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Recommended Movies on TV

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  • #2552
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    The Ghost is on TV3 around midnight. Roman Polanski's film of the Robert Harris book, about a writer (Ewan McGregor) hired to "ghost" the autobiography of a former UK Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EFeETs_yNE


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_AerBW0EcI

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #2553
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    I've just found out that I'm after missing the best part of Film4's Werner Herzog season. Gutted. Do Film4 do a newsletter or anything to keep me up to date about their different seasons?

    Also, is there anywhere that just lists the films that are on TV each week? I've come across a few different guides but I can't seem to filter out the movies.


  • #2554
    RichT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,526 ✭✭✭RichT


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    Also, is there anywhere that just lists the films that are on TV each week? I've come across a few different guides but I can't seem to filter out the movies.

    FilmFlow shows what films are on each day and you can filter out the channels you don't have, it also includes all the Irish channels. :)


  • #2555
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    RichT wrote: »
    FilmFlow shows what films are on each day and you can filter out the channels you don't have, it also includes all the Irish channels. :)

    Perfect. You're a star!


  • #2556
    Cork boy 55
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,324 ✭✭✭Cork boy 55


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    I've just found out that I'm after missing the best part of Film4's Werner Herzog season. Gutted. Do Film4 do a newsletter or anything to keep me up to date about their different seasons?

    Also, is there anywhere that just lists the films that are on TV each week? I've come across a few different guides but I can't seem to filter out the movies.

    They have been showing them at about 11:00 pm most nights
    saw two of them for first time

    "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"(1972) about he story follows the travels of Spanish soldier Lope de Aguirre, who leads a group of conquistadores down the Orinoco and Amazon River in South America in search of the legendary city of gold, El Dorado. great mad movie

    and Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) okish IMO

    On Tonight
    Film 4
    ~~11:00 pm

    Fitzcarraldo (1982)
    Fitzcarraldo is a 1982 West German film written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski as the title character. It portrays would-be rubber baron Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known as Fitzcarraldo in Peru, who is determined to transport a steamship over a steep hill in order to access a rich rubber territory. The film is derived from the historic events of Peruvian rubber baron Carlos Fitzcarrald

    Never seen it before also, good reviews might tune if I can.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo#Reception


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  • #2557
    goonso
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭goonso


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »

    Also, is there anywhere that just lists the films that are on TV each week? I've come across a few different guides but I can't seem to filter out the movies.

    Here's one I use (I cant post links yet but someone might post it up)

    nextfilm dot co dot uk

    Very easy sit to use although no Irish channels on it


  • #2558
    goonso
    Registered Users Posts: 30 ✭goonso


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »

    Also, is there anywhere that just lists the films that are on TV each week? I've come across a few different guides but I can't seem to filter out the movies.

    Here's one I use (I cant post links yet but someone might post it up)

    nextfilm dot co dot uk

    Very easy sit to use although no Irish channels on it.
    You can also set up a search function that notify's you when the film you have searched for is going to be on


  • #2559
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    2001: A Space Odyssey is playing on BBC2 as we speak.


  • #2560
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Silver Linings Playbook, Ch4, 9PM. I have to admit I didn't entirely get this movie, nor was I convinced by its take on mental illness - but Jennifer Lawrence earned an Oscar for her performance, and it was quite a performance. At one point she appears to be channeling the ghosts of Blanche Dubois and Malcolm Tucker.

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #2561
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    bnt wrote: »
    Silver Linings Playbook, Ch4, 9PM. I have to admit I didn't entirely get this movie, nor was I convinced by its take on mental illness - but Jennifer Lawrence earned an Oscar for her performance, and it was quite a performance. At one point she appears to be channeling the ghosts of Blanche Dubois and Malcolm Tucker.

    Didn't think she deserved the Oscar for this performance, to be honest. I always think they were making up for not giving it to her for Winter's Bone.


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  • #2562
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Drive tonight on UTV Ireland


  • #2563
    adrian522
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 16,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭adrian522


    Technically not a recommendation as I haven't seen it yet, but CitizenFour, the Oscar winning documentary about Edward Snowden is on Channel 4 tonight at 11:05pm.


  • #2564
    pheasant tail
    Registered Users Posts: 941 ✭✭✭pheasant tail


    Amour starting on film4 shortly


  • #2565
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    pheasant tail wrote: »
    Amour starting on film4 shortly

    Cheers for that!


  • #2566
    kerry4sam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,127 ✭✭✭✭kerry4sam


    Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars : TG4 tonight @ 22:55

    Happy Watching :)


  • #2567
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampire is on Film4 at 1:10am.


  • #2568
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampire is on Film4 at 1:10am.

    Actually this is worth series linking. Stroszek and Aguirre are on during the week, although I'll have to give the latter a miss as my BFI steelbook is in the post. ;)


  • #2569
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    Actually this is worth series linking. Stroszek and Aguirre are on during the week, although I'll have to give the latter a miss as my BFI steelbook is in the post. ;)
    I'm surprised you didn't get the boxset, like I did.


