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Film4 Listings for Monday 3rd March

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11:00


The Big Trees (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Felix Feist's western stars Kirk Douglas as Jim Fallon, an unscrupulous lumberman who goes to northern California to part Quaker settlers from their giant redwood trees. But will his attitude be softened when he falls for local lass Alicia Chadwick?
Director: Felix E. Feist
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Eve Miller, Patrice Wy, Edgar Buchanan, John Archer, Alan Hale Jr.
(Subtitles, 1952, PG, 3 Star)

12:50


The Big Blockade (Film) Film icon U certificate
This World War II propaganda piece marked the directorial debut of Charles Frend and tells, through interweaving strands, the tale of Britain's blockade of Axis powers and its effects on Germany's economy and morale. Produced by the Ealing Studios for the Ministry of Information, it was originally intended as a two-reel documentary dramatising the work of the Ministry of Economic Warfare. However, Ealing co-funded the film and built it up to feature length, incorporating fictionalised material alongside the documentary footage. The strong cast of British actors includes Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Michael Rennie and Will Hay. Alfred Drayton and Robert Morley appear as somewhat improbable Nazis, in roles that, given its period and the film's brief, are inevitably caricatured. The commentary was spoken by Frank Owen, who was then editor of the Evening Standard.
(Subtitles, U)

14:25


The Black Knight (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
British adventure movie starring Alan Ladd as a sword-maker who is tutored at the court of King Arthur, becoming the Black Knight. He needs his new skills to defeat two conspirators who are attempting to overthrow Camelot, and to win the hand of an Earl's daughter.
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Alan Ladd, Patricia Medina, André Morell, Harry Andrews, Peter Cushing, Anthony Bushell
(Subtitles, 1954, 15, 2 Star)

16:10


Battle Cry (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
The dramatic story of US marines in training, in combat and in love during World War II. The story centres on a major who guides the raw recruits from their training in Saipan to combat in New Guinea. Based on the novel by Leon Uris. The music by Max Steiner was nominated for an Oscar.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whit, Raymond Massey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1955, PG, 3 Star)

19:05


The Phantom (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Simon Wincer's retro fantasy adventure, based on Lee Falk's classic comic strip, stars Billy Zane as Kit Walker, otherwise known as the Phantom. The crimefighter, who unlike other superheroes must rely solely on his human strength and ingenuity, is committed to battling all forms of injustice, cruelty and piracy. However, his immediate concern is to keep out of the hands of criminal genius Xander Drax three skulls which, if used together, can confer ultimate power. When Kit's ex-girlfriend Diana Palmer is sent to investigate claims of piracy against Xander, she is captured by female pirates led by Sala. Can the Phantom win the race to unite the skulls? And can he rescue Diana without revealing his secret identity to her?
Director: Simon Wincer
Starring: Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson, Treat Williams, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1996, 12, 2 Star)



21:00


Knight and Day (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
James Mangold's action-comedy is a jet-setting caper that opens with June Havens crossing paths with Roy Miller at an airport. He's a CIA assassin whose colleagues think has turned rogue agent and are now out to put him permanently out of the game. He realises that, now she's met him, June's life is also in danger from those chasing him, so he kidnaps her to keep her safe. Forced to flee with him, the duo dash around the globe - with locations sweeping from the South Pacific to Seville - and must survive chase after chase in the fight to clear his name and return June to her 'regular' life in Wichita, Kansas.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Mollà, Viola Davis, Paul Dano
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

23:10


Elizabeth (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Cate Blanchett received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth I in Shekhar Kapur's award-winning Film Four production. The historical drama traces the monarch's early years, from her battle for the throne against her stepsister Mary Tudor through political and emotional intrigues to her seizure of absolute power as the Virgin Queen, answerable to no man.
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson, Paul Fox, Terence Rigby, Christopher Eccleston, Peter Stockbridge
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, 15, 4 Star)

01:35


Hunger (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Director Steve McQueen's Film4-funded award-winning drama focuses on the 1981 hunger strikes by Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Michael Fassbender plays Bobby Sands, one of a group of prisoners who first 'took to the blanket' with a 'dirty protest' in pursuit of their claims for recognition as political prisoners. Sands then became the first one of the group to embark on a hunger strike, which would ultimately end in his death. McQueen's film captures the reek of the urine-flooded, excrement-smeared cells, the intransigence of both sides and, at centre of the film, uses a bravura extended dialogue between Sands and Father Moran to question whether the strike and its resultant deaths would have any effect at all.
Director: Steve McQueen II
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Liam McMahon, Brian Milligan, Lalor Roddy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 4th March

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11:00


Comanche Station (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Budd Boetticher's tough western follows Jefferson Cody's quest to find the wife of a settler who has been held captive by the Comanches. He frees her, but they're soon ambushed by gunslingers intent on receiving a reward for her return, dead or alive.
Director: Budd Boetticher
Starring: Randolph Scott, Nancy Gates, Claude Akins, Skip Homeier, Richard Rust, Rand Brooks
(Subtitles, 1960, 15, 4 Star)

12:35


Winning (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Motor-racing drama about a driver who is single-minded enough to let nothing come between him and the Indy 500 championships - not even his wife. Some exciting racing sequences pile on the thrills.
Director: James Goldstone
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Wagner, Richard Thomas, David Sheiner, Clu Gulager
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1969, PG, 3 Star)

