in think filmfour shouls show the rest of the godfather trilogy i loved the first 1 on thursday night PLEASE GET THEM FILMFOUR cause i havent seen them and btw thanx for showing lost in translation & trainspotting both great films

'Trainspotting' has been shown on FilmFour on at least a monthly basis for the past 8 years. I often wonder if the F4 schedule is generated by machine rather than human beings, given the lack of imagination shown.

The only consolation so far with the Freeview version has been the two Rossellini films. I hope they don't stop at 'Rome, Open City', but continue with 'Paisan' and 'Germany Year Zero'.

However, general coverage of European cinema on the channel has been poor for several years, and going free was the logical step since there were presumably very few subscribers left for such mediocrity. The prime-time slot (20:00/22:00) is always some substandard American or British production, and the occasional highlight ('Tropical Malady', 'Notre Musique') is always stuck in the graveyard slot. I actually had to stay up 'til 3.45 AM to watch 'Notre Musique'! What's the matter, Godard too subversive for the popcorn audience?

I'll ask again: why are forward schedules not available? Is it because there is so little in the way of new offerings? The new Freeview viewers are being offered all of the stuff that we ex-subscribers watched over the past year or so.
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I'll add my congrats for showing the Marx Brothers and even more for the brilliant Hellzapoppin', though I wish it had been given a more prominent slot. Not many are going to stumble across it by chance in the middle of the night or afternoon, so the only ones who caught it were probably hardcore fans.


It would be nice to see a few more old comedies given a new outing now that you have a bit of space. So dig out the George Formby's, the Will Hay's and add another vote for Alf's Button Afloat.


Then how about a season of Lubitsch. Not just "To Be Or Not To Be" and Ninotchka, but his pre-code stuff like "Design for Living," "Trouble in Paradise" and the wonderful Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald musicals, when Maurice was still young and sexy and not the old man we all know from Gigi, and Jeanette hadn't linked up with the singing log, Nelson Eddy.


And maybe even some European comedy. Far too much of the foreign films that we get over here are the arty, intellectual type, lightened only by long, moodily-lit shots of the latest teenage starlet walking around in and out of her knickers. Why don't you instead make room for a few films with Louis de Funes. Say the sixties Fantomas spy films (the second is by far the best), "Le Gendarme de St. Tropez" and its sequels, France's answer to the Pink Panther series, or La Grande Vadrouille directed by the recently deceased Gerard Oury (and featuring Terry Thomas), the most popular film ever in France until Titanic.


Or anything written by the great Michel Audiard, father of Jacques and one of the most quoted of modern French writers ("Un gentleman, c'est celui qui est capable de décrire Sophia Loren sans faire de geste." "A Gentleman is someone who can describe Sophia Loren without using his hands."). I'd go for Les Tontons Flingueurs as a start.


Italy has its own clown in Toto, but even better are the series of films Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni made together in the fifties and sixties. Their first, "Too bad she's bad" is an absolute gem and has a brilliant comic role for Vittorio de Sica (too well known for the ultra-pessimistic "Bicycle Thieves" - he had a fun side too). The ending may be a little bit non-PC but La Loren gives as good as or better than she takes and she has never looked sexier on film than she did here.


Or following the clown theme, you could show something from Kostas Voutsas, Greece's answer to Norman Wisdom and just as big a star there as Norman ever was and is here.

does film4 ever show any asian horror? Or is it too extreme even for film4? Have never subscribed so not sure how just how far you can take it when broadcasting on tv

Not sure if this proposal has been posted or not but how about a chambara/samurai season of films? There's a large amount of these films out there, all with different styles, and I think it would be good to show how Japanese cinema has evolved through the ages as the chambara/samurai genre was by far the most prominent in Japanese cinema back then (and is still a force to be reckoned with today).

Titles I would recommend for such a season would be:

- The whole 'Lone Wolf and Cub' series of films ('Sword of Vengeance', 'Baby Cart at the River Styx', 'Baby Cart to Hades', 'Baby Cart in Peril', 'Baby Cart in the Land of Demons' and 'White Heaven in Hell')

- Lady Snowblood

- Seppuku/Harakiri

- 'The Samurai Trilogy' starring Toshiro Mifune and Koji Tsuruta ('Musashi Miyamoto', 'Duel at Ichijoji Temple' and 'Duel at Ganryu Island')

- Kurosawa's contribution to this genre namely 'Rashomon', 'Seven Samurai', 'Yojimbo' and 'Sanjuro'

- The Zatoichi film series (many to choose from, but I'll leave that up to you lot)

- As for more modern films of this genre (since all the above are oldies) I suggest 'Twilight Samurai' (a very different take on the usual chambara film), the latest 'Zatoichi' starring and directed by Takeshi Kitano, 'Samurai Fiction' (takes the genre and spin it on it's head, and which Tarantino copied off for Kill Bill), and 'When the Last Sword is Drawn'.

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum and i have only just got Film4. I'm sorry if this has been disscused before, but, I have seen clips from the film 'ghost world' in the Film4 promo, and I was wondering if this film has been or will be showen on Film4. I really hope it will be and if it already has been showen or is not being planed to be showen i hope you consider it in the future, i've heard it is a great film and its a film i have really wanted to watch for years, much like some of the other great films that arn't very big in England. Also I can't seem to find a decent guide about whats on film4 :S Anyway it would be great if anyone could answer some of my questions, love Jo.

