Dyan Cannon's plush apartment block, planning to rob the residents. But he doesn't realise that, quite by chance, all his plans are being recorded and observed by a range of planted devices.
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Ralph Meeker, Alan King, Christopher Walken
(Subtitles, 1971, 15, 3 Star)

12:55


Danger Within (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
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, 1958, U, 3 Star)

15:00


One of Our Aircraft is Missing (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Bailing out over Holland, the crew of a British bomber dodge Nazi patrols to make their way home with the help of the Dutch resistance. Superior propaganda piece with an Oscar-nominated script from maverick filmmakers Powell and Pressberger.
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Emrys Jones
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1942, U, 4 Star)

17:05


The Lady Vanishes (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Anthony Page's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic throws Richard Condon and Amanda Kelly together on a train travelling from pre-war Germany. They find themselves embroiled in a political conspiracy when a mysterious English nanny, Miss Froy, enlists their help and then disappears. With Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael as Charters and Caldicott.
Director: Anthony Page
Starring: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1979, PG, 2 Star)

19:00


Leap Year (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Amy Adams and Matthew Goode star in this transatlantic romcom from Shopgirl and Red Riding director Anand Tucker. Anna is living a contented life in Boston, or she would be, if only her heart-surgeon boyfriend - currently working in Dublin - would pop that all-important question. Deciding that she's waited long enough, and encouraged by her Irish father, who reminds her of the tradition of women proposing to their beloved on the 29th of February, she hops on a plane to Ireland. However, the Emerald Isle's weather defeats even her steely determination and forces the flight to land on the other side of the country from the capital. Now she has limited time to get to Dublin, a long way to go and a pub-owner-cum-taxi driver, Declan, who, though handsome, is a little too testy for her liking. But as the pair make their slow way towards her goal, they gradually begin to view each other differently... Edited for content.
Director: Anand Tucker
Starring: Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott, John Lithgow, Noel O'Donovan, Tony Rohr
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Battle: Los Angeles (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Aaron Eckhart stars in this explosive action thriller about a group of soldiers caught up in the chaos when aliens invade Los Angeles. The world watches in awe as meteors rains down upon Earth from outer space. But when it's observed that these 'meteors' slow down before hitting their targets, it's clear they're anything but a natural phenomenon. Earth is under attack. Cue the arrival of Staff Sergeant Nantz - a grizzled war vet with a troubled combat history. Just days away from retirement, he's called in to help evacuate a group of civilians trapped within an alien-controlled area in Santa Monica beach.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Will Rothhaar, Cory Hardrict, Jim Parrack, Gino Anthony Pesi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12)

23:15


Watchmen (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
A dystopian fantasy adventure based on an unusually faithful adaptation of the highly regarded graphic novel by Alan Moore, directed by Zach Snyder. It is 1985 and Richard Nixon continues his tenure in the White House, massively popular with the electorate following his crushing defeat of the Viet Cong. However, it seems that the American public have fallen out of love with their superheroes, one of whom, Dr Manhattan, was largely responsible for the winning the Vietnam War. Now, he and his fellow crime-fighters are regarded as reprehensible vigilantes and have been banned by law. But, when one of their number - the vile, ironically named Comedian - is murdered, the former heroes begin to re-emerge from the shadows to investigate. They discover that a terrifying plan is afoot.
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 18, 4 Star)

02:20


Pi (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Max is a reclusive mathematician who has built a supercomputer that promises to provide him with the key to cracking the stock market. But it could also reveal the true name of Jehovah, a discovery that could lead to the end of the world. And it's not long before his project brings him to the attention of both Hassidic priests and Wall Street gurus.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart, Stephen Pearlman, Samia Shoaib
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Saturday 15th February

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11:00


Hills of Home (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Family adventure starring Lassie and Edmund Gwenn. Dr William MacLure becomes Lassie's new owner after taking the collie off the hands of a farmer who's frustrated at her strange aversion to water. The Scottish doctor then embarks on a seemingly unsuccessful attempt to overcome the canine's phobia. But his efforts will prove worthwhile in the end... Also starring Tom Drake and Janet Leigh as the movie's two romantic leads. Directed by Fred M Wilcox.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, Tom Drake, Janet Leigh, Rhys Williams, Reginald Owen
(Subtitles, 1948, U, 3 Star)