15:00


Laughter in Paradise (Film) Film icon U certificate
British comedy directed by Mario Zampi and written by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies. Ernest Thesiger plays the eccentric Endicot, who dies leaving £50,000 to each of his four surviving relatives. But there are strings attached: the inheritors must carry out various tasks, unsuited to their natures, in order to inherit.
Starring: Fay Compton, George Cole, Guy Middleton, Alastair Sim
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, 1951, U)

16:55


Silent Running (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Bruce Dern stars in this ecological sci-fi drama as Freeman Lowell, the lone human crew member on the Valley Forge, a vast spacecraft carrying the remnants of post-apocalypse Earth's plant life. But when he's ordered to destroy his precious cargo, and his robot crewmates are ready to comply, Lowell must take drastic action. It's unsurprising that the film is visually impressive, given that it was the directorial debut of special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull, but Silent Running's greatest strength is perhaps its poignant pathos, and its environmental message is as relevant now as it was when the film was released.
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Steve Brown, Mark Persons
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, PG, 3 Star)

18:45


Marley and Me (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
The Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel's light comedy-drama - based on a best-selling autobiography - stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as two journalists who welcome an unruly dog into their lives. Relocating to Florida, newly-weds John and Jenny Grogan end up working for rival newspapers, with Jenny landing the more high-profile job. When she starts to get broody, one of John's colleagues suggests they see how they cope with a puppy before trying for a baby, so John picks a cute yellow Labrador retriever, Marley, as a gift for Jenny. Marley is a double-edged sword: he's an untrainably anarchic source of destruction; but he also gives John the material for a wry newspaper column, which improves his standing and the paper's circulation figures.
Director: David Frankel
Starring: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin, Ann Dowd
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


Along Came a Spider (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
World-weary criminal profiler Alex Cross is challenged to a nasty game when a senator's daughter is kidnapped whilst under Secret Service protection. Cross is still bruised from his last assignment and the loss of his partner, but he needs his wits about him ... as this new case is not as it seems.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Anton Yelchin
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, 15, 3 Star)

23:00


Road to Perdition (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Sam Mendes's thriller stars Tom Hanks as killer Michael Sullivan, who is in the employ of crime boss John Rooney. But Newman's son is jealous of the closeness the two share and kills Sullivan's family, apart from his oldest child. The remaining Sullivans go on the road seeking revenge and then a new life. But Rooney knows the only way to save his son is to eliminate Sullivan, and sets another hit man on their trail.
Director: Sam Mendes
Starring: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig, Tyler Hoechlin
(Subtitles, 2002, 15, 3 Star)

01:15


This Boy's Life (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Leonardo DiCaprio makes his major feature debut in Michael Caton-Jones's drama, which is based on the autobiography of university professor Tobias Wolff. Teenager Tobias's divorced mother Caroline is looking for a new start after yet another failed relationship. They head west, ending up in the town of Concrete, Utah, where she hooks up with Dwight Hansen, a smooth-talking character with children of his own. But when Tobias spends time alone with his future stepfather he experiences the man's dark side, and learns to both assert himself and search for a more positive future. Screened to tie in with this year's Academy Awards ceremony. Leonardo DiCaprio has been nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role in Wolf of Wall Street.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Robert de Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Blechman, Eliza Dushku, Chris Cooper
(Subtitles, 1993, 15, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 5th March

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11:00


They Rode West (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Western directed by Phil Karlson. When Allen Seward, the new medical officer at a remote cavalry fort, discovers a Native American tribe infected with malaria and in danger of dying, he decides to help them. But he faces a battle of wills with his less-enlightened captain, Peter Blake.
Director: Phil Karlson
Starring: Robert Francis, Donna Reed, May Wynn, Philip Carey, Onslow Stevens, Peggy Converse
(Subtitles, 1954, U, 3 Star)

12:45


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)

14:50


Crooks Anonymous (Film) Film icon U certificate
Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie star in this comedy from director Ken Annakin. When petty thief Dandy Forsdyke is coerced into going straight by his stripper girlfriend, he joins an unofficial organisation for reforming criminals called Crooks Anonymous. After resisting the urge to steal, he's declared 'cured', but the group is proffered great temptation when circumstances conspire to leave Dandy alone with £250,000.
Starring: Stanley Baxter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, James Robertson Justice, Julie Christie
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, 1962, U)

16:35


Edge of Darkness (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Wartime drama following the fortunes of a group of Norwegian townspeople gradually galvanising their resistance to the occupying Nazis. Starring Errol Flynn as Gunnar Brogge, the leader of the Trollness underground, and Anne Sheridan as Karen Stensgard, his love interest, with Walter Huston as her father, Dr Martin Stensgard, the village doctor.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine, Judith Anderson
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1943, U, 4 Star)

