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Saturday 7th March
Film4 9.00pm
Forrest Gump:
Lowly Southern boy Forrest starts off with his legs in metal clamps and ends up running across America, after becoming athlete, war hero, ping pong genius and shrimper. Crowd-pleasing comedy drama which won Tom Hanks his second Oscar.
Channel4 11.10pm
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:
Michel Gondry's film is a fascinating melange of romance, fantasy and illusion, co-scripted with Charlie Kaufman. Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski were once madly in love, but their affair has gone stale. And when they meet again by chance, she doesn't just blank him, she genuinely doesn't know him.
Forrest Gump:
Lowly Southern boy Forrest starts off with his legs in metal clamps and ends up running across America, after becoming athlete, war hero, ping pong genius and shrimper. Crowd-pleasing comedy drama which won Tom Hanks his second Oscar.
Channel4 11.10pm
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind:
Michel Gondry's film is a fascinating melange of romance, fantasy and illusion, co-scripted with Charlie Kaufman. Joel Barish and Clementine Kruczynski were once madly in love, but their affair has gone stale. And when they meet again by chance, she doesn't just blank him, she genuinely doesn't know him.
Sunday 8th March
Film4 12.30am
Sideways:
In Alexander Payne's bittersweet comedy, two buddies, Miles and Jack, embark on Jack's stag week, a tasting trip around California's wine country, with oenophile Miles leading the way. Miles may be a wine expert but he's also a bitter divorcee, depressed and in love with a waitress, Maya, whose presence always leaves him tongue-tied. Jack is a faded actor who can't quite resign himself to marriage when there are still obtainable women in the world, married or not, and when he meets Stephanie at a tasting, he swears Miles to secrecy about the wedding. And so the foursome continue their trip... Alexander Payne's Oscar and BAFTA-winning road trip is a classic of friendship and crisis, with four outstanding leads.
Sideways:
In Alexander Payne's bittersweet comedy, two buddies, Miles and Jack, embark on Jack's stag week, a tasting trip around California's wine country, with oenophile Miles leading the way. Miles may be a wine expert but he's also a bitter divorcee, depressed and in love with a waitress, Maya, whose presence always leaves him tongue-tied. Jack is a faded actor who can't quite resign himself to marriage when there are still obtainable women in the world, married or not, and when he meets Stephanie at a tasting, he swears Miles to secrecy about the wedding. And so the foursome continue their trip... Alexander Payne's Oscar and BAFTA-winning road trip is a classic of friendship and crisis, with four outstanding leads.
Tuesday 10th March
Film4 9.00pm
The Magdalene Sisters:
Peter Mullan's award-winning film tells the story of four of the inmates of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, brutal nun-run institutions housing single mothers, orphans and "promiscuous" girls. Run with a rod of iron by Sister Bridget, the inmates' only solace is their friendship.
BBC1 11.45pm
Hannah and Her Sisters:
Academy Award-winning tale of three sisters living in New York, and their intertwining relationships with men. Holly has always been envious of older sister Hannah's 'perfect' marriage, but neither of them are aware that Hannah's husband is in love with their other sister, Lee. Meanwhile, Hannah's hypochondriac ex-husband is convinced that he is dying.
The Magdalene Sisters:
Peter Mullan's award-winning film tells the story of four of the inmates of one of Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, brutal nun-run institutions housing single mothers, orphans and "promiscuous" girls. Run with a rod of iron by Sister Bridget, the inmates' only solace is their friendship.
BBC1 11.45pm
Hannah and Her Sisters:
Academy Award-winning tale of three sisters living in New York, and their intertwining relationships with men. Holly has always been envious of older sister Hannah's 'perfect' marriage, but neither of them are aware that Hannah's husband is in love with their other sister, Lee. Meanwhile, Hannah's hypochondriac ex-husband is convinced that he is dying.
Wednesday 11th March
BBC2 9.00pm
Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimers:
Bestselling author Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer's disease. And he wants Alzheimer's to be sorry that it ever caught him. In the second of this two-part series, Terry confronts his future living with the disease. He travels to America to witness first-hand how they are coping with the 'tsunami of Alzheimer's', and meets the unlikely doctor who stumbled across a controversial new treatment that he claims produces remarkable results in minutes.
Terry Pratchett: Living with Alzheimers:
Bestselling author Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer's disease. And he wants Alzheimer's to be sorry that it ever caught him. In the second of this two-part series, Terry confronts his future living with the disease. He travels to America to witness first-hand how they are coping with the 'tsunami of Alzheimer's', and meets the unlikely doctor who stumbled across a controversial new treatment that he claims produces remarkable results in minutes.
Friday 13th March
Film4 9.00pm
Forrest Gump:
Lowly Southern boy Forrest starts off with his legs in metal clamps and ends up running across America, after becoming athlete, war hero, ping pong genius and shrimper. Crowd-pleasing comedy drama which won Tom Hanks his second Oscar.
Forrest Gump:
Lowly Southern boy Forrest starts off with his legs in metal clamps and ends up running across America, after becoming athlete, war hero, ping pong genius and shrimper. Crowd-pleasing comedy drama which won Tom Hanks his second Oscar.
Saturday 14th March
Film4 9.00pm
Brick Lane:
Sarah Gavron's film, based on Monica Ali's novel, stars Tannishtha Chatterjee as Nazneen, married at 17 to Chanu - who is 20 years her senior - and living in a council flat in London's East End. Reconciled to her lot but still dreaming of her family back home in Bangladesh, her life changes when, to earn more money, she starts doing clothing piecework at home. The clothing is delivered by Karim, who is her age, handsome and charming, and the two begin an affair. But all three lives are changed by the events of 9/11, with one of the men becoming radicalised, and the other a proponent for understanding, while Nazneen is caught in the middle, needing to accept adult responsibilities.
Brick Lane:
Sarah Gavron's film, based on Monica Ali's novel, stars Tannishtha Chatterjee as Nazneen, married at 17 to Chanu - who is 20 years her senior - and living in a council flat in London's East End. Reconciled to her lot but still dreaming of her family back home in Bangladesh, her life changes when, to earn more money, she starts doing clothing piecework at home. The clothing is delivered by Karim, who is her age, handsome and charming, and the two begin an affair. But all three lives are changed by the events of 9/11, with one of the men becoming radicalised, and the other a proponent for understanding, while Nazneen is caught in the middle, needing to accept adult responsibilities.