13:00


Love Happens (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart star in Brandon Camp's directorial debut, which he co-wrote with long-time collaborator Mike Thompson. The romantic drama tells the story of Burke Ryan, who wrote a best-selling self-help manual following his wife's death in a car crash three years earlier. He's currently, under the guidance of his manager Lane, touring a seminar for the bereaved, which has brought him to Seattle, his late wife's hometown. And it's here, at his hotel, that he bumps into Eloise Chandler, the local florist who supplies the establishment's flowers. He's clearly taken with her, but she's quite frosty towards him. Even so, he pursues her - but it soon transpires that, despite his new career, both he and she have a lot of emotional baggage that will need to be dealt with before a relationship is likely to succeed.
Director: Brandon Camp
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch, Martin Sheen, Judy Greer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

15:10


California Man (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Comedy about two Californian high-school students who, having discovered a frozen neolithic caveman while digging a pit for a swimming pool, thaw out their find and introduce him to the 1990s. The caveman adapts only too well to the weird and wonderful lifestyles of contemporary American youth and causes the pair no end of comical nightmares.
Director: Les Mayfield
Starring: Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore, Megan Ward, Robin Tunney, Michael DeLuise
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1992, PG, 2 Star)

16:50


Brewster's Millions (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Richard Pryor stars as Montgomery Brewster, a low-league baseball player who suddenly finds out that a distant relative has left him $300m. But he can only get it if he can waste $30m in just 30 days without anyone knowing he's doing it, without investing it and without banking it. And his best friend John Candy is no help, trying to make his friend's money earn interest... Walter Hill, better known for tough dramas, turns his hand to comedy for this much-loved and filmed stage play, scripted in this case by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod of Trading Places fame.
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 2 Star)

18:55


America's Sweethearts (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Studio publicist Billy Crystal has a problem or two. The latest film he's promoting stars Catherine Zeta-Jones and John Cusack, happily together and loved by America until they split due to her adultery. Meanwhile, director Christopher Walken has spent the $86m budget but won't let anyone see the finished product and the press screening is imminent... Complicating matters is Julia Roberts, Zeta-Jones sister and PA, who pines after Cusack.
Director: Joe Roth
Starring: Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria, Stanley Tucci
(Subtitles, 2001, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Director Michael Bay returns with his second instalment of the sci-fi action romp that pits humans against some big, bad alien robots, the Decepticons. In this sequel, which manages to be even louder and more prone to explosions than the initial outing, Sam Witwicky and his girlfriend Mikaela Banes are once more at the centre of the action. Witwicky is being hunted down by the Decepticons, who recognise that he is the main impediment to them gaining control of an awesome source of energy. As the Decepticons' plan would result in the destruction of the sun, mankind's fate rests on the shoulders of our oddly named hero.
Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, Ramon Rodriguez
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

23:50


Scanners (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
David Cronenberg's classic horror posits the idea that some people can 'lock' into other people's nervous systems and manipulate their functions for their own ends, be it good or evil. Celebrated for the then-shocking 'exploding heads' special effects, this early work was to establish Cronenberg as a major horror director.
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Patrick McGoohan, Lawrence Dane, Michael Ironside, Robert A. Silverman
(Subtitles, 1981, 18, 4 Star)

01:50


The Arrival of Wang (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
This intriguing low-budget Italian sci-fi mystery tells the story of a translator who is given a very unusual assignment. Gaia makes her living translating Chinese into Italian. Her latest job offer is a lucrative one, though it quickly becomes apparent that it won't be a run-of-the-mill movie translation this time around, as she's blindfolded and taken to an undisclosed location in the Italian capital. Her curiosity deepens as she's placed in a completely dark room and instructed to act as the intermediary between her employers and whoever else is in the room. As soon as the assignment begins it's apparent that she's now facilitating a harsh interrogation rather than an interview. But whatever she may have thought was going on cannot possibly prepare her for the eventual discovery of who she is actually talking to. And that's just the first of the shocking challenges to her world view.
Director: Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti
Starring: Ennio Fantastichini, Francesca Cuttica, Juliet Esey Joseph, Antonello Morroni, Li Yong, Jader Giraldi
(In Italian and Mandarin with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Sunday 16th February

