Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
- colinr0380
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Very quiet next week with only a couple of items of note. BBC2 is showing the first two (of eight total) episodes of Dopesick at 10 p.m, with an impressive cast headed by Michael Keaton. Both of these episodes are also directed by Barry Levinson.
And after an otherwise fallow week, Film4 has a premiere with Jethica at 12:35 a.m. in the early hours of Saturday 4th May.
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In terms of repeats, nothing too notable although Film4 has a good run of late night repeats of films throughout the week with The Assistant at 1:55 a.m. on Sunday 28th, Wild Nights With Emily at 2:10 a.m. on Monday 29th, the 2021 French film Happening at 1:50 a.m. on Wednesday 1st May and the 2019 French film Les Miserables at 1:10 a.m. on Friday 3rd.
And after an otherwise fallow week, Film4 has a premiere with Jethica at 12:35 a.m. in the early hours of Saturday 4th May.
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In terms of repeats, nothing too notable although Film4 has a good run of late night repeats of films throughout the week with The Assistant at 1:55 a.m. on Sunday 28th, Wild Nights With Emily at 2:10 a.m. on Monday 29th, the 2021 French film Happening at 1:50 a.m. on Wednesday 1st May and the 2019 French film Les Miserables at 1:10 a.m. on Friday 3rd.
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Re: Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
City Lights (1931), Sat 4th May, Sky Arts.
Kill Your Friends, Sat 4th May, London Live. Or...
Red King, White Knight (1989 TVM), Sat 4th May, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 9th May.
The Mood Man, Sun 5th May, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Alibi Breaker (1937), Mon 6th May, Talking Pictures.
The PSI Factor, late Tue 7th May, Talking Pictures.
Dead Presidents, Fri 10th May, Film4.
Re: the late Michael Verhoeven - My Mother's Courage was apparently shown on 25/01/2005 on BBC2. As far as Killing Cars is concerned you'd need to go back to the second day of 1990 to find it on late-night ITV.
Kill Your Friends, Sat 4th May, London Live. Or...
Red King, White Knight (1989 TVM), Sat 4th May, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 9th May.
The Mood Man, Sun 5th May, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Alibi Breaker (1937), Mon 6th May, Talking Pictures.
The PSI Factor, late Tue 7th May, Talking Pictures.
Dead Presidents, Fri 10th May, Film4.
Re: the late Michael Verhoeven - My Mother's Courage was apparently shown on 25/01/2005 on BBC2. As far as Killing Cars is concerned you'd need to go back to the second day of 1990 to find it on late-night ITV.
- colinr0380
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Re: Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
A weird week. The single big premiere is M. Night Shyamalan's Old showing on Channel 4 at 9 p.m. on Saturday 4th. That clashes against BBC4 beginning a new 'world television' series with the first two episodes (of six total) of Romanian drama Spy/Master also at 9 p.m.
In TV series terms, Dopesick continues on BBC2 with episodes 3 and 4 from 10 p.m. on Sunday 5th (though its coming after the snooker, so expect considerable delays or outright cancellation). And in the most bizarre occurrence since the BBC picked up all five seasons of The Wire five years late and then blew through them all in one go, the BBC has picked up all nine seasons of the Meghan Markle-starring series Suits and is starting to show the first 2011 series on BBC1 in double bills of episodes at 10:40 p.m. on Friday 10th (plus the third episode immediately follows on BBC3 that evening too). This has been a bit controversial, with the boss of ITV complaining about the BBC buying up American shows, although I suppose the counter-argument would be to ask where ITV's bid for the show was for the last thirteen or so years?
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So that's it for new stuff. Film repeat-wise, jlnight has noted the big one of Dead Presidents on Film4 on Friday 10th at 11:10 p.m. - I can't remember the last time that one aired! (Hopefully it augurs well for an upgrade from the old Criterion Laserdisc! Hint, hint!). Which got qualified praise from Siskel and Ebert back in the day, but the kind of review with reservations that left me wanting to see the film for myself.
Repeat-wise, BBC4 is doing a lot of tributes to Alan Bennett as he is turning 90 on Thursday 9th. Sunday 5th has one of the more notable screenings, of Sunset Across The Bay from 1975 and directed by Stephen Frears, at 10 p.m., which is followed by a couple of classic episodes of his Talking Heads series with A Cream Cracker Under The Setee at 11:10 p.m. and Her Big Chance at 11:45 p.m., followed by a 2014 interview between Bennett and Nicholas Hytner at 12:20 a.m.
As exciting as Sunset Across The Bay is BBC4 beginning to show Bennett's three part 1995 series about Westminster Abbey from 8 p.m. on Monday 6th.
Then BBC4 devotes another night to Bennet on his 90th birthday itself with a 2009 Mark Lawson interview at 8 p.m, the inevitable repeat screening of The Lady In The Van film at 9 p.m. and then three more of the Talking Heads episodes with the also Maggie Smith starring A Bed Among The Lentils at 10:40 p.m., the Thora Hird starring Waiting For The Telegram at 11:30 p.m., and the Patricia Routledge starring Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet at Midnight.
And BBC4's 'archive television' strand on Wednesday 8th is showing the other John Le Carré series A Perfect Spy with an new introduction with Peter Egan at 10 p.m. followed at 10:15 p.m. by a triple bill of the first three episodes (of seven total, so the next four will probably turn up next Wednesday)
In TV series terms, Dopesick continues on BBC2 with episodes 3 and 4 from 10 p.m. on Sunday 5th (though its coming after the snooker, so expect considerable delays or outright cancellation). And in the most bizarre occurrence since the BBC picked up all five seasons of The Wire five years late and then blew through them all in one go, the BBC has picked up all nine seasons of the Meghan Markle-starring series Suits and is starting to show the first 2011 series on BBC1 in double bills of episodes at 10:40 p.m. on Friday 10th (plus the third episode immediately follows on BBC3 that evening too). This has been a bit controversial, with the boss of ITV complaining about the BBC buying up American shows, although I suppose the counter-argument would be to ask where ITV's bid for the show was for the last thirteen or so years?
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So that's it for new stuff. Film repeat-wise, jlnight has noted the big one of Dead Presidents on Film4 on Friday 10th at 11:10 p.m. - I can't remember the last time that one aired! (Hopefully it augurs well for an upgrade from the old Criterion Laserdisc! Hint, hint!). Which got qualified praise from Siskel and Ebert back in the day, but the kind of review with reservations that left me wanting to see the film for myself.
Repeat-wise, BBC4 is doing a lot of tributes to Alan Bennett as he is turning 90 on Thursday 9th. Sunday 5th has one of the more notable screenings, of Sunset Across The Bay from 1975 and directed by Stephen Frears, at 10 p.m., which is followed by a couple of classic episodes of his Talking Heads series with A Cream Cracker Under The Setee at 11:10 p.m. and Her Big Chance at 11:45 p.m., followed by a 2014 interview between Bennett and Nicholas Hytner at 12:20 a.m.
As exciting as Sunset Across The Bay is BBC4 beginning to show Bennett's three part 1995 series about Westminster Abbey from 8 p.m. on Monday 6th.
Then BBC4 devotes another night to Bennet on his 90th birthday itself with a 2009 Mark Lawson interview at 8 p.m, the inevitable repeat screening of The Lady In The Van film at 9 p.m. and then three more of the Talking Heads episodes with the also Maggie Smith starring A Bed Among The Lentils at 10:40 p.m., the Thora Hird starring Waiting For The Telegram at 11:30 p.m., and the Patricia Routledge starring Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet at Midnight.
And BBC4's 'archive television' strand on Wednesday 8th is showing the other John Le Carré series A Perfect Spy with an new introduction with Peter Egan at 10 p.m. followed at 10:15 p.m. by a triple bill of the first three episodes (of seven total, so the next four will probably turn up next Wednesday)
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Re: Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
William at the Circus (episodic version), Sat 11th May, Talking Pictures.
Modern Times (1936), Sat 11th May, Sky Arts.
Homeboy (1988), Sat 11th May, London Live. Or...
A Matter of Choice (1963), Sat 11th May, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 16th May.
York (1972), Sun 12th May, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
They Made Me a Fugitive, Wed 15th May, Legend. (recently on TPTV)
Blue Bayou (2021), Thu 16th May, Film4. Or...
Commandos (1968), Thu 16th May, Legend.
Tangled Evidence, late Thu 16th May, Talking Pictures.
A Violent Man (2022), Fri 17th May, Legend.
Modern Times (1936), Sat 11th May, Sky Arts.
Homeboy (1988), Sat 11th May, London Live. Or...
A Matter of Choice (1963), Sat 11th May, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 16th May.