18:55


Imagine That (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Eddie Murphy stars in this family comedy from Over the Hedge director Karey Kirkpatrick. Evan Danielson is a divorced workaholic financial advisor, whose young daughter Olivia has come to stay with him for a week. Initially he makes little time for her, worrying instead about his own future at a company that seems about to go under. But when Olivia's imaginary friends begin to offer remarkably prescient financial advice of their own, Danielson finds himself drawn into her world of make-believe.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden-Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Stephen Rannazzisi, Nicole Ari Parker
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
John Travolta and Denzel Washington star in Tony Scott's remake of the 1974 thriller. It's a day the passengers on a New York subway train are unlikely to forget. And it's one that could rescue the professional life of subway employee Walter Garber, whose glittering career has been derailed by allegations of corruption. Garber is languishing on duty as a train dispatcher when all hell breaks loose after one of the Lexington Avenue line trains is hijacked by a gang led by the supremely self-assured, dispassionately ruthless Ryder. Ryder issues a demand for $10m and makes it clear that he won't hesitate to kill anyone who gets in his way. Garber and NYPD hostage negotiator Lieutenant Camonetti attempt to get to grips with the crisis but, as events progress, suspicions arise as to whether there's more to the hijacking than first meets the eye. Also starring James Gandolfini as New York's mayor and Luis Guzman as a disgruntled subway worker who has joined Ryder's gang.
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, John Turturro, Michael Rispoli
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

23:05


Copycat (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Sigourney Weaver stars in Jon Amiel's lauded thriller as Helen Hudson, an agoraphobic psychologist working with cop MJ Monahan and her partner Reuben Goetz. The trio are on the trail of a serial-killer with a difference: each of his murders is based on the modus operandi of famous serial killers from the past. And in order to track him down, they must call upon the opinions and insights of convicted killer Daryll Lee Cullum, with whom Hudson shares an unsettling past.
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Harry Connick Jr., J.E. Freeman
(Subtitles, 1995, 18, 3 Star)

01:25


The Darjeeling Limited (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Wes Anderson's comedy stars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as brothers Francis, Peter and Jack Whitman, who used to be close but haven't spoken to each other since their father's funeral. But when Francis survives a bad motorcycle crash, he is inspired to ask his siblings to join him on a train journey across India on The Darjeeling Limited train to visit their mother, who lives in a convent in the Himalayan foothills. However, the trio are thrown off the train after a misunderstanding involving pepper spray, and then encounter cobras, crocodiles and a village funeral. But in the course of their adventures, they learn to shed their emotional luggage as they attempt to re-establish a family bond. This screening is introduced by the director and is scheduled to tie-in with the release of Anderson's new film Grand Budapest Hotel on Friday 7 March. Film4 viewers can also catch Anderson's Rushmore on Friday night.
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan, Wallace Wolodarsky, Waris Ahluwalia
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Thursday 6th March

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11:00


Ikiru (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Akira Kurosawa took a break from his samurai jidaigeki films to craft this moving piece of contemporary drama. Takashi Shimura stars as Kanji Watanabe, a middle-aged, widowed bureaucrat who discovers that he has terminal cancer. Lacking emotional support from his children, Watanabe at first struggles to cope with the news, but he quickly realises that it's no use trying to drown his sorrows in Tokyo's nightlife. Instead he takes inspiration from one of his colleagues, Toyo Odagiri, a younger woman who is initially suspicious of his sudden attention. But, accepting his friendship is platonic, she reveals to him why she's so happy and positive, and in so doing gives Watanabe the sense of purpose he needs to make the most of his final months of life. Film4 premiere.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri, Bokuzen Hidari
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1952, PG, 4 Star)

13:50


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

15:30


The Bravados (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Henry King's brooding western stars Gregory Peck as a stranger who arrives in a small town to witness the execution of the four bank robbers he believes raped and murdered his wife. When the criminals break out of prison, taking Emma Steimmetz hostage, he tracks them down, determined to kill them one by one. But then he discovers a truth that makes him reconsider both his purpose and his beliefs.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

17:25


The Ladykillers (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Alexander Mackendrick's classic Ealing comedy stars Alec Guinness as the sinister, eccentric leader of a gang of crooks whose perfect crime meets its nemesis at the unwitting hands of Guinness's elderly landlady, played by Bafta-award-winner Katie Johnson.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 4 Star)

19:15


Fantastic Mr. Fox (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
A witty stop-motion animated version of the Roald Dahl children's classic from offbeat comedy writer-director Wes Anderson. Now that Mr Fox has become the proud father of a cub, he declares to his wife that he will finally grow up and stop his chicken-pilfering ways. But when some wicked farmers move in to Mr Fox's neck of the woods, it starts to look as though temptation will prove too hard to resist for our hero... Also featuring the voices of Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson and Jarvis Cocker. This screening is introduced by the director and is scheduled to tie-in with the release of Anderson's new film Grand Budapest Hotel on Friday 7 March. Film4 viewers can also catch Anderson's Rushmore on Friday night.
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky, Eric Chase Anderson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


Die Hard 4.0 (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Bruce Willis returns once again as John McClane, the wisecracking, old-school New York cop whose impressive CV includes rescuing hostages captured in a swanky LA plaza and saving passengers on a hijacked plane circling Washington. In this violent thriller, he's up against a group of terrorists threatening to hack into the US computer infrastructure. When they crash the stock market, sending the economy into meltdown and causing panic on Wall Street, McClane turns to young hacker Matt Farrell. Farrell's wanted by the FBI, but he's also potentially the only man who can help figure out the cyber criminals' next move. When the terrorists respond by kidnapping McClane's daughter Lucy, it's time for the anxious father to load up his ammo clips and go get the bad guys - just as the country's descending into chaos. Directed by Len Wiseman. In English, with some French and Italian with English subtitles.
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan Sadowski
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 4 Star)

