Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

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.

.@TalkingPicsTV gets a page-lead in tomorrow’s Mail on Sunday pic.twitter.com/HD4sjR9o2V

— 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"

TPTV 13:10 The Importance Of Being Earnest (1952)
BBC2 15:00 The Importance Of Being Earnest (2002)

Some films on today:

London Live
13.00 Brief Encounter
15.00 Victim

Film4
16.45 Beneath the Planet of the Apes

Talking Pictures
23.55 Shampoo

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

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.

What do people who aren't in London get on freeview channel 8? (Ie instead of London Live)

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.

Just recently discovered that I can now get Sky Arts on Freeview.

(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)

i've just watched the whole of american graffiti without recognising harrison ford...

Ah, he was so young..

'73, so only 4 years before SW.

i keep forgetting about Sky Arts (ch 11?) but over the last week we've had

KT Tunstall on Ivor Cutler (including her singing Beautiful Cosmos to Phyllis)

Trailblazers: Two Tone (Noddy Holder narrated documentary, very Specials-centric, some good contributors like, surprisingly, Pete Waterman, who was DJ at the Locarno when the Coventry Automatics played there)

The Art Of Architecture on Battersea Power Station

er, Portrait Artist Of The Year

Punk Night tomorrow by the look

I thought 'Danny Dyer on Harold Pinter' on Sky Arts was some kind of pisstake, but apparently Dyer worked with Pinter and is a big fan, so fair dos.

I watched a thing about John Belushi which was quite poor (and had an odd, stilted, machine-translated-back-and-forth voiceover), and "Rankin's 2020", which obviously fulfilled my long-held wish for EXIF data to pop up onscreen when showing pro-grade photographs, but was still unsatisfying. Still, it beats Border Patrol on ch11.