York (1972), Sun 12th May, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
They Made Me a Fugitive, Wed 15th May, Legend. (recently on TPTV)
Blue Bayou (2021), Thu 16th May, Film4. Or...
Commandos (1968), Thu 16th May, Legend.
Tangled Evidence, late Thu 16th May, Talking Pictures.
A Violent Man (2022), Fri 17th May, Legend.
- colinr0380
- Joined: Mon Nov 08, 2004 4:30 pm
- Location: Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derbyshire, UK
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After a few fallow weeks there is an explosion of interesting stuff next week. In a counterprogramming move against the final of the Eurovision Song Contest over on BBC1 at 8 p.m., Channel 4's premiere of the weekend is Joe Carnahan's Copshop at 9 p.m. on Saturday 11th (a repeat of Carnahan's 2010 film version of The A-Team turns up on ITV4 at 8 p.m. on Wednesday 15th), which clashes up against Channel 5 showing another one of its "too hot for 2:15 p.m." TV movies with The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story at 10 p.m. (followed by a swift repeat of that Judd Nelson starring "Girl In A Basement" film from back in March straight after at 11:40 p.m., which is great since I had to forsake that one for recording Undergods on Film4 back then. Throw in a repeat of the An Invitation To Murder film at 8 p.m. to create a triple bill of films and that makes Channel 5 the surprising winner of the weekend!)
On Sunday 12th there is the third in the "Read" series (following Christopher Eccleston with Kes and Alex Kingston with Frankenstein) with Steve Pemberton doing an hour long reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day at 9 p.m., which is followed by a repeat of the 2021 profile of Ishiguro at 10 p.m. and a 2015 interview between Ishiguro and Mark Lawson at 11:20 p.m.
The big news of the week is that on Tuesday 14th BBC1 starts the second season of Tokyo Vice with a double bill of episodes 1 and 2 at 10:40 p.m., although that unfortunately clashes with BBC4's Storyville documentary of the week, Praying For Armageddon, at 10 p.m.
Film4's one premiere of the week is Blue Bayou at 9 p.m. on Thursday 16th. Which clashes against a repeat of the Dustin Hoffman directed film Quartet at 9 p.m. on BBC4, which gets regularly shown but however is more excitingly followed by a very rare showing of the 1986 documentary Tosca's Kiss at 10:30 p.m. - the Grey Gardens of Italian opera singers? I may have to forsake Blue Bayou in the hopes that it will be repeated again later in order to pick that one up.
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Repeat-wise, nothing too notable although it is amusing to note just how packed the evening of Saturday 11th is: aside from the three channels above BBC3 is repeating the first three episodes of that Suits series from 9 p.m.; BBC4 is also showing episodes 3 & 4 of Romanian drama Spy/Master at 9 p.m. ; BBC2 is showing Mr Holmes at 8 p.m.; ITV1 is showing the 2006 Casino Royale at 8 p.m.; ITV2 is showing the 2020 The Invisible Man film at 9 p.m.; ITV4 is showing Twister at 6.45 followed by Rise of the Planet of the Apes at 9 p.m.; and the 5Star channel has Jupiter Ascending at 5:25 p.m. followed by Kong: Skull Island at 9 p.m.
It's almost as if the Eurovision Song Contest drives the other channels crazy in trying to provide alternatives!
And Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? is showing on BBC2 at 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday 14th, thereby clashing with both Tokyo Vice and Praying For Armageddon!
On Sunday 12th there is the third in the "Read" series (following Christopher Eccleston with Kes and Alex Kingston with Frankenstein) with Steve Pemberton doing an hour long reading of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day at 9 p.m., which is followed by a repeat of the 2021 profile of Ishiguro at 10 p.m. and a 2015 interview between Ishiguro and Mark Lawson at 11:20 p.m.
The big news of the week is that on Tuesday 14th BBC1 starts the second season of Tokyo Vice with a double bill of episodes 1 and 2 at 10:40 p.m., although that unfortunately clashes with BBC4's Storyville documentary of the week, Praying For Armageddon, at 10 p.m.
Film4's one premiere of the week is Blue Bayou at 9 p.m. on Thursday 16th. Which clashes against a repeat of the Dustin Hoffman directed film Quartet at 9 p.m. on BBC4, which gets regularly shown but however is more excitingly followed by a very rare showing of the 1986 documentary Tosca's Kiss at 10:30 p.m. - the Grey Gardens of Italian opera singers? I may have to forsake Blue Bayou in the hopes that it will be repeated again later in order to pick that one up.
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Repeat-wise, nothing too notable although it is amusing to note just how packed the evening of Saturday 11th is: aside from the three channels above BBC3 is repeating the first three episodes of that Suits series from 9 p.m.; BBC4 is also showing episodes 3 & 4 of Romanian drama Spy/Master at 9 p.m. ; BBC2 is showing Mr Holmes at 8 p.m.; ITV1 is showing the 2006 Casino Royale at 8 p.m.; ITV2 is showing the 2020 The Invisible Man film at 9 p.m.; ITV4 is showing Twister at 6.45 followed by Rise of the Planet of the Apes at 9 p.m.; and the 5Star channel has Jupiter Ascending at 5:25 p.m. followed by Kong: Skull Island at 9 p.m.
It's almost as if the Eurovision Song Contest drives the other channels crazy in trying to provide alternatives!
And Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? is showing on BBC2 at 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday 14th, thereby clashing with both Tokyo Vice and Praying For Armageddon!
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Re: Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
A Woman of Paris (1923), Sat 18th May, Sky Arts.
Dog (2022), Sat 18th May, Channel 4. Or...
90 Minutes (2019), Sat 18th May, London Live. Or...
Notorious, Sat 18th May, Talking Pictures. (on before)
Reserved for Animals, Sun 19th May, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
The System, Sun 19th May, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 20th May. (last on London Live in 2016)
Traitor (1971 Play for Today), Wed 22nd May, BBC4.
Three Thousand Years of Longing, Fri 24th May, Film4.
A Banquet (2021), Fri 24th May, Film4. Or...
The Girl in a Swing, Fri 24th May, London Live.
Dog (2022), Sat 18th May, Channel 4. Or...
90 Minutes (2019), Sat 18th May, London Live. Or...
Notorious, Sat 18th May, Talking Pictures. (on before)
Reserved for Animals, Sun 19th May, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
The System, Sun 19th May, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 20th May. (last on London Live in 2016)
Traitor (1971 Play for Today), Wed 22nd May, BBC4.
Three Thousand Years of Longing, Fri 24th May, Film4.
A Banquet (2021), Fri 24th May, Film4. Or...
The Girl in a Swing, Fri 24th May, London Live.
- Mr. Deltoid
- Joined: Sat Feb 12, 2011 8:32 am
Re: Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
Finally, a rare chance to see Dennis Potter's Traitor. Been wishing to see that for years, but no off-air copies have been uploaded to the usual Internet channels (or if they have, they've been taken-down pretty f@cking quickly!).
- GaryC
- Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2008 3:56 pm
- Location: Aldershot, Hampshire, UK
Re: Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
Last on in 1987, during the BBC's Potter retrospective, and I missed it as well. It's preceded by the documentary on John Le Mesurier, It's All Been Rather Lovely.Mr. Deltoid wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 4:51 pmFinally, a rare chance to see Dennis Potter's Traitor. Been wishing to see that for years, but no off-air copies have been uploaded to the usual Internet channels (or if they have, they've been taken-down pretty f@cking quickly!).
Play for Today was on a roll back then - two in consecutive weeks, the first two of series two, contained the BAFTA winners for Best Actor and Best Actress - Le Mesurier for Traitor and the following week Patricia Hayes for Edna the Inebriate Woman.
- colinr0380
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Sorry to take things off track for a moment, but I caught a repeat screening of Luzzu over the weekend and wanted to throw up a few thoughts whilst it was still fresh in my mind:
Luzzu is an interesting if relentlessly bleak slice of miserable life neorealism. Its probably the closest I have seen a modern film come to capturing the Vittorio De Sica Bicycle Thieves-style atmosphere, although instead of someone increasingly desperately searching for a vehicle to be able to make a livelihood, in Luzzu it is about a man having to divest himself of the titular fishing boat and all of the associated generational ties in order to provide for his (somewhat unsympathetic) family.
The main theme of this film is about a sense of community and belonging being unwillingly replaced by mercenary rootlessness. Our main character, Jesmark is the latest in a long line of Maltese fisherman with an inherited old-style Luzzu wooden boat (with the mark of his baby footprint from the 90s on its paintwork), and we begin with a few really brief nice neo-realist Rossellini style scenes of the world of the fishermen, with the local Priest blessing the boats going out to sea and the groups of (ominously mostly older) men happily chatting away and telling their stories whilst Jesmark listens along as part of the group.