23:30


Shallow Grave (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
Danny Boyle's award-winning directorial debut tells the tale of three flatmates, one corpse and a suitcase full of money. David, Alex and Juliet are looking for someone to share their trendy Edinburgh flat, and Hugo seems ideal. But shortly after he moves in, they find him dead in bed beside a large suitcase full of cash. Should they inform the police or dispose of the body and keep the loot? They choose the latter, but there are other parties after the money who have little to do with the forces of law and order... So begins a dark and sometimes hilarious journey through death, dismemberment and dementia.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox, Ken Stott, Keith Allen
(Subtitles, 1994, 18, 5 Star)

01:15


Confessions (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
In this complex, compelling thriller Tetsuya Nakashima takes a typically bravura approach to filmmaking to tell the story of a schoolteacher who believes some of her pupils are responsible for the murder of her four-year-old daughter. Teacher Moriguchi opens the film with an address to her unruly class, explaining that she is retiring from her profession. Her speech has absolutely no impact on her chaos-creating charges, until she reveals that she has already taken quite vicious, if slow-acting, revenge on the students she thinks responsible for drowning her child. Nakamisha's thriller then traces the repercussions of Moriguchi's actions, both as they unfold and via the recollections, from some point in the future, of those involved.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii, Kaoru Fujiwara, Ai Hashimoto
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2010, 15, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Friday 7th March

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11:00


Gaslight (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Thorold Dickinson's classic thriller stars Anton Walbrook as Paul Mallen, who moves into a London townhouse with his new bride Bella. Her family has a history of mental instability so, when objects go missing without reason and when she claims the gaslight dims of its own accord, he suggests she is beginning to lose her mind. But ex-policeman BG Rough, who now works as an ostler, recognises Mallen as the nephew of a woman brutally murdered in the very house in which he and his wife now live and, what's more, a house that still harbours a fortune in rubies that the killer never found. Could Mallen be somehow connected to the crime and is the parlour maid Nancy, a conspirator in her master's plans?
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton, Minnie Rayner
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1940, PG, 4 Star)

12:40


Air Force (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Howard Hawks' wartime propaganda film tells the story of the Mary Ann, an American B-17 bomber commanded by Captain 'Irish' Quincannon and co-pilot Lt Bill Williams. A motley crew from all walks of American life, their first taste of action comes as they arrive at Pearl Harbor just as the Japanese attack. Surviving the experience, the crew begin to form a bond as they take the fight to the Japanese in Manila, and on to the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Ridgely, Gig Young, Arthur Kennedy, Charles Drake, Harry Carey Jr., George Tobias
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, PG, 4 Star)

15:05


Heavens Above! (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Peter Sellers stars in this charming comedy from director John Boulting. An innocent but socially progressive vicar is appointed by mistake to a wealthy, moribund parish. But his forward-thinking ideas about Christianity soon begin to upset the conservative parishioners. With Ian Carmichael, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Malcolm Muggeridge and Ludovic Kennedy.
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, 1963, PG)

17:25


The Desperadoes (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Charles Vidor's western stars Randolph Scott as Steve Upton, the sheriff of a small Utah town, and Glenn Ford as Cheyenne Rogers, his friend and a reformed outlaw. But the bank is robbed when Rogers is in town and he's arrested. Convinced of his pal's innocence, Upton springs him from jail and the pair set out to find the guilty parties, who may be closer to home than they thought.
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
(Subtitles, 1943, U, 3 Star)

19:10


Bedazzled (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Faustian comedy about the mishaps that occur when the devil grants seven wishes to a lovesick divorcee in return for his soul. The Princess of Darkness approaches an office worker harbouring a crush on a colleague with an offer to help in his failing advances. But as the young man is transformed into a plethora of characters, including a rock star and the US president, not one of his personas is able to get the girl.
Director: Harold Ramis
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O'Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2000, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Bad Teacher (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Cameron Diaz stars in Jake Kasdan's comedy as reluctant and irresponsible teacher Elizabeth Halsey. When she's dumped by her rich fiancé, she sets her sights on wealthy supply teacher Scott Delacorte, but when he gets close to Elizabeth's nemesis, Amy Squirrel, she decides to win her man by getting certain surgical enhancements. Elizabeth's intended path to true love doesn't come cheap, but then she finds out about a teaching competition with a big money prize... The film plays to Diaz's strengths and provides plenty of laughs, wisely casting Timberlake against type, and also starring Phyllis Smith and Jason Segal, who's as reliably funny as ever, as the laid-back PE teacher carrying a torch for the un-enhanced Elizabeth. To mark its debut on Film4, Bad Teacher kicks off a brace of double-bills featuring Cameron Diaz. Tonight's companion piece is There's Something About Mary, and there will be a second double-bill tomorrow night.
Director: Jake Kasdan
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Lucy Punch, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake, Phyllis Smith, John Michael Higgins
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