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11:00


Please Sir! (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Hilarious movie spin-off from the popular TV sitcom in which teacher Bernard Hedges takes troublesome class 5C to a holiday camp with inevitably comic and disastrous results. Scripted by sitcom experts John Esmonde and Bob Larbey.
Director: Mark Stuart
Starring: John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Noel Howlett, Joan Sanderson, Richard Davies, Erik Chitty
(Subtitles, 1971, PG, 3 Star)

13:00


Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
When three consuls on Nimbus III are kidnapped by a Vulcan who has rediscovered his emotions, a Klingon warship sets out to deal with the crisis, and so Kirk, Spock and McCoy are recalled from vacation to help. They are forced to risk their lives by taking the Enterprise into uncharted territory in search of nothing less than the Supreme Being and the meaning of life.
Director: William Shatner
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1989, PG, 3 Star)

15:10


The Love Bug (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Robert Stevenson's much-loved family fantasy stars Dean Jones as Jim Douglas, a struggling racing driver. He 'rescues' a VW Beetle from rival racer Peter Thorndyke and in gratitude the car, which has a 'life' of its own, starts winning races for Jim. Infuriated, Thorndyke tries to reappropriate the car, now christened Herbie; can Jim and Herbie outwit him?
Director: Robert Stevenson
Starring: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett, Joe Flynn, Benson Fong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1968, U, 3 Star)

19:10


Journey to the Center of the Earth (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Eric Brevig's sci-fi adventure-fantasy adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem. Trevor Anderson, whose geologist brother Max vanished ten years previously, learns that the university is about to close the department named after the missing man, which would place his own career on an uncertain footing. When Trevor's nephew Sean arrives for a visit, he brings some of Max's most treasured belongings, including a heavily annotated copy of Jules Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Director: Eric Brevig
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean Michel Paré, Jane Wheeler
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 3 Star)

21:00


The Day the Earth Stood Still (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Director Scott Derrickson's remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic replaces the original's theme of fear of impending nuclear war with current concerns about environmental catastrophe. Keanu Reeves stars as Klaatu, an alien sent by a confederation of extraterrestrial beings to warn the inhabitants of Earth that the biosphere is on the verge of collapse. Predictably, as soon as he emerges from his spaceship a trigger-happy soldier ignores his instructions and takes a shot at the visitor. The wounded Klaatu asks for access to the United Nations to deliver his message, but the Secretary of Defence, Regina Jackson, instead orders that he should be taken away for further investigations. And so Klaatu becomes increasingly convinced that Earth can only survive if mankind is eradicated.
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith, John Cleese, Jon Hamm
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 12, 3 Star)



23:05


Splice (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Canadian director Vincenzo Natali's visceral horror film is a sophisticated study of the consequences of genetic engineering, in which Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley play scientists and lovers pushing against ethical and legal boundaries in their determination to create new life. With nods to Frankenstein, Alien, Species and the body horror of early David Cronenberg, the plot sees the pair secretly splicing human DNA into a cocktail of other genetic material, with consequences that highlight the scientists' character flaws as much as the danger posed by the result of the experiment.
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley, Delphine Chanéac, Brandon McGibbon, Simona Maicanescu, David Hewlett
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

01:10


Hotel Rwanda (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 12 certificate
In 1994 Rwanda is ravaged by bloodshed and a hotel becomes a refugee camp for Tutsis escaping the Hutu militia. Oscar nominees Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo star in the true story of 'the African Schindler'.
Director: Terry George
Starring: Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Rosie Motene
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2004, 12, 5 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Monday 17th February