But the rather idyllic atmosphere is immediately under threat from two forces of the family and the globalist hegemony. Jesmark’s wife complains about what a waste of time fishing is as opposed to a ‘proper’ job, and takes their young baby son miles away to stay with their mother-in-law for the majority of the film. The mother-in-law herself is brusque and unsympathetic toward Jesmark (as if his job was over at the point of conception, especially since he is ‘just’ a fisherman) and mostly superficially focused on consumer goods (as in the baby shower where she belittles the father in front of everyone and once he storms off followed by the daughter to have a row, she herself happily begins opening the presents without them!). The daughter is entirely on her side, and we also get an inevitable ‘sickly baby needing expensive medicine’ subplot in there to force the financial issues to a head.
And the other factor is that through the first half of the film we see the other fisherman starting to drift away from the community, sell their boats and take a payout from the European Union as part of a globalist initiative to ‘transition’ fisherman away from making individual livings and into the more officially monitored jobs market. Which is made extra ironic by the need to find extra money forcing Jesmark into trying to find work for the ‘official’ fishing industry which is rife with corruption and corner cutting (as in passing off different cuts of fish as scallops) until it is literally about running illicit goods hidden under the fish into the island. Jesmark himself goes from an independent fisherman occasionally enjoying group chats on the beach with other fishermen as they fix their nets into working under the cover of night with a mercenary foreign migrant (who apparently lives on his boat as he is not allowed legally to set foot on land; as compared with Jesmark saying at one point that he has never left the Maltese island on which he was born and raised, and is trying to raise a family himself, on), all in English, and with the regular friendly refrain of “Fuck you” thrown towards him for a job well done. That’s globalism for you, I suppose!
Everything is building towards the inevitability of Jesmark taking up the offer himself in the final stages of the film, as the pittance payout (7,000 for not only giving up the fishing boat that has been in your family for generations, and your livelihood, but also ensuring it gets destroyed as part of the deal before payout), and the film is at its best in the final stages, as we get deeply into Jesmark’s mindset as after he has accepted the deal he returns to the beach and sees the now pointlessly fixed Luzzu that his fishermen friends have been helping him with restoring, only for in ironically unfortunate timing the Priest to come along and obliviously offer to bless the newly fixed but doomed boat! (Which itself resonates with the baptism of Jesmark’s son by the same obliviously happy Priest post-Luzzu destruction, which is such a bad omen that it suggests at best that the family itself is doomed, and at worst that they are actively cursed now!)
The absolute best scene of the film (and the one which elevates it into being worthy of comparison with those neo-realist films of the 40s and 50s) is the moment of taking the Luzzu boat to the scrapyard and we get that moment of after the brightly coloured and decorated with a face boat is put next to other boats of the same design, Jesmark leaves to finalise the deal and we as the audience are just left with the ‘faces’ of the boats being edited between, both as if these inanimate objects are in communication with each other in the last moments of their ‘lives’, and also showing the incredible utility of these beautifully decorated boats within the context of the scrapyard they now reside in. And then as Jesmark comes back into frame with his envelope of cash and walks away, we get the brutally crunching sound of the ‘execution’ occurring behind him.
And then the final section of the film occurs, of Jesmark wandering through his life detached from any sense of meaning to his role in society, even whilst everyone else is happy that he has buckled down and got a proper job. The superficiality of ‘being normal’ and doing what is expected whilst knowing that beyond the surface there is no deeper meaning to the action (as in the baptism scene) is the most heartbreaking thing. Jesmark has been deigned to be allowed to be a part of his baby son’s life at the end of the film, but only at the cost of giving up any ties to his bloodlines, any skills, or even just an object that he could pass down to his son as a legacy that could ground and connect him to his culture or environment. Anything that could make him feel a sense of belonging and worth as a man has been discarded (this film is really about how a job can at its best be more than a pay cheque, and wrecking that for someone and forcing them to become a serf just because it suits your regime better that way may be the ultimate sin of all), and we get to that heartbreaking final scene of Jesmark leaving his wife and son to walk home by themselves, as he forlornly wanders to the beachfront, watches the remaining fishermen chatting from a distance, steals a fishing rod and then (despite someone passing saying that “nothing is biting”) goes to the shore and tries casting off from there, as if he just wants to connect to a lost part of himself again.
Luzzu is an interesting if relentlessly bleak slice of miserable life neorealism. Its probably the closest I have seen a modern film come to capturing the Vittorio De Sica Bicycle Thieves-style atmosphere, although instead of someone increasingly desperately searching for a vehicle to be able to make a livelihood, in Luzzu it is about a man having to divest himself of the titular fishing boat and all of the associated generational ties in order to provide for his (somewhat unsympathetic) family.
The main theme of this film is about a sense of community and belonging being unwillingly replaced by mercenary rootlessness. Our main character, Jesmark is the latest in a long line of Maltese fisherman with an inherited old-style Luzzu wooden boat (with the mark of his baby footprint from the 90s on its paintwork), and we begin with a few really brief nice neo-realist Rossellini style scenes of the world of the fishermen, with the local Priest blessing the boats going out to sea and the groups of (ominously mostly older) men happily chatting away and telling their stories whilst Jesmark listens along as part of the group.
But the rather idyllic atmosphere is immediately under threat from two forces of the family and the globalist hegemony. Jesmark’s wife complains about what a waste of time fishing is as opposed to a ‘proper’ job, and takes their young baby son miles away to stay with their mother-in-law for the majority of the film. The mother-in-law herself is brusque and unsympathetic toward Jesmark (as if his job was over at the point of conception, especially since he is ‘just’ a fisherman) and mostly superficially focused on consumer goods (as in the baby shower where she belittles the father in front of everyone and once he storms off followed by the daughter to have a row, she herself happily begins opening the presents without them!). The daughter is entirely on her side, and we also get an inevitable ‘sickly baby needing expensive medicine’ subplot in there to force the financial issues to a head.
And the other factor is that through the first half of the film we see the other fisherman starting to drift away from the community, sell their boats and take a payout from the European Union as part of a globalist initiative to ‘transition’ fisherman away from making individual livings and into the more officially monitored jobs market. Which is made extra ironic by the need to find extra money forcing Jesmark into trying to find work for the ‘official’ fishing industry which is rife with corruption and corner cutting (as in passing off different cuts of fish as scallops) until it is literally about running illicit goods hidden under the fish into the island. Jesmark himself goes from an independent fisherman occasionally enjoying group chats on the beach with other fishermen as they fix their nets into working under the cover of night with a mercenary foreign migrant (who apparently lives on his boat as he is not allowed legally to set foot on land; as compared with Jesmark saying at one point that he has never left the Maltese island on which he was born and raised, and is trying to raise a family himself, on), all in English, and with the regular friendly refrain of “Fuck you” thrown towards him for a job well done. That’s globalism for you, I suppose!
Everything is building towards the inevitability of Jesmark taking up the offer himself in the final stages of the film, as the pittance payout (7,000 for not only giving up the fishing boat that has been in your family for generations, and your livelihood, but also ensuring it gets destroyed as part of the deal before payout), and the film is at its best in the final stages, as we get deeply into Jesmark’s mindset as after he has accepted the deal he returns to the beach and sees the now pointlessly fixed Luzzu that his fishermen friends have been helping him with restoring, only for in ironically unfortunate timing the Priest to come along and obliviously offer to bless the newly fixed but doomed boat! (Which itself resonates with the baptism of Jesmark’s son by the same obliviously happy Priest post-Luzzu destruction, which is such a bad omen that it suggests at best that the family itself is doomed, and at worst that they are actively cursed now!)
The absolute best scene of the film (and the one which elevates it into being worthy of comparison with those neo-realist films of the 40s and 50s) is the moment of taking the Luzzu boat to the scrapyard and we get that moment of after the brightly coloured and decorated with a face boat is put next to other boats of the same design, Jesmark leaves to finalise the deal and we as the audience are just left with the ‘faces’ of the boats being edited between, both as if these inanimate objects are in communication with each other in the last moments of their ‘lives’, and also showing the incredible utility of these beautifully decorated boats within the context of the scrapyard they now reside in. And then as Jesmark comes back into frame with his envelope of cash and walks away, we get the brutally crunching sound of the ‘execution’ occurring behind him.
