Hey Filmfour person -- you have been very quiet of late. What goodies do you have in store for us in the run-up to Christmas? Tell all!

Sorry there hasn't been a coming soon update for awhile.

We've got quite a varied line-up between now and Christmas, and into the New Year. For starters, look out for the TV premiere of the stylistically adventurous teen movie 15, from director Royston Tan. It's on in the Extreme zone tomorrow night, Saturday 15th October at 12.15am.

In the Dangerous Liaisons season in December we're playing popular American indie films Secretary, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, and The Good Girl, starring Jennifer Aniston and Jake Gyllenhaal, and written by Mike White. The season also plays host to the UK TV Premiere of Wong Kar-wai's hauntingly romantic and visually splendid 2046, which opened in the UK earlier this year.

In addition, we've got a number of exciting UK TV premieres over the next couple of months. It's quite a list, so take a deep breath...

The Norwegian Oscar nominee Elling is on Wednesday 2nd November; Kung Fu hustler Stephen Chow's Hong Kong hit Shaolin Soccer plays in its original language version on Wednesday 9th November; Kevin Spacey gives an other excellent performance in The Big Kahuna on Friday 11th November; Johnny Knoxville stars in Grand Theft Parsons on Friday 2nd December; the Argentine heart-warmer Valentin is perfect Christmas fare on Wednesday 14th December; and there's typically sophisticated French romantic-comedy Confidences trop intimes on Wednesday 28th December.

Also, do look out for Down To the Bone, which premieres on Saturday 17th December at 12.15am. This drama about a young mother's battle with drug addiction was a hit at the Sundance and London Film Festivals last year and is well worth catching when it arrives on FilmFour.

Additionally, in November, we're presenting the complete Internal Affairs triple-bill for the first time, culminating in the UK TV premiere of Infernal Affairs III. The trilogy plays from Sunday 6th - Tuesday 8th November and again from Friday 18th - Sunday 20th November.

There's plenty more next year, including Mike Leigh's Vera Drake and the massive metal documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster in January. We're also going to be bringing you a retrospective of the animated films of director Hayao Miyazaki and his famed Studio Ghibli, the people behind such hits as Spirited Away and the current Howl's Moving Castle. We can promise you that it'll be a fantastic, far-flung way to usher in the New Year.

Hope that goes some way towards whetting your appetite for the run-up to Christmas...and beyond. More information about what's coming in the New Year nearer the time.

Best wishes,
FilmFour

Hello FilmFour,

Any plans to show any of the following?:

Dark Days (Marc Singer's brilliant doc about a New York homeless underground community.)
Atanarjuat (Kunuk)
The Story of the weeping camel (Davaa/Falorni)
Rushmore (Anderson)

Cheers.

Many thanks for your post and also for the suggestions. Unfortunately, we do not currently have rights to any of these films, but will certainly let you know if the position changes in any way.

how about alfs button afloat?my nans busting to watch it again

More Asian films in the line up?

We have some great Asian cinema coming up in the next few months - with the UK TV premieres of Tropical Malady, Untold Scandal, Vital, One Night in Mongkok, and R-Point, the Ghibli season being run in its entirety in the original language versions, plus other great titles like the original Grudge, the awesome Oldboy, the bonkers Save the Green Planet!, the Infernal Affairs trilogy to name but a few - hope you get to see and enjoy those titles.

do u have the film rights for alfs button afloat and intend to show it?

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Originally posted by FilmFour Channel:
We have some great Asian cinema coming up in the next few months - with the UK TV premieres of Tropical Malady, Untold Scandal, Vital, One Night in Mongkok, and R-Point, the Ghibli season being run in its entirety in the original language versions, plus other great titles like the original Grudge, the awesome Oldboy, the bonkers Save the Green Planet!, the Infernal Affairs trilogy to name but a few - hope you get to see and enjoy those titles.

Brilliant!

Any chance of showing Night Of The Demon ? It hasn't been on British television for about 8 years.

How about screenings of

Kuroi Ami(?) (Black Rain JAP 1989)
Edge of the World (Michael Powell)
Lancelot du Lac
Les yeux sans Visage
The Secret Beyond the Door (an unrecognised classic from Lang!)
L'Avventura
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
The Cobweb (Minnelli)
Night of the Demon (Lewton)
This Gun for Hire
Valmont (Unknown Scandal was excellent by the way!)

Does the fact that there is virtually nothing new in the May schedules bode ill for the new FilmFour on freeview??

nice to see that Oldboy will be coming soon to film4 - is there any chance of showing more from Korean cinema? for example there's other great films from Park Chan-wook like Mr Vengeance and JSA. Kim Ki-Duk makes some amazing drama like Bad Guy, 3-Iron, Address Unknown. Then there's Kim Ji-woon who makes fantastic films such as The Quiet Family, A Tale of Two Sisters and A Bittersweet Life. My Sassy Girl, Attack The Gas Station, Take Care of My Cat, Barking Dogs Never Bite, Memories of Murder are all other examples of the great films coming out of Korean cinema recently. to be honest, Untold Scandal and R-point are pretty lame in comparison.

I have noticed that you will be doing a Studio Ghibli season in August. Will you also be running the Japanese-language versions alongside these, or will they be screened once this season has finished?

Yes FilmFour Channel. Please show more films from Far East Asia like 2046 (again) and/or In the Mood for Love, JSA etc etc. Thanks!

Many thanks for your posts - on the Studio Ghibli titles, we will be showing both versions, with the dubbed versions of each title playing first, and the second screening being the subtitled version.
We will be screening many of the titles requested in the next few months, such as 2046, In The Mood for Love and A Tale of Two Sisters to name but a few - more details to follow.

I'd love to see

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987) (TV) Directed by
Jonathan Miller

Writing credits
Eugene O'Neill (play)

The Wild Duck (1983)
Directed by
Henri Safran

Writing credits
Henrik Ibsen (play)
Tutte Lemkow
(more)

No Man's Land (1978) (TV)
Writing credits
Harold Pinter


Plot Outline: In this TV adaptation of the Harold Pinter classic, a seedy poet (Gielgud) shows up at the home of a rich writer (Richardson) and they start reminiscing about the "past."


John Gielgud .... Spooner
Ralph Richardson .... Hirst


any chance ?

Peter brooks king lear would be great also

and when are you showing

Antony and cleopatra and Thirteen conversations about one thing

please

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