I second GDSage's desire to see some classic samurai films - Kurosawa etc.

Maybe even a season of the movies that inspired Kurosawa (e.g. John Ford's westerns) and the films he, in turn, inspired (Magnificent 7, Zatoichi, etc)

I have to commend FilmFour on showing Shane Meadows' 'Dead Man's Shoes' and 'Once Upon a Time in the Midlands'. Could this be extended to show the likes of '24/7', 'A Room for Romeo Brass' or my favourite Meadows vehicle and one I haven't seen for ages - the short 'Smalltime', an absolute classic!

any chance of these films being shown anytime soon

- Suicide Club
- Gozu
- Visitor Q
- Hentai films

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Originally posted by sugarpuff:
does film4 ever show any asian horror? Or is it too extreme even for film4? Have never subscribed so not sure how just how far you can take it when broadcasting on tv

i think film 4 has chosen to tone down any contraversial film content

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Originally posted by dowsins:

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Originally posted by sugarpuff:
does film4 ever show any asian horror? Or is it too extreme even for film4? Have never subscribed so not sure how just how far you can take it when broadcasting on tv

i think film 4 has chosen to tone down any contraversial film content

yeah .. since in became free, they have proper toned it down

Would love some more foreign films (subtitled). Amores Perros for instance.

I would like to see

Spirited Away
Ghost in the Shell (1 and 2)
Akira
Grave of the Fireflies.............


and as much other Anime as possible, hehe.

Will there be a Kevin Smith season.

I think the his films need to be shown more often as they are slowly being forgotten.

Firstly: thank-you, thank-you, thank-you with all my heart for showing all of Studio Ghibli films, not only in their original language, but at when people will actually be awake to see them! You are only channel in the world that has shown such faith in animé - in America or anywhere else, the subtitled versions are only ever shown in the wee hours of the morning, so that no-one other than a few late-night workers will ever discover their true glory. After that unprecedented show of generosity, I feel greedy to ask for anything else. But if I was to give my opinion, I would most like Film4 to show some some more foreign animation, other than Miyazaki Hayo. Even though I would be the first to name him as the maker of the greatest ever films, there are so many other, completely unknown directors who are also worthy of praise. This is my list based on what I have seen, and I what films I think would do the most to generate a positive appreciation of animation as an art form.

• Millennium Actress (Sennen joyu) (2001) by Satoshi Kon
  
• Only Yesterday (Omohide poro poro) (1991)
  
• Whisper of the Heart (Mimi wo sumaseba) (1995) by Yoshifumi Kondo
  
• The Wonderful World of Puss 'n Boots (Nagagutsu o haita neko) (1969) by Kimio Yabuki
  
• Kirikou and the Sorceress (Kirikou et la sorcière) (1998) by Michel Ocelot
  
• Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage) (1973) by René Laloux
  
• Voices of a Distant Star (Hoshi no koe) (2003) by Makoto Shinkai
  
• The Last Unicorn (1982) by Rankin/Bass (but this would have to be the full length, uncensored version, in widescreen like the German DVD and not edited and 4:3 like the UK and USA DVDs)

Anything else by any one of those directors would be fully appreciated as well, I've just chosen their most obvious films to show.

But most of all… I would like there to be some TV series actually shown on TV. My top recommendations for something serious and thought-provokingwould be serial experiments lain, Haibane-Renmei and Paranoia Agent. And for something more light-hearted, you can't go wrong with InuYasha, Ranma ½ and the original, unedited version of Cardcaptor Sakura.

hello there.
a couple of months ago you showed a film called 1900 with robert de niro. i am wondering if there is any chance for us to see/watch this film again. when i find out it was too late so i didnt had the chance to see it.
can you please show it once again (both parts since its a long film)
thank you

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Originally posted by FilmFour Channel:
Here is a selection of some of the World and Extreme films we will be showing over the following months, plus some American indie titles:-

The Emperor and The Assassin
The Business of Strangers
Salaam Bombay
The Bank
Tears of The Black Tiger
Weight of Water
The Cremator
Twin Falls Idaho
Sex and Lucia
Wendigo
Brother
George Washington
What Time Is It There?
Late Marriage
The Warrior (and the director's short film, The Sheep Thief)
Les Enfants du Siecle
Dark Water
Rolling Thunder
Ivan's XTC
Nowhere To Hide
Read My Lips
Crimes of Passion
Django Kill
Scenes From A Marriage
Army of Darkness
Bad Lieutenant (uncut)

Please let us know what films (or shorts) you would like to see on FilmFour - many thanks.

hello there.
a couple of months ago you showed a film called 1900 with robert de niro. i am wondering if there is any chance for us to see/watch this film again. when i find out it was too late so i didnt had the chance to see it.
can you please show it once again (both parts since its a long film)
thank you

ANY Asian Extremes, and Hammer Horror!

Can we have a Sidney Lumet season? Starting with 'The Hill'? (The Hill is one of my favourite Lumet films)

I also think a Robert Altman series of films would be great. Lots to choose from as well: Short Cuts (I'd like to see this shown first, unedited, full length...excellent film) Gosford Park, Cookie's Fortune, 3 Women, Kansas City, The Gingerbread Man, Secret Honor, O.C. and Stiggs, Prêt-à-Porter..etc.

I vote for Robert Altman films (and Sidney Lumet)