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11:00


Lassie (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Charles Sturridge's update of the drama featuring the famous collie. Miner Sam Carraclough and his wife Sarah are forced to sell their son Joe's beloved dog Lassie to the Duke of Rudling. Lassie is taken to the Duke's Scottish estates, but escapes and begins the long trek home, along the way falling in with travelling puppeteer Rowlie, escaping from a Glasgow dog pound, and encountering the Loch Ness monster.
Director: Charles Sturridge
Starring: Peter Dinklage, Ken Drury, Gregor Fisher, Edward Fox, Robert Hardy, Celyn Jones
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2005, PG, 4 Star)

13:00


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)

14:55


Rugrats the Movie (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Based on the TV series, this animated feature film stars the feisty kids, who decide Dil, the latest addition to the family, is too troublesome and needs taking to the hospital to be fixed. But they get lost in the woods and find themselves in danger... Fun for the kids but with a layer of sophisticated humour adults will enjoy, the film features the voices of Busta Rhymes, Iggy Pop, Tim Curry and Whoopi Goldberg.
Director: Igor Kovalyov, Norton Virgien
Starring: David Spade, Whoopi Goldberg, Elizabeth Daily, Christine Cavanaugh, Kath Soucie, Tara Strong
(Subtitles, 1998, U, 3 Star)

16:30


The Golden Compass (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards star in Chris Weitz's family fantasy-adventure, based on the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Twelve-year-old orphan Lyra Belacqua lives in an Oxford college, where the academic and domestic staff do their best to push her enquiring mind down conventional educational routes and quell her tomboy tendencies; it's a losing battle. One day, having sneaked into a private meeting of the college's dons, Lyra learns of mysterious events taking place in the Arctic. Soon after, amid news of mysterious child abductors called the 'Gobblers', her best friend Roger vanishes.
Director: Chris Weitz
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore, Ian McKellen
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 3 Star)

18:40


Crocodile Dundee II (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee, now living in New York, wages war against a drug-running gang when his reporter girlfriend is kidnapped because she possesses incriminating film of a drug-related murder. Having rescued her with his antipodean cunning and the help of a gang of punks, the couple flee to the relative safety of the Australian outback - but the villains are in hot pursuit.
Director: John Cornell
Starring: Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski, John Meillon, Hechter Ubarry, Juan Fernández, Charles S. Dutton
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1988, PG, 3 Star)



20:50


12 Years a Slave Interview Special (Entertainment)
Director Steve McQueen and lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor talk about making the acclaimed period drama 12 Years a Slave.

21:00


The Mechanic (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Jason Statham stars in director Simon West's action retread of Michael Winner's 1972 revenge thriller. Arthur Bishop earns his living as a 'mechanic', a euphemism for hitman that betrays the precision and emotional detachment with which he goes about his business. And that even applies when he's contracted to kill his wheelchair-using mentor Harry McKenna, though he does at least demand to know why he should send his friend to an early grave. Things then get awkward for Bishop, when McKenna's son Steve asks if he'll tutor him. Their partnership develops in fits and starts, but Bishop's boss Dean Sanderson makes it clear he's not happy with the nascent partnership's latest assassination. So, with all the main players inherently suspicious, trained killers, and various motives for murder in the air, it won't take much to spark bloodshed - and that catalyst comes with an unexpected sighting at an airport.
Director: Simon West
Starring: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Chase, Mini Anden
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

22:50


48 Hrs (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy star in Walter Hill's fast and furious cop comedy. Wisecracking convict Reggie Hammond is paroled to help tough cop Jack Cates track down a killer who has murdered the cop's partner and is now using Cates's stolen gun. Hill's hard-hitting Golden Globe-nominated comedy-thriller is scattered with classic lines and helped to create the buddy-cop genre.
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar
(Subtitles, 1982, 15, 3 Star)

00:45


Lady Chatterley (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Pascale Ferran's Gallic take on DH Lawrence's infamous novel stars Marina Hands as Constance Chatterley, wife to the disabled First World War veteran Clifford, who seeks her solace with the earthy charms of forester Parkin. While their scenes of amour are explicit, the film teases out the themes of class conflict and approaches Lawrence with a fresh eye that perhaps has eluded the more repressed English interpretations, although this could equally be as a result of Ferran's decision to base his work on John Thomas and Lady Jane, the second of Lawrence's three versions of the Chatterley story.
Director: Pascale Ferran
Starring: Marina Hands, Jean-Louis Coullo'ch, Hippolyte Girardot, Hélène Alexandridis, Hélène Fillières, Bernard Verley
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, 18, 4 Star)

 

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Monday 6th January
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11:00


On the Town (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
In this stunning musical, shot almost entirely on location, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, three US Navy sailors with just 24 hours in New York and a mission - to find a date. Cue sassy taxi driver Brunhilde, pin-up Ivy and glamorous museum scientist Claire, who variously become their objects of desire. Directed by Stanley Donen and Kelly, this Oscar-winning musical is packed with songs from Leonard Bernstein's sumptuous score including, of course, the classic New York, New York.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen Slezak
(Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)

12:55


Cat Ballou (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Lee Marvin won an Oscar for his double role in Elliot Silverstein's influential comedy western, which also stars Jane Fonda. When Catherine 'Cat' Ballou finds out that a corporation is making an aggressive attempt to snatch her father's ranch, she hires the once-notorious gunfighter Kid Shelleen as protection. But she soon discovers he's now a permanently sozzled drunk, and unlikely to be of any use against the developers' mean killing machine, Tim Strawn. But, as things take a darker turn, Cat finds the strength and determination to fight back, by any means necessary. With its mix of daft comedy, songs and classic revenge-western theme, the film is great fun, and it's not difficult to imagine that it provided the creative spark for Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles a decade later.
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Starring: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat 'King' Cole, Stubby Kaye
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, PG, 4 Star)

14:50


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)

16:40


20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Disney-made adventure based closely on the original Jules Verne story of a 'sea monster' which causes chaos amongst 19th-century San Francisco mariners. When a government warship investigates, the 'monster' attacks, leaving just three survivors who are picked up by the creature - which turns out to be a submarine captained by a demented fanatic whose masterplan is to establish an undersea nation.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1954, U, 4 Star)

19:10


Stormbreaker (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Geoffrey Sax's family action-adventure is based on Anthony Horowitz's successful teenage spy novels. Alex Pettyfer stars as Alex Rider, a 14-year-old schoolboy seconded to British intelligence after his uncle and guardian Ian Rider is murdered by rogue billionaire Darrius Sayle. Trained by Alan Blunt and Smithers, he takes on Sayle, not just for revenge but also to stop him unleashing the deadly Stormbreaker virus on the world.
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Alicia Silverstone, Mickey Rourke, Damian Lewis
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Sixteen Candles (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
The start of the Films for Fun season on Film4: an upbeat and purely pleasurable way to kick-off the New Year - there's no need to expend too much effort to find something to enjoy, with fun, spirit-lifting films from all genres appearing across all parts of the schedule. Molly Ringwald stars in this memorable teen comedy, which marked John Hughes's directorial debut. Samantha Baker wakes up on the morning of her 16th birthday disappointed to find she looks no different to how she did yesterday. Even so, it's her birthday, so at least her family and friends will spoil her rotten, right? Sadly not, for it's also the eve of her elder sister's wedding and, amid all the preparations for that big event, her family have clean forgotten about Samantha's own special day.
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Justin Henry, Michael Schoeffling, Haviland Morris, Gedde Watanabe, Anthony Michael Hall
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1984, 15, 3 Star)

22:55


Sightseers (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Alice Lowe and Steve Oram teamed up to write and star in this dark and violent comedy-drama, directed by Ben Wheatley. They look such an ordinary couple, but these Midlands' lovebirds prove anything but. Chris is the proud owner of an Abbey Oxford caravan and adores few things more than exploring the glories of the British countryside. So, when presented with the opportunity to whisk his new girlfriend, Tina, off to see such heady sights as Keswick's Pencil Museum, Crich Tramway Village and the Ribblehead Viaduct, he jumps at it. Though, to be honest, the sheltered Tina seems keener on the journey's erotic possibilities. But, almost as soon as their odyssey has begun, an awful accident completely changes the tenor of their trip. And, from then on, only the exceedingly unwise do anything to cross the increasingly malevolent pair.
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies, Richard Glover, Monica Dolan, Jonathan Aris
(Subtitles, Black and White, 2012, 15, 4 Star)

00:40


The Godfather Part III (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
An ageing Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimise his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the younger family members. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protégé's love affair with his daughter.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1990, 15, 3 Star)

 

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Tuesday 7th January
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11:00


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)

12:45


The Violent Men (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Based on the Donald Hamilton novel Smokey Valley, Rudolph Mat?'s Cold War western stars Glenn Ford as a smallholder who stands alone against the brutal tactics of a tyrannical rancher's plans for expansion. Made in the aftermath of Senator McCarthy's Hollywood witch-hunts, the film is a thinly-veiled allegory of America's stance against communism.
Director: Rudolph Maté
Starring: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, May Wynn
(Subtitles, 1955, 15, 3 Star)