And then the final section of the film occurs, of Jesmark wandering through his life detached from any sense of meaning to his role in society, even whilst everyone else is happy that he has buckled down and got a proper job. The superficiality of ‘being normal’ and doing what is expected whilst knowing that beyond the surface there is no deeper meaning to the action (as in the baptism scene) is the most heartbreaking thing. Jesmark has been deigned to be allowed to be a part of his baby son’s life at the end of the film, but only at the cost of giving up any ties to his bloodlines, any skills, or even just an object that he could pass down to his son as a legacy that could ground and connect him to his culture or environment. Anything that could make him feel a sense of belonging and worth as a man has been discarded (this film is really about how a job can at its best be more than a pay cheque, and wrecking that for someone and forcing them to become a serf just because it suits your regime better that way may be the ultimate sin of all), and we get to that heartbreaking final scene of Jesmark leaving his wife and son to walk home by themselves, as he forlornly wanders to the beachfront, watches the remaining fishermen chatting from a distance, steals a fishing rod and then (despite someone passing saying that “nothing is biting”) goes to the shore and tries casting off from there, as if he just wants to connect to a lost part of himself again.
- colinr0380
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Lots of interesting stuff next week. Channel 4 is showing another in the run of terse, one word animal titles that have been so en vogue of late with the likes of Pig, Cow and Cats, as now we get the Channing Tatum starring and (co) directed feature Dog showing on Channel 4 at 9 p.m. on Saturday 18th (which in its plot is giving me PTSD for a certain Christmas themed TV movie). And I don't know what to make of Film4 coincidentally(?) following it up with a screening of the 2019 Pet Sematary film at 11:10 p.m.!
The Storyville documentary of the week on BBC4 is The Gullspång Miracle - a Nordic Mystery at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 21st. Which yet again clashes against Tokyo Vice over on BBC1, which is something that is probably going to continue for the next three weeks.
And as jlnight has noted the big night of the week is Friday 24th as Film4 has a double bill of premieres with Three Thousand Years of Longing showing at 9 p.m. (which struck me during its theatrical advertising that it should have been directed by Tarsem rather than George Miller, but hey ho! And its showing on this evening because Friday 24th is when Miller's Furiosa film turns up in UK cinemas. ITV4 is simultaneously repeating Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome for much the same reason at the exact same time. And, because that date also serendipitously coincides with it being the first anniversary of the passing of Tina Turner, BBC4 is also at the same time doing a night devoted to the singer), which is followed by horror film A Banquet at 11:10 p.m.
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Repeat-wise, jlnight and GaryC have noted the biggest news of the week, with Dennis Potter's 1971 Play For Today film Traitor showing on BBC4 at 10 p.m. on Wednesday 22nd, preceded by a documentary tribute to the actor John Le Mesurier at 9 p.m., who stars in Traitor. (Interesting to note too that the director Alan Bridges a few years later went on to one of the most notorious remakes in history, with the 1974 Richard Burton and Sophia Loren version of Brief Encounter. Which unfortunately forsakes the arguably crucial romanticism of steam trains for diesel ones!)
Also notable is BBC2 is showing the Elvis '68 Comeback Special at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday 18th (along with GI Blues at 1 p.m., the 1993 Arena documentary about the making of Heartbreak Hotel at 10:30 p.m. and Blue Hawaii at 11:10 p.m.)
Film4 is showing John Carpenter's Starman at 5 p.m. on Saturday 18th, which will be the first time in a while it has shown un-DOG-tagged. One of only two films directed by Alan Rickman, A Little Chaos, is showing on BBC1 at 12:50 a.m. in the early hours of Monday 20th. BBC4 is showing El Cid at 9 p.m. on Thursday 23rd.
BBC2 is showing The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (maybe to coincide with the UK cinema release of that Scorsese narrated Powell & Pressburger documentary) at 12 noon on Sunday 19th.
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And how did I miss that ITV3 has been showing a series called "Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure"! Apparently the episode on Sunday night will feature "Dame Judi searching for crocodiles and exploring a cave that is home to more than a million bats". After that kind of hype Dame Judi had better be wrestling that crocodile! What could possibly go wrong? (NSFW)
The Storyville documentary of the week on BBC4 is The Gullspång Miracle - a Nordic Mystery at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 21st. Which yet again clashes against Tokyo Vice over on BBC1, which is something that is probably going to continue for the next three weeks.
And as jlnight has noted the big night of the week is Friday 24th as Film4 has a double bill of premieres with Three Thousand Years of Longing showing at 9 p.m. (which struck me during its theatrical advertising that it should have been directed by Tarsem rather than George Miller, but hey ho! And its showing on this evening because Friday 24th is when Miller's Furiosa film turns up in UK cinemas. ITV4 is simultaneously repeating Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome for much the same reason at the exact same time. And, because that date also serendipitously coincides with it being the first anniversary of the passing of Tina Turner, BBC4 is also at the same time doing a night devoted to the singer), which is followed by horror film A Banquet at 11:10 p.m.
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Repeat-wise, jlnight and GaryC have noted the biggest news of the week, with Dennis Potter's 1971 Play For Today film Traitor showing on BBC4 at 10 p.m. on Wednesday 22nd, preceded by a documentary tribute to the actor John Le Mesurier at 9 p.m., who stars in Traitor. (Interesting to note too that the director Alan Bridges a few years later went on to one of the most notorious remakes in history, with the 1974 Richard Burton and Sophia Loren version of Brief Encounter. Which unfortunately forsakes the arguably crucial romanticism of steam trains for diesel ones!)
Also notable is BBC2 is showing the Elvis '68 Comeback Special at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday 18th (along with GI Blues at 1 p.m., the 1993 Arena documentary about the making of Heartbreak Hotel at 10:30 p.m. and Blue Hawaii at 11:10 p.m.)
Film4 is showing John Carpenter's Starman at 5 p.m. on Saturday 18th, which will be the first time in a while it has shown un-DOG-tagged. One of only two films directed by Alan Rickman, A Little Chaos, is showing on BBC1 at 12:50 a.m. in the early hours of Monday 20th. BBC4 is showing El Cid at 9 p.m. on Thursday 23rd.
BBC2 is showing The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (maybe to coincide with the UK cinema release of that Scorsese narrated Powell & Pressburger documentary) at 12 noon on Sunday 19th.
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And how did I miss that ITV3 has been showing a series called "Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure"! Apparently the episode on Sunday night will feature "Dame Judi searching for crocodiles and exploring a cave that is home to more than a million bats". After that kind of hype Dame Judi had better be wrestling that crocodile! What could possibly go wrong? (NSFW)
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The Great Dictator, Sat 25th May, Sky Arts.
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, Sat 25th May, Talking Pictures. Also Fri 31st May.
Close (2022), Sat 25th May, BBC4. Or...
Hot Money (2001 TVM), Sat 25th May, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 27th May.
Bitch Ass (2022), late Sat 25th May, Film4.
Shipwrecked (1990), Sun 26th May, Talking Pictures. Also Fri 31st May.
The Marine Merchants, Sun 26th May, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Tenet (2020) + Memento, Sun 26th May, BBC2.
Three Men in a Boat (1956), Mon 27th May, London Live.
Her Favourite Husband, Mon 27th May, Talking Pictures.
Dalton's Dream (2023), Tue 28th May, BBC4.
Fresh (2022), Wed 29th May, Film4.
Sequin in a Blue Room, late Wed 29th May, Channel 4.
Neds, late Thu 30th May, Film4. (on before)
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men, Sat 25th May, Talking Pictures. Also Fri 31st May.
Close (2022), Sat 25th May, BBC4. Or...
Hot Money (2001 TVM), Sat 25th May, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 27th May.
Bitch Ass (2022), late Sat 25th May, Film4.
Shipwrecked (1990), Sun 26th May, Talking Pictures. Also Fri 31st May.
The Marine Merchants, Sun 26th May, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Tenet (2020) + Memento, Sun 26th May, BBC2.
Three Men in a Boat (1956), Mon 27th May, London Live.
Her Favourite Husband, Mon 27th May, Talking Pictures.
Dalton's Dream (2023), Tue 28th May, BBC4.
Fresh (2022), Wed 29th May, Film4.
Sequin in a Blue Room, late Wed 29th May, Channel 4.
Neds, late Thu 30th May, Film4. (on before)
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I like that you’ve included Bitch Ass as a highlight
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The strapline “Who’s the bitch ass now?” makes this sound like one of those confected movies that used to crop up in Seinfeld.
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Tons of things on over the Bank Holiday weekend and next week in general. jlnight has noted the most important things but I'll add a few trailers:
Two premieres clash on Saturday 25th with ITV1 showing Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard at 10:15 p.m. (the first film premiere to show on any ITV channel this year) against BBC4 showing the Belgian film Close (2022) at 9 p.m. That's followed by the charmingly titled Bitch Ass on Film4 at 1:45 a.m. in the early hours of Sunday 26th (which is showing in a Tony Todd double bill preceded by Candyman at 11:40 p.m.)
