Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

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

Yes one of my all time faves

Yes, one for when you think you're having a bad day.

I think THE SWIMMER is repeated next weekend and I will watch then. Never seen it yet.

I'd strongly recommend it!

likewise

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.

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?

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.

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

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

vaguely watching "Carry On Girls" and it's a bit sexist tbh

They'll be telling us "Mutiny on the Buses" is sexist next.

... was on Freeview the other day fwiw.

mutiny on the lost bus

Mutiny on the Buses is the feminist installment of the Buses Trilogy

The Robe's on BBC2. Richard Burton's hair is pretty funny.

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)

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.

(LOL McCoy wearing is so much make up in this current episode)

"so for this episode we'll be needing a LIFE FORM OF PURE ENERGY"

"WOLF HALL is apparently ongoing on BBC4."

Yeah it was EP3 by the time I saw that :-(

Fuck, missed it too.

WOLF HALL must be on iPlayer now - I think I'll watch it all again next week.

Next week: look out for THE WILD ONE and ON THE WATERFRONT on Sony Classics.

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— Tony Paley (@tpaleyfilm) April 18, 2020

sweet

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.

he also noticed no black people in mad max fury road which was a v good point

discounting Zoe Kravitz for having a white grandparent on each side?

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.

enjoyed peter vaughan in Smokescreen yesterday on talking pictures

Yes, that's a good film!

"so for this episode we'll be needing a LIFE FORM OF PURE ENERGY"

... who is a prancing ninny, as in this morning's episode.

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.

Tomorrow night:
https://www.radiotimes.com/film/k8vx9b/up-the-junction/

Not very keen on the cast, but worth seeing?

maureen lipman iirc. it's a good addition to the 60s kitchen sink thing.

Adrienne Posta too...

https://youtu.be/79nVTKeaRGs

She definitely seems strongly preferable to Maureen Lipman.

The Ladykillers followed by All That Heaven Allows, 12.50pm on Film4, a channel which generally never shows anything worth watching.

Can't watch today but thanks for the heads-up Tom D -- these reminders are useful.

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.

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 runner
11ish Georgy Girl
15ish Admirable Crichton
17ish, er, Dad's Army
19ish Saturday Night & Sunday Morning
21ish Taste Of Honey
23ish The Knack and how to get it

some notable war films on film4 too
11 This Happy Breed
13 Millions Like Us
15 Two Thousand Women
17 Waterloo Road

and TPTV have been showing hammer films late on a friday, tonight's is Dracula, Prince Of Darkness

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.

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.

i did say as much - "mostly repeats and mentioned upthread, but icymi"