14:40


A Town Like Alice (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Taut Second World War drama, starring Bafta-winners Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch. Jean Paget is among a group of women, trapped in Malaya by the invading Japanese forces, who are forced to walk hundreds of miles in search of food and shelter. But when Australian soldier Joe Harman sneaks food to them from his labour camp, there are terrible consequences.
Director: Jack Lee
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takagi, Tran Van Khe, Jean Anderson, Marie Lohr
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1956, PG, 4 Star)

17:00


King Solomon's Mines (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Richard Chamberlain plays Alan Quatermain in J Lee Thompson's adaptation of H Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel. Quatermain, a fortune hunter, is engaged by Jesse Huston to find her archaeologist father, who is being held by the villainous Dogati and Colonel Bockner, who want his map of the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon. Freeing the professor, Alan and Jesse set off in a desperate race to find the mines ahead of the evil German and his allies. Edited for content.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies, Ken Gampu
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1985, PG, 2 Star)

18:55


Eragon (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Stefen Fangmeier's action-packed fantasy is set in a medieval-like society ruled by the despotic Galbatorix, abetted by his henchman Durza. Galbatorix has exterminated the fabled Dragon Riders who threatened his reign, but a teenage boy, Eragon, discovers a surviving egg from which hatches the dragon Saphira. Unable to control her as she grows, Eragon finds guidance from village layabout Brom, who reveals himself to be the last of the Dragon Riders. The three raise a rebel army to topple Galbatorix but, at the same time, Eragon and Saphira must rescue princess Arya from Galbatorix's evil clutches.
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Starring: Edward Speleers, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Guillory, Robert Carlyle, John Malkovich, Garrett Hedlund
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, PG, 2 Star)



21:00


Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
In Tim Story's sequel to the foursome's first adventure, the superheroes are suffering from very human problems. The Thing finds it hard to believe that Alicia wants him for himself rather than out of pity; Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman are having second thoughts about their wedding; and Human Torch is having relationship problems of his own. But when mysterious, huge craters start appearing around the world, the authorities call on the Four's help. The vast indentations are being caused by the other-worldly Silver Surfer, precursor of the planet-destroying Galactus. Can the Four stop him in time, as well as preventing Victor von Doom from stealing the Surfer's secrets for his own evil ends?
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington
(Editor's Choice, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 3 Star)

22:45


12 Years a Slave Interview Special (Entertainment)
Director Steve McQueen and lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor talk about making the acclaimed period drama 12 Years a Slave.

22:55


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 that was to 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 ask if the strike and the resultant deaths will have any effect at all. This screening is introduced by the director and Michael Fassbender.
Director: Steve McQueen II
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Liam McMahon, Brian Milligan, Lalor Roddy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 2008, 15, 4 Star)

00:50


Black Book (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Paul Verhoeven returns to his Dutch roots with this visceral drama of life under Nazi occupation in the Netherlands. Rachel Stein is a Jewish woman intent on avenging her family's murder. She joins the Resistance and agrees to become the lover of high-ranking SS officer Ludwig Muntze in order to learn which Dutchmen are secretly collaborating with the occupiers. But she falls in love with the man rather than the monster and finds herself in danger, not only from the Nazis but also from her compatriots.
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Carice Van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman, Halina Reijn, Waldemar Kobus, Derek de Lint
(In Dutch and German with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2006, 15, 4 Star)

 

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Wednesday 8th January
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11:00


Operation Pacific (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Second World War drama starring John Wayne as a dedicated submarine commander fighting the Japanese in the Pacific and trying to build bridges with his ex-wife. Also starring Ward Bond, Philip Carey and Scott Forbes. Written.
Director: George Waggner
Starring: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey, Paul Picerni
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1951, U, 3 Star)

13:10


Jesse James (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Henry King's classic western stars Tyrone Power as Missouri farmer Jesse James, who works the land with his brother Frank. When the railroad illegally forces them off their property, leading to the death of their mother, they swear vengeance. Robbing trains, they help fund the fight back against the railroads despite the best efforts of Marshall Will Wright. The ending sets the scenario for Fritz Lang's 1940 revenge-sequel, The Return of Frank James.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
(Subtitles, 1939, U, 3 Star)

15:20


Carry on Sergeant (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
The first of the Carry On movies was inspired by RF Delderfield's novel The Bull Boys. William Hartnell plays Sergeant Grimshawe, the retiring army training sergeant faced with possibly the worst group of national service recruits ever to have been called up, including Charlie Sage, Horace Strong, Peter Golightly and James Bailey.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen, Charles Hawtrey
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

17:00


Gambit (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Michael Caine and Shirley MacLaine star in Ronald Neame's comic heist caper. Harry is a cockney thief in Hong Kong, on the lookout for his next 'enriching' opportunity. Spying a beautiful nightclub entertainer, Nicole, who bears a startling resemblance to the late wife of the immensely rich Middle Eastern businessman Mr Shahbandar, he realises that here lies the key to his next scam. Unfortunately, although she's keen to get her hands on the genuine British passport that Harry promises her, Nicole is adamant that she won't do anything illegal for it. But that's not as big a problem as Harry embarking on his latest swindle without having thought through his plan, as is demonstrated by the ensuing series of comic misadventures. Neame's inventive plot twists are matched by the charismatic performances from the leads.
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Michael Caine, Herbert Lom, Roger C. Carmel, Arnold Moss, John Abbott, Richard Angarola
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1966, U, 3 Star)

19:10


The Addams Family Values (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Black comedy sequel. The Addams family has two new members - baby Pubert and sunny nanny Debbie Jellinsky. Whilst Debbie charms the adults of the family, Uncle Fester in particular, the children discover she is actually a lot more evil than she lets on.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci, Carol Kane
(Subtitles, 1993, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Keeping Mum (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Rowan Atkinson plays the Reverend Walter Goodfellow, vicar of Little Wallop, who spends all his energies on his sermons, leaving his neglected wife Gloria the opportunity to conduct a somewhat half-hearted affair with her golf pro Lance. But everything changes when the Goodfellows get a new housekeeper, Grace Hawkins who, in her spare time, is a psychopathic serial killer, quite happy to rid her employees of anyone causing them problems... Niall Johnson's delicious black comedy sees the four leads play for well-earned laughs, but unsurprisingly it is Maggie Smith who steals the film.
Director: Niall Johnson
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Maggie Smith, Patrick Swayze, Emilia Fox, Liz Smith
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2005, 15, 3 Star)

23:05


Black Pond (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Chris Langham and Amanda Hadingue star in this feature debut from writer/producer/director duo Tom Kingsley and Will Sharpe, a black comedy probing tragedy and tabloid accusation. Out walking his three-legged dog by Black Pond, Tom Thompson is approached by Blake, who's clearly unhappy and behaving eccentrically. Taking pity on the man, Tom invites him back to the large Surrey house he now lives in with just his spiky-natured wife Sophie; their grownup daughters Jess and Katie having left to share a London flat.
Director: Tom Kingsley, Will Sharpe
Starring: Chris Langham, Simon Amstell, Amanda Hadingue, Colin Hurley, Will Sharpe, Anna O'Grady
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2011, 15, 3 Star)

00:50


Volver (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Pedro Almodóvar's drama stars Penélope Cruz as single parent Raimunda, whose life is turned upside down by a murder, which leaves her with a body to dispose of and a crime to cover up. Although she manages to find somewhere to put the body, further complications arise when her mother Irene, presumed dead, suddenly reappears. And when Raimunda takes on the management of a holidaying friend's restaurant - which becomes unexpectedly, and riotously, successful - our heroine's makeshift plans start to look very precarious indeed.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo, Chus Lampreave
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Spanish with English Subtitles, 2006, 15, 4 Star)

 

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Thursday 9th January
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11:00


Ping Pong (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Director Hugh Hartford's documentary charts the progress of some of the competitors in the Over 80s category at the 2010 World Table Tennis Championships. Hartford's inspiring film amply demonstrates that youth and vigour really can be just a frame of mind; and that it's not just athletes 50 or 60 years the junior of these players who have a steely determination. While it's not surprising that the gerontic players are, in the main, people who've long been involved in competitive sport, among their ranks is Ursula, a German who only started in her 80s, using the game as therapy to recover from a stroke. Flying the flag for Britain are Les and Terry, who are both fighting off illness as well as the other players; Australia's representative is the 100-year-old Dorothy, whose nemesis may turn out to be Texan Lisa. Hartford's film captures all the sporting glories, disappointments and underhand tactics employed during the event in Inner Mongolia.
Director: Sori Fumihiko
Starring: Yôsuke Kubozuka, Arata, Sam Lee, Shido Nakamura
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 12, 3 Star)

