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Film4 Listings for today Sunday 18th July
Film4 Listings for Sunday 18th July
Listings: all day morning afternoon evening late night
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11:00
The Long Memory (Film)
Robert Hamer's gripping British thriller stars John Mills as Phillip Davidson, who is released from jail after serving 12 years for a murder he did not commit. Determined to seek revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment, he at first shuts himself away in a deserted barge on the Thames Estuary where he is kept under police surveillance and hounded by pressmen after a story. Only a sympathetic refugee girl, Ilse, is slowly able to get through to him and persuade him of the futility of trying to get back at the perjurers who sent him to jail.
Director: Robert Hamer
Starring: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Martin-Harvey
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1953, PG, 3 Star)
12:50
Inception Special (Entertainment)
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Christopher Nolan talk about their new science fiction thriller.
(Subtitles)
13:00
Akeelah and the Bee (Film)
Doug Atchison's charming drama stars Keke Palmer as Akeelah Anderson, a young girl attending a tough ghetto school in Los Angeles. When she sees the finals of the National Spelling Bee, she decides to enter the competition on the strength of her special skill at spelling. Despite her classmates derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya, thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr Joshua Larabee, she reaches the final. But when she meets her fellow competitors, she learns a lesson that will stand her in better stead in the future as she realises that coming first isn't everything in life... Edited for language.
Director: Doug Atchison
Starring: Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael Afable
(Widescreen, 2006, 12, 4 Star)
15:05
Smoky (Film)
Fred MacMurray plays Clint Barkley, a drifting cowhand given a job by rancher Jule Richards when he captures her escaped wild colt, Smoky, which he subsequently trains. But Clint's no-good brother Frank steals both the cattle and Smoky, only to meet a sticky end, and Smoky escapes into the vast plains. Barkley sets out on a quest to find Smoky, and after many adventures for both man and steed, they are reunited and both can return home to the ranch and Richards in Louis King's western adventure.
Director: Louis King
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Anne Baxter, Burl Ives, Bruce Cabot, Esther Dale, Roy Roberts
(Subtitles, 1946, U, 4 Star)
16:45
The River's Edge (Film)
Allan Dwan was one of the few directors who mastered the art of making B-movies look better than plot or budget allowed. In this thriller, Dwan's final film, Ray Milland plays Nardo Denning, a crook who needs to smuggle his cash into Mexico. His ticket over the border is his ex-girlfriend Margaret who is married to border guard Ben Cameron, but as the trio set out into the mountains and deserts, Cameron uses his knowledge of the territory to outwit the murderous Denning.
Director: Allan Dwan
Starring: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey Jr., Chubby Johnson, Byron Foulger
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 3 Star)
18:25
The Core (Film)
When the world is struck by extraordinary phenomena - Rome's Colosseum exploding, London's pigeons going berserk - it becomes apparent that the planet's core has stopped moving, causing electro-magnetic mayhem. The only hope lies in a crack team of scientists burrowing to the core and re-starting Earth's engine. But is the disaster natural or is there a more sinister explanation? Jon Amiel's science-fiction blockbuster eschews outer space for inner-space in this taut special-effects extravaganza. Edited for language.
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Christopher Shyer, Ray Galletti, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Eileen Pedde
(Subtitles, 2003, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
Drillbit Taylor (Film)
Steven Brill's comedy stars Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and Ian Roberts as Ryan, Wade, and Jim, high school students born to be bullied, in this instance by Filkins. Deciding to put an end to it, they advertise for a bodyguard but the only one who comes at a price they can afford is ex-Ranger and black ops specialist Drillbit Taylor. What they don't know is that he is homeless, has no military experience and just wants their money to fund a trip to Canada. He infiltrates the school posing as a supply teacher but as well as falling for the English teacher Lisa, he finds himself increasingly involved in his employers' plight and has to decide whether to stay and fight or cut and run.
Director: Steven Brill
Starring: Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile, Ian Roberts, Owen Wilson, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 12, 3 Star)
23:00
The Fly (Film)
Jeff Goldblum plays solitary scientist Seth Brundle in David Cronenberg's 80s classic horror movie. Seth is obsessed with matter-transfer, but finds his work is interrupted by science journalist Veronica Quaife. She becomes fascinated by his work and by him, but when she goads Seth to experiment on a life form, he chooses himself - and, unwittingly fuses his body cells with those of a fly, an insectoid companion... On emerging from his pod he finds that he is not the man he used to be.
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo
(Subtitles, 1986, 18, 5 Star)
00:50
Jackass: The Movie (Film)
Johnny Knoxville and his mad companions leap onto the big screen in Jeff Tremain's film. Expect the usual mad gross-out japes, from making snow cones out of urine to taking a dump in display toilets in bathroom outlets, from racing golf carts over hallowed greens to tightrope walking over alligators; nothing is too extreme. The very harmlessness of it all makes it less cruel and at times very, very funny.
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn, Jason Acuņa
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 18, 3 Star)
02:35
Inception Special (Entertainment)
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Christopher Nolan talk about their new science fiction thriller.
