I think THE SWIMMER is repeated next weekend and I will watch then. Never seen it yet.
― the pinefox, Monday, 13 April 2020 11:07 (three years ago) link
I'd strongly recommend it!
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:12 (three years ago) link
likewise
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
INDIANA JONES - all 4 films on BBC over the weekend including RAIDERS Friday, TEMPLE Saturday and BOTH 3 & 4 today.
I watched TEMPLE on Saturday for first time in decades and it was ... even more disappointing than in 1984.
― the pinefox, Monday, 13 April 2020 11:16 (three years ago) link
A TASTE OF HONEY is on Sony Classics AGAIN tonight for anyone who missed it.
BABY DRIVER is worth seeing once.
WOLF HALL is apparently ongoing on BBC4.
I think I will watch IJ AND THE CRYSTAL SKULL at 6:40 before UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE - a semi-final?
― the pinefox, Monday, 13 April 2020 11:18 (three years ago) link
we watched raiders last night and it was far more old-fashioned than i’d remembered! i hadn’t actually seen it since 1982. big tin-tin energy.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 April 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
the scenes where they find the real actual tomb poking out of the sand is lifted straight from cigars of the pharaoh
other overlaps: central hero never seems to be doing the job he's paid for, small puttering planes travelling immense distances, quite racist
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
yes my son said that. “dad this is pretty racist”he also noticed no black people in mad max fury road which was a v good point
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link
vaguely watching "Carry On Girls" and it's a bit sexist tbh
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link
They'll be telling us "Mutiny on the Buses" is sexist next.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 13 April 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
... was on Freeview the other day fwiw.
mutiny on the lost bus
― mark s, Monday, 13 April 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
Mutiny on the Buses is the feminist installment of the Buses Trilogy
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 April 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
The Robe's on BBC2. Richard Burton's hair is pretty funny.
― où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 13 April 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
Hindle Wakes on TPtv right now, probably only notable for morrissey's pun in that moors murders song.
(it was quite a famous play and an interesting look at the Wakes Weeks thing that industrial towns used to do)
― koogs, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
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?).
Re: Star Trek. Yes, they are the 16:9 version, I think? Anyway, they look great, in fact Star Trek must have blown a few minds when it was first shown, some of the photographic effects (not the polystyrene rocks) are still impressive. The first season of Star Trek is so good.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 09:12 (three years ago) link
(LOL McCoy wearing is so much make up in this current episode)
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 09:13 (three years ago) link
"so for this episode we'll be needing a LIFE FORM OF PURE ENERGY"
― mark s, Friday, 17 April 2020 09:15 (three years ago) link
"WOLF HALL is apparently ongoing on BBC4."
Yeah it was EP3 by the time I saw that :-(
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 April 2020 09:20 (three years ago) link
Fuck, missed it too.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Friday, 17 April 2020 09:23 (three years ago) link
WOLF HALL must be on iPlayer now - I think I'll watch it all again next week.
― the pinefox, Friday, 17 April 2020 10:41 (three years ago) link
Next week: look out for THE WILD ONE and ON THE WATERFRONT on Sony Classics.
― the pinefox, Friday, 17 April 2020 12:26 (three years ago) link
.@TalkingPicsTV gets a page-lead in tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday pic.twitter.com/HD4sjR9o2V— Tony Paley (@tpaleyfilm) April 18, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
sweet
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 19 April 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
enjoyed peter vaughan in Smokescreen yesterday on talking pictures. bit of nonsense about possible insurance fraud/suicide/murder which was diverting enough. vaughan plays a miserly claims agent penny pinching whilst fiddling expenses who seems unsympathetic until the reveal of what he is using the saved money for.
also saw the tonally extremely odd That Brennan Girl. v strange melodrama.
― oscar bravo, Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:38 (three years ago) link
he also noticed no black people in mad max fury road which was a v good pointdiscounting Zoe Kravitz for having a white grandparent on each side?
― donald failson (sic), Sunday, 19 April 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
to put that in context, our inspiration for watching fury road was the “california love” video. which probably skewed his expectations on blackness a little bit.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 19 April 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
enjoyed peter vaughan in Smokescreen yesterday on talking pictures
Yes, that's a good film!
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 April 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
... who is a prancing ninny, as in this morning's episode.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Monday, 20 April 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link
Saturday night: THE SWIMMER. Quite fascinating and ultimately troubling.
Sunday night: COLD MOUNTAIN. Marred by too many fake accents by non-Americans but probably underrated - in an older Western, the content of this one would be considered very interesting.