12:40


20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Disney-made adventure based closely on the original Jules Verne story of a 'sea monster' which causes chaos amongst 19th-century San Francisco mariners. When a government warship investigates, the 'monster' attacks, leaving just three survivors who are picked up by the creature - which turns out to be a submarine captained by a demented fanatic whose masterplan is to establish an undersea nation.
Director: Richard Fleischer
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Robert J. Wilke, Ted de Corsia
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1954, U, 4 Star)

15:10


The Tall T (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Ranch hand Pat Brennan assumes the leadership of a group of stagecoach passengers in the fall-out from a hold-up. Ruthless robber Usher, disgusted at the cowardice of a passenger who offers his new bride as ransom, accepts the terms and then shoots the man.
Director: Budd Boetticher
Starring: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Skip Homeier, Henry Silva
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star)

16:45


Cry 'Havoc' (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Richard Thorpe's World War II drama, set on the Pacific island of Bataan, tells the story of a group of women who volunteer to nurse the wounded GIs holding out against the invading Japanese troops. Led by veteran nurses Mary Smith and Alice Marsh, the disparate group, including stripper Grace Lambert, fashion writer Connie Booth and southern belle Nydia Joyce, become battle hardened as the casualties flood in but have to make a difficult decision as the Japanese close in on the hospital.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ella Raines
(Black and White, Subtitles, Signed, 1943, PG, 4 Star)

18:40


Employee of the Month (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Greg Coolidge's comedy is set in a department store and stars Dane Cook as Zack, who works in the packing department, and Dax Shepard as Vince, one of the cashiers. Zack's ambition in life is to perfect the art of slacking while Vince is the store's biggest suck-up. But then they both hear that hot new cashier Amy has one firm rule: she will only date the Employee of the Month. Can Zack manage to beat Vince to the title? Edited for content.
Director: Greg Coolidge
Starring: Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson, Dax Shepard, Efren Ramirez, Andy Dick, Tim Bagley
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


True Lies (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis star in James Cameron's action comedy, a remake of the 1991 French film La Totale! - and very much in old school Bond territory. Helen Tasker feels her 15-year marriage to Harry has become as dull as his job in computer sales. However, she doesn't know that Harry's actually an undercover government operative who spends his days battling terrorists and spies rather than flogging IT gear. But Helen picks a bad time to spice up her life with an extramarital dalliance: when he drops in to her office unannounced, Harry overhears her making plans for a date with her colleague Simon. Harry's reaction is extraordinary, to say the least: in a sorely misguided attempt to give her the excitement she craves, he arranges for her to be kidnapped and sent on a 'secret assignment' as a spy posing as a prostitute. But his hare-brained scheme goes awry when his two worlds collide. His daughter is kidnapped by terrorists and only he and his wife can save her.
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Art Malik
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1994, 15, 4 Star)

23:45


The Hole (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
A scary comedy-horror from director Joe Dante about a suburban home that has among its features a secret portal, which would perhaps be best left undiscovered. The house is the new abode of teen Dane Thompson, his mum Susan and his irritating younger sibling Lucas. Kids being kids, it's not long before they've thoroughly explored their new residence - and found the strange, heavily padlocked trapdoor down in the basement. Together with Julie, the girl who lives next door, the unwisely intrepid gang manage to remove the carefully constructed barriers and lift the lid, to find themselves staring into... a pitch-black hole. At first it's not much to look at, but they gradually learn why the previous owner was so desperately keen to keep it permanently covered. Essentially aimed at a family audience, the film delivers enough genuine frights to make its 12 certificate necessary.
Director: Joe Dante
Starring: Chris Massoglia, Haley Bennett, Nathan Gamble, Teri Polo, Bruce Dern, Quinn Lord
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

01:35


Parents (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
Actor Bob Balaban made his directorial feature debut with this extraordinary and sinisterly subversive black comedy. The year is 1958 and young Michael Laemle and his family have moved to a small town in Indiana. His parents, defoliant expert Nick and Lily, who spends her days happily working in the kitchen, are aggressively fashionable and dedicated to keeping up appearances. But the youngster is becoming sure that they're hiding something from him. It's a concern that's increased when, half-asleep, he catches his parents in an embrace, which strangely troubles him. At school, he's befriended by another newcomer, Sheila Zellner whose claim to be an alien appeals to his creative imagination.
Director: Bob Balaban
Starring: Randy Quaid, Mary Beth Hurt, Sandy Dennis, Bryan Madorsky, London Juno, Kathryn Grody
(Subtitles, 1989, 18, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Guadalcanal Diary (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Lewis Seiler's powerful and exciting Second World War propaganda action-drama follows US Marines as they make advances during the war in the Pacific, driving back the Japanese.
Director: Lewis Seiler
Starring: Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, PG, 3 Star)

12:50


Donovan's Reef (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
John Ford directs John Wayne in this romantic comedy, which was their last film together. Wayne plays Michael Donovan who, with his ex-Navy pals Thomas Gilhooley and William Dedham, has ended up on a South Pacific island after the war. Trouble threatens their paradise when Dedham's estranged daughter Amelia arrives with news that he's heir to the family's shipping company; but he could lose the inheritance to her if he's seen to be living in an 'immoral' way. As Dedham is away, Donovan convinces her that he's responsible for Dedham's children and, while he maintains the subterfuge, the beauty of the island and its way of life get under Amelia's skin, as do Donovan's romantic overtures.
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1963, U, 3 Star)

15:00


Genevieve (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Henry Cornelius's very British comedy stars John Gregson and Dinah Sheridan as Alan and Wendy McKim, while Kenneth More and Kay Kendall play Ambrose Cleverhouse and Rosalind Peters. The two men are classic car fanatics and, after completing the London-to-Brighton race, decide to make the return leg a race too. As the men get more competitive and the women more despairing, there are laughs galore, counterpointed by Larry Adler's harmonica score.
Director: Henry Cornelius
Starring: Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall, Kenneth More, Geoffrey Keen, Reginald Beckwith
(Subtitles, Signed, 1953, U, 4 Star)

16:45


Cat Ballou (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Lee Marvin won an Oscar for his double role in Elliot Silverstein's influential comedy western, which also stars Jane Fonda. When Catherine 'Cat' Ballou finds out that a corporation is making an aggressive attempt to snatch her father's ranch, she hires the once-notorious gunfighter Kid Shelleen as protection. But she soon discovers he's now a permanently sozzled drunk, and unlikely to be of any use against the developers' mean killing machine, Tim Strawn. But, as things take a darker turn, Cat finds the strength and determination to fight back, by any means necessary. With its mix of daft comedy, songs and classic revenge-western theme, the film is great fun, and it's not difficult to imagine that it provided the creative spark for Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles a decade later.
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Starring: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat 'King' Cole, Stubby Kaye
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1965, PG, 4 Star)

18:40


Footloose (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Herbert Ross's musical romance stars Kevin Bacon as Ren McCormack, a teenager who moves from Chicago to a small town where, to his horror, he discovers rock music and dancing are outlawed at the behest of preacher Shaw Moore, who blames the death of his daughter on the Devil's music. And to complicate matters, Ren falls for Moore's surviving daughter Ariel, who is not as innocent as she seems. As Ren tries to persuade Moore that rock music isn't the root of all evil, a confrontation with both his daughter and the more bigoted members of his congregation give him food for thought in this classic feel-good film. Edited for content.
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest
(Subtitles, 1984, 15, 3 Star)



21:00


Ghost (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Jerry Zucker's supernatural fantasy stars Patrick Swayze as Sam Wheat and Demi Moore as Molly Jensen. He's killed in an apparently random mugging, leaving her heartbroken. But then it transpires that he was murdered to stop him exposing a major fraud - and this puts Molly in danger, because the incriminating information is in her possession. Sam's ghost, still earthbound, discovers the only way to warn her is through Oda Mae Brown, a fake medium who suddenly finds she's his channel to the living. A mix of comedy, thriller and romance coupled with outstanding special effects turned this into an enduring classic.
Director: Jerry Zucker
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Stanley Lawrence
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1990, 15, 4 Star)

23:25


Wayne's World (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Mike Myers and Dana Carvey star as Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, lifelong friends who present their own cult cable TV show, Wayne's World, from a basement. Such is their success, slimy TV executive Ben Oliver plans to buy their show and turn it into a product-placement special. And to complicate matters, both Wayne and Oliver have fallen for foxy singer Cassandra. Based on characters first seen on Saturday Night Live, Myers' script and Penelope Spheeris's direction created an unlikely comedy, in which the nerds inherited the earth and a host of catchphrases were born. Excellent.
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Starring: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Brian Doyle-Murray, Lara-Flynn Boyle
(Subtitles, 1992, PG, 4 Star)

01:15


Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
In Kim Ki-Duk's visually ravishing, intelligently reflective drama, a young boy and an elderly Buddhist monk share a tiny monastery floating on a lake, until the boy's natural need to explore the world compels him to leave. As surely as the seasons come round again each year, the boy becomes a man and eventually returns, but it isn't the film's plot that engages so much as the exquisite imagery and symbolism with which Ki-Duk explores and explains the cycles of life.
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Starring: Yeong-su Oh, Ki-duk Kim, Young-min Kim, Jae-kyeong Seo, Yeo-jin Ha, Jong-ho Kim
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Korean with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2003, 15, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