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11:00


The Master of Ballantrae (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
William Keighley's adventure film, based on Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, stars Errol Flynn as Jamie Durrisdeer, a Jacobite forced to flee Scotland from the English. Joining Irish adventurer Francis Burke in the West Indies, he battles pirates for the English and, in doing so, makes a small fortune. Now free to return home, he hopes to marry his sweetheart Lady Alison, only to find she, thinking him dead, is engaged to his brother Henry, the man who betrayed Jamie to the English.
Director: William Keighley
Starring: Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey, Anthony Steel, Beatrice Campbell, Yvonne Furneaux, Felix Aylmer
(Subtitles, 1953, PG, 3 Star)

12:50


First Men in the Moon (Film) Film icon U certificate
Sci-fi adventure. On what is ostensibly the first trip made to the moon, an exploration team discovers that someone else had got there first, back in 1899. Back on earth, the sole survivor of that trip, Arnold Bedford, is tracked down. Arnold tells in flashback how he, his girlfriend Katherine and inventor Joseph Cavor had flown to the moon in a gravity-deflecting sphere. There, they encounter grotesque bipedal ant-like creatures, the Selenites, who live in immense crystal caverns, but who are far from friendly to the three human intruders... Directed by Nathan Juran, based on the novel by HG Wells.
Director: Nigel Kneale, Jan Read
Starring: Edward Judd, Martha Hyer, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson, Norman Bird, Gladys Henson
(Subtitles, 1964, U)

14:55


Mysterious Island (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Cy Endfield's science-fiction movie, based on the novel by Jules Verne, stars Michael Craig and Michael Callan as soldiers who try to escape from the American Civil War and inadvertently end up on a South Seas island. Here, accompanied by three other renegades, they encounter two beautiful shipwrecked English ladies and a host of less-than-beautiful monsters. Co-starring Joan Greenwood and with special effects by Ray Harryhausen.
Director: Cy Endfield
Starring: Mikey Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan, Gary Merrill, Herbert Lom, Beth Rogan
(Subtitles, 1961, U, 3 Star)

17:00


Carry on Up the Khyber (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Classic Carry On fun from stalwart director Gerald Thomas, featuring the core team of regulars. Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond is in charge of the motley kilted crew of the Third Foot and Mouth regiment at a British outpost in the Khyber Pass. The Khasi of Kalabar has other ideas and wants the 'British devils' dead, but his troops fear what they may or may not have under their 'skirts'. But when one of the regiment is seen wearing underpants the fate of the British in India is at stake.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Roy Castle, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1969, PG, 3 Star)

18:50


Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Nicholas Meyer, who directed Wrath of Khan, returns for the last film featuring the 'old' crew. The Klingon Empire is falling apart and they want to sue for peace. Kirk commands the USS Enterprise, which is sent to escort the race's representatives to a peace conference. But when an unprotected Klingon craft is attacked, Kirk and Dr McCoy are placed on trial for murder. Spock, now in command, has to prove their innocence by finding the traitor aboard the ship.
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1991, 12, 4 Star)



21:00


Paul (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost both co-wrote and co-star in this sci-fi comedy thriller - directed by Superbad's Greg Mottola - about a couple of geeky British UFO-watchers who encounter a real-life alien. Following a trip to the Comic Con fan gathering, Graeme and Clive are driving an RV around places in the US where UFOs have supposedly been sighted. One night, they witness a car crash, but when they go to inspect the wreckage, they're surprised to discover an extraterrestrial called Paul. He tells them that he's been held captive at Area Fifty One, and says he needs transport so he can make contact with a spacecraft that will rescue him. Once the men are over their shock, it's agreed that Paul can come along - after all, how much closer an encounter can you get?
Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Simon Pegg, Nicholas Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 4 Star)

23:05


AVP: Alien vs. Predator (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Colin and Greg Strause's sci-fi thriller sees a small American town as the battlefield for a showdown between Aliens, who have escaped from captivity, and Predators, tasked with tracking them down. Caught up in the middle are the innocent townsfolk who, led by ex-con Dallas, sheriff Morales and army officer Kelly, have to first survive and then fight back.
Starring: Steven Pasquale, John Ortiz, Reiko Aylesworth
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15)