Sunday 26th is of course where the big film of the week appears with Tenet showing at 10 p.m. (which kicks off a mini-Christopher Nolan season with Memento straight afterwards at 12:20 a.m.; The Prestige on BBC1 at 11:40 p.m. on Wednesday 29th; and Dunkirk on BBC1 at 10:40 p.m. on Friday 31st)
On Bank Holiday Monday the third in the Famous Five film series, The Eye of the Sunrise shows on BBC1 at 2 p.m., and also on BBC1 is Spider-Man: No Way Home at 7:45 p.m.
Tuesday 28th, the Storyville documentary that clashes against episodes 5 & 6 of Tokyo Vice is Dalton's Dream at 10 p.m., which is directed by Kim Longinotto. That seems to kick off a week of gay-themed films as jlnight noted:
Also clashing against Tokyo Vice and Dalton's Dream is Stormy, showing on Channel 5 at 10 p.m.
Wednesday 29th, Film4 is showing Fresh (2022) at 9 p.m.
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Repeat-wise, in a tribute to the late Bernard Hill BBC4's archive television strand swiftly repeats the entire series of Boys From The Blackstuff along with the recent introduction by Hill from 10 p.m. on Wednesday 29th, through to 3:30 a.m.!
And along with the surprisingly rare showing of Nolan's The Prestige (though Following has not yet shown on UK television at all as yet; and Interstellar has still only ever been shown on the digital satellite channels, which I hear have disappeared from Freesat boxes in recent months), jlnight has noted the most interesting film repeat of the week with Peter Mullan's Neds showing on Film4 at 1:25 a.m. in the early hours of Friday 31st.
Two premieres clash on Saturday 25th with ITV1 showing Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard at 10:15 p.m. (the first film premiere to show on any ITV channel this year) against BBC4 showing the Belgian film Close (2022) at 9 p.m. That's followed by the charmingly titled Bitch Ass on Film4 at 1:45 a.m. in the early hours of Sunday 26th (which is showing in a Tony Todd double bill preceded by Candyman at 11:40 p.m.)
Sunday 26th is of course where the big film of the week appears with Tenet showing at 10 p.m. (which kicks off a mini-Christopher Nolan season with Memento straight afterwards at 12:20 a.m.; The Prestige on BBC1 at 11:40 p.m. on Wednesday 29th; and Dunkirk on BBC1 at 10:40 p.m. on Friday 31st)
On Bank Holiday Monday the third in the Famous Five film series, The Eye of the Sunrise shows on BBC1 at 2 p.m., and also on BBC1 is Spider-Man: No Way Home at 7:45 p.m.
Tuesday 28th, the Storyville documentary that clashes against episodes 5 & 6 of Tokyo Vice is Dalton's Dream at 10 p.m., which is directed by Kim Longinotto. That seems to kick off a week of gay-themed films as jlnight noted:
In addition to that in the early hours of Wednesday 29th Channel 4 is showing Moffie at 2 a.m. which clashes against Film4 showing Sauvage at 2 a.m. - all these films often show in one bunch together on an annual basis, so this is the week they all appear.jlnight wrote:Sequin in a Blue Room, late Wed 29th May, Channel 4.
Also clashing against Tokyo Vice and Dalton's Dream is Stormy, showing on Channel 5 at 10 p.m.
Wednesday 29th, Film4 is showing Fresh (2022) at 9 p.m.
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Repeat-wise, in a tribute to the late Bernard Hill BBC4's archive television strand swiftly repeats the entire series of Boys From The Blackstuff along with the recent introduction by Hill from 10 p.m. on Wednesday 29th, through to 3:30 a.m.!
And along with the surprisingly rare showing of Nolan's The Prestige (though Following has not yet shown on UK television at all as yet; and Interstellar has still only ever been shown on the digital satellite channels, which I hear have disappeared from Freesat boxes in recent months), jlnight has noted the most interesting film repeat of the week with Peter Mullan's Neds showing on Film4 at 1:25 a.m. in the early hours of Friday 31st.
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Monsieur Verdoux, Sat 1st Jun, Sky Arts.
Lie with Me (2022), Sat 1st Jun, BBC4. Or...
In the Valley of Elah, Sat 1st Jun, London Live. Or...
Into the Blue (1997 TVM), Sat 1st Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 3rd Jun. Or...
Color Out of Space (2019), Sat 1st Jun, 5Star.
Castles in the Air, Sun 2nd Jun, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Bones and All, Sun 2nd Jun, BBC2. Or...
Blue Remembered Hills (Play for Today), Sun 2nd Jun, BBC4.
Everybody's Talking About Jamie, late Sun 2nd Jun, Channel 4.
Minnamurra (1989), Tue 4th Jun, Great Action.
Plan B (2021), Tue 4th Jun, Film4.
The Blue Caftan (2022), late Tue 4th Jun, Film4.
Flag Day, Wed 5th Jun, Film4.
Fire Island (2022), Thu 6th Jun, Film4.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, late Fri 7th June, Film4. (preceded by Tucker and Apocalypse Now!!)
Following has been on BBC2 in the past (2007-09 according to Genome) while The Prestige has turned up on Quest as part of their Thursday night series of films (the link is they are mostly Warner films - Quest is owned by Discovery, etc). Following has also been on Sky Arts in the last couple of years.
Lie with Me (2022), Sat 1st Jun, BBC4. Or...
In the Valley of Elah, Sat 1st Jun, London Live. Or...
Into the Blue (1997 TVM), Sat 1st Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 3rd Jun. Or...
Color Out of Space (2019), Sat 1st Jun, 5Star.
Castles in the Air, Sun 2nd Jun, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Bones and All, Sun 2nd Jun, BBC2. Or...
Blue Remembered Hills (Play for Today), Sun 2nd Jun, BBC4.
Everybody's Talking About Jamie, late Sun 2nd Jun, Channel 4.
Minnamurra (1989), Tue 4th Jun, Great Action.
Plan B (2021), Tue 4th Jun, Film4.
The Blue Caftan (2022), late Tue 4th Jun, Film4.
Flag Day, Wed 5th Jun, Film4.
Fire Island (2022), Thu 6th Jun, Film4.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, late Fri 7th June, Film4. (preceded by Tucker and Apocalypse Now!!)
Following has been on BBC2 in the past (2007-09 according to Genome) while The Prestige has turned up on Quest as part of their Thursday night series of films (the link is they are mostly Warner films - Quest is owned by Discovery, etc). Following has also been on Sky Arts in the last couple of years.
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A very packed week, as jlnight has noted, although lots of clashes. And really, really gay. As in unless Wreck-It-Ralph turns out to have a male lover, that might be the one non-gay premiere! (Though I also have my eye on that harem of Disney princesses all trapped in that tower together from the trailer! )
BBC4 has an excellent evening on Saturday 1st June with French drama Lie With Me at 9 p.m. which is followed at 10:30 p.m. with a half-hour new career retrospective interview with Juliette Binoche, which itself is followed at 11 p.m. by a repeat of Kore-eda's Binoche-starring film The Truth.
Sunday 2nd BBC1 is showing Ralph Breaks The Internet at 4:50 p.m. BBC2 has Luca Gudagnino's cannibal romance film Bones And All at 10 p.m. which clashes against Everybody's Talking About Jamie on Channel 4, also at 10 p.m. - Channel 4/Film4 goes all in on the gay themed films throughout the week with Channel 4 showing repeats of Swan Song on Monday; The Watermelon Woman on Tuesday; and a double bill of God's Own Country and Stage Mother on Wednesday. Film4 has the other two premieres though of (the most interesting looking film of the week) Moroccan drama The Blue Caftan at 1 a.m. in the early hours of Wednesday 5th (clashing against The Watermelon Woman over on Channel 4), and Fire Island at 9 p.m. on Thursday 6th.
Film4's other premiere is Plan B at 10:50 p.m on Tuesday 4th, just before The Blue Caftan. And as jlnight notes Richard Stanley's H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space is showing tucked away shyly on the 5 Star channel at 11:20 p.m. on Saturday 1st - the RadioTimes doesn't note this as a premiere but I don't remember it showing on any of the major channels before this. Did it turn up on one of the more minor digital ones? Either way, I'm counting this as its UK TV premiere.
BBC4's Storyville documentary of the week that annoyingly clashes with episodes 7 & 8 of Tokyo Vice over on BBC1 at the same time is Against The Tide at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 4th.
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Repeat-wise there is a rare repeat of Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story at Midnight on Saturday 1st on BBC2.
BBC4 has a really great week of archive stuff. Sunday 2nd they devote some time to dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse with a 1983 interview at 8 p.m. and then two episodes of her 1980 "Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way" programme from 9 p.m. (I was too young to see this before now, but I assume this is who that classic Simpsons episode was alluding to with its dog trainer character!)
