Freeview Boxes : Classic or Dud?

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.

Horror Channel is showing the old Universal monster films on monday lunchtimes. I'm guessing Dracula was on first, i caught Frankenstein (1931), missed The Mummy (1932). Wolfman (1941) is on tomorrow, and Creature from the Black Lagoon is on the 8th.

so, some years ago i turned the tv on after midnight and caught the middle of a film about an american soldier's night in britain - failed visit to prostitute, picked up in a pub and rolled by the woman's compatriots, falls (mutually) for (very shy) barmaid, gets chased by the military police. curious little film.

i caught it, again by accident, about two months later, but again not all of it.

last night i taped something on spec from Talking Pictures. "A sensitive story of two airmen. One with a terrible injury and one dealing with life" and it's the film i didn't know the name of. "During One Night" it's called, barmaid is Susan Hampshire.

(said terrible injury, the bit i'd missed before now, is losing his penis (probably more). whilst still a virgin (hence prompting the other one's visit to the prostitute). kills himself over it in the end)

This Caesar and Cleopatra on Talking Pictures at the moment is kinda terrible but the colours are lovely, totally unlike the kind of colours you'd get on modern film. some are a touch too subtle, some are more vivid than you'd expect.

clip here: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2847670553?playlistId=tt0038390&ref_=tt_pr_ov_vi

failed visit to prostitute, picked up in a pub and rolled by the woman's compatriots, falls (mutually) for (very shy) barmaid, gets chased by the military police. curious little film.

this sounds a bit like the plot of saturday night and sunday morning

It does.

I've been watching a lot of Freeview films this week! I now buy TV CHOICE to tell me about them in advance!

some are a touch too subtle, some are more vivid than you'd expect

Three-strip Technicolour! Very slow film (needed intense lighting), and complex cameras. Jack Cardiff was one of the DoPs on that (script by George Bernard Shaw from his own play).

This week:

Tuesday: BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH better known as OUT OF THE PAST, on Sony Movies Classic

Wednesday: NOTORIOUS on Talking Pictures

Thursday: ANIMALS on Film4

and coming up Friday: IN THE LINE OF FIRE on Sony Movies

Tuesday: BUILD MY GALLOWS HIGH better known as OUT OF THE PAST, on Sony Movies Classic

This is on all the time. "They Live By Night" is on a lot too. Freeview is definitely good for film noir!

The Innocents tonight, for creepy Henry James fun
The Man Who Fell To Earth
and The Rebel all on over the weekend on TP. try and spot Nanette Newman...

I missed all those, Koogs. I did watch OUT OF THE PAST. But I have never seen THEY LIVE BY NIGHT!

NOTORIOUS and ANIMALS were both really good in different ways.

This week has presented: THE GREATEST SHOWMAN, OUR MAN IN HAVANA, TRUE ROMANCE, ALL MY SONS. I'm afraid I didn't catch any of them.

What I *did* watch on Tuesday was TIGER BAY (1959) on Film4. Tremendous! So worth watching.

Tonight on Sky Arts is a documentary on THE WHO SELL OUT.

Sunday on 5Select at noon: WENT THE DAY WELL? Tucked away but apparently a good and important film, I will try to watch.

The Mind Benders on TP. never even heard of it before. Dirk Bogarde in a sensory deprivation tank, lovely shots of him just floating there in a wetsuit whilst he goes slowly mad.

Quite a few of Martin Scorsese's 50 Overlooked British Films (like the Mind Benders and Went the Day Well) turn up regularly on Talking Pictures.

If you'd told me that was Talking Pictures schedule for the next few months I'd have believed you, in fact "The Nanny" was on Talking Pictures last Saturday, the night after "The Innocents" was on. "The Pumpkin Eater" is on all the time, but not on Talking Pictures.

there was another geat british film list on twitter around the time of the baftas, but it was an image and the source link was broken so i never found out just what it was about. it was a fascinating mix of things i like and things i'd never heard of.

found it

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyuAFK0WYAYQt3c?format=png&name=900x900

the white bus?
the whisperers?
keep you seats please?

"The White Bus" is that Lindsay Anderson 'free cinema' thing with Arthur Lowe et al?

Keep Your Seat please is george formby, so an acquired taste.

you're right about the white bus too, also: "Writer: Shelagh Delaney". don't recognise any of the shots though.

whisperers looks good too, nanette newman...

Super Cyclone (2012) on Sony Movies. terrible. looks like one of the tv movies they normally show on Horror during the day. only the first two people on screen were detective Martinez from NYPD Blue and Dr Chen from er (and later Agents of SHIELD)

Author of list very keen on films that start with the definite article. The Innocents is so good – saw it when it was reissued in cinemas a few years ago. Never heard of The White Bus or the other two you mention either, koogs.

I've also never heard of The Reckoning, or, closer to now, Paperhouse either.

Paperhouse is the horror-ish one with the girl who draws a house that becomes real. saw it at the time (whilst at uni?) but not since.

I would like to watch THE WHITE BUS!

This week:

Monday 9pm was THE CHAIN

... on Talking Pictures. By Jack Rosenthal, with Warren Mitchell et al. Excellent.

Today: on Film4 MINISTRY OF FEAR (Lang); later on Talking Pictures is, would you believe ... TO DIE FOR !!

Thursday:
BBC4 CITIZEN KANE and a Welles doc.
Film4 has a couple of promising films with people like Ingrid Bergman
TP has ... Warren Beatty's REDS at 9pm!
Sony Movies Classic screens THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI at 5:30 - see this if you can.