22:55


There's Something About Mary (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Hilarious slapstick comedy about a man so tormented by memories of a missed high school date with a beautiful girl that he hires a detective to trace her several years later. He is convinced that he missed out on his only chance for love, but when the detective locates her, he himself is smitten and soon proves to be a ruthless and unscrupulous rival in love.
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon, Ben Stiller, Lee Evans
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, 15, 4 Star)

01:15


Rushmore (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Wes Anderson's quirky comedy-drama, scripted by Anderson and Owen Wilson, stars Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer, a scholarship student at the exclusive Rushmore Academy who compensates for his feelings of inadequacy by organising a host of school societies. But when he falls for his teacher, Rosemary Cross, things get messy, and are further complicated when he finds out that she is having an affair with a rich parent, Herman Blume, who happens to be Max's hero and mentor. So begins a battle of wills between Max and Herman... This screening is introduced by the director. This screening is introduced by the director and is scheduled to tie-in with the release of Anderson's new film Grand Budapest Hotel on Friday 7 March.
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams, Seymour Cassel, Brian Cox, Mason Gamble
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1998, 15, 4 Star)

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Film4 Listings for Saturday 8th March

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11:00


Laughter in Paradise (Film) Film icon U certificate
British comedy. Ernest Thesiger plays the wealthy eccentric Endicot, who dies leaving £50,000 to each of his four surviving relatives. But there are strings attached: the inheritors must carry out various tasks, unsuited to their natures, in order to inherit. With Fay Compton, George Cole, Guy Middleton and Alastair Sim. The screenplay was written by Michael Pertwee and Jack Davies.
Starring: Fay Compton, George Cole, Guy Middleton, Alastair Sim
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1951, U)

13:00


Inkheart (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany and Andy Serkis star in Iain Softley's CGI fantasy adventure about a man with an extraordinary talent, and the consequences of using it. Mo Folchart is a 'silvertongue': someone who can bring characters from the pages of novels into physical being in the real world. But it's a gift he does his best to hide, because each time he brings a fictional character to life, the vacuum created within the written work must be filled by a real person, which is how his wife Resa vanished, after he manifested three ne'er-do-wells from a story. At first he refuses to help one of them, Dustfinger. But then Dustfinger teams up with Capricorn, who plans to force Mo to use his talents to provide him with gargantuan wealth and power. So Mo and his daughter Meggie must set out to thwart the villains and rescue their loved ones from literary purgatory.
Director: Iain Softley
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sienna Guillory, Eliza Bennett, Richard Strange, Paul Bettany, Helen Mirren
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, PG, 3 Star)

15:05


August Rush (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Kirsten Sheridan's family drama stars Freddie Highmore as Evan Taylor, a musical prodigy searching for his parents. When pregnant cellist Lyla Novacek was hit by a car, her controlling father and manager told her she'd lost the baby; in reality she gave birth prematurely and her father sent the infant to an orphanage. Eleven years later, when Evan finds out that his parents are alive, he sets out to find them, taking inspiration from the music around him. The heart of the film is Evan's almost mystical ability to 'feel' music, a challenging concept that is rendered believable thanks to inventive work from the composer of the main score, Mark Mancina.
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
Starring: Freddie Highmore, Robin Williams, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Terrence Howard, William Sadler
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, PG, 4 Star)

17:15


The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Zac Efron takes the title role in this supernatural romantic fantasy from director Burr Steers. Life is looking good for teenager Charlie St Cloud: in spite of his relatively humble origins, his competitive yachting career is progressing nicely and he has just gained acceptance to an Ivy League university. But all this good stuff is destroyed in an instant when his brother Sam is killed in a car crash. Charlie turns his back on the world and takes a job in the cemetery where Sam is buried. It's here that the supernatural element kicks in, as Charlie can see and interact with the spirits of the dead, which means he can continue to spend time with his beloved sibling. But Charlie's world isn't entirely ethereal and, when he falls for his former classmate - and sailing equal - Tess Carroll, he finds himself forced to choose between his love for her and that for Sam, between the living and the dead.
Director: Burr Steers
Starring: Zac Efron, Charlie Tahan, Amanda Crew, Augustus Prew, Donal Logue, Kim Basinger
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

19:05


St. Trinian's (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Directors Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson's overhaul of the comedy franchise about the rebellious pupils of a girls' boarding school stars Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett and Gemma Arterton. Annabelle Fritton, daughter of dodgy art dealer Carnaby, enrols at the shabby country boarding school, St Trinian's, run by her aunt Camilla. Head Girl Kelly introduces Annabelle to the school's various factions. And when Annabelle discovers the crazy, raucous 'curriculum', she realises that this is a school like no other. However, once she's past a cruel initiation prank, she settles down and enjoys being part of the chaos. But then disaster strikes: the school lacks the funds to continue. The institution's finest brains come up with a rescue plan... which involves the theft of a world-famous artwork. Also starring in the madness are Colin Firth, as a beleaguered school inspector, and Russell Brand, as Flash Harry, who helps the girls in their myriad nefarious deeds.
Director: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Jodie Whittaker, Gemma Arterton, Jonathan Bailey, Mischa Barton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Knight and Day (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
James Mangold's action-comedy is a jet-setting caper that opens with June Havens crossing paths with Roy Miller at an airport. He's a CIA assassin whose colleagues think has turned rogue agent and are now out to put him permanently out of the game. He realises that, now she's met him, June's life is also in danger from those chasing him, so he kidnaps her to keep her safe. Forced to flee with him, the duo dash around the globe - with locations sweeping from the South Pacific to Seville - and must survive chase after chase in the fight to clear his name and return June to her 'regular' life in Wichita, Kansas. Also starring Peter Sarsgaard and Viola Davis. The second of Film4's Cameron Diaz double-bills, the first was yesterday evening, kicks off with Knight and Day, and is followed by Vanilla Sky.
Director: James Mangold
Starring: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Mollà, Viola Davis, Paul Dano
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

