Brits with digital: Aren't we supposed to have free FilmFour now?

it is replacing/has replaced funky more4 + 1 on freeview.

i hope they do things like play random oop foreign films late at night.

Which prob does mean the sub-tarintino i spose, though prob the odd foreign one for keeping up appearences purposes...

http://www.channel4.com/film/listings/f4-listings.jsp?channel=F4&offset=17

6 o'clock slot seems to be identical to the 4 o'clock slot on more 4 at the moment (This Happy Breed, The Way Ahead, Spy In Black, good matinee fodder repeatedly endlessly).

first night, for instance, is Lost In Translation, Sexy Beast and Internal Affairs. second is (um, has just started giving errors), third (from my cache) is Topaz, Horse Feathers, Explorers, Elizabeth, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Voyage To Italy...

Sunday 23 Jul FilmFour (Filmfour +1 an hour later) FilmFour Weekly
18:00 Lost In Translation (21:00)
20:00 Sexy Beast (23:00)
22:00 Infernal Affairs (00:40)
00:00
02:00

Monday 24 Jul FilmFour (Filmfour +1 an hour later) FilmFour Weekly
18:00 This Happy Breed (15:00)
20:00 Music Behind The Scenes - Love (17:00)
22:00 Duck Soup (18:00)
00:00 Strictly Ballroom (19:15)
02:00 The Fifth Element (21:00)
23:25 Ghost World
01:30 The Mambo Kings
Tuesday 25 Jul FilmFour (Filmfour +1 an hour later) FilmFour Weekly
18:00 Topaz (15:00)
20:00 Horse Feathers (17:40)
22:00 Explorers (18:55)
00:00 Elizabeth (21:00)
02:00 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (23:20)
01:20 Voyage to Italy
Wednesday 26 Jul FilmFour (Filmfour +1 an hour later) FilmFour Weekly
18:00 The Way Ahead (15:00)
20:00 Monkey Business (17:25)
22:00 The Madness of King George (19:00)
00:00 Zoolander (21:00)
02:00 Festival (23:00)
01:05 Calvaire
Thursday 27 Jul FilmFour (Filmfour +1 an hour later) FilmFour Weekly
18:00 The Spy In Black (15:00)
20:00 Double Indemnity (16:55)
22:00 The African Queen (19:00)
00:00 Road To Perdition (21:00)
02:00 Infernal Affairs (23:10)
01:05 Ghost Dog - The Way Of The Samurai
Friday 28 Jul FilmFour (Filmfour +1 an hour later) FilmFour Weekly
18:00 This Happy Breed (15:00)
20:00 A Countess From Hong Kong (17:10)
22:00 Strictly Ballroom (19:10)
00:00 Lost In Translation (21:00)
02:00 Apocalypse Now (23:00)
01:50 Live Flesh

(At first I thought it was "When the film actually starts, really" but it makes no sense now, it did for the pre-28th film schedules)

Lucy Liu in aviatrix gear=YES CHANNEL 4, I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT.

I hope to watch nothing but this channel from now on. Unfortuantely they repeat films over and over, so I may have to take the odd break.

Explorers
Thirteen conversations about one thing
Voyage to Italy
Calvaire
The spy in black
A countess from Hong Kong

Haven't seen Festival, but iirc it's the Annie Griffin (book group) film set at the Edinburgh festival.

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i like 'the spy in black'.

b&w british thriller (is on Ch4 matinees about twice a year). german u-boat comes ashore in scotland to rendevous with the local school mistress who is really a german agent... great little film with a twist i forget everytime i see it.