  • #2570
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »
    I'm surprised you didn't get the boxset, like I did.

    I got Aguirre and Big steelbooks on Zavvi.com as part of the 2 for €15 offer. I couldn't turn it down. €7.50 each, with free delivery! I don't normally go for steelbooks, but I love the Aguirre artwork, and Big is my all time favourite hangover film, so it was the perfect bargain. I'm not a huge Herzog fan (yet), so I'm not sure I'd spend that kind of money on a box-set. I'd sooner pick up some other stuff that's on my wish-list, and maybe return to it at a later date. How have you found it so far? It seems to be a bargain, given the amount of content.


  • #2571
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    8 Mile on ITV4 right now.

    You better lose yourself in the music, the moment...never let it go.

    Mom's spaghetti, spaghetti, spaghetti, might make myself some spaghetti..I'm hungry.


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  • #2572
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,031 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    If you're up for something quirky; Everything is Illuminated, TG4 23:35. Elijah Wood as a young American who heads to Ukraine, to find someone who reportedly saved his grandfather's life during WW2. He has no idea what he's doing ...

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



  • #2573
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,648 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    I think I've seen that. Takes a while to get going. Quirky but interesting ending.


  • #2574
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    Easy A starts on E4 at 9. Emma Stone at her charming best.


  • #2575
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,381 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Easy A starts on E4 at 9. Emma Stone at her charming best.

    Stumbled on this when it was starting, seems alright, not sure if I've seen it before

    everything is illuminated I liked but mightn't be for everyone


  • #2576
    FunLover18
    Registered Users Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    Easy A starts on E4 at 9. Emma Stone at her charming best.

    Features my all time favourite movie parents in Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson


  • #2577
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    FunLover18 wrote: »
    Features my all time favourite movie parents in Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson

    "I'm adopted."

    "WHO TOLD YOU!?!?"


  • #2578
    jillymayr
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭jillymayr


    cool one


  • #2579
    The Princess Bride
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,608 ✭✭✭✭The Princess Bride


    A Fish Called Wanda UTV 22.45 tonight.

    "Don't call me stupid!"


  • #2580
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,381 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    Tremors is on itv4 now

    Easy A is on E4 again too

    Shawshank redemption on itv2 too


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  • #2581
    zac8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 531 ✭✭✭zac8


    Hachi: A Dog's Tale on More4 today at 11.50am

    A Beautiful Mind on BBC 2 tonight at 11.45pm


  • #2582
    Reg'stoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Reg'stoy


    Horror Channel is showing Stephen King's The Mist directed by Frank Darabont. Famous or should I say infamous for its ending, it starts at ten to twelve tonight the 4th.


  • #2583
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Reg'stoy wrote: »
    Horror Channel is showing Stephen King's The Mist directed by Frank Darabont. Famous or should I say infamous for its ending, it starts at ten to twelve tonight the 4th.

    There's an interesting story about the ending. I'm sure you've heard it before but I'll tell it anyway for the benefit of those that haven't.

    Frank Darabont directed The Shawshank Redemption. That film was originally supposed to end with Red on the bus, hoping he'd see his friend Andy again, because hope was one of the central messages of the film. He was never actually supposed to meet him. That scene was added much later, at the Studio's insistence, because the original ending didn't play that well with test audiences. Darabont hated the happy ending.

    That takes us to The Mist, which for my money contains one of the greatest endings of all time, if not the greatest. The Studio weren't happy with that ending either, and they offered Darabont a larger budget to spend on CGI if he agreed to change it. However, this time he wouldn't budge, so what we get is some slightly dodgy CGI, but an almighty closing scene.

    Anyway, that's according to Mark Kermode. I hope it's true. It's a great anecdote. I've had people buy me at least four pints because of it.


  • #2584
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Right Turn Clyde wrote: »
    There's an interesting story about the ending. I'm sure you've heard it before but I'll tell it anyway for the benefit of those that haven't.

    Frank Darabont directed The Shawshank Redemption. That film was originally supposed to end with Red on the bus, hoping he'd see his friend Andy again, because hope was one of the central messages of the film. He was never actually supposed to meet him. That scene was added much later, at the Studio's insistence, because the original ending didn't play that well with test audiences. Darabont hated the happy ending.

    That takes us to The Mist, which for my money contains one of the greatest endings of all time, if not the greatest. The Studio weren't happy with that ending either, and they offered Darabont a larger budget to spend on CGI if he agreed to change it. However, this time he wouldn't budge, so what we get is some slightly dodgy CGI, but an almighty closing scene.

    Anyway, that's according to Mark Kermode. I hope it's true. It's a great anecdote. I've had people buy me at least four pints because of it.