23:10


Vanilla Sky (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
In Cameron Crowe's re-make of Open Your Eyes, Cruise plays a playboy who finds true love with Sofia Serrano but vengeful ex-girlfriend Julie Gianni lures him into a suicidal car ride which only he survives, disfigured. Nursed back to health, strange events force him to question his existence in this brilliant, moody thriller.
Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell, Jason Lee, Noah Taylor
(Subtitles, 2001, 15, 4 Star)

01:50


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Film4 Listings for Sunday 9th March

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11:00


The Bravados (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Henry King's brooding western stars Gregory Peck as a stranger who arrives in a small town to witness the execution of the four bank robbers he believes raped and murdered his wife. When the criminals break out of prison, taking Emma Steimmetz hostage, he tracks them down, determined to kill them one by one. But then he discovers a truth that makes him reconsider both his purpose and his beliefs.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

13:00


Chalet Girl (Film) Film icon 12 certificate
Felicity Jones and Ed Westwick star in this bright and breezy British romcom. There was a time when working-class Kim reigned supreme as a skateboarding champion; but that was before her mother's death changed everything for her and her dad Bill. Now she's decided to give up her fast-food job and chance her arm with a new career as a chalet girl in an Alpine ski resort, where she hopes to win a life-changing sum of money in a snowboarding competition. As well learning how to transfer her skateboarding skills to the slopes, she'll also have to acquire the knack of deflecting unwanted attention from the resort's predominantly posh, testosterone-fuelled young male clientele. But among the predictable serial gropers there's one lad who catches her eye: the rather narcissistic Jonny. Can Kim gain the confidence to hold her own among the relocated Chelsea set?
Director: Tom Williams
Starring: Felicity Jones, Ed Westwick, Bill Nighy, Brooke Shields, Tamsin Egerton, Bill Bailey
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12)

14:50


Silent Running (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Bruce Dern stars in this ecological sci-fi drama as Freeman Lowell, the lone human crew member on the Valley Forge, a vast spacecraft carrying the remnants of post-apocalypse Earth's plant life. But when he's ordered to destroy his precious cargo, and his robot crewmates are ready to comply, Lowell must take drastic action. It's unsurprising that the film is visually impressive, given that it was the directorial debut of special effects maestro Douglas Trumbull, but Silent Running's greatest strength is perhaps its poignant pathos, and its environmental message is as relevant now as it was when the film was released.
Director: Douglas Trumbull
Starring: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin, Jesse Vint, Steve Brown, Mark Persons
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1971, PG, 3 Star)

16:40


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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(PG)

18:40


Chocolat (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 12 certificate
When a single mother and her six-year-old daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with scepticism and some loathing. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into enjoying their delicious products, they are warmly welcomed.
Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Carrie-Anne Moss, Judi Dench
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2000, 12, 5 Star)



21:00


Along Came a Spider (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
World-weary criminal profiler Alex Cross is challenged to a nasty game when a senator's daughter is kidnapped whilst under Secret Service protection. Cross is still bruised from his last assignment and the loss of his partner, but he needs his wits about him ... as this new case is not as it seems.
Director: Lee Tamahori
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Monica Potter, Michael Wincott, Dylan Baker, Mika Boorem, Anton Yelchin
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2001, 15, 3 Star)

23:00


The Hills Have Eyes II (Film) Film icon 18 certificate
Martin Weisz's sequel to Wes Craven's remake of his 1977 original is just as satisfyingly horrific and gory. A group of National Guardsmen and Guardswomen out on exercise, led by Napoleon and Amber, find themselves lost in the desert and soon become the prey of the deformed mutants who live in the hills.
Director: Martin Weisz
Starring: Cécile Breccia, Michael Bailey Smith, Archie Kao, Jay Acovone, Jeff Kober, Philip Pavel
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 18, 2 Star)

00:45


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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(PG)

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Film4 Listings for Monday 10th March

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11:00


Crooks Anonymous (Film) Film icon U certificate
Leslie Phillips and Julie Christie star in this comedy from director Ken Annakin. When petty thief Dandy Forsdyke is coerced into going straight by his stripper girlfriend, he joins an unofficial organisation for reforming criminals called Crooks Anonymous. After resisting the urge to steal, he's declared 'cured', but the group is proffered great temptation when circumstances conspire to leave Dandy alone with £250,000.
Starring: Stanley Baxter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, James Robertson Justice, Julie Christie
(Black and White, 1962, U)