> miyazaki films every day for a week!

specifically:
Fri 04 16:45 Castle Of Cagliostro
Sat 05 16:45 Kiki's Delivery Service
Sun 06 16:30 Princess Mononoke
Mon 07 16:55 Laputa: Castle In The Sky
Tue 08 17:10 My Neighbour Totoro
Wed 09 16:45 Nausicaa Of The Valley Of Wind
Thu 10 17:15 Porco Rosso
Fri 11 16:45 Princess Mononoke
Sat 12 17:05 My Neighbour Totoro
Sun 13 16:55 Laputa: Castle In The Sky
Mon 14 17:05 Kiki's Deliver Service
Tue 15 16:45 Nausicaa Of The Valley Of Wind
Wed 16 16:45 Porco Rosso
Thu 17 17:10 Castle Of Cagliostro

(couldn't find a dedicated miyasaki thread to post this to)

(yes to Explorers question btw)

So what time? what's the time in brackets?

I don't mind adverts anymore cause I can just press the "skip 30 secs" button six or so times on my Humax magic box and that's the end of them. Except when I go back to watch the Frosties advert.

My remote doesn't have a slidy pulldown bit. I'm only slightly sad about that.

Voyage to Italy - I'm going to stick my N. oout here and say it is the best film ever. It's so good, I have it on DVD and have no intention of selling it. I was going to seel it, buyt then I realsied it is How I Feel About Life, so I kept it. Shere Khan is in it.

dear PJM, get one video recorder. kthxbye.

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Koogs i can't record digital unless the TV is kept on! don't know how video+ works with digital - plz let me know about all of this kthxbye.

wtf? with mine the box has to be on of course, and you can't watch another digital channel while taping. you could leave the tv on, on mute.

(LBELB also seemed to be entirely written in CSE Grade 2 French in that i understood a lot of it without the subtitles)

so that's where mark s is now.

(just realised i have 6 things capable of recording tv signals, only 5 of them work (the other is being used to make the bedroom tv high enough to see over my stomach) but still...)

xyzzzz, your digibox PROBABLY also has a timer feature that'll let you program it to turn to right channel at right time. read one manual 8) the tivo does this for me but is only 95% reliable and sometimes the digibox freezes up and needs resetting before it'll turn over at all (mostly freezes on bbc channels, somehow). yes, integration with video recorders is going to be trouble when the analogue signal is turned off.

(but ok, as mark says in comments there is a whole other stuff with licensing blah)(mark s is on LJ as well)

okay Koogs I will 'experiment' -- thinking about it i just recalled that there is a function where you can time the TV to automatically switch off at a certain point.

I managed about ten minutes of LOG film, but I found it all very predictable (can't quite remember what now) so I gave up. Also, it assumes a certain amount of prior knowledge.

I switched over to the Xmas one, but I didn't want to think about Xmas. Also it was a lot of shouting.

Ended up watching Desperate Housewives, which was much better.

Koogs, I have a video recorder, but it is in the cupboard! Besides, if I tape things, I never watch them, they just sit there mocking me.

What is tonight's film? I bet it is shit.

Is Rock Profiles good? It is £4.99 in Sainsbury's.

It is. FAR better than Little Britain in my opinion, mainly because it's not the same sodding jokes every week. The Bee Gees episode is brilliant.

(Tonight's film=the arthouse masterpiece Save the Last Dance)

I wonder what tonight's Film Before You Die is?

um, speaking of videoing things and never watching them, LA Confidential has been on (normal) tv about 4 times since that time i taped it and i've still not seen it...

c'est chouette.

If you aren't watching 'In the mood for love' don't worry about it cuz The times are giving the DVD with the paper tomorrow.

didn't watch LA Confidential because i stil have it on videotape, from christmas 2003...

Lady Vengeance Thursday Oct 5th
Oldboy Friday Oct 6th
A Tale of Two Sisters Oct 7th
R-Point Oct 8th
UK TV premiere of Brotherhood Oct 9th
UK TV premiere of Tell Me Something Oct 10th

really looking forward to Brotherhood, can totally recommend A Tale of Two Sisters, one of my favourite films of the last few years.

finally watched Laputa and ...Crystal Plumage at weekend.

Anyway, I am looking forward to Old Boy. I read an article recently in a Korean studies journal all about it, and so am curious.

'Scenes of a marriage' finished round 3.30.