On the Town (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
In this stunning musical, shot almost entirely on location, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munshin are Gabey, Chip and Ozzie, three US Navy sailors with just 24 hours in New York and a mission - to find a date. Cue sassy taxi driver Brunhilde, pin-up Ivy and glamorous museum scientist Claire, who variously become their objects of desire. Directed by Stanley Donen and Kelly, this Oscar-winning musical is packed with songs from Leonard Bernstein's sumptuous score including, of course, the classic New York, New York.
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Betty Garrett, Ann Miller, Jules Munshin, Vera-Ellen Slezak
(Subtitles, 1949, U, 4 Star)

13:00


The Golden Compass (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Dakota Blue Richards star in Chris Weitz's family fantasy-adventure, based on the first book in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. Twelve-year-old orphan Lyra Belacqua lives in an Oxford college, where the academic and domestic staff do their best to push her enquiring mind down conventional educational routes and quell her tomboy tendencies; it's a losing battle. One day, having sneaked into a private meeting of the college's dons, Lyra learns of mysterious events taking place in the Arctic. Soon after, amid news of mysterious child abductors called the 'Gobblers', her best friend Roger vanishes.
Director: Chris Weitz
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Dakota Blue Richards, Ben Walker, Freddie Highmore, Ian McKellen
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 3 Star)

15:10


King Solomon's Mines (Film) Film icon PG certificate
Richard Chamberlain plays Alan Quatermain in J Lee Thompson's adaptation of H Rider Haggard's classic adventure novel. Quatermain, a fortune hunter, is engaged by Jesse Huston to find her archaeologist father, who is being held by the villainous Dogati and Colonel Bockner, who want his map of the legendary diamond mines of King Solomon. Freeing the professor, Alan and Jesse set off in a desperate race to find the mines ahead of the evil German and his allies. Edited for content.
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, John Rhys-Davies, Ken Gampu
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1985, PG, 2 Star)

17:05


Night at the Museum (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Ben Stiller stars in Shawn Levy's high-speed comedy as Larry Daley, a dreaming slacker who is pressured by his ex-wife Erica to get a job as a night guard at New York's Museum of Natural History. What he doesn't know is that the exhibits come to life at night. He soon finds himself being chased by a T-Rex skeleton, trying to stop a miniature Roman general, Octavius, and an equally diminutive cowboy from fighting, and attempting to prevent Atilla the Hun running amok. Larry has to develop problem-solving skills, fast. The film is blessed with special effects by Jim Rygiel and a strong cast that also includes Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams and Mickey Rooney.
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, PG, 3 Star)

19:15


Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
In Tim Story's sequel to the foursome's first adventure, the superheroes are suffering from very human problems. The Thing finds it hard to believe that Alicia wants him for himself rather than out of pity; Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman are having second thoughts about their wedding; and Human Torch is having relationship problems of his own. But when mysterious, huge craters start appearing around the world, the authorities call on the Four's help. The vast indentations are being caused by the other-worldly Silver Surfer, precursor of the planet-destroying Galactus. Can the Four stop him in time, as well as preventing Victor von Doom from stealing the Surfer's secrets for his own evil ends? Edited for content.
Director: Tim Story
Starring: Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans, Michael Chiklis, Julian McMahon, Kerry Washington
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


Dogma (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Bethany Sloane works at an abortion clinic where she is approached by the angel Metatron. He tells her that, as the last living descendent of Christ, she's the only one who can stop the fallen angels Bartleby and Loki from ending all life on Earth. Accompanied by heavenly assistants Jay and Silent Bob, she sets out on a mission to stop them. Kevin Smith's controversial satire, a fascinating mix of themes and characters from his earlier films, offers an interesting theological look at his normal New Jersey-set-and-peopled milieu.
Director: Kevin Smith
Starring: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Jason Mewes, Chris Rock, Alan Rickman
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1999, 15, 3 Star)

23:25


Evil Dead II (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
Not so much a sequel as a reprise of the original, Evil Dead II sees Ash, the survivor from the Tennessee wood cabin in The Evil Dead, inadvertently unleashing the spirits of the dead in a remote wood cabin in Michigan after reciting 'Necronomekon - The Book of the Dead'. And that's when the plot sickens: an army of decomposing dead people and evil spirits kill Ash's girlfriend and then spend the rest of the night trying to ensure that Ash and a group of new arrivals to the cabin - including Anne, who may have the solution to the problem - will all be dead by dawn.
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie DePaiva, Ted Raimi, Denise Bixler
(Subtitles, 1987, 18, 5 Star)

01:05


Micmacs (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Dany Boon stars in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's 21st-century steampunk revenge comedy. You've got to feel for poor Bazil: his French Foreign Legion father was killed by a landmine and now, years after that tragedy, he's just been shot. He survives the stray bullet, but the projectile remains embedded in his head; it could kill him at any moment, but it's too dangerous to remove. As if that wasn't bad enough, he then loses his job and his home. This dark maelstrom's sole silver lining is the odd bunch of junkyard dwellers - including a human cannonball, a contortionist and the builder of Scrapheap Challenge-style fantastical creations - who take him in. Then Bazil discovers the arms manufacturers responsible for his situation are based on opposite sides of the same Parisian street. A plan for revenge is hatched and the band of idiosyncratically gifted misfits set out to wreak havoc on the two companies... Also starring Andr? Dussollier and Dominique Pinon.
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau, Julie Ferrier
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, Audio Described, 2009, 12, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


The Violent Men (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Based on the Donald Hamilton novel Smokey Valley, Rudolph Mat?'s Cold War western stars Glenn Ford as a smallholder who stands alone against the brutal tactics of a tyrannical rancher's plans for expansion. Made in the aftermath of Senator McCarthy's Hollywood witch-hunts, the film is a thinly-veiled allegory of America's stance against communism.
Director: Rudolph Maté
Starring: Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne Foster, Brian Keith, May Wynn
(Subtitles, 1955, 15, 3 Star)

13:00


Stardust (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Matthew Vaughn's delightful family fantasy starring Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller and Claire Danes. The village of Wall nestles alongside a mysterious wall that must not be crossed. But when Tristan promises to bring his beloved Victoria a star that has fallen on the other side of the divide, he finds himself caught up in a mystical world. Four treacherous sons also seek the star to gain their dying father's throne, as do three evil witches. When the star takes the human form of Yvaine, Tristan sets out to take her to Victoria and, along the way, they face deadly enemies and make unlikely allies.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sienna Miller, Robert de Niro, Mark Strong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 4 Star)

15:25


Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (Film) Film icon U certificate
After the success of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Rick Moranis returns as scientist Wayne Szalinski in Randal Klesier's family comedy. A multinational conglomerate has employed Wayne to develop a process that can rapidly accelerate growth. But when one of his experiments goes wrong, his two-year-old son Adam grows to Godzilla proportions and finds himself in the biggest playground in the world: Las Vegas.
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri, Daniel Shalikar, Joshua Shalikar, Lloyd Bridges
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1992, U, 2 Star)

17:10


The Truman Show (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Satire on the intrusive nature of television in which a man's apparently idyllic lifestyle is turned on its head when he discovers the shocking truth about his perfect home town and the people who live there. Unaware that he is the subject of a reality TV show in which his whole life has been an orchestrated drama, the young man - and his addicted viewers - are unprepared for the repercussions when he discovers the truth.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Brian Delate
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, PG, 4 Star)

19:15


Post Grad (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Working at her dad's luggage store wasn't what Ryden had in mind for her first job. But with her well-intentioned life plan going astray immediately after graduation - her fiercest rival got the job as assistant editor in a Los Angeles publishing house - she moves back home for a new start. Her family welcomes her return, but will their eccentricities get in the way of her dreams? And with Ryden spending more time with her sexy Brazilian neighbour, will long-time best friend Adam decide to take the offer of a place at law school on the other side of the country? Also starring Jane Lynch and Carol Burnett. Written by Kelly Fremon and directed by Vicky Jenson. Edited for content.
Director: Vicky Jenson
Starring: Alexis Bledel, Zach Gilford, Michael Keaton, Jane Lynch, Bobby Coleman, Carol Burnett
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


Coming to America (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Romantic comedy drama. It is the 21st birthday of Prince Akeem of Zamunda, Africa, and he is to marry a woman he has never seen before. Now the prince breaks with tradition and travels to New York to look for the love of his life.
Director: John Landis
Starring: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, James Earl Jones, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Shari Headley
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1988, 15, 3 Star)