The big event of the week follows that, with Helen Mirren introducing at 10 p.m. a very rare repeat of Dennis Potter's 1979 Play For Today Blue Remembered Hills at 10:15 p.m., which is followed by a 1987 Arena interview with Potter at 11:25 p.m. (Unfortunately that all clashes against Bones and All and Everybody's Talking About Jamie)
Then in the "Archive Television" strand on Wednesday 5th, BBC4 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day with Roy Clarke (creator of the long running Last of the Summer Wine sitcom) introducing at 10 p.m. a repeat of the Clarke-written, Charles Sturridge directed 1993 drama A Foreign Field, starring Alec Guinness (whose character apparently only speaks five words in the entire thing! That's fewer than he speaks in Mute Witness!) and Leo McKern as the aged English war veterans, Geraldine Chaplin and Lauren Bacall as the Americans... and Jeanne Moreau! That's followed at 11:45 p.m. by a Parkinson interview with Alec Guinness from 1997 and a selection of BBC archive interviews with Guinness at 12:25 a.m.
The Longest Day is also showing on BBC2 at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday 2nd, also to mark the anniversary of D-Day.
And as jlnight has also noted, Film4 is doing a Coppola night on Friday 7th with Tucker: The Man and His Dream at 6:45 p.m, Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut at 9 p.m. and then most excitingly of all Hearts of Darkness: A Film-Maker's Apocalypse at 12:40 a.m., from Eleanor Coppola who passed away recently on 12th April, which I think might be the first time that making of documentary has shown on UK television since it was first shown on BBC2 back on 29th December 1995! (I actually saw that screening before I got to see Apocalypse Now itself! And it is probably as crucial, if not more so, to the (self?)mythologising nature of that film as the final product is)
BBC4 has an excellent evening on Saturday 1st June with French drama Lie With Me at 9 p.m. which is followed at 10:30 p.m. with a half-hour new career retrospective interview with Juliette Binoche, which itself is followed at 11 p.m. by a repeat of Kore-eda's Binoche-starring film The Truth.
Sunday 2nd BBC1 is showing Ralph Breaks The Internet at 4:50 p.m. BBC2 has Luca Gudagnino's cannibal romance film Bones And All at 10 p.m. which clashes against Everybody's Talking About Jamie on Channel 4, also at 10 p.m. - Channel 4/Film4 goes all in on the gay themed films throughout the week with Channel 4 showing repeats of Swan Song on Monday; The Watermelon Woman on Tuesday; and a double bill of God's Own Country and Stage Mother on Wednesday. Film4 has the other two premieres though of (the most interesting looking film of the week) Moroccan drama The Blue Caftan at 1 a.m. in the early hours of Wednesday 5th (clashing against The Watermelon Woman over on Channel 4), and Fire Island at 9 p.m. on Thursday 6th.
Film4's other premiere is Plan B at 10:50 p.m on Tuesday 4th, just before The Blue Caftan. And as jlnight notes Richard Stanley's H.P. Lovecraft adaptation Color Out of Space is showing tucked away shyly on the 5 Star channel at 11:20 p.m. on Saturday 1st - the RadioTimes doesn't note this as a premiere but I don't remember it showing on any of the major channels before this. Did it turn up on one of the more minor digital ones? Either way, I'm counting this as its UK TV premiere.
BBC4's Storyville documentary of the week that annoyingly clashes with episodes 7 & 8 of Tokyo Vice over on BBC1 at the same time is Against The Tide at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 4th.
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Repeat-wise there is a rare repeat of Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story at Midnight on Saturday 1st on BBC2.
BBC4 has a really great week of archive stuff. Sunday 2nd they devote some time to dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse with a 1983 interview at 8 p.m. and then two episodes of her 1980 "Training Dogs The Woodhouse Way" programme from 9 p.m. (I was too young to see this before now, but I assume this is who that classic Simpsons episode was alluding to with its dog trainer character!)
The big event of the week follows that, with Helen Mirren introducing at 10 p.m. a very rare repeat of Dennis Potter's 1979 Play For Today Blue Remembered Hills at 10:15 p.m., which is followed by a 1987 Arena interview with Potter at 11:25 p.m. (Unfortunately that all clashes against Bones and All and Everybody's Talking About Jamie)
Then in the "Archive Television" strand on Wednesday 5th, BBC4 marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day with Roy Clarke (creator of the long running Last of the Summer Wine sitcom) introducing at 10 p.m. a repeat of the Clarke-written, Charles Sturridge directed 1993 drama A Foreign Field, starring Alec Guinness (whose character apparently only speaks five words in the entire thing! That's fewer than he speaks in Mute Witness!) and Leo McKern as the aged English war veterans, Geraldine Chaplin and Lauren Bacall as the Americans... and Jeanne Moreau! That's followed at 11:45 p.m. by a Parkinson interview with Alec Guinness from 1997 and a selection of BBC archive interviews with Guinness at 12:25 a.m.
The Longest Day is also showing on BBC2 at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday 2nd, also to mark the anniversary of D-Day.
And as jlnight has also noted, Film4 is doing a Coppola night on Friday 7th with Tucker: The Man and His Dream at 6:45 p.m, Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut at 9 p.m. and then most excitingly of all Hearts of Darkness: A Film-Maker's Apocalypse at 12:40 a.m., from Eleanor Coppola who passed away recently on 12th April, which I think might be the first time that making of documentary has shown on UK television since it was first shown on BBC2 back on 29th December 1995! (I actually saw that screening before I got to see Apocalypse Now itself! And it is probably as crucial, if not more so, to the (self?)mythologising nature of that film as the final product is)
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The Three Musketeers (1933 serial), Sat 8th Jun, Talking Pictures.
Limelight (1952), Sat 8th Jun, Sky Arts.
Apocalypto, Sat 8th Jun, London Live. Or...
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death (2002 TVM), Sat 8th Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 10th Jun.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sat 8th Jun, Film4. (on before)
Jane Eyre (1997 TVM), Sun 9th Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Tue 11th Jun.
The Phantom of the Open, Sun 9th Jun, BBC2.
The Outsiders, late Sun 9th Jun, Film4. (on before)
Mayerling (1968), Mon 10th Jun, London Live.
Man on the Bus (2019), Mon 10th Jun, London Live.
Copa '71, Tue 11th Jun, BBC4.
The Conversation, Wed 12th Jun, BBC2. (on before)
Potter's Karaoke (1996) is being shown in its entirety on Sun 9th Jun on BBC4 with an intro from its director. I remember the publicity around this and companion piece Cold Lazarus at the time, being a unique co-production between the BBC and Channel 4 as per its author's (dying) wishes. I never watched any of it. Maybe Cold Lazarus will also be screened.
Limelight (1952), Sat 8th Jun, Sky Arts.
Apocalypto, Sat 8th Jun, London Live. Or...
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death (2002 TVM), Sat 8th Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 10th Jun.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sat 8th Jun, Film4. (on before)
Jane Eyre (1997 TVM), Sun 9th Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Tue 11th Jun.
The Phantom of the Open, Sun 9th Jun, BBC2.
The Outsiders, late Sun 9th Jun, Film4. (on before)
Mayerling (1968), Mon 10th Jun, London Live.
Man on the Bus (2019), Mon 10th Jun, London Live.
Copa '71, Tue 11th Jun, BBC4.
The Conversation, Wed 12th Jun, BBC2. (on before)
Potter's Karaoke (1996) is being shown in its entirety on Sun 9th Jun on BBC4 with an intro from its director. I remember the publicity around this and companion piece Cold Lazarus at the time, being a unique co-production between the BBC and Channel 4 as per its author's (dying) wishes. I never watched any of it. Maybe Cold Lazarus will also be screened.
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It did seem that BBC4 was going to do a deep dive into Dennis Potter when they showed Traitors, but I thought it might have stopped at Blue Remembered Hills! (Blackeyes would be very appreciated!)
Karaoke is kind of Potter's career summation work, as it contains themes of hospitalisation and aging (The Singing Detective), meta-narrative (in that its about a screenwriter's fictional story starting to occur in his real life), and dangerous relationships (very like Lipstick On Your Collar, and Ewan McGregor makes a fleetingly brief cameo appearance as a passerby on the street speaking lines from his part in that series, as if he now exists as another one of the fictional characters now wandering the real streets of London). The sci-fi companion piece, Cold Lazarus, is kind of more related to Blue Remembered Hills, since Albert Finney's frozen head keeps flashing back to an idyllic West Country childhood, but wonkily and suggesting that hundreds of years being deep frozen has played havoc with his memory recall!