00:55


Julia's Eyes (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Guillem Morales' mystery horror, which was produced by Guillermo del Toro but is clearly influenced by the early giallo scariness of Italian director Dario Argento. Julia Levin is haunted by the death of her sister Sara. The official verdict was suicide, prompted by Sara's depression over the disease that caused her to go blind. However, Julia is convinced that something more sinister was to blame - and she sets out to discover the truth. But she must act quickly, as Julia suffers from the same hereditary illness and her sight is also fading fast. A variety of creepy people and an even creepier house stand between Julia and the discovery of what really happened.
Director: Guillem Morales
Starring: Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Pablo Derqui, Francesc Orella, Joan Dalmau, Julia Gutiérrez Caba
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 18th February

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11:00


The Lady Vanishes (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Anthony Page's remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic throws Richard Condon and Amanda Kelly together on a train travelling from pre-war Germany. They find themselves embroiled in a political conspiracy when a mysterious English nanny, Miss Froy, enlists their help and then disappears. With Arthur Lowe and Ian Carmichael as Charters and Caldicott.
Director: Anthony Page
Starring: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1979, PG, 2 Star)

12:55


At the Earth's Core (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Doug McClure and Peter Cushing star in this sci-fi adventure that's based on an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. A Victorian scientist and the wealthy American he works for accidentally burrow into a vast subterranean domain when their digging machine runs out of control. There, deep beneath the planet's surface, they discover a world that's ruled by bird-creatures who have enslaved human beings.
Director: Kevin Connor
Starring: Peter Cushing, Doug McClure, Caroline Munro, Cy Grant, Godfrey James, Sean Lynch
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1976, PG, 3 Star)

14:45


Ladyhawke (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Medieval fantasy adventure about a mysterious black-clad knight and his mistress, both victims of a curse that turns him into a wolf by night and her into a hawk by day so they can never meet as humans. With help from a young pickpocket rescued by the knight, they try to break the curse in a dramatic confrontation with their enemy.
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood, Ken Hutchison
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 3 Star)

17:05


California Man (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Comedy about two Californian high-school students who, having discovered a frozen neolithic caveman while digging a pit for a swimming pool, thaw out their find and introduce him to the 1990s. The caveman adapts only too well to the weird and wonderful lifestyles of contemporary American youth and causes the pair no end of comical nightmares.
Director: Les Mayfield
Starring: Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser, Pauly Shore, Megan Ward, Robin Tunney, Michael DeLuise
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1992, PG, 2 Star)

18:50


Love Happens (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart star in Brandon Camp's directorial debut, which he co-wrote with long-time collaborator Mike Thompson. The romantic drama tells the story of Burke Ryan, who wrote a best-selling self-help manual following his wife's death in a car crash three years earlier. He's currently, under the guidance of his manager Lane, touring a seminar for the bereaved, which has brought him to Seattle, his late wife's hometown. And it's here, at his hotel, that he bumps into Eloise Chandler, the local florist who supplies the establishment's flowers. He's clearly taken with her, but she's quite frosty towards him. Even so, he pursues her - but it soon transpires that, despite his new career, both he and she have a lot of emotional baggage that will need to be dealt with before a relationship is likely to succeed. Also starring Martin Sheen and John Carroll Lynch. Edited for content.
Director: Brandon Camp
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Jennifer Aniston, Dan Fogler, John Carroll Lynch, Martin Sheen, Judy Greer
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Independence Day (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Roland Emmerich's landmark science-fiction blockbuster. Aliens reach Earth and they're clearly hostile: their plan is to suck the planet dry of all its resources, leave behind a burnt cinder circling the sun, and move on. Planting giant ships above the world's major cities, they unleash destruction on an unprecedented scale. All attempts to fight back are met by hordes of fighter craft until pilot Steven Hiller manages to down one and capture its pilot. Meanwhile, scientist David Levinson, having worked out the aliens' purpose, finds a way to destroy them, but he and Hiller need a spacecraft - which brings them to a secret base near Las Vegas... The child of countless science-fiction movies, Independence Day is rollicking, fast-moving action all the way.
Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Bill Pullman, Mary McDonnell, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Will Smith
(Subtitles, 1996, 12, 4 Star)