23:15


Sixteen Candles (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Molly Ringwald stars in this memorable teen comedy, which marked John Hughes's directorial debut. Samantha Baker wakes up on the morning of her 16th birthday disappointed to find she looks no different to how she did yesterday. Even so, it's her birthday, so at least her family and friends will spoil her rotten, right? Sadly not, for it's also the eve of her elder sister's wedding and, amid all the preparations for that big event, her family have clean forgotten about Samantha's own special day. And things are even worse at school, where the guy she has a crush on doesn't even seem to know she exists, which unfortunately can't be said of the Geek, who is pursuing her with a passion she most definitely does not return... As well as providing the perfect springboard for Ringwald's career, Sixteen Candles also brought Hughes praise for his keen observation of teen language and emotions, which he would put to further good effect in The Breakfast Club and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Justin Henry, Michael Schoeffling, Haviland Morris, Gedde Watanabe, Anthony Michael Hall
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1984, 15, 3 Star)

01:10


No Escape (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Martin Campbell's futuristic thriller stars Ray Liotta as former Marine special operations Captain JT Robbins. Convicted of killing a rogue superior officer, he is sent to the ultra-high-security prison island of Absolom, where the dregs of the prison system are abandoned to fend for themselves. Surviving the murderous rites of the barbaric Outsiders, he joins the more civilised Insiders but refuses to commit to either group while he plans his escape from the island.
Director: Martin Campbell
Starring: Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Kevin Dillon, Kevin J. O'Connor, Don Henderson
(Subtitles, 1994, 15, 2 Star)

 

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11:00


A Town Like Alice (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Taut Second World War drama, starring Bafta-winners Virginia McKenna and Peter Finch. Jean Paget is among a group of women, trapped in Malaya by the invading Japanese forces, who are forced to walk hundreds of miles in search of food and shelter. But when Australian soldier Joe Harman sneaks food to them from his labour camp, there are terrible consequences.
Director: Jack Lee
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Kenji Takagi, Tran Van Khe, Jean Anderson, Marie Lohr
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1956, PG, 4 Star)

13:30


The Tall T (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Ranch hand Pat Brennan assumes the leadership of a group of stagecoach passengers in the fall-out from a hold-up. Ruthless robber Usher, disgusted at the cowardice of a passenger who offers his new bride as ransom, accepts the terms and then shoots the man.
Director: Budd Boetticher
Starring: Randolph Scott, Richard Boone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Arthur Hunnicutt, Skip Homeier, Henry Silva
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 4 Star)

15:05


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)

16:50


Jesse James (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Henry King's classic western stars Tyrone Power as Missouri farmer Jesse James, who works the land with his brother Frank. When the railroad illegally forces them off their property, leading to the death of their mother, they swear vengeance. Robbing trains, they help fund the fight back against the railroads despite the best efforts of Marshall Will Wright. The ending sets the scenario for Fritz Lang's 1940 revenge-sequel, The Return of Frank James.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly
(Subtitles, 1939, U, 3 Star)

19:00


Bugsy Malone (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Alan Parker's Bafta-winning 1930s gangster pastiche, featuring an all-juvenile cast, stars Scott Baio as Bugsy Malone, a boxer recruited to Fat Sam's mob. Sam is in the middle of a battle with Dandy Dan, whose gang have a new splat gun that distributes immoblising custard pies. Bugsy's task is to get hold of these weapons, but thrown into the mix are his moll Blousey Brown and vampish singer Tallulah.
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Paul Murphy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1976, U, 3 Star)



21:00


Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Michael Cera stars in this unconventionally structured, inventive and comic paean to the alternate universe of manga and computer gaming. The movie is based on an acclaimed series of graphic novels by Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley, and is directed by British film-maker Edgar Wright, here making his Hollywood debut. Computer game fanatic Scott Pilgrim is the bass player with Toronto band Sex Bob-omb. He shares his flat with his slightly-out-of-control gay friend Wallace Wells, and courts a little controversy by ****** 17-year-old schoolgirl Knives Chau. However, theirs is a fairly platonic relationship, and one he's prepared to ditch the moment he sets eyes on the woman of his dreams: Ramona Flowers.
Director: Edgar Wright
Starring: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin, Anna Kendrick, Brandon Routh, Satya Bhabha
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2010, 12, 4 Star)

23:15


Snake in the Eagle's Shadow (Film) Film icon 18 certificate
Jackie Chan stars in this early martial arts action-comedy from first-time director Woo-ping Yuen. The story concerns the young Chien Fu, an orphan who has been raised at a kung fu school, where he is treated as little more than a dogsbody and practice target for the students. But Fu's life is set to change after helping an old peripatetic beggar. Unknown to Fu, the old man is actually Grandmaster Pai Cheng-Tien, one of the last custodians of the Snake Fist style of fighting; and in return for Fu's kindness, the old man teaches the youngster to how defend himself. However, the Grandmaster is actually in hiding from Lord Sheng Kuan and the Eagle Claw clan, who have sworn to wipe out all exponents of Snake Fist; and it's only a matter of time before they track him down...
Director: Yuen Woo Ping
Starring: Jackie Chan, Siu Tien Yuen, Jang Lee Hwang, Dean Shek, Roy Horan, Hark-On Fung
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In Cantonese with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 1978, 18)

01:10


Heartbeats (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
French Canadian writer-director wunderkind Xavier Dolan, whose 2009 debut feature I Killed My Mother scooped a zillion prizes at festivals around the world, returns with this tale of amour fou, strongly reminiscent in form and content of Tuffaut's nouvelle vague classic Jules et Jim. The narrative centres on two friends, gay man Francis and his straight friend Marie, and tells the story of their growing obsession with - and competitive lust for - an enticingly attractive blond called Nicolas. The stylish, stylised musing on love, requited and otherwise, is intercut with vox pop from a variety of people recalling the objects of their own intense passions. Heartbeats, like its predecessor, also picked up the Prix Regards Jeunes at the Cannes Film Festival.
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Monia Chokri, Niels Schneider, Xavier Dolan, Anne Dorval, Anne-Élisabeth Bossé, Olivier Morin
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

 

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Tuesday 14th January
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11:00


Carry on Sergeant (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
The first of the Carry On movies was inspired by RF Delderfield's novel The Bull Boys. William Hartnell plays Sergeant Grimshawe, the retiring army training sergeant faced with possibly the worst group of national service recruits ever to have been called up, including Charlie Sage, Horace Strong, Peter Golightly and James Bailey.
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: William Hartnell, Shirley Eaton, Eric Barker, Dora Bryan, Bill Owen, Charles Hawtrey
(Black and White, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

12:40


Operation Pacific (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Second World War drama starring John Wayne as a dedicated submarine commander fighting the Japanese in the Pacific and trying to build bridges with his ex-wife. Also starring Ward Bond, Philip Carey and Scott Forbes. Written.
Director: George Waggner
Starring: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey, Paul Picerni
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1951, U, 3 Star)

14:50


Donovan's Reef (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
John Ford directs John Wayne in this romantic comedy, which was their last film together. Wayne plays Michael Donovan who, with his ex-Navy pals Thomas Gilhooley and William Dedham, has ended up on a South Pacific island after the war. Trouble threatens their paradise when Dedham's estranged daughter Amelia arrives with news that he's heir to the family's shipping company; but he could lose the inheritance to her if he's seen to be living in an 'immoral' way. As Dedham is away, Donovan convinces her that he's responsible for Dedham's children and, while he maintains the subterfuge, the beauty of the island and its way of life get under Amelia's skin, as do Donovan's romantic overtures.
Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1963, U, 3 Star)

17:00


When Eight Bells Toll (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Etienne Perier's thriller stars Anthony Hopkins as Philip Calvert, a tough navy secret service agent called in to track down gold bullion smugglers. With Hunslett, he follows the trail to Greek tycoon Sir Anthony Skouras' yacht off the Scottish coast, but are his suspicions right? All-action, with double-crosses galore and Uncle Arthur providing light relief as Hopkins' controller, this is as much fun as any Bond film and slightly tougher.
Director: Étienne Périer
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave, Derek Bond
(Subtitles, 1971, 15, 3 Star)

18:50


The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Luc Besson brings French graphic novelist Jacques Tardi's series of period fantasy to life in this charmingly whimsical action-adventure set in the early 20th century.
Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Louise Bourgoin, Mathieu Amalric, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve, Jacky Nercessian, Philippe Nahon
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2010, 12, 3 Star)



21:00


True Lies (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis star in James Cameron's action comedy, a remake of the 1991 French film La Totale! - and very much in old school Bond territory. Helen Tasker feels her 15-year marriage to Harry has become as dull as his job in computer sales. However, she doesn't know that Harry's actually an undercover government operative who spends his days battling terrorists and spies rather than flogging IT gear. But Helen picks a bad time to spice up her life with an extramarital dalliance: when he drops in to her office unannounced, Harry overhears her making plans for a date with her colleague Simon. Harry's reaction is extraordinary, to say the least: in a sorely misguided attempt to give her the excitement she craves, he arranges for her to be kidnapped and sent on a 'secret assignment' as a spy posing as a prostitute. But his hare-brained scheme goes awry when his two worlds collide. His daughter is kidnapped by terrorists and only he and his wife can save her.
Director: James Cameron
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere, Art Malik
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1994, 15, 4 Star)

