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Film4 Listings for Thursday 6th March
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11:00
Ikiru (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Akira Kurosawa took a break from his samurai jidaigeki films to craft this moving piece of contemporary drama. Takashi Shimura stars as Kanji Watanabe, a middle-aged, widowed bureaucrat who discovers that he has terminal cancer. Lacking emotional support from his children, Watanabe at first struggles to cope with the news, but he quickly realises that it's no use trying to drown his sorrows in Tokyo's nightlife. Instead he takes inspiration from one of his colleagues, Toyo Odagiri, a younger woman who is initially suspicious of his sudden attention. But, accepting his friendship is platonic, she reveals to him why she's so happy and positive, and in so doing gives Watanabe the sense of purpose he needs to make the most of his final months of life. Film4 premiere.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri, Bokuzen Hidari
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1952, PG, 4 Star)
13:50
The Moonraker (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
This romantic thriller is essentially the Scarlet Pimpernel relocated in place and time across the Channel to the English Civil War. George Baker plays the eponymous Cavalier hero, fighting off the Roundhead foe as he single-handedly saves the country's aristocracy, smuggling them to safety in France. But when Charles II decides to take the trip, Cromwell's cronies are waiting in the wings. Marius Goring and John Le Mesurier beef up the supporting cast, while Sylvia Syms provides the romantic interest in a dashing yarn of love, courage and betrayal.
Director: David MacDonald
Starring: George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Peter Arne, Marius Goring, Richard Leech, Clive Morton
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)
15:30
The Bravados (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Henry King's brooding western stars Gregory Peck as a stranger who arrives in a small town to witness the execution of the four bank robbers he believes raped and murdered his wife. When the criminals break out of prison, taking Emma Steimmetz hostage, he tracks them down, determined to kill them one by one. But then he discovers a truth that makes him reconsider both his purpose and his beliefs.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)
17:25
The Ladykillers (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Alexander Mackendrick's classic Ealing comedy stars Alec Guinness as the sinister, eccentric leader of a gang of crooks whose perfect crime meets its nemesis at the unwitting hands of Guinness's elderly landlady, played by Bafta-award-winner Katie Johnson.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 4 Star)
19:15
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
A witty stop-motion animated version of the Roald Dahl children's classic from offbeat comedy writer-director Wes Anderson. Now that Mr Fox has become the proud father of a cub, he declares to his wife that he will finally grow up and stop his chicken-pilfering ways. But when some wicked farmers move in to Mr Fox's neck of the woods, it starts to look as though temptation will prove too hard to resist for our hero... Also featuring the voices of Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson and Jarvis Cocker. This screening is introduced by the director and is scheduled to tie-in with the release of Anderson's new film Grand Budapest Hotel on Friday 7 March. Film4 viewers can also catch Anderson's Rushmore on Friday night.
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky, Eric Chase Anderson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, PG, 4 Star)
21:00
Die Hard 4.0 (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Bruce Willis returns once again as John McClane, the wisecracking, old-school New York cop whose impressive CV includes rescuing hostages captured in a swanky LA plaza and saving passengers on a hijacked plane circling Washington. In this violent thriller, he's up against a group of terrorists threatening to hack into the US computer infrastructure. When they crash the stock market, sending the economy into meltdown and causing panic on Wall Street, McClane turns to young hacker Matt Farrell. Farrell's wanted by the FBI, but he's also potentially the only man who can help figure out the cyber criminals' next move. When the terrorists respond by kidnapping McClane's daughter Lucy, it's time for the anxious father to load up his ammo clips and go get the bad guys - just as the country's descending into chaos. Directed by Len Wiseman. In English, with some French and Italian with English subtitles.
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan Sadowski
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 4 Star)
23:30
Shallow Grave (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
Danny Boyle's award-winning directorial debut tells the tale of three flatmates, one corpse and a suitcase full of money. David, Alex and Juliet are looking for someone to share their trendy Edinburgh flat, and Hugo seems ideal. But shortly after he moves in, they find him dead in bed beside a large suitcase full of cash. Should they inform the police or dispose of the body and keep the loot? They choose the latter, but there are other parties after the money who have little to do with the forces of law and order... So begins a dark and sometimes hilarious journey through death, dismemberment and dementia.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox, Ken Stott, Keith Allen
(Subtitles, 1994, 18, 5 Star)
01:15
Confessions (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
In this complex, compelling thriller Tetsuya Nakashima takes a typically bravura approach to filmmaking to tell the story of a schoolteacher who believes some of her pupils are responsible for the murder of her four-year-old daughter. Teacher Moriguchi opens the film with an address to her unruly class, explaining that she is retiring from her profession. Her speech has absolutely no impact on her chaos-creating charges, until she reveals that she has already taken quite vicious, if slow-acting, revenge on the students she thinks responsible for drowning her child. Nakamisha's thriller then traces the repercussions of Moriguchi's actions, both as they unfold and via the recollections, from some point in the future, of those involved.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii, Kaoru Fujiwara, Ai Hashimoto
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2010, 15, 4 Star)
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Film4 Listings for Thursday 6th March
Listings: all day morning afternoon evening late night
11:00
Ikiru (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
Akira Kurosawa took a break from his samurai jidaigeki films to craft this moving piece of contemporary drama. Takashi Shimura stars as Kanji Watanabe, a middle-aged, widowed bureaucrat who discovers that he has terminal cancer. Lacking emotional support from his children, Watanabe at first struggles to cope with the news, but he quickly realises that it's no use trying to drown his sorrows in Tokyo's nightlife. Instead he takes inspiration from one of his colleagues, Toyo Odagiri, a younger woman who is initially suspicious of his sudden attention. But, accepting his friendship is platonic, she reveals to him why she's so happy and positive, and in so doing gives Watanabe the sense of purpose he needs to make the most of his final months of life. Film4 premiere.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Shinichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri, Bokuzen Hidari
(Black and White, Premiere, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 1952, PG, 4 Star)
13:50
The Moonraker (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
This romantic thriller is essentially the Scarlet Pimpernel relocated in place and time across the Channel to the English Civil War. George Baker plays the eponymous Cavalier hero, fighting off the Roundhead foe as he single-handedly saves the country's aristocracy, smuggling them to safety in France. But when Charles II decides to take the trip, Cromwell's cronies are waiting in the wings. Marius Goring and John Le Mesurier beef up the supporting cast, while Sylvia Syms provides the romantic interest in a dashing yarn of love, courage and betrayal.
