FOTV – Saturday 1404 to Friday 2004
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Just a few films you may find of interest (rated * to ****)
Saturday 1404
*** BRASSED OFF (UK 1996) C14, 2220-0030; Pete Postlethwaite, Tara
Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Philip Jackson, Stephen Tompkinson; This is
a rare phenomenon in British commercial filmmaking: after an unsure
start, it hangs its anti-Tory (and particularly anti-Thatcher)
politics out for all to see and hear – and definitely not for anyone
to disagree with. The late PP gives one of his greatest performances,
as miners at a threatened Yorkshire pit nevertheless practise for a
brass band competition.
Sunday 1504
*** BRIGHTON ROCK (UK 1947) C15, 1100-1300; Richard Attenborough,
Hermione Baddeley, Carol Marsh; Original version,
*** WALKABOUT (UK/Austral 1971) C9, 2100-2235; Jenny Agutter, David
Gumpilil, Lucien John; The strikingly beautiful photography of Nicolas
Roeg (who also directed) is the star of this unusual film based on a
novel by James Vance Marshall, in which 2 English schoolchildren are
stranded in the Australian bush and meet an aborogine on his
'walkabout'. Every shot is magnificently composed, and one can almost
breathe the outback air as a result.
**½ THE PIANO (Austral 1993) C15, 2100-2320; Holly Hunter, Harvey
Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker; Very well (artistically)
directed piece in which, in the late-19th Century, a mute woman(HH)
leaves Scotland for an arranged marriage in New Zealand, taking her
daughter(AP) and her prized possession, a piano. Unfortunately the
performances, the music (Michael Nyman), and the excellent lighting
all add up to a 2-hour wallow in which little happens.
Monday 1604
***½ THE THIRD MAN (UK 1949) C15, 1640-1845; Joseph Cotton, Alida
Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles.
Tuesday 1704
**½ THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (UK 1937) C15, 1100-1230; John Laurie,
Finlay Currie, Niall MacGinnis; JL (Dad's Army's "Private Fraser")
stars in director Michael Powell's based-on-a-true-story description
of people on the Shetland isle of Foula deserting their homes for the
mainland.
*** WALKABOUT (UK/Austral 1971) C9, 0050-0230; Jenny Agutter, David
Gumpilil, Lucien John; see above.
Wednesday 1804
**½ CACHE / Hidden (French 2005) C15, 0105-0325; Juliette Binoche,
Daniel Auteuil.
Thursday 1904
*** THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN / Potemkin / Bromenosets Potemkin (USSR
1925) C15, 1100-1230; Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori
Alexandrov; Silent classic
***½ THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (UK 1951) C4, 1335-1510 (C13, 1435-1610);
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway; Top Ealing comedy in which AG and SH
melt gold bullion down into model Eiffel Towers and escape to France
with it. Unfortunately, a gift shop sells one to a little English
girl...
Friday 2004
***½ SIDEWAYS (US 2004) C15, 0115-0340; Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden
Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh; Wonderful story of 2 less-than-
perfect (but endearing) middle-aged men who take a tour of
California's vineyards prior to one (THC) getting married.
Saturday 1404
*** BRASSED OFF (UK 1996) C14, 2220-0030; Pete Postlethwaite, Tara
Fitzgerald, Ewan McGregor, Philip Jackson, Stephen Tompkinson; This is
a rare phenomenon in British commercial filmmaking: after an unsure
start, it hangs its anti-Tory (and particularly anti-Thatcher)
politics out for all to see and hear – and definitely not for anyone
to disagree with. The late PP gives one of his greatest performances,
as miners at a threatened Yorkshire pit nevertheless practise for a
brass band competition.
Sunday 1504
*** BRIGHTON ROCK (UK 1947) C15, 1100-1300; Richard Attenborough,
Hermione Baddeley, Carol Marsh; Original version,
*** WALKABOUT (UK/Austral 1971) C9, 2100-2235; Jenny Agutter, David
Gumpilil, Lucien John; The strikingly beautiful photography of Nicolas
Roeg (who also directed) is the star of this unusual film based on a
novel by James Vance Marshall, in which 2 English schoolchildren are
stranded in the Australian bush and meet an aborogine on his
'walkabout'. Every shot is magnificently composed, and one can almost
breathe the outback air as a result.
**½ THE PIANO (Austral 1993) C15, 2100-2320; Holly Hunter, Harvey
Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker; Very well (artistically)
directed piece in which, in the late-19th Century, a mute woman(HH)
leaves Scotland for an arranged marriage in New Zealand, taking her
daughter(AP) and her prized possession, a piano. Unfortunately the
performances, the music (Michael Nyman), and the excellent lighting
all add up to a 2-hour wallow in which little happens.
Monday 1604
***½ THE THIRD MAN (UK 1949) C15, 1640-1845; Joseph Cotton, Alida
Valli, Trevor Howard, Orson Welles.
Tuesday 1704
**½ THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (UK 1937) C15, 1100-1230; John Laurie,
Finlay Currie, Niall MacGinnis; JL (Dad's Army's "Private Fraser")
stars in director Michael Powell's based-on-a-true-story description
of people on the Shetland isle of Foula deserting their homes for the
mainland.
*** WALKABOUT (UK/Austral 1971) C9, 0050-0230; Jenny Agutter, David
Gumpilil, Lucien John; see above.
Wednesday 1804
**½ CACHE / Hidden (French 2005) C15, 0105-0325; Juliette Binoche,
Daniel Auteuil.
Thursday 1904
*** THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN / Potemkin / Bromenosets Potemkin (USSR
1925) C15, 1100-1230; Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori
Alexandrov; Silent classic
***½ THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (UK 1951) C4, 1335-1510 (C13, 1435-1610);
Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway; Top Ealing comedy in which AG and SH
melt gold bullion down into model Eiffel Towers and escape to France
with it. Unfortunately, a gift shop sells one to a little English
girl...
Friday 2004
***½ SIDEWAYS (US 2004) C15, 0115-0340; Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden
Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh; Wonderful story of 2 less-than-
perfect (but endearing) middle-aged men who take a tour of
California's vineyards prior to one (THC) getting married.
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