Friday 9pm: Sky Arts on Suede COMING UP.

I started to think that TO DIE FOR tonight was probably the one with Tony Slattery, not Nicole Kidman.

I realise that Slattery might appeal more to readers of this thread, but according to schedules, it is indeed the Kidman film.

THE MINISTRY OF FEAR was the most Hitchcockian Lang I've ever seen.

It was, indeed, the Kidman film.

I watched REDS again about 8 years ago, it might might have been sadly missed poster Morbz who spurred me to do it. It's much better than To Die For.

anyone seen the donald pleasence film 'death line' that is new to TP next week? plot synopsis has me intrigued.

i have been watching that Interpol thing on TP (finished this week) and the last but one of those was Donald blowing up someone with a decoy duck.

One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing was on this afternoon and, like most of the Archers films, i caught 10 minutes of it and got sucked in til the end.

Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun on as well, lesser known Gerry Anderson.

just seen TP advertising that film i mentioned above, During One Night, as part of a War box set along with 7 other things i've never heard of.

https://www.renownfilms.co.uk/product/war-in-film-box-set/

Who Goes Next (1938)
Subway in the Sky (1959)
Desert Mice (1959)
The Treasure of San Teresa (1959) (AKA Hot Money Girl)
During One Night (1960)
The Hand (1960)
Beyond the Curtain (1960)
Mr Kingstreet’s War (1971)

hot money girl...

PALE RIDER (1985) is on ITV4 tonight. As usual! I must try to watch.

anyone seen the donald pleasence film 'death line' that is new to TP next week? plot synopsis has me intrigued.

Death Line is amazing, probably the best 'cannibals on the London underground' film ever made but offers so much more especially in Pleasance & Norman Rossington's turn as policemen who really can't be arsed with the Young People and just want a quiet pint or six.

Yep, Death Line is one of my absolute favourite horror films - it's amazingly grim and funny at the same time.

thank you both. will watch.

(it's on friday at 21:00)

This week.

MONDAY
BBC4 doc on cars made in Coventry
Film 4: Robert Mitchum in THE RED PONY
THE BLUE LAGOON on Sony Movies Classic

WEDNESDAY
ITV4: PASSENGER 57
Sony Movies Classic: DOUBLE INDEMNITY

THURSDAY
ITV4: THE BLUES BROTHERS
Film 4: SHANE. PARIS, TEXAS at ... 11:15.
Sony Movies Classic: THE GRADUATE

FRIDAY
Film 4: THE AFRICAN QUEEN

I'm afraid I can't see much on this thread's favourite channel Talking Pictures TV.

My Freeview box gave up the ghost 20 minutes into the FA Cup final the other day, if I don't bother replacing it I wonder if I need to still pay the license fee? Answer is almost certainly yes.

If you watch any live TV from any source, or anything on iPlayer, you need a TV license.

> I'm afraid I can't see much on this thread's favourite channel Talking Pictures TV.

Small Back Room, (minor) powell and pressburger, tonight at 22:50
Boulting Brothers double bill from 12:35 tomorrow afternoon

the thing i find with Talking Pictures is that the film names in the list aren't very promising, but the films themselves are perfectly watchable.

they've almost invariably got one or more of John Laurie, John "The Measurer" or Gordon Jackson in them

I'm afraid I can't see much on this thread's favourite channel Talking Pictures TV.

Well, my opinion's suspect, but:

THINGS I KNOW ARE GOOD

Today at 16:15 there's Home At Seven, Ralph Richardson's only directorial effort (he also stars in it). A man loses a day, having no memory whatsoever of what transpired - useful reference points would be The Twilight Zone at the popcult end of the sprectrum and Kafka at the highart end, but it's very much about the British suburbs. Richardson of course a master at playing guilty but not in the way you imagine characters, cf Hidden Idol. Later on at 22:50 there's The Small Back Room, really great Archers film about an alcoholic bomb defusing expert during wartime.

Friday at one in the morning, Rasputin The Mad Monk, one of Christopher Lee's favourite roles. Costume drama filtered through Hammer bloodlust.

NEVER SEEN BUT LOOKS INTERESTING

Blood Relatives, Tuesday at 21:00 - Claude Chabrol directs The Two Donalds (Sutherland and Pleasance) in an Ed McBain adaptation.

The Singer Not The Song, Wednesday at 14:45 - A British produced western (shot in Spain), with Dirk Bogarde and John Mills. Word on the street is that Bogarde camps it up something rotten in this as an act of protest against the film's direction. It's about an Irish priest standing up to a Mexican bandit? And why this title? So many questions. There's also The Strange Loves Of Martha Ives on late at night.

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John Mills is another for the list of canonical TP actors. and the bloke who played Dixon of Dock Green. and Donald Pleasance who was in at least 3 things i watched over the weekend (Death Line, Battle Of The Sexes, er, something else)

i also usually enjoy Gideon's Way, which is a 1 hr police procedural, on daily. and Interpol Calling which is 1/2 hour and less frequent.

saturday morning they are now showing all the kinds of crap i used to hate when it would replace Swap Shop over the summer holidays. Champion The Wonder Horse, CFF films, Popeye etc

Also Fleischer Superman cartoons and Looney Tunes.

They're showing One Step Beyond on Tuesday nights but from the ep I saw it's no Outer Limits.