Film Four free weekend

Timmy

Film four free to view weekend Fri 4th to Sun 6th.

Or is this old news

dmeehan

what films are showwing that weekend?

jez

Film Four should be free to air ,end of story. Just like TCM.
It's a sin that a company can charge for the average films they show. Most have been on Channel 4 before or some other channel. I mean how many times have they and Channel four both shown East is East at this stage.

Anyone who pays for these channels is obviously fairly well off!!

Thats my rant for now.....

carrolls

BTW. Film 4 wont be unencrypted or FTA.
So you still need a Sky subscription for that weekend to watch the movies.

carrolls

Most have been on Channel 4 before or some other channel.

We have been spoilt in Ireland with RTE movies when compared to the UK terrestrials.
In the UK Film 4 seems pretty good, whereas a lot of the "blockbusters" on Film 4 have already been shown on RTE for free. Admittedly, its nice to get them in W/S with no adverts but at nearly 10 euro a month its not worth it.

eth0_

Is Film Four extreme going to be freeview for the weekend too?
Cos Driller Killer and Battle Royale are on!

Washout

What about for NTL digital customers?
wrong forum i know but ye may know!!

Mr E

Nothing really jumps out at me...

- Dave.


Friday

(FF) The Straight Story
(FF) Abigail's Party
(FF) The Crying Game
(FF) Emmanuel
(FF) Woody Allen On Bergman
(FF) Wild Strawberries
(FF) Naked
(FFW) Orphee
(FFW) Nelly and Mr. Arnaud
(FFW) In The Mood For Love
(FFE) Series 7: The Contenders
(FFE) Battle Royale
(FFE) The Driller Killer

Saturday

(FF) The Ladykillers
(FF) Smalltime Crooks
(FF) Shallow Grave
(FF) Nikita
(FF) The Way Of the Gun
(FF) Blair Witch 2
(FFW) The Circle
(FFW) Solaris
(FFW) Merci Pour Le Chocolat
(FFE) Requiem For A Dream
(FFE) Sex: the Annabel Chong Story
(FFE) Head On

Sunday

(FF) Bugsy Malone
(FF) The Natural
(FF) Trainspotting
(FF) Blue Velvet
(FF) Law Of Desire
(FF) Rita Sue and Bob too
(FFW) Buena Vista Social Club
(FFW) Asterix et Obelix Contre Caesar
(FFW) Cinema Paradiso
(FFE) Cecil B Demented
(FFE) Suspiria
(FFE) Opera

DMC

I've just changed the thread header, its a free weekend, its not coming to Freeview, which may confuse some folk.

Tom Dunne

Originally posted by TmB
Nothing really jumps out at me...

- Dave.

Agreed - everytime FF do this it convinces me even more why I really don't need this channel.

Krusty_Clown

TmB: Nothing really jumps out at me...

Some of these are cracking movies:
Trainspotting
The Crying Game
Battle Royale (haven't seen it but cult classic)
Requiem For A Dream
Blue Velvet

I only wish that one of the Sky Movies channels would should movies of this calibre.. Instead you get:

Premier - Blockbuster rubbish, repeated constantly
MovieMax - third-rate movies - rarely watchable
Sky Cinema - Some hope here.. Occasionaly good movies

<Mental note> Must get rid of Sky movies package and subscribe to FilmFour </Mental note>

dmeehan

nothing jumps out at me either
and I have already seen most of those before

Mossy Monk

Originally posted by jez
Anyone who pays for these channels is obviously fairly well off!!

oh how i wish that was true. i got sick of Sky Movies and swapped over to Film 4 and i am very happy with it

yankinlk

Originally posted by tom dunne
Agreed - everytime FF do this it convinces me even more why I really don't need this channel.

terrible selection of movies this weekend, but im delighted to have traded all the movie channels for this instead. 2 reasons really = 1. much better choice of films 2. better start times with the plus one channel - i nearly always missed the 8pm movies on sky movies...

cmon, bugsy malone is worth another watch aint it...i loved that as a kid - thast the kids gangster movie where they all fire cream pies from guns at each other aint it?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

sweet, battle royale great film that

also

(FF) Emmanuel

watty

Cancel Sky altogether and buy more DVDs?

Or is that heresy?

DC

(FFE) Sex: the Annabel Chong Story

Thats an excellent documentary. Only saw bits of it before, so I'll look forward to watching it from the start. It was on channel 4 already.

Driller killer - still banned in Ireland it would seem. This will no doubt be a slightly cut UK version.

Battle Royale. According to IMDB, the tagline is "Could you kill your best friend?" and the plot outline is "42 high school students are forced to kill each other on an uninhabited island". Sounds interesting.

Suspiria has a great tagline... "The Only Thing More Terrifying Than The Last 12 Minutes Of This Film Are The First 92"

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

battle royale is an amazing film, really ****ed up.

Mr E

Yeah, I watched the Special Edition DVD last night. What a great movie.