23:45


Working Girl (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Mike Nichols's comedy romance stars Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill, a thirtysomething secretary in a Wall Street firm with big ideas but, unfortunately, bigger hair and a little-girl voice, which blinds everyone to her talents... Until she finds out that her boss Katharine Parker is planning to steal her ideas. With Parker sidelined by an accident, McGill takes her place and hooks up financially and emotionally with Jack Trainer, her opposite number in a firm that will make the deal work and earn not just the money but also the prestige she deserves.
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Philip Bosco
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1988, 15, 3 Star)

01:55


Little Miss Sunshine (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's double-Oscar-winning comedy stars Abigail Breslin as Olive Hoover, who wins a place at a beauty pageant in California. Because money is tight, her family have to undertake the 700-mile journey by camper van. It's probably fair to describe the Hoover clan as dysfunctional: father Richard is a de-motivated motivational speaker; mother Sheryl has her hands full holding the family together; Grandpa has been thrown out of his retirement home for taking heroin; there's suicidal Proust scholar Uncle Frank; and Olive's brother Dwayne is a Nietzsche-worshipping teen who's chosen mutism as a way of coping with his pain. As they hit the road, the mix of feel-good fun and mordant black humour combine with a stellar cast for this indie movie delight.
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Toni Collette, Steve Carell
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 4 Star)

 

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11:00


Cry 'Havoc' (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Richard Thorpe's World War II drama, set on the Pacific island of Bataan, tells the story of a group of women who volunteer to nurse the wounded GIs holding out against the invading Japanese troops. Led by veteran nurses Mary Smith and Alice Marsh, the disparate group, including stripper Grace Lambert, fashion writer Connie Booth and southern belle Nydia Joyce, become battle hardened as the casualties flood in but have to make a difficult decision as the Japanese close in on the hospital.
Director: Richard Thorpe
Starring: Margaret Sullavan, Ann Sothern, Joan Blondell, Fay Bainter, Marsha Hunt, Ella Raines
(Black and White, Subtitles, Signed, 1943, PG, 4 Star)

12:55


Guadalcanal Diary (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Lewis Seiler's powerful and exciting Second World War propaganda action-drama follows US Marines as they make advances during the war in the Pacific, driving back the Japanese.
Director: Lewis Seiler
Starring: Preston Foster, Lloyd Nolan, William Bendix, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn, Richard Jaeckel
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1943, PG, 3 Star)

14:45


Kidnapped (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Following a bloody defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, naive young David Balfour is cheated of his inheritance by his avaricious Uncle Ebenezer. Kidnapped to be sold into slavery by Captain Hoseason, Balfour meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck aboard the slave ship. After the vessel runs aground, the pair are thrown into a succession of adventures that lead them to Edinburgh and a fight for justice. Based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Gordon Jackson, Vivien Heilbron
(Subtitles, 1971, U, 3 Star)

16:50


One Million Years B.C. (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Director Don Chaffey's reunion with special effects supremo the late Ray Harryhausen created a prehistoric world, rife with earthquakes and dinosaurs - and, of course, Raquel Welch in her famous fur bikini. It's a world that man doesn't quite yet rule. An inhospitable landscape is populated by two tribes: the Rock People and the Shell People. When, following a fight with his father, Tumak is banished from the Rock People, he wanders as an outcast, battling roving dinosaurs and other hardships before teaming up with Loana to head off into the sunset and face new hazards.
Director: Don Chaffey
Starring: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick, Jean Wladon
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)

18:50


Night at the Museum (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Ben Stiller stars in Shawn Levy's high-speed comedy as Larry Daley, a dreaming slacker who is pressured by his ex-wife Erica to get a job as a night guard at New York's Museum of Natural History. What he doesn't know is that the exhibits come to life at night. He soon finds himself being chased by a T-Rex skeleton, trying to stop a miniature Roman general, Octavius, and an equally diminutive cowboy from fighting, and attempting to prevent Atilla the Hun running amok. Larry has to develop problem-solving skills, fast. The film is blessed with special effects by Jim Rygiel and a strong cast that also includes Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams and Mickey Rooney.
Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Bill Cobbs, Jake Cherry
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, PG, 3 Star)



21:00


District 13: Ultimatum (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Writer-producer Luc Besson's Parkour action-adventure sequel, this time with director Patrick Alessandrin at the helm, again features sequence after sequence of stunning set-pieces in which the principal actors jump, bounce and seemingly fly over and around various architectural obstacles. Three years have gone by since Leïto and Damien ended gangster Taha Bemamud's stranglehold over their walled-off district, and also prevented the French authorities from detonating a massive bomb there. But that victory only served to create a power vacuum, which five violent factions have been attempting to fill ever since. Now police captain Damien has fallen foul of the area's drug dealers and has been framed for infractions he didn't commit. Meanwhile, local resident Leïto has discovered that the authorities and city developers are in cahoots, with plans to level the entire troublesome neighbourhood and build luxury apartments over the lot.
Director: Patrick Alessandrin
Starring: David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli, Philippe Torreton, Daniel Duval, Elodie Yung, MC Jean Gab'1
(Subtitles, Subtitled, In French with English Subtitles, Widescreen, 2009, 15, 3 Star)

22:55


The Last Temptation of Christ (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 18 certificate
Oscar-nominated director Martin Scorsese's brilliant, controversial and unorthodox film about the life of Christ. Willem Dafoe stars as Christ, with Harvey Keitel as Judas, Barbara Hershey as Mary Magdalene, Harry Dean Stanton as Paul, David Bowie as Pontius Pilate and Verna Bloom as Mary. Passed uncut, it created a furore, with the Catholic church and some elements of the press calling for it to be banned and some cinemas screening it were the subject of vociferous demonstrations. This screening, the first on Film4, is scheduled to tie in with the release of the director's latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street. Scorsese's The Departed and The King of Comedy also play on Film4 tomorrow night.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Paul Greco, Steve Shill, Verna Bloom, Barbara Hershey
(Premiere, Subtitles, 1988, 18, 4 Star)

02:05


The Breed (Film) Film icon 15 certificate
Nicholas Mastandrea's chiller begins with a bunch of teenagers landing by seaplane at a deserted island, ready for a party weekend. But then from the woods comes a chilling howl. Slowly, the group, led by Nicki, realise that they are being hunted by a pack of genetically modified, highly intelligent super dogs that have escaped from a training establishment on the other side of the island. And the hounds haven't eaten for a while.
Director: Nicholas Mastandrea
Starring: Michelle Rodriguez, Oliver Hudson, Taryn Manning, Eric Lively, Hill Harper, Nick Boraine
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 15, 2 Star)

 

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Thursday 16th January
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11:00


Le Quattro Volte (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Michelangelo Frammartino's quietly mesmeric drama sees the turning of the seasons and the cycle of life through the eyes of an ageing, ailing Calabrian shepherd. The setting is the fields and countryside around an ancient southern Italian village, beautifully captured by cinematographer Andrea Locatelli. And sharing equal billing with the work's near-silent central human protagonist are the goats of the flock he is nominally in charge of, and the man's mischievously intelligent sheep dog. The story also incorporates sections dedicated to a lost kid goat, a felled tree and a charcoal kiln. It's a simple tale that unfolds slowly, with ravishing beauty, but it also leaves the viewer with plenty to think about.
Director: Michelangelo Frammartino
Starring: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Italian with English Subtitles, 2010, U, 4 Star)

12:50


Genevieve (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Henry Cornelius's very British comedy stars John Gregson and Dinah Sheridan as Alan and Wendy McKim, while Kenneth More and Kay Kendall play Ambrose Cleverhouse and Rosalind Peters. The two men are classic car fanatics and, after completing the London-to-Brighton race, decide to make the return leg a race too. As the men get more competitive and the women more despairing, there are laughs galore, counterpointed by Larry Adler's harmonica score.
Director: Henry Cornelius
Starring: Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall, Kenneth More, Geoffrey Keen, Reginald Beckwith
(Subtitles, Signed, 1953, U, 4 Star)

14:35


Gideon of Scotland Yard (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Legendary director John Ford crosses the Atlantic for this film in which the eponymous Inspector Gideon faces outrage and danger in his quest to bring London's criminals to justice. A comic tone offsets the drama, with an occasional sense of menace hinting at Ford's mastery of the medium.
Director: John Ford
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Cyril Cusack, Andrea Aureli, James Hayter, Ronald Howard
(Subtitles, Black and White, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

16:25


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

18:50


Footloose (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Herbert Ross's classic feel-good musical romance stars Kevin Bacon as Ren McCormack, a teenager who moves from Chicago to a small town where, to his horror, he discovers rock music and dancing are outlawed at the behest of preacher Shaw Moore, who blames the death of his daughter on the Devil's music. And to complicate matters, Ren falls for Moore's surviving daughter Ariel, who is not as innocent as she seems. As Ren tries to persuade Moore that rock music isn't the root of all evil, a confrontation with both his daughter and the more bigoted members of his congregation give him food for thought. Edited for content.
Director: Herbert Ross
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest
(Subtitles, 1984, 15, 3 Star)