― the pinefox, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
Tomorrow night:https://www.radiotimes.com/film/k8vx9b/up-the-junction/
Not very keen on the cast, but worth seeing?
― the pinefox, Friday, 24 April 2020 09:50 (three years ago) link
maureen lipman iirc. it's a good addition to the 60s kitchen sink thing.
Adrienne Posta too...
https://youtu.be/79nVTKeaRGs
― koogs, Friday, 24 April 2020 11:16 (three years ago) link
She definitely seems strongly preferable to Maureen Lipman.
― the pinefox, Friday, 24 April 2020 11:24 (three years ago) link
The Ladykillers followed by All That Heaven Allows, 12.50pm on Film4, a channel which generally never shows anything worth watching.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 07:09 (three years ago) link
Can't watch today but thanks for the heads-up Tom D -- these reminders are useful.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 28 April 2020 07:44 (three years ago) link
Only problem I've got is that Channel 4 and Film4 don't work when it rains or is particularly overcast - come back analogue all is forgiven.
― The Corbynite Maneuver (Tom D.), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 09:47 (three years ago) link
Sony Movies Classic is running through a bunch of good onld english films, mostly repeats and mentioned upthread, but icymi
09ish Loneliness of long distance runner11ish Georgy Girl15ish Admirable Crichton17ish, er, Dad's Army19ish Saturday Night & Sunday Morning21ish Taste Of Honey23ish The Knack and how to get it
some notable war films on film4 too11 This Happy Breed13 Millions Like Us15 Two Thousand Women17 Waterloo Road
and TPTV have been showing hammer films late on a friday, tonight's is Dracula, Prince Of Darkness
― koogs, Friday, 8 May 2020 08:28 (three years ago) link
of those on film4 the first two are interesting - noel coward wrote the first, and both are very much about the families left behind during the war, and both filmed whilst the war was still happening.
Patricia Roc in Millions and Two Thousand Women as well.
― koogs, Friday, 8 May 2020 08:34 (three years ago) link
RUNNER, SATURDAY NIGHT, TASTE OF HONEY were all screened on the same channel in the last month or two - I saw them then otherwise would watch.
― the pinefox, Friday, 8 May 2020 11:44 (three years ago) link
i did say as much - "mostly repeats and mentioned upthread, but icymi"
― koogs, Friday, 8 May 2020 17:00 (three years ago) link
TPTV 13:10 The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952)BBC2 15:00 The Importance Of Being Earnest (2002)
― koogs, Monday, 11 May 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
Some films on today:
London Live13.00 Brief Encounter15.00 Victim
Film416.45 Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Talking Pictures23.55 Shampoo
― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 09:01 (three years ago) link
I remember to take this opportunity to report that I have been listening to music that I think features TOM D.
Specifically on vinyl the whole of Close Lobsters' 12-inch, 4-track 45: 'What Is There To Smile About?'
The lead track can be heard here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a50KwHUAXo
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 13 May 2020 09:09 (three years ago) link
Sony Movies Classic has now been rebranded Sony Movies Christmas for all your festive TV movie needs, three months early.
But that prompted me to finally watch The Swimmer before it disappeared and that was great. Nice device, the way back story is gradually revealed, but never fully. And the ending... Odd film for such a big name.
Also taped Miss Jean Brodie and American Graffiti.
Legend of Hell House was on tptv at weekend. Dvd has been on my Amazon wish list for about a decade after learning about the Delia Derbyshire soundtrack.
― koogs, Thursday, 24 September 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
What do people who aren't in London get on freeview channel 8? (Ie instead of London Live)
― koogs, Thursday, 24 September 2020 06:35 (three years ago) link
In Glasgow, 'That's TV Scotland', which mostly seems to show fuzzy music clips from the 70s and 80s. I hear from London friends that London Live shows some interesting films from time to time - definitely not the case with That's TV Scotland.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 September 2020 07:24 (three years ago) link
Just recently discovered that I can now get Sky Arts on Freeview.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 24 September 2020 07:26 (three years ago) link
(I was asking because Stuart maconie was saying that he wanted to see Deep End and it was on LL yesterday. There were 6 months when it would show a new Ealing B-movie every day. Then it went onto Norman wisdom movies... And in the evenings it's all London gangster movies)
― koogs, Thursday, 24 September 2020 07:34 (three years ago) link
i've just watched the whole of american graffiti without recognising harrison ford...
― koogs, Thursday, 24 September 2020 12:13 (three years ago) link
Ah, he was so young..
― Mark G, Thursday, 24 September 2020 12:16 (three years ago) link