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Post by HoraceCoker on Dec 26, 2019 22:15:38 GMT
The Entertainer is on BBC2 tonight at 00:45 (well technically tomorrow 27th at 00:45am) Stars Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Brenda de Banzie and Alan Bates and Albert Finney in their early film roles. ...are there still no subtitles on TP...? |
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Post by profbooboo on Dec 26, 2019 23:40:28 GMT
The Entertainer is on BBC2 tonight at 00:45 (well technically tomorrow 27th at 00:45am) Stars Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Brenda de Banzie and Alan Bates and Albert Finney in their early film roles. ...are there still no subtitles on TP...? There's subtitles on certain films. If you check the TP website in the TV Schedule section it gives you the films in order week by week. For 23rd-29th Dec it'll tell you the time, the film title and the a synopsis, at the bottom of the synopsis it'll say in brackets if subtitles are available. Not every film has them. talkingpicturestv.co.uk/schedule/ |
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Post by beverley61 on Jan 7, 2020 20:49:36 GMT
I went to see Jojo Rabbit tonight (cheap Tuesday). Very funny, very dark, sad and sweet. Definitely worth a fiver.
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Post by Delia on Jan 30, 2020 23:18:45 GMT
We went to see "The Personal History of David Copperfield' and it is very amusing. But if you're a real Dickens fan, you may or may not be disappointed - there are far too many characters and events in the book for them all to be included, so the whole thing gallops on at a cracking pace in order for it all to fit into only two hours.
We did laugh out loud several times, and the cast are exceptionally good and give it their all.
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Post by bethb63 on Feb 2, 2020 18:06:32 GMT
I’ve also just been to David Copperfield. Purists may not like it, but I thought it was great. Surreal, beautiful, and madly eccentric. The style reminded me a little of Tim Burton or Terry Gilliam. Wonderful casting.
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Post by geometryman on Feb 11, 2020 12:30:19 GMT
Gwen (2018).
I didn't know whether to post this here, or in the 'Films to avoid' thread. I rented it and kind of wish I hadn't. The Welsh hill setting, atmosphere and acting are OK, but god it's bleak. If you're feeling cheerful when starting to watch this Victorian tale of misery and desperation, I can guarantee you won't be by the end!
Cast includes Maxine Peake & Richard Harrington, but I watched it for up-and-coming youngster Eleanor Worthington-Cox in the title role. She's only 18 now and would likely have been 16 when this was filmed. She was probably even younger when starting to film Sky Atlantic's Britannia, where I first noticed her and in which she has a major role.
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Post by Delia on Feb 20, 2020 23:38:45 GMT
Just seen "Emma" which is a comical version of the famous Jane Austen book. Very well done, with gorgeous costumes and sumptuous settings in some stately homes, but mainly, wonderfully acted out by a good cast including the hilarious Miranda Hart and the droll, understated acting of Bill Nighy.
The young lead actors do a great job, and the story rolls along with many laughs along the way, which of course is led by Jane Austens clever observations on the way that class and wealth were the main drivers of society in those days. (And probably still are!)
Very well worth seeing, and a lot of fun.
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Post by profbooboo on Apr 8, 2020 11:56:31 GMT
I've been watching more movies recently and older shows as there isn't much on TV.
I watched The Running Man with Alan Bates, Laurence Harvey and Lee Remick last night. I'd been putting off watching it as I'd got it in my head that it was a different sort of film, I might have confused it with something else, but I had the idea it was a man on the run from authorities, a sort of spy type thing. But it's not.
SPOILER AHEAD!
Laurence Harvey plays a man who's married to Lee Remick. He has an accident but the insurance company won't pay out as the policy expired a few days before. He then decided he'll get him money. He fakes a plane crash (he's a pilot) into the sea and swims ashore. He's presumed dead and Remick gets an insurance pay out from Alan Bates who's the insurance man.
Remick goes to Spain to meet her husband so they can travel abroad and start a new life. He's dyed his hair (so doesn't suit him) and is living as an Australian sheep farmer/business man. While there they bump into Bates. Remick thinks he's there spying on them regarding the insurance pay out. Harvey later, on a high road, tried to run Bates off the road. But it turns out that Bates isnt in insurance anymore and is working with a pain company, his holiday is just a coincidence and he likes Remick.
Sorry, I'm rubbish with descriptions, but I really really enjoyed it...and on a very base level, Bates is hot in this.😍
Anyhoo, it's on Sony Movies Classic tonight (Wed 8th April '20) at 9pm.
Freeview 50
Sky ?
...also The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner this afternoon.
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Post by profbooboo on Apr 24, 2020 17:12:40 GMT
Following on with my Alan Bates obssession, Woman In Love is on Sony Movies Classic tonight at 9pm (Freeview 50) It's based on the book by DH Lawrence and stars Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson.