21:00


Fair Game (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Naomi Watts and Sean Penn star in this fact-based political thriller from director Doug Liman. Married couple Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson came to the world's attention in 2003, when she was outed by the Washington Post as a CIA operative. Subsequent high-level investigations and revelations revealed that Plame's cover had been blown in a dirty tricks campaign, organised from within the government, which badly backfired. Liman's film recounts how Wilson, a former diplomat who had previously stood up to Saddam Hussein, was sent by the US government to Niger to ascertain whether the African country was selling nuclear materials to Iraq - and how the political spin placed on his report was to spark a notorious scandal; it also, of course, tracks how events nightmarishly unfolded for Plame, as well as the enormous stress it placed on the Plame/Wilson marriage.
Director: Doug Liman
Starring: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Ty Burrell, Jessica Hecht, Norbert Leo Butz, Anand Tiwari
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 12, 3 Star)

23:05


The Departed (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
After five previous nominations, director Martin Scorsese finally picked up the best director Oscar for this thriller, based on Alan Mak and Andrew Lau's Infernal Affairs. Matt Damon plays Colin Sullivan, who's spotted as a kid by gangster Frank Costello, and groomed to become a cop, providing Frank's eyes and ears inside the force. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Billy Costigan, who comes from a family with criminal connections but joins the police force, and is sent undercover into Costello's gang. Both sides know they have an informer in their midst and both use their man to try and uncover the identity of the other. As each gets closer to their target, the tension on both sides rises. Screened to mark the release of the director's latest movie, The Wolf of Wall Street.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 18, 5 Star)

01:55


The King of Comedy (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Martin Scorsese's study of star worship steers a successful path between comedy and pathos, with Robert De Niro as an obsessive would-be comedian who engineers the bizarre kidnap of chat show host Jerry Lewis to further his career. With Sandra Bernhardt and Diahnne Abbott. Screened to mark the release of the director's latest film, The Wolf of Wall Street.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Robert de Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott, Sandra Bernhard, Shelley Hack, Ed Herlihy
(Subtitles, 1983, PG, 4 Star)

 

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Friday 17th January
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11:00


When Eight Bells Toll (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Etienne Perier's thriller stars Anthony Hopkins as Philip Calvert, a tough navy secret service agent called in to track down gold bullion smugglers. With Hunslett, he follows the trail to Greek tycoon Sir Anthony Skouras' yacht off the Scottish coast, but are his suspicions right? All-action, with double-crosses galore and Uncle Arthur providing light relief as Hopkins' controller, this is as much fun as any Bond film and slightly tougher.
Director: Étienne Périer
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon, Jack Hawkins, Corin Redgrave, Derek Bond
(Subtitles, 1971, 15, 3 Star)

12:50


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

14:30


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

16:45


Mogambo (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
John Ford's adventure film stars Clark Gable as Victor Marswell, a big game hunter in Kenya. His troubles begin when former showgirl Eloise Kelly shows up, expecting to meet her rich future husband, only to find he's ditched her. While waiting for the next boat back, she and Victor become close, until English anthropologist Donald Nordley and his prim wife Linda arrive. With the two women vying for his attentions, the macho Victor leads them all on an expedition to both help Nordley's studies and Kelly's escape from Kenya by air - but there is still a steamy love triangle to be played out.
Director: John Ford
Starring: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Philip Stainton, Eric Pohlmann
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Signed, 1953, PG, 3 Star)

19:00


The Truman Show (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Satire on the intrusive nature of television in which a man's apparently idyllic lifestyle is turned on its head when he discovers the shocking truth about his perfect home town and the people who live there. Unaware that he is the subject of a reality TV show in which his whole life has been an orchestrated drama, the young man - and his addicted viewers - are unprepared for the repercussions when he discovers the truth.
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, Brian Delate
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1998, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


The Reef (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Australian horror. A group of friends on a sailing holiday are dumped in the water when their boat capsizes after it crashes into a reef. Unfortunately they're in shark-populated waters and there's a very hungry Great White in the vicinity. The friends are faced with a terrifying choice: stay on board with little hope of rescue or swim 12 miles to the nearest island. Director Andrew Traucki, who was also behind the camera for acclaimed monster hit Black Water, manages the horror well as the pulse-pounding, visually stunning thriller maintains its bite right to the very end.
Director: Andrew Traucki
Starring: Damian Walshe-Howling, Gyton Grantley, Adrienne Pickering, Zoe Naylor, Kieran Darcy-Smith, Mark Simpson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

22:40


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

00:45


Kaboom (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Written and directed by Gregg Araki, this sci-fi comedy-drama follows Smith and his best friend Stella through their brightly coloured sexual adventures at a Southern California university. Stella's lover Lorelei's supernatural powers eventually turn scary, and Smith begins to see characters from his dreams at parties. As well as spending time with adventuress London, his frequent bedfellow, Smith lusts after his hunky, clothing-optional roommate Thor. The drama intensifies as animal-masked people begin to pursue several of the characters, and Smith learns that a nuclear explosion is imminent. Jumping between sex comedy, murder mystery and apocalyptic sci-fi drama, Kaboom won Cannes' first-ever Queer Palm for its contribution to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender issues.
Director: Gregg Araki
Starring: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida, Juno Temple, Andy Fischer-Price
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

02:30


The Exiles (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 12 certificate
Director Kent MacKenzie's slice of very low-budget, US independent filmmaking looks at life in the margins of the American dream. His quasi-documentary, beautifully shot in black and white, focuses on a group of young Native Americans who've abandoned their Indian reservation for the Los Angeles slum of Bunker Hill. Yvonne Williams and Homer Nish take the lead roles as a husband and wife, while Tommy Reynolds plays one of Homer's friends. The movie opens with the camera following Yvonne traversing an open-air market, it trails her to her cramped home, where Homer's friends are introduced, then follows them all through an evening's carousing in town, finishing with a till-dawn traditional drumming ceremony/jam session up in the hills.
Director: Kent MacKenzie
Starring: Yvonne Williams, Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds, Ann Amiador, Ned Casey, Mary Donahue
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1961, 12, 4 Star)

 

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Saturday 18th January
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11:00


One Million Years B.C. (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Director Don Chaffey's reunion with special effects supremo the late Ray Harryhausen created a prehistoric world, rife with earthquakes and dinosaurs - and, of course, Raquel Welch in her famous fur bikini. It's a world that man doesn't quite yet rule. An inhospitable landscape is populated by two tribes: the Rock People and the Shell People. When, following a fight with his father, Tumak is banished from the Rock People, he wanders as an outcast, battling roving dinosaurs and other hardships before teaming up with Loana to head off into the sunset and face new hazards.
Director: Don Chaffey
Starring: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert Brown, Martine Beswick, Jean Wladon
(Subtitles, 1966, PG, 3 Star)

13:00


Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (Film) Film icon U certificate
After the success of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Rick Moranis returns as scientist Wayne Szalinski in Randal Klesier's family comedy. A multinational conglomerate has employed Wayne to develop a process that can rapidly accelerate growth. But when one of his experiments goes wrong, his two-year-old son Adam grows to Godzilla proportions and finds himself in the biggest playground in the world: Las Vegas.
Director: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri, Daniel Shalikar, Joshua Shalikar, Lloyd Bridges
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1992, U, 2 Star)

14:45


Bugsy Malone (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Alan Parker's Bafta-winning 1930s gangster pastiche, featuring an all-juvenile cast, stars Scott Baio as Bugsy Malone, a boxer recruited to Fat Sam's mob. Sam is in the middle of a battle with Dandy Dan, whose gang have a new splat gun that distributes immoblising custard pies. Bugsy's task is to get hold of these weapons, but thrown into the mix are his moll Blousey Brown and vampish singer Tallulah.
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Paul Murphy
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1976, U, 3 Star)

16:35


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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Director: Colors Creative Team
Starring: TBC, Erin Karpluk, Seth Green, Keir Gilchrist
(PG)

18:35


Stardust (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Matthew Vaughn's delightful family fantasy starring Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller and Claire Danes. The village of Wall nestles alongside a mysterious wall that must not be crossed. But when Tristan promises to bring his beloved Victoria a star that has fallen on the other side of the divide, he finds himself caught up in a mystical world. Four treacherous sons also seek the star to gain their dying father's throne, as do three evil witches. When the star takes the human form of Yvaine, Tristan sets out to take her to Victoria and, along the way, they face deadly enemies and make unlikely allies.
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sienna Miller, Robert de Niro, Mark Strong
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, PG, 4 Star)