12:45


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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(PG)

14:55


Funny Face (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Classic, stylish musical starring Fred Astaire as a fashion photographer who turns a Greenwich Village bookshop assistant into a top model, and falls in love with her in Paris.
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Dovima
(Widescreen, 1957, U, 4 Star)

17:00


An Elephant Called Slowly (Film) Film icon U certificate
Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers star in this family wildlife drama about African elephants from director James Hill. The gentle narrative focuses on Ginny and Bill's attempts to look after three young elephants, which turn up on the Kenyan property the couple are house-sitting for friends. But, as with many wildlife features of the period, narrative aside, one of the main draws for the film's younger target audience is the captivating shots of exotic fauna in its natural setting. James Hill directed Born Free, another African wildlife adventure starring McKenna and Travers, and would follow up...Slowly with that much-loved equine drama Black Beauty. First screening on Film4.
(Premiere, 1970, U)

18:55


Dear John (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Two weeks' military leave is all it takes for US Army Staff Sergeant John Tyree and college student Savannah Curtis to fall in love in this Lasse Hallstrom-directed adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' novel. Having depended on letters to keep their romance alive, their relationship falters when John unexpectedly decides to re-enlist in the army following the September 11 attacks in New York. Then it arrives - the Dear John letter informing him that Savannah is engaged to someone else. With no hope of being together, John rededicates himself to the military, surviving injury and only seeing Savannah when family events force him to return home. Months later, John receives another letter from Savannah with their sign-off of old, 'I'll see you soon, then'. Could there be hope for the couple yet?
Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas, D.J. Cotrona, Cullen Moss
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Never Let Me Go (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Mark Romanek directs the cream of young British acting talent in this adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-nominated dystopian fable. With a screenplay by Alex Garland, the film follows teens Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy as they leave the confines of their uniquely regimented boarding school and take their first steps into the wider world. As the trio form a convincing love triangle and test the boundaries of their post-school existence, the realisation that they have been raised for a specific and deadly purpose hits home with subtle but inescapable force. The story wears its sci-fi trappings lightly, and it's the closeness of the film's world to reality that makes the powerlessness of the protagonists all the more heartbreaking. The three leads give fine performances, particularly a pre-Spiderman Garfield, who imbues naive Tommy with a tragic blend of frustration and hopefulness. First play on Film4.
Director: Mark Romanek
Starring: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Charlotte Rampling, Sally Hawkins, Kate Bowes Renna
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 4 Star)

23:00


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)

01:10


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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(PG)

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Film4 Listings for Tuesday 11th March

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11:00


The Desperadoes (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Charles Vidor's western stars Randolph Scott as Steve Upton, the sheriff of a small Utah town, and Glenn Ford as Cheyenne Rogers, his friend and a reformed outlaw. But the bank is robbed when Rogers is in town and he's arrested. Convinced of his pal's innocence, Upton springs him from jail and the pair set out to find the guilty parties, who may be closer to home than they thought.
Director: Charles Vidor
Starring: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor, Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, Edgar Buchanan, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
(1943, U, 3 Star)

12:45


Edge of Darkness (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Wartime drama following the fortunes of a group of Norwegian townspeople gradually galvanising their resistance to the occupying Nazis. Starring Errol Flynn as Gunnar Brogge, the leader of the Trollness underground, and Anne Sheridan as Karen Stensgard, his love interest, with Walter Huston as her father, Dr Martin Stensgard, the village doctor.
Director: Lewis Milestone
Starring: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman, Helmut Dantine, Judith Anderson
(Black and White, 1943, U, 4 Star)

15:05


The Ladykillers (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Alexander Mackendrick's classic Ealing comedy stars Alec Guinness as the sinister, eccentric leader of a gang of crooks whose perfect crime meets its nemesis at the unwitting hands of Guinness's elderly landlady, played by Bafta-award-winner Katie Johnson.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
(1955, U, 4 Star)

16:55


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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(PG)

18:55


Mad Money (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Callie Khouri's comedy crime caper stars Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes as three women employed as janitors at the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. Bridget has only taken the job because her high-earning husband Don has been downsized and somebody has to earn the money to keep up their lifestyle. It breaks her heart to see the old banknotes being sent for shredding - surely nobody will miss a few? Enlisting two of her colleagues, they find a 'foolproof' way of helping themselves to just a little. And when they go undiscovered, it's tempting for a little to become a lot - but only if no one suspects three such lowly female workers.
Director: Callie Khouri
Starring: Diane Keaton, Ted Danson, Katie Holmes, Adam Rothenberg, Queen Latifah, Peyton 'Alex' Smith
(Widescreen, 2008, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Predators (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Adrien Brody, Alice Braga and Topher Grace star in this well-received addition to the Predator sci-fi action-adventure franchise, this time with Hungarian director Nimrod Antal at the helm. The action opens with Royce waking in a parachute that's drifting down towards a jungle. On landing he discovers he's one of a small group of people, all of whom have been similarly mysteriously delivered to their current location. With the exception of Edwin, a doctor, their only common trait is that all are expert killers, whether from the military or the wrong side of the law.
Director: Nimród Antal
Starring: Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Laurence Fishburne
(Widescreen, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