...I can't look at a fig without blushing!
Following after that film is I'll Never Forget What's'isname also starting Oliver Reed.
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Post by geometryman on Apr 24, 2020 21:26:47 GMT
A number of my friends appear as extras in that film. I lived in Derby at the time, and some of the locations used were in that area. I might have crept into it myself except I was unfortunately away at the critical time. Friends rubbed my nose in it afterwards with snaps they had taken of the stars on set.
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Post by profbooboo on Apr 25, 2020 0:04:12 GMT
Brilliant. Such a great film, great they got to watch it get created.
The closest I've been was watching Russell Crowe and Michael Kitchen filming scenes for Proof of Life, which wasn't a very good film and Stan & Ollie with Steve Coogan and John C Reilly, which was better...I Also became a background artiste when a hair & make up girl thought I was an extra, should have gone with it!
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Post by profbooboo on May 10, 2020 21:01:57 GMT
Some oldies, but goodies.
Talking Pictures on Mobday 11th May at 3pm has Privates Progress with Ian Carmichael and Richard Attenborough.
A bit early at 1pm on Sony Movies Classic is Saturday Night, Sunday Morning with Albert Finney.
On Tuesday 12th on Sony Classics at 3pm they have The Running Man again with Alan Bates and Laurence Harvey.
On Wednesday 13th on Sony Classics at 3:05pm in The Admirable Crichton with Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil Parker.
Followed at 4:55pm by The Wrong Box with (wait for it!) John Mills, Michael Caine, Ralph Richardson, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Peter Sellers and many household names from back in the day.
At 6pm on Talking Pictures is Your Money Or Your Wife with Donald Sudden and Peggy Cummins.
On Friday 15th on BBC2 at 3pm they have Brief Encounter with Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson with BBC1 showing Election at 11pm (?) With Matthew Broderick and Reece Witherspoon.
Also Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday BBC2 are showing the St Trinians films in the afternoon.
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Post by profbooboo on May 22, 2020 20:15:31 GMT
Spotlight is on BBC2 tonight at 11:20pm. Starring Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 17:16:39 GMT
Silver Screen Classics ~ 27 films from RKO Pictures, one of the Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Bringing Up Baby: The screwball classic with Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn
Citizen Kane: Orson Welles' movie masterpiece.
King Kong: Hollywood's most famous monster movie
Top Hat: Fred and Ginger cheek to cheek
Carefree: A screwball comedy with Fred and Ginger
The Sky's the Limit: Fred Astaire stars in a wartime romance
Beautiful but Dangerous: Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons star in an RKO classic
Wagon Master: John Ford's western classic
Vivacious Lady: Vintage comedy with Ginger Rogers and James Stewart
The Gay Divorce: Starring Fred and Ginger at their finest
My Favourite Wife: Comedy as a missing shipwreck survivor returns to her spouse
Angel Face: Robert Mitchum and Jean Simmons in a film noir classic
Suspicion: The classic Hitchcock thriller starring Joan Fontaine
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House: Classic Cary Grant
The Magnificent Ambersons: Orson Welles’ classic drama
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon: John Wayne stars in John Ford’s classic Western
Love Affair: Romantic drama. Love blossoms on a cross Atlantic journey
Kitty Foyle: With an Oscar-winning performance from Ginger Rogers
Miracle of the Bells: Can a young women’s dying wish be fulfilled?
The Velvet Touch: An actress longs for tragedy – but she didn’t mean her own
Fort Apache: The classic western with John Wayne
The Spanish Main: Classic swashbuckling adventure with Maureen O’Hara
Blackbeard the Pirate: Swashbuckling adventure on the high seas
Cat People: A woman's mysterious origins hide a curse which threatens to destroy those close to her.
The Curse of the Cat People: Film sequel. A lonely young girl conjures up the spirit of her father's first wife.
I Walked With a Zombie: A Canadian nurse arrives on a Caribbean island to tend an invalid woman.
Astaire and Rogers Sing the Great American Songbook… : Let's face the music and dance. A compilation of songs from the Golden Age of Hollywood, performed by the dance icons.
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Post by profbooboo on May 31, 2020 20:24:19 GMT
The Man Who Haunted Himself
Talking Pictures 10pm - Sun 31st May
Stars Roger Moore is a quite eerie film. It was Basil Deardens last film.
Life At The Top
Talking Pictures 11:50pm - Sun 31st May
Laurence Harvey (and Michael Craig) in the follow up to Room At The Top.
Withnail & I
C4 00:15 - Mon 1st June (Sunday night/Monday morning)
Richard E Grant and Paul McGann in possibably their finest film roles.
"I want the finest wines available to humanity. I want them here and I want them now."
And of course Dominic Cummings defence "We've gone on holiday, by mistake."!
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Anymore to come?