Since they are showing a 1987 interview with Potter in his prime this week, I wonder if BBC4 would be able to get hold of Potter's last interview from 1994 with Melvyn Bragg, which ends with him stating his wishes for the airing of Karaoke/Cold Lazarus that both BBC and Channel 4 honoured.
Karaoke is kind of Potter's career summation work, as it contains themes of hospitalisation and aging (The Singing Detective), meta-narrative (in that its about a screenwriter's fictional story starting to occur in his real life), and dangerous relationships (very like Lipstick On Your Collar, and Ewan McGregor makes a fleetingly brief cameo appearance as a passerby on the street speaking lines from his part in that series, as if he now exists as another one of the fictional characters now wandering the real streets of London). The sci-fi companion piece, Cold Lazarus, is kind of more related to Blue Remembered Hills, since Albert Finney's frozen head keeps flashing back to an idyllic West Country childhood, but wonkily and suggesting that hundreds of years being deep frozen has played havoc with his memory recall!
Since they are showing a 1987 interview with Potter in his prime this week, I wonder if BBC4 would be able to get hold of Potter's last interview from 1994 with Melvyn Bragg, which ends with him stating his wishes for the airing of Karaoke/Cold Lazarus that both BBC and Channel 4 honoured.
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The chances of Blackeyes ever getting broadcast again are minimal, I think, which is a shame. It fell foul of the misapprehension that depiction (in this case of misogyny, objectification and abuse) equals authorial identification. Anyone who’s watched it will know how self-lacerating a piece on Potter’s part (both as an author and a man) it is.
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Rather quiet next week. BBC4 starts a new 'world television' series on Saturday 8th with the first two (of six total) episodes of Swedish crime drama Jana: Marked For Life at 9 p.m., which looks quite heavily influenced by Girl With The Dragon Tattoo from its trailer, but apparently Pernilla August is going to make an appearance in there somewhere.
Beyond that BBC2 is the winner of the film premiere week with The Phantom of the Open showing at 10 p.m. on Sunday 9th bookended at the other end of the week with the ill-fated Dear Evan Hansen at 11 p.m. on Friday 14th.
The Storyville documentary on BBC4 that clashes against episodes 9 & 10 of Tokyo Vice over on BBC1 this week is Copa '71 at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 11th.
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Repeat-wise, of course the big one is BBC4 showing all four episodes of Karaoke from 10:15 p.m. on Sunday 9th, preceded with a new interview with the director of the series Renny Rye at 10 p.m.
Film-wise Film4 are showing the 1960s Peter Cushing starring film versions of Dr Who and the Daleks at 12:45 p.m. on Saturday 8th and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD at 12:45 p.m. on Sunday 9th, both in their recently restored by Studio Canal versions.
Beyond that BBC2 is the winner of the film premiere week with The Phantom of the Open showing at 10 p.m. on Sunday 9th bookended at the other end of the week with the ill-fated Dear Evan Hansen at 11 p.m. on Friday 14th.
The Storyville documentary on BBC4 that clashes against episodes 9 & 10 of Tokyo Vice over on BBC1 this week is Copa '71 at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 11th.
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Repeat-wise, of course the big one is BBC4 showing all four episodes of Karaoke from 10:15 p.m. on Sunday 9th, preceded with a new interview with the director of the series Renny Rye at 10 p.m.
Film-wise Film4 are showing the 1960s Peter Cushing starring film versions of Dr Who and the Daleks at 12:45 p.m. on Saturday 8th and Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD at 12:45 p.m. on Sunday 9th, both in their recently restored by Studio Canal versions.
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POW: The Escape (1986), Sat 15th Jun, Legend. Or...
Harrison's Flowers, Sat 15th Jun, London Live. (been on TPTV)
Enchanted Cities, Sun 16th Jun, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
The Duke (2020), Sun 16th Jun, BBC2. Or...
She Fell Among Thieves (1978 TVM), Sun 16th Jun, BBC4.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Sun 16th Jun, 5Star.
Our Man in Marrakesh, Mon 17th Jun, London Live. (been on TPTV)
Flee (2021), Tue 18th Jun, BBC4.
Orphans, late Tue 18th Jun, Film4. (on before)
British Rock, Wed 19th Jun, London Live. (been on TPTV)
Jekyll and Hyde (1990 TVM), Wed 19th Jun, Talking Pictures.
Mrs Dalloway, Thu 20th Jun, BBC4.
Ha ha! Helen Mirren in her intro to Blue Remembered Hills directly referenced Confessions of a Window Cleaner as an example of the British film industry of the time being "depleted" and "depressing", with quality films being found on telly instead of the cinema. Yet it's the Confessions series that will get the deluxe treatment on home media 45-50 years later. Blue remembered media!
Harrison's Flowers, Sat 15th Jun, London Live. (been on TPTV)
Enchanted Cities, Sun 16th Jun, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
The Duke (2020), Sun 16th Jun, BBC2. Or...
She Fell Among Thieves (1978 TVM), Sun 16th Jun, BBC4.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Sun 16th Jun, 5Star.
Our Man in Marrakesh, Mon 17th Jun, London Live. (been on TPTV)
Flee (2021), Tue 18th Jun, BBC4.
Orphans, late Tue 18th Jun, Film4. (on before)
British Rock, Wed 19th Jun, London Live. (been on TPTV)
Jekyll and Hyde (1990 TVM), Wed 19th Jun, Talking Pictures.
Mrs Dalloway, Thu 20th Jun, BBC4.
Ha ha! Helen Mirren in her intro to Blue Remembered Hills directly referenced Confessions of a Window Cleaner as an example of the British film industry of the time being "depleted" and "depressing", with quality films being found on telly instead of the cinema. Yet it's the Confessions series that will get the deluxe treatment on home media 45-50 years later. Blue remembered media!
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Speaking of "Blue remembered media", when are we getting a physical release of Mirren's ultimate role, in the new cut of Tinto Brass's Caligula? But I guess Mirren's not entirely wrong! The book Offbeat: British Cinema's Curiosities, Obscurities and Hidden Gems does a good job of talking about films coming out around this period, and broadly speaking the turn seemed to happen around 1976 or so with the collapse of mainstays of British cinema in the Carry On and Hammer films series faltering combining with American studios apparently deciding not to bankroll any UK-based films. It seems that aspect as much as anything helped with the shift of the British studios into becoming more satellite branches for Hollywood studo productions with the rise of Star Wars and the modern blockbuster which came to dominate the world (in that sense this seems as if it was the UK-specific version of the destruction of the 'entertainment' side of industry in the face of the US being able to do it bigger and better than many indigenously popular films that was faced throughout the rest of the world, as gets noted over and over again in Pete Tombs' Mondo Macabro. Which appears to have caused UK-specific films to become rather thin on the ground until ironically television in the form of Channel 4 and its "Film on Four" strand came along to revitalise it in the early 1980s)
A rather quiet week. Roger Michell's last feature film The Duke, with Jim Broadbent and the aforementioned Mirren, is showing on BBC2 at 10 p.m. on Sunday 16th. (which is obviously cheekily intentionally followed in a double bill by Bonnie and Clyde at 10:30 p.m.!)
And the only other premiere of the week (and finally free of being clashed up against Tokyo Vice!) is the latest in BBC4's Storyville documentary series Flee at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 18th.
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The big thing of the week in repeats is that BBC4 is devoting two nights to Eileen Atkins (amusingly one of the four actresses in that "Nothing Like A Dame" documentary from 2018 which was directed by Michell!), with the first on Sunday 16th (unfortunately clashing with The Duke) involving Atkins introducing at 10 p.m. a rare showing of 1978 Play For Today She Fell Among Thieves at 10:15 p.m., which co-stars Malcolm McDowell (and the late Bernard Hill) and was directed by Clive Donner (of The Caretaker and Nothing But The Best renown, along with the 1984 George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol, but also of a couple of films released by the BFI's Flipside imprint with Rogue Male and the really good Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush). That's followed at 11:30 by the Atkins starring episode of the Talking Heads series, The Hand of God. Then on Thursday 20th, as jlnight notes, is a screening of Mrs Dalloway at 10:15 p.m., again preceded by a specific introduction with Atkins at 10 p.m.
Beyond that, that most notable repeat of the week as jlnight has pointed out is a really rare showing of Peter Mullan's great debut film Orphans on Film4 at 1:40 a.m. in the early hours of Wednesday 19th. Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes is on Film4 at 10:50 p.m. on Saturday 15th. Shoplifters is showing on Film4 at 1:10 a.m. in the early hours of Tuesday 18th.
And weirdly Channel 5 has a really good week with a double bill of Lethal Weapon at 10 p.m. followed by Enter The Dragon at 12:10 a.m. on Sunday 16th (so clashing against The Duke and the Eileen Atkins night), Kong: Skull Island at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday 20th, and The Warriors at 12:05 a.m. in the early hours of Saturday 22nd.