Their Thur 11am slot might be the best thing they've ever done, apart from the odd Miyazaki -- 'Mirror', 'Rules of the Game', etc.

'L'Aventura' is on this week.

Good spot, didn't know about that slot. If you've Sky Arts there's a new series of independent/world cinema chosen and introduced by Mike Figgis http://www.skyarts.co.uk/film-docs/article/sky-arts-cinema-with-mike-figgis/ starting tonight with Irma Vep.

I don't but I quite like Mike Figgis' commentary on the DVD of Weekend.

Its nice, can't knock it but it is like old TV to me. Really welcome that this stuff is let out there on an unexpected slot.

I just hate hate hate hate how many ads there are.

apart from the odd Miyazaki

whaaaa?

Can't stand him.

The ads aren't any worse than ITV, and I bet that they have less ads than some of the Sky channels.

don't even have a video recorder these days so having "l'aventurra" on at 11am on a weekday is sort of a nice idea, but not

and yeah, then it has ads

u can probably d/l it p easily

or rent the dvd even

sort a think film4 should be for shitty/mediocre/seen-before movies that you don't need to see the whole of, but don't mind catching bits of

Ads and talking over the credits and shrinking them down to postage stamp size to tell you what's coming next

I think TV channels worry less about doing that sort of thing nowadays when there are half a dozen other ways of watching a movie without ads and wee tiny credits.

... which reminds me, I've noticed on BBC3 they now say "Next programme is.../ Coming next..." when they mean the programme AFTER the next programme!!!

Anybody who can sit thru 3 consecutive shows on BBC3 needs to gtf off the drugs

Do you guys just watch BBC?

Fine with DVDs but not joining Love film or whatever film club. My local library does not have any Italian films apart from more recent stuff.

Plus I like watching films on Television at a set hour. Would be nicer if they put L'Aventura before Countdown. xxxxp

I quite like watching films on TV, but you accept certain quirks of the medium that go along with that really. I don't like ad breaks in movies tho, they're often really badly judged and ham-fistedly cut.

i belong to lovefilm, totally worth it if you watch a lot of films

barely watch tv at all: family guy, HIMYM, the news... that's about it

idk im not fully employed but still can't really see myself taking the afternoon off to watch a film!

ads are fine if it's like 'top gun' (the last film i remember seeing on tv), 'l'aventurra' not so much

Is that Chris Petit/Ian Penman thing that was on Film4 recently worth tracking down?

read s.thing offputting about it, but might be dope

have it on dvd right here

Ads on TV seem to be very set: the first one is after 30 mins, then I think its one after 20-25 min chunks till the end, last part about 15-20 mins. Films aren't made to be cut in anyway are they?

I like it bcz it can introduce me to all sorts of random stuff I would never otherwise get the chance to see: not foreign films so much, more your B&W films.

Rarely around at morning/afternoon but when I am its worth a look. Caught Mirror on a two day break bcz of illness.

l'avventura, on a quick scan, looks about 100 times better than last week's (Rules Of The Game).

next week's is Diary Of A Chambermaid. am not sure which one, possibly the one featuring The Penguin.

(but the night before that, next wednesday, La Antena is on, and that's great)

Time Crimes on saturday looks good from the trailer. i notice one t cruise is already signed up for a remake...

It's pretty good, like a more linear Primer. But also a Primer that doesn't need multiple viewings to make sense of the story.

ooh, the next two 11 o'clock on a thursday morning foreign things are both Ozu films:

Late Spring (1949)
Good Morning (1959)

(tivo listings only go this far into the future, i'm hoping there'll be more (although the BFI probably isn't best pleased))

I managed to tape The Only Son (1936), broadcast last Thurs - good on Film4, Ozu's stuff is perfect afternoon fare actually.

They only seem to show interesting films while I'm at work or after my bedtime these days.

if only there was a device that could record video... a video recorder, if you will...

There is;

http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/icons_of_invention/img/IM.1194_el.jpg

does it get freeview?