[Kingp35]

I know an idea like this was brought up before but the thread never really took off. I think its a good idea so im gonna start it up again and see how it does.

Tonights recommended movie is:

18th April

Battle Royale
Sci-Fi Channel 10pm

http://imdb.com/title/tt0266308/

[meldrew]

i think its a great idea I'll definitely contribute !

[Pigman II]

After numerous failed attempts I reckon the only this idea will ever catch on is if it's made a sticky.

Anyway here's a couple for consideration...

FILM: Cool Hand Luke
Channel: RTÉ 1
Date: Monday 24th April 2006

FILM: Dial M For Murder
Channel: RTÉ 1
Date: Saturday 29th April 2006

[Kingp35]

Tonights Recommended movie is:

19th April

Dog Day Afternoon
TCM 9pm

http://imdb.com/title/tt0072890/

[satchmo]

Originally Posted by Kingp35

Dog Day Afternoon
TCM 9pm

Oooo great movie, not to be missed.

[lostexpectation]

you could always make it a combined recommend/what movie di you watch last night thread... they never pretty but make it a sticky...

[Karl Hungus]

Originally Posted by Pigman II

After numerous failed attempts I reckon the only this idea will ever catch on is if it's made a sticky.

Oh, er, em... that my queue, is it?

[Running Bing]

nice one

[Kingp35]

Tonights Recommended Movies:

Thursday 20th April

Unforgiven
TCM 9pm
http://imdb.com/title/tt0105695/

The Terminator
Channel 6 10pm
http://imdb.com/title/tt0088247/

Easy Rider
Channel 4 1:40am
http://imdb.com/title/tt0064276/

[Dudess]

Sigh! So many good films on tonight. Damn you law essay due for tomorrow morning!

[munkeehaven]

i think it is on sunday rte 2 at 9.30pm "Downfall" ( Der Untergang)

German speaking film...about the last few days of hitler in his bunker in berlin with his various remaining conspirators..i know there are countless films about the nazis and hitler himself but this film really is amazing...

here is a summary from imdb.com

"In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender"



btw watched cool hand luke, handy for my insomniac hours..brilliant..dont think i could look at another boiled egg again though :-o

[Necronomicon]

Hate to plaguerise someone else's post, but for those who don't really look at the film review forum:

Originally Posted by lukegriffen

This film is on TV tonight, rte2 at 12.30

Great film & excellent soundtrack.

He's talking about Requiem For A Dream, if you haven't seen it you should check it out.

[lostexpectation]

Watch Truman show, its one of the few films I could watch again and again , its such a classic.

[Pigman II]

FILM: Breaking The Waves
On: RTÉ 1
Date: Sunday 18th June 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 01:25 to 04:04 (2 hours and 39 minutes long)

A powerful story, set in a remote Scottish village in the early 1970s, about a unique young woman and her profound experience of love and devotion. Bess falls madly in love with Jan, an oil-rig worker, and against the wishes of the strict Calvinist elders of her community, she marries this outsider. Jan is captivated by the innocence radiated by his new bride and for a brief time they have an intensely happy, passionate life together...until Jan is paralysed in an accident on the oil-rig.
(1996, 18, 4 Star)

Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Jonathan Hackett

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FILM: Good Bye Lenin!
On: RTÉ 2
Date: Sunday 18th June 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 00:20 to 02:30 (2 hours and 10 minutes long)

October, 1989 was a bad time to fall into a coma if you lived in East Germany--and this is precisely what happened to Alex's proudly socialist mother. Alex has a big problem on his hands when she suddenly awakens eight months later. Her heart is so weak that any shock might kill her. And what could be more shocking than the fall of the Berlin Wall and the triumph of capitalism in her beloved East Germany? (In German with English subtitles).
(Subtitles, 2003, 15, 4 Star)

Director: Wolfgang Becker
Starring: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas, Alexander Beyer

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FILM: Rear Window
On: RTÉ 1
Date: Monday 12th June 2006 (starting in 4 days)
Time: 00:35 to 02:40 (2 hours and 5 minutes long)

A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
(1954, PG, 5 Star)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Judith Evelyn

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FILM: Rebel Without A Cause
On: RTÉ 1
Date: Thursday 8th June 2006 (starting in 4 hours and 38 minutes)
Time: 00:20 to 02:25 (2 hours and 5 minutes long)

Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and "chickie" games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff.
(1955, PG, 5 Star)

Director: Nicholas Ray
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen

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FILM: Superman 2
On: Sky One
Date: Thursday 29th June 2006 (starting in 22 days)
Time: 20:00 to 22:25 (2 hours and 25 minutes long)

The Man of Steel is kept busy when three villains from his home planet Krypton cause chaos on Earth. Super sequel with Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Terence Stamp.
(Widescreen, 1980, PG, 3 Star)

Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Sarah Douglas, Margot Kidder

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FILM: The Majestic
On: TG4
Date: Tuesday 20th June 2006 (starting in 13 days)
Time: 21:05 to 23:50 (2 hours and 45 minutes long)

Tarlaíonn timpiste cairr do scríbhneoir as Hollywood agus ní fhanann aon chuimhne aige. A Hollywood screenwriter crashes his car and developes amnesia.
(2001, PG, 3 Star)

Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau

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[Pigman II]

ENTERTAINMENT: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
On: TG4
Date: Monday 19th June 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 12:00 to 14:30 (2 hours and 30 minutes long)

(1966 Elizabeth Taylor) Is é Nick an teagascóir bitheolaíochta nua sa choláiste. New college Biology instructor, Nick, and his wife Honey, visit the home of History professor George.
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FILM: Enemy at the Gates
On: RTÉ 2
Date: Friday 9th June 2006 (starting in 1 day)
Time: 22:05 to 00:25 (2 hours and 20 minutes long)

Fact-based war drama set during the 1942-3 battle of Stalingrad. A Russian marksman is given the task of killing a German major, whose own expert shooting skills make him a formidable enemy. Supported by a propaganda officer, the Russian soldier takes up the challenge with resilient determination. But a personal battle develops between the two allies when they both fall for an attractive Jewish comrade.
(2001, 15, 5 Star)

Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Starring: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman

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FILM: The Abyss
On: Channel 4
Date: Sunday 18th June 2006 (starting in 10 days)
Time: 22:30 to 01:05 (2 hours and 35 minutes long)

After Aliens, James Cameron took to the ocean's depths for this sci-fi thriller. Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio star as a husband-and-wife team running the rescue rig that's trying to get to a nuclear submarine that's gone down on the lip of one of the deepest sea trenches. But when psychotic Navy SEAL commander Lt Hiram Coffey launches a nuclear warhead into the trench, they discover they are not alone...
(Widescreen, Subtitles, 1989, 15, 4 Star)

Director: James Cameron
Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester, Todd Graff, John Bedford Lloyd