23:45


Sunshine (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Danny Boyle's science fiction epic is set 50 years in the future. The sun is dying, Earth suffers a perpetual winter and humanity's only hope is a spaceship that will deliver an atomic device into the heart of the Sun to 'kick-start' it again. Icarus II is captained by Kaneda, with Capa, a physicist, and Corazon in charge of the ship's environment. But as Icarus II approaches Mercury, it begins to receive signals from Icarus I, and when they board the supposedly lost craft, they encounter an entity that endangers the whole mission. Sunshine is written by Alex Garland, who also collaborated with Boyle on 28 Days Later.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Cliff Curtis, Chipo Chung, Cillian Murphy, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Rose Byrne
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 4 Star)

01:55


Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Documentary) U certificate
Werner Herzog's award-winning documentary about the Chauvet Cave. Situated among the beautiful gorges of the south of France, the cave is famous for its extraordinary prehistoric paintings. In a way, the film is a documentary about documentary, as, in addition to revealing the splendour of the Paleolithic artwork that was discovered within the cave system in 1994, it also probes why mankind has had, and acted upon, a seemingly innate urge to record everyday life for at least the past 32,000 years. In English, and German and French with English subtitles.
(Subtitles, 2010, U)

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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 19th February

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11:00


Kim (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Based on Rudyard Kipling's famous tale, Victor Saville's epic adventure stars Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali, the 'Red Beard', a dashing thief who befriends Kim, the orphaned son of a British soldier, and sees him through escapades including the thwarting of Russian agitators in the Khyber Pass and a sojurn with a holy lama.
Director: Victor Saville
Starring: Errol Flynn, Dean Stockwell, Paul Lukas, Robert Douglas, Thomas Gomez, Cecil Kellaway
(Subtitles, 1950, U, 4 Star)

13:15


City of Ember (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Gil Kenan's fantasy adventure, adapted from Jeanne DuPrau's children's book, sees two adolescents try to rescue their underground city from an impending power failure that will plunge their world into permanent darkness. The City of Ember was built 200 years before as a subterranean refuge for humanity from some unspecified threat. But now the generator that lights the city is breaking down, and the city is starting to fall apart. Youngsters Lina and Doon are unconvinced by the assurances of the smug, incompetent mayor. When Lina finds some long-lost information from the city's builders, she and Doon decide to stave off the beckoning darkness. But can they manage it before the lights go out for the last time? The dystopian world is imaginatively realised, reminiscent of work by Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton and Fritz Lang. An impressive cast includes Tim Robbins as Doon's inventor father, as well as Toby Jones, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Martin Landau, Liz Smith and Mackenzie Crook.
Director: Gil Kenan
Starring: David Ryall, Ian McElhinney, Harry Treadaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Murray, B.J. Hogg
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 3 Star)

15:05


Treasure Island (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Orson Welles stars in this curious production directed by John Hough, an adaptation by Welles of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic 1883 adventure novel. Orson Welles plays Long John Silver, the ship's cook who, seeing an opportunity to enrich himself, will rise above his station to orchestrate a mutiny, and Kim Burfield stars as Jim Hawkins, the lad who acquires the treasure map that sets the whole escapade in motion. Also starring Walter Slezak, Angel del Pozo, Rik Battaglia and Paul Muller. Shot entirely in Spain, with a Spanish crew, Treasure Island began its life as a 'two for one' deal Welles struck in order to gain access to the finances he needed for another of his projects, Chimes at Midnight. The latter movie subsequently became one of Welles's proudest achievements, though it also became mired in rights issues, which kept it from being screened for many years. First screening on Channel 4.
Director: Byron Haskin
Starring: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney, Walter Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Finlay Currie
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1950, U, 3 Star)