    That's not necessarily true, originally he was approached by a producer who wanted to fund the film with a $30 million budget on condition that he changed the ending to a happier one. Darabont had spent so long trying to get the funding that he refused to relent and ended up turning to Harvey Weinsten who agreed to produce the film with an $18 million dollar budget. Darabont had always envisioned the film as being shown in Black & White and as such the creature FX and CG Were created with that in mind, which is why some of the FX work looks a little shoddy


  • #2585
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's not necessarily true, originally he was approached by a producer who wanted to fund the film with a $30 million budget on condition that he changed the ending to a happier one. Darabont had spent so long trying to get the funding that he refused to relent and ended up turning to Harvey Weinsten who agreed to produce the film with an $18 million dollar budget. Darabont had always envisioned the film as being shown in Black & White and as such the creature FX and CG Were created with that in mind, which is why some of the FX work looks a little shoddy

    Ah for fcuks sake. :)


  • #2586
    Reg'stoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Reg'stoy


    Yeah I have the Blu ray which has the black and white version, which is indeed much better than the colour one.
    While the ending is specific to the film and doesn't match the book, it is a King style twist as anyone who has read some of his books will know. It matches the horror of in particular his book written as Richard Bachman The Long walk; when
    the first child is shot dead by a soldier when he can't walk any further and you realise that 99 children will have to die for a winner to be found.


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  • #2587
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Deleted User wrote: »
    That's not necessarily true, originally he was approached by a producer who wanted to fund the film with a $30 million budget on condition that he changed the ending to a happier one. Darabont had spent so long trying to get the funding that he refused to relent and ended up turning to Harvey Weinsten who agreed to produce the film with an $18 million dollar budget. Darabont had always envisioned the film as being shown in Black & White and as such the creature FX and CG Were created with that in mind, which is why some of the FX work looks a little shoddy
    Reg'stoy wrote: »
    Yeah I have the Blu ray which has the black and white version, which is indeed much better than the colour one.
    While the ending is specific to the film and doesn't match the book, it is a King style twist as anyone who has read some of his books will know. It matches the horror of in particular his book written as Richard Bachman The Long walk; when
    the first child is shot dead by a soldier when he can't walk any further and you realise that 99 children will have to die for a winner to be found.

    Thanks guys. I'd never even heard of the b&w version, but I've just picked up the two disc version in CEX. Really looking forward to this.


  • #2588
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    It's currently Studio Ghilbi season on Film 4, running until next weekend. The majority of them are in HD. There's a good mix of stuff there, going right back to Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky (1986).


  • #2589
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    The Iron Giant is on Film 4 just after 5 today. Nice Easter Sunday family viewing.


  • #2590
    SarahBM
    Registered Users Posts: 4,906 ✭✭✭SarahBM


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    The Iron Giant is on Film 4 just after 5 today. Nice Easter Sunday family viewing.

    Great movie!!!


  • #2591
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    The Iron Giant is on Film 4 just after 5 today. Nice Easter Sunday family viewing.
    SU-PER-MAAAN!

    What a movie.


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  • #2592
    scouttio
    Registered Users Posts: 386 ✭✭scouttio


    TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »
    The Iron Giant is on Film 4 just after 5 today. Nice Easter Sunday family viewing.

    This had been on my list to see for a good while, great film.

    I am groot
    wait, no, that's not right...


  • #2593
    DenMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,064 ✭✭✭DenMan


    Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) is on Film 4 @9pm. Very good movie.


  • #2594
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    Dr. Strangelove just started on GOLD.


  • #2595
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    One for ANY film fan - MILIUS (yes its capitals cos that's the way John MILIUS is!) on Film4 tonight at 11.05/00.05 (+1)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrjuO5LLNEQ


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2370224/


  • #2596
    Right Turn Clyde
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,487 ✭✭✭Right Turn Clyde


    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    One for ANY film fan - MILIUS (yes its capitals cos that's the way John MILIUS is!) on Film4 tonight at 11.05/00.05 (+1)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrjuO5LLNEQ


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2370224/

    Cheers for that!


  • #2597
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    Heaven's Gate is showing on TG4 tonight at 9:35. Which version of the movie...I have no idea. But considering that the movie ends almost 4 hours later, I can only hope that it's the director's cut.


  • #2598
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭Elmo


    Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »
    Heaven's Gate is showing on TG4 tonight at 9:35. Which version of the movie...I have no idea. But considering that the movie ends almost 4 hours later, I can only hope that it's the director's cut.

    Reading up on it, some terrible reviews voted worst movie by empire


  • #2599
    Nerdkiller1991
    Registered Users Posts: 3,999 ✭✭✭Nerdkiller1991


    Elmo wrote: »
    Reading up on it, some terrible reviews voted worst movie by empire
    That's based on the old cut from 1980. The director's cut is supposed to be much, much better.


  • #2600
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Elmo wrote: »
    Reading up on it, some terrible reviews voted worst movie by empire

    I would ignore Empire if I was you, I imagine that had someone involved in the production sent Empire a mug with the title embossed upon it Empire would be proclaiming it a masterpiece.


  • #2601
    Harry Palmr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40,061 ✭✭✭✭Harry Palmr


    Hatchet for the Honeymoon 1970 Maria Bava on Film On Freesat 410 at 11 pm. Obviously the picture quality is almost certainly going to be awful but we might be lucky.


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