Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

How about SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS -- are any of us watching that?

I did. It was enjoyable.

Useful tip from Koogs on these BBC films.

(I think I'll watch the next two also.)

(But first: NOTTING HILL on Five Star tonight.)

I missed the beginning but caught most of it, SfS. Modern 4th wall stuff from Sim at the end.

Yes this was good.

I plan to watch THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT next.

NOTTING HILL btw was worth seeing but not that convincing.

Loving Star Trek at 10 o'clock every morning, courtesy of the Horror Channel.

are they showing the 16:9 version?

(i have the dvds of TOS sat in front of the tv, i think i've finished them but can't remember. there's no real end to it - the last episode is just another episode)

Voyager on later in the day too. and Lost in Space. and Time Tunnel (the original?).

No, it's not the 16:9 version. They're started showing them from the start, and the first season is pretty consistently good.

(listen out in TMITWS forthe same bubble sound effects they used for the car in SfS)

oh, joan greenwood.

Greenwood's voice a tremendous artefact. Or do I mean instrument?

The Green of the Voice

That's good, Ward.

THE TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT arrives on platform BBC2 at 15:25 today and departs at 16:45.

Terrible Doug McClure (biceps) / Caroline Munro (boobs) movie on this morning, on Talking Pictures, which I ended up watching because of the weird electronic score - which it turns out was composed by a guy from Manfred Mann.

in response to PF's earlier comment abt the attitude to old movies in the 70s -- my feeling is we had parky and rodd and also e.g. michael bentine's golden silents instead of actually being able to view old films. the bbc was taping over many of its own archives (= why it's a big deal when eps of dad's army are found in skips etc) and the culture at large was casually and thoughtlessly non-archival, the turn to the past as a large wing of ordinary popular culture came later, when video became a household item not an expensive specialist technology (and relatedly when the huge music re-issue projects arrived alongside CDs)

almost parky's entire sheen was as loveable curator of lost things we shd pay more attention to, old films and broadway and the las vegas swing era, which only works when we realise that it really was mostly lost (since he was a p terrible curator)

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner on channel 50 today at 14:50 (didn't you just read that PF?)

clashes with Titfield though (and i saw it only a month ago)

I did, Koogs ! Had no idea the film was coming on today.

Cripes, it's Sony Classics. I really think I should watch this.

(I didn't - and then I missed the start of the Ealing film too: so it ends up as no films today.)

more greenwood today. Whisky Galore!

(that accent's a bit off though)

next week's BBC2 matinees, btw

M The Robe
T The Long Ships
W The Vikings
T Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines
F ??? (not in EPG yet)

disappointing.

Disappointing, indeed.

Shall we all watch THE LAVENDER HILL MOB tomorrow anyway?

btw I missed TITFIELD because it started 40 minutes earlier than the last schedule I saw had announced!

Saturday we should watch LONG DISTANCE RUNNER. Not as if any footy's on.

Magnificent Men - I have a soft spot for those sprawling, international ensemble, chase-type films from the late '60s. Great Race, Monte Carlo or Bust, It's A MMMMM World, etc. Would happily watch for the cast alone for at least 30min.

The Robe - would be curious to see this as it was "the last film I saw at the pictures with your mother; y'know, with Victor Mature" - my Dad, every time anyone mentioned going to the cinema, 1975-2007.

But...work. Not seeing any daytime tv atm.

I watched Magnificent Men a couple of months ago, it's definitely comfort food

the ealing things are entertaining enough but also familiar enough to not be a distraction. but then my home office is the sofa, facing the tv.

TMMITFM was a Pointless question the other day. john the measurer was a pointless answer (in two of the three jackpot round categories, the other one being The Wrong Box, which i've never seen)

chitty chitty bang bang is the only good bond movie

Benny Hill was in both CCBB and TMMITFM (and the italian job)

exactly

Gert Froebe obv in CCBB, TMM and Goldfinger

Benny Hill in a Bond film would've been a treat

high-speed chase through the undersea lair

i can almost hear the mash-up of the John Barry theme and Yakety-Sax in my head

I wished I'd started watching this version "Dorian Gray" with Helmut Berger earlier. Dubbing is abysmal.

I have a soft spot for those sprawling, international ensemble, chase-type films from the late '60s. Great Race, Monte Carlo or Bust, It's A MMMMM World, etc. Would happily watch for the cast alone for at least 30min.

Tremendous post. When I was, what - 7, 8? I can't think what age - it's a MMMM World seemed like the most exciting film in the history of film. Well, apart from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK if that had been released by the time I'm thinking of.

1:15 today, remember:

https://www.radiotimes.com/film/fj5j8h/the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-runner/

Some lovely shots, him running through the puddles.

Prefab housing as well is interesting as well.

The final fuck you is great though.

one of Hull's most beloved <3

bolan's girlfriend is ben fogle's mum.

Thing from Another World last night
This Island Earth on right now.

(Chitty also on as i type)

actually, it's classic sci fi weekend on horror.

tomorrow
The Giant Claw (no idea)
Incredible Shrinking Man
20 Million Miles to Earth (Harryhausen)
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (Gerry Anderson)

Ben Fogle's mum also on BBC2 this afternoon (Half A Sixpence; Marti Webb dubbed her songs... Bolam also a minor role).

incredible shrinking man is such a weird mixture of WHAT IT SAYS ON THE TIN and unexpected philosophical turn

Ben Fogle's mum also in the All Coppers Are mentioned recently. It's Ben Fogle's Mum season, obv.

For that authentic lockdown experience Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies is on 5Select (channel 54) at 11 o'clock this morning

"The Swimmer" on Sony Movies (Channel 50) AT 7.05pm.

^^^this is grebt