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)
― koogs, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:45 (three years ago) link
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
― koogs, Friday, 16 April 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
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
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 April 2021 11:09 (two years ago) link
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!
― the pinefox, Friday, 16 April 2021 11:14 (two years ago) link
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).
― Michael Jones, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
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
― the pinefox, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
This is on all the time. "They Live By Night" is on a lot too. Freeview is definitely good for film noir!
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:34 (two years ago) link
The Innocents tonight, for creepy Henry James funThe Man Who Fell To Earthand The Rebel all on over the weekend on TP. try and spot Nanette Newman...
― koogs, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
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.
― the pinefox, Friday, 23 April 2021 10:53 (two years ago) link
Sunday on 5Select at noon: WENT THE DAY WELL? Tucked away but apparently a good and important film, I will try to watch.
― the pinefox, Friday, 23 April 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 11:08 (two years ago) link
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.
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Friday, 23 April 2021 11:36 (two years ago) link
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.
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Friday, 23 April 2021 15:35 (two years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
found it
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EyuAFK0WYAYQt3c?format=png&name=900x900
the white bus?the whisperers?keep you seats please?
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 16:03 (two years ago) link
"The White Bus" is that Lindsay Anderson 'free cinema' thing with Arthur Lowe et al?
― Authoritarian Steaks (Tom D.), Friday, 23 April 2021 16:09 (two years ago) link
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...
― koogs, Friday, 23 April 2021 16:23 (two years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 12:31 (two years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
I've also never heard of The Reckoning, or, closer to now, Paperhouse either.
― Alba, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:03 (two years ago) link
I would like to watch THE WHITE BUS!
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 09:52 (two years ago) link
Monday 9pm was THE CHAIN
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 09:53 (two years ago) link
... 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 !!
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 09:54 (two years ago) link
Thursday:BBC4 CITIZEN KANE and a Welles doc.Film4 has a couple of promising films with people like Ingrid BergmanTP has ... Warren Beatty's REDS at 9pm!Sony Movies Classic screens THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI at 5:30 - see this if you can.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 09:57 (two years ago) link
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.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
It was, indeed, the Kidman film.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Wednesday, 5 May 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
anyone seen the donald pleasence film 'death line' that is new to TP next week? plot synopsis has me intrigued.
― oscar bravo, Saturday, 8 May 2021 15:48 (two years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Saturday, 8 May 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
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...
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 09:03 (two years ago) link
PALE RIDER (1985) is on ITV4 tonight. As usual! I must try to watch.
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 09:35 (two years ago) link
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.
― Well *I* know who he is (aldo), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 11:31 (two years ago) link
Yep, Death Line is one of my absolute favourite horror films - it's amazingly grim and funny at the same time.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 11:39 (two years ago) link
thank you both. will watch.
― oscar bravo, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 15:42 (two years ago) link
(it's on friday at 21:00)
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
This week.
MONDAYBBC4 doc on cars made in CoventryFilm 4: Robert Mitchum in THE RED PONYTHE BLUE LAGOON on Sony Movies Classic
WEDNESDAYITV4: PASSENGER 57Sony Movies Classic: DOUBLE INDEMNITY
THURSDAYITV4: THE BLUES BROTHERS Film 4: SHANE. PARIS, TEXAS at ... 11:15.Sony Movies Classic: THE GRADUATE
FRIDAYFilm 4: THE AFRICAN QUEEN
I'm afraid I can't see much on this thread's favourite channel Talking Pictures TV.
― the pinefox, Monday, 17 May 2021 11:27 (two years ago) link
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.
― remind me not to read the comments on that one (Matt #2), Monday, 17 May 2021 12:04 (two years ago) link
If you watch any live TV from any source, or anything on iPlayer, you need a TV license.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 17 May 2021 12:06 (two years ago) link
> 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 22:50Boulting 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.
― koogs, Monday, 17 May 2021 12:41 (two years ago) link
they've almost invariably got one or more of John Laurie, John "The Measurer" or Gordon Jackson in them
― koogs, Monday, 17 May 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
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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― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 17 May 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
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)
― koogs, Monday, 17 May 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
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
― koogs, Monday, 17 May 2021 13:05 (two years ago) link
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.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 17 May 2021 13:08 (two years ago) link
yeah, i caught half of one the other day but it didn't seem to go anywhere.
some freeview channel should show all the Outer Limits and Twilight Zone episodes.
― koogs, Monday, 17 May 2021 13:19 (two years ago) link
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
Oh man, you haven't seen this? This is like one of the campest British films of all time. I remember seeing this for the first time, with my brother, on like a boring Saturday afternoon on BBC2 and both of us not quite believing that we were watching. Dirk struts about in tight designer leather trousers and everyone in Mexico has a RADA accent. It's a pity that boring old John Mills is playing opposite Bogarde as soembody a bit more attractive - and able to actually do an Irish accent - would have pushed it entirely over the cliff of homoeroticism.
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Monday, 17 May 2021 13:28 (two years ago) link
watched a George Formby and half a Norman Wisdom with the kids yesterday, they were surprisingly into the George Formby.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 17 May 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link