23:10


The Burning Plain (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
The writer of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel, Guillermo Arriaga, makes his feature directorial debut with this romantic crime drama starring Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger and Jennifer Lawrence. Told with Arriaga's trademark disregard for linear time, the film weaves together the lives of three women in a dark tale that speaks of guilt, loss and revenge. Oregon resident Sylvia is a successful restaurateur who conceals her emotional frailties behind a series of one-night stands and icy personal relationships with those around her.
Director: Guillermo Arriaga
Starring: Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Jennifer Lawrence, José María Yazpik, Joaquim de Almeida, Tessa Ia
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 15, 3 Star)

01:10


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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(PG)

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Film4 Listings for Wednesday 12th March

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11:00


Heavens Above! (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Peter Sellers stars in this charming comedy from director John Boulting. An innocent but socially progressive vicar is appointed by mistake to a wealthy, moribund parish. But his forward-thinking ideas about Christianity soon begin to upset the conservative parishioners. With Ian Carmichael, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Malcolm Muggeridge and Ludovic Kennedy.
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1963, PG)

13:20


Gaslight (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Thorold Dickinson's classic thriller stars Anton Walbrook as Paul Mallen, who moves into a London townhouse with his new bride Bella. Her family has a history of mental instability so, when objects go missing without reason and when she claims the gaslight dims of its own accord, he suggests she is beginning to lose her mind. But ex-policeman BG Rough, who now works as an ostler, recognises Mallen as the nephew of a woman brutally murdered in the very house in which he and his wife now live and, what's more, a house that still harbours a fortune in rubies that the killer never found. Could Mallen be somehow connected to the crime and is the parlour maid Nancy, a conspirator in her master's plans?
Director: Thorold Dickinson
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton, Minnie Rayner
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1940, PG, 4 Star)

15:00


Bless This House (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Movie spin-off from the popular 1970s TV series, starring Sid James as Sid Abbott, the middle-class, middle-aged father who doesn't understand the youth of the day; in particular his own children, Mike and Sally, who both seem keener to attend demos than get a job. Plus, he's also having problems with his new neighbour Ronald Baines. So when Baines's daughter Kate falls for Mike, comic confusions ensue.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Sid James, Diana Coupland, Sally Geeson, Peter Butterworth, Terry Scott, June Whitfield
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1972, PG, 3 Star)

16:50


Funny Face (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Classic, stylish musical starring Fred Astaire as a fashion photographer who turns a Greenwich Village bookshop assistant into a top model, and falls in love with her in Paris.
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng, Dovima
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1957, U, 4 Star)

18:55


Clueless (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Amy Heckerling's high school take on Jane Austen's novel Emma. Alicia Silverstone plays Cher Horowitz who, thanks to her rich lawyer daddy, has it all. She and her school friend Dionne decide to take new girl Tai under their wing and make sure she finds a date. They succeed, only to find that they've created a monster... Edited for content.
Director: Amy Heckerling
Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd, Brittany Murphy, Stacey Dash, Donald Faison, Dan Hedaya
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1995, 12, 3 Star)


21:00


Die Hard 4.0 (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Bruce Willis returns once again as John McClane, the wisecracking, old-school New York cop whose impressive CV includes rescuing hostages captured in a swanky LA plaza and saving passengers on a hijacked plane circling Washington. In this violent thriller, he's up against a group of terrorists threatening to hack into the US computer infrastructure. When they crash the stock market, sending the economy into meltdown and causing panic on Wall Street, McClane turns to young hacker Matt Farrell. Farrell's wanted by the FBI, but he's also potentially the only man who can help figure out the cyber criminals' next move. When the terrorists respond by kidnapping McClane's daughter Lucy, it's time for the anxious father to load up his ammo clips and go get the bad guys - just as the country's descending into chaos. Directed by Len Wiseman. In English, with some French and Italian with English subtitles.
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan Sadowski
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 4 Star)

23:30


The Deep Blue Sea (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale star in Terence Davies's moving adaptation of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play about emotional dissatisfaction. Hester Collyer is married to the perfectly nice but dull Sir William. He's a judge by profession but timid by nature and is easily domineered by his mother, but Hester's main concern is the lack of passion within their marriage. So, when she meets Freddie Page, a dashing ex-RAF pilot, she's easily won over. But Page's self-regard and his affection for alcohol mean Hester's unlikely to find what she's looking for in this illicit relationship either, leaving her in the predicament suggested by the film's title.
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Ann Mitchell, Jolyon Coy, Karl Johnson, Rachel Weisz, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Hiddleston
(Black and White, Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 12, 3 Star)

01:25


Good Luck Chuck (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
In Mark Helfrich's comedy, Charlie has a gift which becomes a curse. Every woman who sleeps with him immediately meets her perfect Mr Right after their encounter - which means a lot of women make a beeline for him, making for an enjoyable, if lonely, life for Chuck. Then he meets Cam Wexler, the perfect girl for him. But if he sleeps with her, he'll lose her. It's up to Charlie and his best friend Stu to come up with a plan.
Director: Mark Helfrich
Starring: Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler, Annie Wood, Chelan Simmons, Jodie Stewart
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2007, 15, 3 Star)