A rather quiet week. Roger Michell's last feature film The Duke, with Jim Broadbent and the aforementioned Mirren, is showing on BBC2 at 10 p.m. on Sunday 16th. (which is obviously cheekily intentionally followed in a double bill by Bonnie and Clyde at 10:30 p.m.!)
And the only other premiere of the week (and finally free of being clashed up against Tokyo Vice!) is the latest in BBC4's Storyville documentary series Flee at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 18th.
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The big thing of the week in repeats is that BBC4 is devoting two nights to Eileen Atkins (amusingly one of the four actresses in that "Nothing Like A Dame" documentary from 2018 which was directed by Michell!), with the first on Sunday 16th (unfortunately clashing with The Duke) involving Atkins introducing at 10 p.m. a rare showing of 1978 Play For Today She Fell Among Thieves at 10:15 p.m., which co-stars Malcolm McDowell (and the late Bernard Hill) and was directed by Clive Donner (of The Caretaker and Nothing But The Best renown, along with the 1984 George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol, but also of a couple of films released by the BFI's Flipside imprint with Rogue Male and the really good Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush). That's followed at 11:30 by the Atkins starring episode of the Talking Heads series, The Hand of God. Then on Thursday 20th, as jlnight notes, is a screening of Mrs Dalloway at 10:15 p.m., again preceded by a specific introduction with Atkins at 10 p.m.
Beyond that, that most notable repeat of the week as jlnight has pointed out is a really rare showing of Peter Mullan's great debut film Orphans on Film4 at 1:40 a.m. in the early hours of Wednesday 19th. Shane Meadows' Dead Man's Shoes is on Film4 at 10:50 p.m. on Saturday 15th. Shoplifters is showing on Film4 at 1:10 a.m. in the early hours of Tuesday 18th.
And weirdly Channel 5 has a really good week with a double bill of Lethal Weapon at 10 p.m. followed by Enter The Dragon at 12:10 a.m. on Sunday 16th (so clashing against The Duke and the Eileen Atkins night), Kong: Skull Island at 11:30 p.m. on Thursday 20th, and The Warriors at 12:05 a.m. in the early hours of Saturday 22nd.
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Re: Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
Plan 9 From Outer Space, Sat 22nd Jun, Talking Pictures.
Hero of the Hour (2000 TVM), Sat 22nd Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 24th Jun. Or...
Barbarosa, Sat 22nd Jun, London Live.
This Is Alsace, Sun 23rd Jun, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Peeping Tom, Sun 23rd Jun, London Live.
Kokomo City, late Sun 23rd Jun, Channel 4.
Reggae in a Babylon, Mon 24th Jun, London Live. (on before in 2017)
Bad Press (2023), Tue 25th Jun, BBC4.
Earwig (2021), late Tue 25th Jun, Film4.
Sam's Song (short), Wed 26th Jun, Talking Pictures.
King's Gambit (2023), Wed 26th Jun, London Live.
Inside the Room (1935), late Wed 26th Jun, Talking Pictures.
Hero of the Hour (2000 TVM), Sat 22nd Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 24th Jun. Or...
Barbarosa, Sat 22nd Jun, London Live.
This Is Alsace, Sun 23rd Jun, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Peeping Tom, Sun 23rd Jun, London Live.
Kokomo City, late Sun 23rd Jun, Channel 4.
Reggae in a Babylon, Mon 24th Jun, London Live. (on before in 2017)
Bad Press (2023), Tue 25th Jun, BBC4.
Earwig (2021), late Tue 25th Jun, Film4.
Sam's Song (short), Wed 26th Jun, Talking Pictures.
King's Gambit (2023), Wed 26th Jun, London Live.
Inside the Room (1935), late Wed 26th Jun, Talking Pictures.
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Re: Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
An eclectic range of things next week. Channel 4 is showing Fisherman's Friends: One and All (they made another one?!?) at 8 p.m. on Saturday 22nd, which falls into that most awkward of categories of a completely fictionalised sequel to a 'based on a true story' original film. I suppose that this is the Enys Men to the first film's Bait? Channel 4's other premiere of the week is the endorsed by David Ehrlich transgender prostitute documentary Kokomo City at 11:55 p.m. on Sunday 23rd.
BBC4's Storyville documentary of the week is Bad Press at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 25th.
The big film of the week is Earwig on Film4 at 1:15 a.m. in the early hours of Wednesday 26th, which is the first film by Lucile Hadzihalilovic to reach UK television.
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Repeat-wise, serenidipitously in the wake of Criterion's recent announcement of a UHD edition coming in September, Film4 is showing The Long Good Friday at Midnight on Saturday 22nd. Unfortunately lots of things clash with Channel 4's premiere of Kokomo City, including Pan's Labyrinth transferring from Channel 4/Film4 onto BBC1 with a screening at Midnight on Sunday 23rd (a very rare instance of the main BBC1 channel showing a fully subtitled film). Most excitingly, and after it has come up in passing earlier in this thread a few times, BBC4 finally gets around to showing the first black-themed documentary-drama film from 1956 A Man From The Sun at 11:30 p.m. starring Errol John. Just after Kokomo City finishes on Channel 4, Film4 shows another transgender-themed film with A Fantastic Woman at 1:30 a.m.
BBC4 does a Doris Day night on Thursday 27th. Nothing too spectacular (Lover Come Back is the film chosen to show at 8:55 p.m., and the 1989 Christopher Frayling interview with Day follows at 10:40 p.m.) but there is a new interview with chat show host Gloria Hunniford at 8 p.m. followed by her 1995 interview with Day at 8:15 p.m.
BBC4's Storyville documentary of the week is Bad Press at 10 p.m. on Tuesday 25th.
The big film of the week is Earwig on Film4 at 1:15 a.m. in the early hours of Wednesday 26th, which is the first film by Lucile Hadzihalilovic to reach UK television.
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Repeat-wise, serenidipitously in the wake of Criterion's recent announcement of a UHD edition coming in September, Film4 is showing The Long Good Friday at Midnight on Saturday 22nd. Unfortunately lots of things clash with Channel 4's premiere of Kokomo City, including Pan's Labyrinth transferring from Channel 4/Film4 onto BBC1 with a screening at Midnight on Sunday 23rd (a very rare instance of the main BBC1 channel showing a fully subtitled film). Most excitingly, and after it has come up in passing earlier in this thread a few times, BBC4 finally gets around to showing the first black-themed documentary-drama film from 1956 A Man From The Sun at 11:30 p.m. starring Errol John. Just after Kokomo City finishes on Channel 4, Film4 shows another transgender-themed film with A Fantastic Woman at 1:30 a.m.
BBC4 does a Doris Day night on Thursday 27th. Nothing too spectacular (Lover Come Back is the film chosen to show at 8:55 p.m., and the 1989 Christopher Frayling interview with Day follows at 10:40 p.m.) but there is a new interview with chat show host Gloria Hunniford at 8 p.m. followed by her 1995 interview with Day at 8:15 p.m.
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Re: Upcoming Movies on TV (UK)
Invaders from Mars (1953), Sat 29th Jun, Talking Pictures.
Hunting Venus (1999 TVM), Sat 29th Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 1st July. Or...
Spencer (2021), Sat 29th Jun, Channel 4. Or...
The Salamander (1981), Sat 29th Jun, London Live.
This is Guernsey, Sun 30th Jun, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Match Point (2005), Mon 1st July, Great Movies.
The Man Who Saved the World (2014), Wed 3rd July, London Live. Or...
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021), Wed 3rd July, Talking Pictures. Also late Fri 12th July.
Off the Rails (2022, broadcast version), Thu 4th July, London Live.
The Stranger Came Home (1954), Fri 5th July, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 11th July.
The Adventures of PC 49 (1949), Fri 5th July, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 11th July.
Hunting Venus (1999 TVM), Sat 29th Jun, Talking Pictures. Also Mon 1st July. Or...
Spencer (2021), Sat 29th Jun, Channel 4. Or...
The Salamander (1981), Sat 29th Jun, London Live.
This is Guernsey, Sun 30th Jun, Talking Pictures. (Baim archive short)
Match Point (2005), Mon 1st July, Great Movies.
The Man Who Saved the World (2014), Wed 3rd July, London Live. Or...
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021), Wed 3rd July, Talking Pictures. Also late Fri 12th July.
Off the Rails (2022, broadcast version), Thu 4th July, London Live.
The Stranger Came Home (1954), Fri 5th July, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 11th July.
The Adventures of PC 49 (1949), Fri 5th July, Talking Pictures. Also Thu 11th July.