16:55


Coraline (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Director Henry Selick delivers a deliciously dark stop-motion animated adventure, based on Neil Gaiman's much-praised book. Coraline Jones and her parents move into the Pink Palaces Apartments in Oregon, where they find themselves surrounded by eccentric neighbours, including a pair of ageing burlesque performers. It should be an exciting time, but Coraline's parents are too busy working to spend any time with her, so she is deeply bored. That is until she discovers a mysterious door that only appears after dark.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French, Keith David, John Hodgman
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, PG, 4 Star)

19:00


Brewster's Millions (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Richard Pryor stars as Montgomery Brewster, a low-league baseball player who suddenly finds out that a distant relative has left him $300m. But he can only get it if he can waste $30m in just 30 days without anyone knowing he's doing it, without investing it and without banking it. And his best friend John Candy is no help, trying to make his friend's money earn interest... Walter Hill, better known for tough dramas, turns his hand to comedy for this much-loved and filmed stage play, scripted in this case by Timothy Harris and Herschel Weingrod of Trading Places fame. Edited for content.
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee, Stephen Collins, Jerry Orbach
(Subtitles, 1985, PG, 2 Star)



21:00


The Adjustment Bureau (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Matt Damon and Emily Blunt star in Bourne Ultimatum screenwriter George Nolfi's directorial debut - a romance meets sci-fi thriller, based on a short story by Philip K Dick. David Norris is a youthful congressman running for the Senate in New York - and everything couldn't be going more smoothly for him, until two events take place: an encounter with Elise Sellas and an episode of public drunkenness. The former should spell happiness for him, as he and the attractive dancer hit it off immediately, but all attempts to further the relationship are consistently thwarted; the latter incident was bad enough to spell the end of his political career - but however much he subsequently tries to walk away from high office, the more he seems destined for it.
Director: George Nolfi
Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Florence Kastriner, Phyllis MacBryde, Natalie Carter, Chuck Scarborough
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12, 4 Star)

23:05


Repo Men (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Jude Law and Forest Whitaker star in this blood-drenched thriller-cum-satire set in a grimy vision of the near future. Technology has finally solved the problem of organ transplants, at least for those who can afford them. But beware: fall behind on the payments and the organ provider will dispatch repo men with sharp blades to reclaim their property in a swift but grisly operation. Remy and Jake work for one such company, The Union, and are among its best 'bailiffs', performing their allotted tasks ruthlessly. Until, that is, Remy is forced to rely on one of The Union's products himself - at which point his perspective is radically reassessed and he goes on the run, hotly pursued by his erstwhile colleague. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Alice Braga.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber, Carice Van Houten, Chandler Canterbury
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 18, 3 Star)

01:15


The Marine (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
John Bonito's all-action movie stars John Cena as John Triton, an ex-army soldier sent home in disgrace from Iraq for disobeying orders, despite the fact that his insubordination saw him destroy a terrorist outpost and rescue captured Marines. But trouble continues to stalk him back home in the US: while on a camping trip with his wife Kate, she's taken hostage by a gang of on-the-run jewel thieves led by Rome. But what they haven't realised is that they've just taken on a one-man commando unit.
Director: John Bonito
Starring: John Cena, Robert Patrick, Kelly Carlson, Anthony Ray Parker, Abigail Bianca, Jerome Ehlers
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 2 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Thursday 20th February

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11:00


The Hidden Fortress (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Akira Kurosawa's jidaigeki stars Toshiro Mifune in a swashbuckling tale of medieval derring-do. The action begins with peasants Tahei and Matashichi, mismatched in physical bulk, bickering their way across a wide, dusty plain; they chose the wrong side in the recent war and are making their eventful way home. After escaping a brief internment, they spot gold bars hidden in some shrubs. Unfortunately the bars are part of a trove belonging to Princess Yukihime, heiress to the defeated Akizuki family.
Director: Akira Kurosawa, Roger Cantin
Starring: Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara
(Black and White, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1958, PG, 4 Star)

