FOTV – Saturday 2605 to Friday 0106

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Just a few films you may find of interest (rated * to ****)

Saturday 2605
**½ THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO LITTLE (UK/US/German 1997) C15, 1655-1845;
Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Alfred Molina, Richard
Wilson; In London, BM is given an invitation to the "Theatre of Life",
which supposedly involves the participant in a murder.
**½ THE EDUKATORS / Die Fetten Jahre Sind Vorbei (German 2004) C4,
0200-0405 (C13, 0300-0505 i.e. Sunday); Daniel Brühl, Julia Jentsch,
Hanns Zischler; 2 young men call themselves 'The Edukators', and break
into expensive houses to rearrange furniture and warn the owners that
'their days are numbered'. (Subtitles.)

Sunday 2705
**½ VANITY FAIR (UK 2004) C10, 1310-1555; Reese Witherspoon, Romola
Garai, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent, Gabriel Byrne, James Purefoy, Bob
Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Natasha Little, Ruth Sheen,
Roger Lloyd Pack.
** THE ROAD (US 2009) C2EW, 2200-2340; C2S, 2225-0005; Viggo
Mortenson, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Guy
Pearce; In the future, VM and KS traipse wearily over a post-
apocalyptic US, occasionally finding signs of unfriendly life.
**½ TADPOLE (US 2002) C2E, 0040-0150; C2S, 0105-0215; Sigourney
Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth, John Ritter, Kate Mara; In Manhattan, a 15-year-
old boy fantasises about his stepmother(SW) but is seduced by her best
friend(BN). (Presumably edited.)
** KILLER OF SHEEP (US 1977) C15, 0225-0355; Henry Gayle Sanders,
Kaycee Moore, Angela Burnett, Jack Drummond; Made by students then at
UCLA, this monochrome cheapie is really a series of sequences set in
an L.A. ghetto. The ambience of the whole film is credible, but it's a
matter of taste as to whether you'll actually find it
interesting!

Wednesday 3005
*** PRIDE & PREJUDICE (UK 2005) C10, 2000-2230; Kiera Knightley,
Matthew McFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Pike,
Jena Malone, Kelly Reilly, Tom Hollander, Judi Dench.
*** ATONEMENT (UK/US 2007) C10, 2230-0050; Kiera Knightley, James
McAvoy, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave, Saoirse Ronan, Harriet Walter.
** LITTLE FISH (Austral 2006) C4, 0235-0420 (C13, 0335-0520 i.e.
Thursday); Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving, Noni Hazlehurst;
In a Sydney suburb, video-store owner CB tries to legitimately raise
the cash to open an internet café, but her junkie past haunts her.
(Sign language.)

Thursday 3105
** MEEK'S CUTOFF (US 2010) C15, 1100-1255; Michelle Williams, Bruce
Greenwood, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson.

Friday 0106
*** ODD MAN OUT (UK 1946) C2EWS, 1135-1330; James Mason, Robert
Newton, Robert Beatty, Kathleen Ryan; IRA gunman JM returns to his
Belfast gang after a prison spell, but is wounded during their next
raid and forced to take cover from the police.
*** ATONEMENT (UK/US 2007) C10, 2305-0120; see above.
** CRONOS (Mexican 1992) C15, 0040-0225; Federico Luppi, Ron Perlman,
Claudio Brook, Margarita Isabel.
***½ FRIDA (US/Mexican 2002) C2EWS, 2350-0145; Salma Hayek, Alfred
Molina, Valeria Golino, Mia Maestro, Geoffrey Rush; SH is perfect as
Frida Kahlo, perhaps Mexico's greatest artist.