Director: David MacDonald
Starring: George Baker, Sylvia Syms, Peter Arne, Marius Goring, Richard Leech, Clive Morton
(Subtitles, 1958, PG, 3 Star)
15:30
The Bravados (Film) Film icon 3 star rating PG certificate
Henry King's brooding western stars Gregory Peck as a stranger who arrives in a small town to witness the execution of the four bank robbers he believes raped and murdered his wife. When the criminals break out of prison, taking Emma Steimmetz hostage, he tracks them down, determined to kill them one by one. But then he discovers a truth that makes him reconsider both his purpose and his beliefs.
Director: Henry King
Starring: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd, Albert Salmi, Henry Silva, Kathleen Gallant
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 1958, PG, 3 Star)
17:25
The Ladykillers (Film) Film icon 4 star rating U certificate
Alexander Mackendrick's classic Ealing comedy stars Alec Guinness as the sinister, eccentric leader of a gang of crooks whose perfect crime meets its nemesis at the unwitting hands of Guinness's elderly landlady, played by Bafta-award-winner Katie Johnson.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
(Subtitles, 1955, U, 4 Star)
19:15
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Film) Film icon 4 star rating PG certificate
A witty stop-motion animated version of the Roald Dahl children's classic from offbeat comedy writer-director Wes Anderson. Now that Mr Fox has become the proud father of a cub, he declares to his wife that he will finally grow up and stop his chicken-pilfering ways. But when some wicked farmers move in to Mr Fox's neck of the woods, it starts to look as though temptation will prove too hard to resist for our hero... Also featuring the voices of Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson and Jarvis Cocker. This screening is introduced by the director and is scheduled to tie-in with the release of Anderson's new film Grand Budapest Hotel on Friday 7 March. Film4 viewers can also catch Anderson's Rushmore on Friday night.
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wallace Wolodarsky, Eric Chase Anderson
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2009, PG, 4 Star)
21:00
Die Hard 4.0 (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
Bruce Willis returns once again as John McClane, the wisecracking, old-school New York cop whose impressive CV includes rescuing hostages captured in a swanky LA plaza and saving passengers on a hijacked plane circling Washington. In this violent thriller, he's up against a group of terrorists threatening to hack into the US computer infrastructure. When they crash the stock market, sending the economy into meltdown and causing panic on Wall Street, McClane turns to young hacker Matt Farrell. Farrell's wanted by the FBI, but he's also potentially the only man who can help figure out the cyber criminals' next move. When the terrorists respond by kidnapping McClane's daughter Lucy, it's time for the anxious father to load up his ammo clips and go get the bad guys - just as the country's descending into chaos. Directed by Len Wiseman. In English, with some French and Italian with English subtitles.
Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Bruce Willis, Timothy Olyphant, Justin Long, Maggie Q, Cliff Curtis, Jonathan Sadowski
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 2007, 15, 4 Star)
23:30
Shallow Grave (Film) Film icon 5 star rating 18 certificate
Danny Boyle's award-winning directorial debut tells the tale of three flatmates, one corpse and a suitcase full of money. David, Alex and Juliet are looking for someone to share their trendy Edinburgh flat, and Hugo seems ideal. But shortly after he moves in, they find him dead in bed beside a large suitcase full of cash. Should they inform the police or dispose of the body and keep the loot? They choose the latter, but there are other parties after the money who have little to do with the forces of law and order... So begins a dark and sometimes hilarious journey through death, dismemberment and dementia.
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Ewan McGregor, Kerry Fox, Ken Stott, Keith Allen
(Subtitles, 1994, 18, 5 Star)
01:15
Confessions (Film) Film icon 4 star rating 15 certificate
In this complex, compelling thriller Tetsuya Nakashima takes a typically bravura approach to filmmaking to tell the story of a schoolteacher who believes some of her pupils are responsible for the murder of her four-year-old daughter. Teacher Moriguchi opens the film with an address to her unruly class, explaining that she is retiring from her profession. Her speech has absolutely no impact on her chaos-creating charges, until she reveals that she has already taken quite vicious, if slow-acting, revenge on the students she thinks responsible for drowning her child. Nakamisha's thriller then traces the repercussions of Moriguchi's actions, both as they unfold and via the recollections, from some point in the future, of those involved.
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Starring: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii, Kaoru Fujiwara, Ai Hashimoto
(Widescreen, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Japanese with English Subtitles, 2010, 15, 4 Star)