Listings: all day morning afternoon evening late night
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
11:00
The Long Memory (Film)
Robert Hamer's gripping British thriller stars John Mills as Phillip Davidson, who is released from jail after serving 12 years for a murder he did not commit. Determined to seek revenge on those responsible for his imprisonment, he at first shuts himself away in a deserted barge on the Thames Estuary where he is kept under police surveillance and hounded by pressmen after a story. Only a sympathetic refugee girl, Ilse, is slowly able to get through to him and persuade him of the futility of trying to get back at the perjurers who sent him to jail.
Director: Robert Hamer
Starring: John Mills, John McCallum, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Bergh, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Martin-Harvey
(Black and White, Subtitles, 1953, PG, 3 Star)
12:50
Inception Special (Entertainment)
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Christopher Nolan talk about their new science fiction thriller.
(Subtitles)
13:00
Akeelah and the Bee (Film)
Doug Atchison's charming drama stars Keke Palmer as Akeelah Anderson, a young girl attending a tough ghetto school in Los Angeles. When she sees the finals of the National Spelling Bee, she decides to enter the competition on the strength of her special skill at spelling. Despite her classmates derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya, thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr Joshua Larabee, she reaches the final. But when she meets her fellow competitors, she learns a lesson that will stand her in better stead in the future as she realises that coming first isn't everything in life... Edited for language.
Director: Doug Atchison
Starring: Keke Palmer, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sean Michael Afable
(Widescreen, 2006, 12, 4 Star)
15:05
Smoky (Film)
Fred MacMurray plays Clint Barkley, a drifting cowhand given a job by rancher Jule Richards when he captures her escaped wild colt, Smoky, which he subsequently trains. But Clint's no-good brother Frank steals both the cattle and Smoky, only to meet a sticky end, and Smoky escapes into the vast plains. Barkley sets out on a quest to find Smoky, and after many adventures for both man and steed, they are reunited and both can return home to the ranch and Richards in Louis King's western adventure.
Director: Louis King
Starring: Fred MacMurray, Anne Baxter, Burl Ives, Bruce Cabot, Esther Dale, Roy Roberts
(Subtitles, 1946, U, 4 Star)
16:45
The River's Edge (Film)
Allan Dwan was one of the few directors who mastered the art of making B-movies look better than plot or budget allowed. In this thriller, Dwan's final film, Ray Milland plays Nardo Denning, a crook who needs to smuggle his cash into Mexico. His ticket over the border is his ex-girlfriend Margaret who is married to border guard Ben Cameron, but as the trio set out into the mountains and deserts, Cameron uses his knowledge of the territory to outwit the murderous Denning.
Director: Allan Dwan
Starring: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey Jr., Chubby Johnson, Byron Foulger
(Subtitles, 1957, PG, 3 Star)
18:25
The Core (Film)
When the world is struck by extraordinary phenomena - Rome's Colosseum exploding, London's pigeons going berserk - it becomes apparent that the planet's core has stopped moving, causing electro-magnetic mayhem. The only hope lies in a crack team of scientists burrowing to the core and re-starting Earth's engine. But is the disaster natural or is there a more sinister explanation? Jon Amiel's science-fiction blockbuster eschews outer space for inner-space in this taut special-effects extravaganza. Edited for language.
Director: Jon Amiel
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Christopher Shyer, Ray Galletti, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Eileen Pedde
(Subtitles, 2003, 12, 3 Star)
21:00
Drillbit Taylor (Film)
Steven Brill's comedy stars Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and Ian Roberts as Ryan, Wade, and Jim, high school students born to be bullied, in this instance by Filkins. Deciding to put an end to it, they advertise for a bodyguard but the only one who comes at a price they can afford is ex-Ranger and black ops specialist Drillbit Taylor. What they don't know is that he is homeless, has no military experience and just wants their money to fund a trip to Canada. He infiltrates the school posing as a supply teacher but as well as falling for the English teacher Lisa, he finds himself increasingly involved in his employers' plight and has to decide whether to stay and fight or cut and run.
Director: Steven Brill
Starring: Nate Hartley, Troy Gentile, Ian Roberts, Owen Wilson, Casey Boersma, Dylan Boersma
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2008, 12, 3 Star)
23:00
The Fly (Film)
Jeff Goldblum plays solitary scientist Seth Brundle in David Cronenberg's 80s classic horror movie. Seth is obsessed with matter-transfer, but finds his work is interrupted by science journalist Veronica Quaife. She becomes fascinated by his work and by him, but when she goads Seth to experiment on a life form, he chooses himself - and, unwittingly fuses his body cells with those of a fly, an insectoid companion... On emerging from his pod he finds that he is not the man he used to be.
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis, John Getz, Joy Boushel, Leslie Carlson, George Chuvalo
(Subtitles, 1986, 18, 5 Star)
00:50
Jackass: The Movie (Film)
Johnny Knoxville and his mad companions leap onto the big screen in Jeff Tremain's film. Expect the usual mad gross-out japes, from making snow cones out of urine to taking a dump in display toilets in bathroom outlets, from racing golf carts over hallowed greens to tightrope walking over alligators; nothing is too extreme. The very harmlessness of it all makes it less cruel and at times very, very funny.
Director: Jeff Tremaine
Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Ryan Dunn, Jason Acuņa
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 2002, 18, 3 Star)
02:35
Inception Special (Entertainment)
Leonardo DiCaprio and director Christopher Nolan talk about their new science fiction thriller.