13:50


Journey to the Center of the Earth (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Eric Brevig's sci-fi adventure-fantasy adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, starring Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson and Anita Briem. Trevor Anderson, whose geologist brother Max vanished ten years previously, learns that the university is about to close the department named after the missing man, which would place his own career on an uncertain footing. When Trevor's nephew Sean arrives for a visit, he brings some of Max's most treasured belongings, including a heavily annotated copy of Jules Verne's A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Director: Eric Brevig
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson, Anita Briem, Seth Meyers, Jean Michel Paré, Jane Wheeler
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, PG, 3 Star)

15:40


The Time Machine (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
George Pal's Oscar-winning film stars Rod Taylor as Victorian scientist H George Wells, who invents a time machine. Travelling through the far distant future, with stopovers for World Wars I, II and III, he finally ends up in the year 802,701. Here, he encounters the peaceful Eloi race and falls for the beautiful Weena. But then he discovers that another race exists: the underground-dwelling, Morlocks, who are as vicious as the Eloi are peaceable. Can Wells save the Eloi - and Weena - from the grisly fate the Morlocks have in store for them?
Director: George Pal
Starring: Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, Sebastian Cabot, Tom Hel, Whit Bissell
(Subtitles, 1960, 12, 4 Star)

17:45


Inspector Gadget (Film) Film icon PG certificate
It's the comedy with a thousand moving parts, the story of the crazy, crackpot crime fighter who's not so much a detective, more a toolbox! Wowser, you'll thrill to the tall tale of a naïve and inept security guard who dreams of becoming the world's greatest law enforcement officer. Then one day he gets involved in a top secret project with a leading robotics scientist, and becomes a man of many parts - all of them moving! With the help of the pretty scientist, our bumbling, accident prone hero fights the nefarious, villainous Claw in this Disney big screen adaptation of the much loved cartoon series.
Director: David Kellogg
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Andy Dick, Cheri Oteri
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, PG, 2 Star)

19:20


The Man (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Les Mayfield's crime caper makes the most of the trusted formula of uniting two misfit characters to comedic effect and also features some smart action. When dental supplies salesman Andy Fiddler arrives in Detroit, he's mistaken by smooth-talking career criminal Joey for the international arms dealer he's due 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. However, if he can get Fiddler to keep up the pretence, he'll be able to bust Joey's gang... Edited for content.
Director: Les Mayfield
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, Luke Goss, Miguel Ferrer, Susie Essman, Anthony Mackie
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, 12, 2 Star)



21:00


Battle: Los Angeles (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Aaron Eckhart stars in this explosive action thriller about a group of soldiers caught up in the chaos when aliens invade Los Angeles. The world watches in awe as meteors rains down upon Earth from outer space. But when it's observed that these 'meteors' slow down before hitting their targets, it's clear they're anything but a natural phenomenon. Earth is under attack. Cue the arrival of Staff Sergeant Nantz - a grizzled war vet with a troubled combat history. Just days away from retirement, he's called in to help evacuate a group of civilians trapped within an alien-controlled area in Santa Monica beach.
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ramon Rodriguez, Will Rothhaar, Cory Hardrict, Jim Parrack, Gino Anthony Pesi
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12)

23:15


Brazil (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 15 certificate
Terry Gilliam's wonderfully realised vision of a dystopian alternative world stars Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry, a clerk at the Ministry of Information investigating the condemnation of an innocent man to death. Also starring are Robert De Niro as a guerrilla engineer, Bob Hoskins as Lowry's sworn enemy, Katherine Helmond as Lowry's eternally youth-seeking mother and Michael Palin as Lowry's friend, and friendly torturer.
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: Jonathan Pryce, Robert de Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin
(Subtitles, 1985, 15, 5 Star)

02:05


Last Night (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
There are just six hours left before the end of the world. Their impending, inescapable doom concentrates the minds of Toronto's inhabitants on how best to use their remaining time. Choices include holding family dinners; trying out that sexual fantasy for real; finishing off a final piece of work; or just trying to get to a loved one, when a taxi can't be had for love nor money. Don McKellar's haunting directorial debut stars Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie and David Cronenberg.
Director: Don McKellar
Starring: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell, Robin Gammell
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 4 Star)