21:00


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

23:15


Snakes on a Plane (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
The film that does what it says on the tin. Samuel L Jackson plays Neville Flynn, an FBI agent escorting Sean Jones, a witness to a gangland slaying, from Hawaii to Los Angeles. However, gangster Eddie Kim has secreted crates of venomous serpents in the cargo hold and when they're released, all hell breaks loose. The film earned a reputation for the inclusion of plot lines from blogging fans, including one now infamous line. Despite the novel approach to its production, David R Ellis's thriller is surprisingly well-acted and tense, with both Julianna Margulies as flight attendant Claire Miller and David Koechner as co-pilot Rick receiving a fair share of the cracking dialogue.
Director: David R. Ellis
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Rachel Blanchard, Flex Alexander, Kenan Thompson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2006, 15, 3 Star)

 

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Sunday 19th January
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11:00


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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Director: Colors Creative Team
Starring: TBC, Erin Karpluk, Seth Green, Keir Gilchrist
(PG)

13:00


New in Town (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr star in this romantic comedy from Danish director Jonas Elmer. Ambitous food company executive Lucy Hill is in two minds when she's assigned to 'streamline' an underperforming factory in snowbound Minnesota. On the one hand it offers the opportunity for another promotion, on the other she'll have to abandon her beloved Miami. But ambition wins out, and it's not long before she's in New Ulm, where she gets a frosty reception from the locals, who unsurprisingly aren't happy that she's arrived to make a number of them redundant.
Starring: Renée Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr., Siobhan Fallon, J.K. Simmons, Mike O'Brien, Frances Conroy
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2009, 12, 3 Star)

14:50


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

16:55


The Producers (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate

Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Estelle Winwood, Renée Taylor, Christopher Hewett
(Premiere, Widescreen, Subtitles, 1968, PG, 3 Star)

18:40


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



21:00


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

23:10


Macgruber (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Will Forte, Kristen Wiig and Val Kilmer star in this violent, risqu? action-movie spoof. It's an extended spin-off of a regular Saturday Night Live sketch that in turn pastiches the 1980s TV action series MacGyver. Our bumbling 'hero' is the bemulleted former special ops agent MacGruber, who has a sartorial taste all of his own and a general aversion to using weapons. Having to all purposes retired, he's dragged unwillingly from seclusion to thwart the dastardly Dieter von Cunth, a terrorist who has got his hands on a nuclear missile. But saving the world isn't MacGruber's main reason for taking on the mission: he has unfinished business with von Cunth, who was responsible for the death of his girlfriend; and he's also keen to work again with the foxy Vicki St Elmo.
Director: Jorma Taccone
Starring: Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Ryan Phillippe, Val Kilmer, Powers Boothe, Maya Rudolph
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2010, 15, 3 Star)

00:55


To be Announced (Film) Film icon PG certificate
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Director: Colors Creative Team
Starring: TBC, Erin Karpluk, Seth Green, Keir Gilchrist
(PG)

 

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Monday 20th January
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11:00


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

13:05


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

14:50


The Nutty Professor (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
In the comedy that he both wrote and directed, Jerry Lewis stars as Julius Kelp: a socially awkward, unkempt university science professor. Persona non grata with his colleagues for continually destroying his lab, and picked upon by the students, Professor Kelp creates a potion that physically transforms him into his polar opposite. Kelp's alter ego, Buddy Love, is suave, sophisticated and a big hit with the students, especially Stella Purdy, with whom Love becomes amorously entangled. But the price for the Professor's new-found popularity is an extraordinary arrogance, and a tendency for the effects of his potion to wear off at the most inopportune times. How will Love's new buddies react when Kelp's secret is out?
Director: Jerry Lewis
Starring: Stella Stevens, Del Moore, Kathleen Freeman, Med Flory
(Widescreen, 1963, PG, 3 Star)

16:55


I Wanna Hold Your Hand (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Beatlemania is rampant in 1964 America. Six ticketless teens head for New York in the hope of seeing the Fab Four live. Comedy from the Back To The Future team.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure, Susan Kendall Newman, Theresa Saldana, Wendie Jo Sperber
(Premiere, Widescreen, 1978, PG, 3 Star)

18:50


Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Science Fiction Series) PG certificate
Mike Hodges' film is a gloriously kitsch update of the 1930s comic strip and film series, starring Sam J Jones as the American football star Flash Gordon, who's transported with the beautiful Dale Arden by Dr Zarkov into the realm of the most evil ruler in the universe, the Emperor Ming. Only by uniting those under Ming's merciless rule to join his revolution can Flash save Earth from destruction. The unashamedly over-the-top Queen soundtrack is matched by Danilo Donati's effervescent production design, and the film also stars Brian Blessed as the chief of the Hawkmen, Timothy Dalton as the leader of the Treemen, and Ornella Muti as Ming's daughter, whose lascivious designs on Flash are just one of the challenges he must overcome if he's to end Ming's tyranny.
Starring: Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow
(Premiere, Black and White, 1940, PG)



21:00


Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Classic comedy from 80s teen comedy genre king John Hughes. Ferris Bueller and his best friend Cameron bunk off school in a classic red Ferrari, pursued by the irate principal.
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara, Jeffrey Jones, Jennifer Grey, Cindy Pickett
(Subtitles, Audio Described, 1986, 15, 4 Star)

23:05


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

01:10


Wedding Crashers (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 15 certificate
Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn star in David Dobkin's romantic comedy as John Beckwith and Jeremy Gray, two friends who've worked out that weddings are the ideal place to pick up women at their most vulnerable. They've turned wedding crashing into a fine art, governed by their list of 100 rules, but things start to go wrong. They crash the event of the year, a weekend-long celebration for the marriage of the daughter of William Cleary, Secretary of the Treasury and a possible candidate for the Presidency. But John makes the mistake of falling for the bride's sister Claire, while Jeremy has to fight off her clingy sister Gloria. And the longer the weekend goes on, the more likely it is that their cover will be blown.
Director: David Dobkin
Starring: Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, Rachel McAdams, Isla Fisher, Jane Seymour
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2005, 15, 3 Star)

 

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11:00


Gideon of Scotland Yard (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Legendary director John Ford crosses the Atlantic for this film in which the eponymous Inspector Gideon faces outrage and danger in his quest to bring London's criminals to justice. A comic tone offsets the drama, with an occasional sense of menace hinting at Ford's mastery of the medium.
Director: John Ford
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Dianne Foster, Cyril Cusack, Andrea Aureli, James Hayter, Ronald Howard
(Black and White, 1958, PG, 3 Star)

12:50


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14:50


Mogambo (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
John Ford's adventure film stars Clark Gable as Victor Marswell, a big-game hunter in Kenya. His troubles begin when former showgirl Eloise Kelly shows up, expecting to meet her rich future husband, only to find he's ditched her. While waiting for the next boat back, she and Victor become close, until English anthropologist Donald Nordley and his prim wife Linda arrive. With the two women vying for his attentions, the macho Victor leads them all on an expedition to both help Nordley's studies and Kelly's escape from Kenya by air - but there is still a steamy love triangle to be played out.
Director: John Ford
Starring: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Donald Sinden, Philip Stainton, Eric Pohlmann
(Widescreen, 1953, PG, 3 Star)

17:10


Kidnapped (Film) Film icon 3 star rating U certificate
Following a bloody defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746, naive young David Balfour is cheated of his inheritance by his avaricious Uncle Ebenezer. Kidnapped to be sold into slavery by Captain Hoseason, Balfour meets Jacobite rebel Alan Breck aboard the slave ship. After the vessel runs aground, the pair are thrown into a succession of adventures that lead them to Edinburgh and a fight for justice. Based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Director: Delbert Mann
Starring: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Gordon Jackson, Vivien Heilbron
(1971, U, 3 Star)

19:15


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



21:00


The Sentinel (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 12 certificate
Clark Johnson's thriller stars Michael Douglas as Peter Garrison, a veteran Secret Service agent guarding President Ballentine but, to complicate matters, Ballentine's wife Sarah is having an affair with Garrison. After an agent is shot dead trying to reach Garrison, a mole tells him there's a traitor in the White House bent on assassinating the president. When investigator David Breckinridge learns of this, he screens everyone and only one agent fails the test - Garrison. Garrison, now on the run, has to find the crucial information that will clear his name, expose the traitor and save Ballentine's life as the president prepares to attend a crucial summit.
Director: Clark Johnson
Starring: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria Parker, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster, Kim Basinger
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2006, 12, 3 Star)

23:10


Bully (Film) Film icon 3 star rating 18 certificate
In Larry Clark's brilliant yet disturbing second feature, Marty Puccio, Lisa Connelly and Ali Willis are just three of a group of teenagers who gang up to murder bully Bobby Kent, who uses psychological violence as well as physical and sexual violence against them.
Director: Larry Clark
Starring: Brad Renfro, Rachel Miner, Bijou Phillips, Nick Stahl, Michael Pitt, Kelli Garner
(Subtitles, 2001, 18, 3 Star)

01:25


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11:00


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

12:40


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

15:05


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

16:50


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

18:50


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



21:00


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

23:15


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

01:20


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

 

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11:00


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

12:50


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

15:05


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

17:25


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

19:10


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



20:50


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

21:00


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

23:10


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

 

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11:00


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

12:45


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

15:00


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

17:00


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

19:10


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



21:00


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

23:25


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

01:45


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