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13:00 Theodora Goes Wild (1936)

Irene Dunn plays prim schoolmistress Theodora Lynn of the small Connecticut town Lynnfield, named after her ancestors. But to liven up her dull life, she secretly writes a racy novel based on the town which, when serialised in the town paper under a nom de plume, creates a local scandal. But when it is published as a book and becomes a national bestseller, Lynn is exposed and ostracised until the town discovers it's become a literary hotspot for tourists.

14:55 The Sun Shines Bright (1953)

John Ford's favourite film features the same character, Judge Priest, that appeared in his eponymous 1934 film. This time the role of the upright small town lawyer Judge William Priest is taken by Charles Winniger, who sticks up for the ordinary people of the town, much to the disgust of the rich mansion owners who still miss the days of the Confederacy. Among the unpopular decisions Priest takes are to help a woman who keeps a house of ill repute, preventing the lynching of an innocent young black man and organising a decent funeral for a prostitute. But his position comes under threat when hotshot Yankee lawyer Horace Maydew stands against him for election.

16:45 The Day Will Dawn (1942)

Gripping wartime thriller with Hugh Williams as Colin Metcalfe, a British journalist working in Norway who finds himself hunted by the Germans when he uncovers a secret U-boat base. Deborah Kerr co-stars as the daughter of a Norwegian sea captain helping the Brits combat the Nazi menace.

18:50 Life is Beautiful (1998)

Roberto Benigni's multi-award winning film stars the director as Guido, a hotel waiter in a small pre-war Italian town, who falls helplessly for and marries Dora. They have a son Giosué and all seems perfect until, in 1945, the Nazis begin to round up Italian Jews and send them to the camps. Guido and family are among them and, in the camp, Guido constructs an elaborate game to comfort and protect his son from the horrors that surround them; it is also a game that may save Giosué's life.

21:00 Independence Day (1996)

Roland Emmerich's science fiction blockbuster sees aliens reach Earth. And they're clearly hostile: their plan is to suck the planet of all its resources, leave behind a burnt cinder circling the sun, and move on. Planting giant ships above the world's major cities, they unleash destruction on an unprecedented scale. All attempts to fight back are met by hordes of fighter craft until pilot Steven Hiller manages to down one and capture the pilot. In tandem, scientist David Levinson, having worked out their purpose, also works out a way to destroy them but he and Hiller need a spacecraft: which brings them to a secret base near Las Vegas...

23:40 The Blair Witch Project (1999)

One of the most successful horror films of all time, with a simple but eerie premise: three student filmmakers set off into the woods near Burkitsville, Maryland, in search of the truth behind the legends of the Blair Witch. They never returned but, a year later, their footage was found.

01:15 Old Joy (2006)

Director/writer Kelly Reichardt's film is deceptively gentle drama about a friendship renewed. Kurt and Mark, two friends who lost touch and decide to re-kindle their relationship with a weekend trek through Oregon's mountains. They talk, with Mark concerned about imminent fatherhood while Kurt is more meditative, but at the end, will the bond be re-forged?

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 01.02.08

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1.00pm Reach for the sky (U) 1956

Kenneth More stars in this dignified and inspiring biopic as renowned World War Two hero Douglas Bader. A plane crash in 1931 cost the aspiring pilot both his legs, but he refused to give up his dreams of learning to fly and, after learning to walk on artificial limbs, rose to the rank of squadron leader in the RAF. However, more misfortune was in store when he was shot down over occupied France and taken prisoner.

15:35pm When Eight Bells Toll (PG) 1971

A Navy intelligence agent poses as a biologist to investigate the theft of millions of pounds worth of gold bullion, stolen from ships off the British coast. However, his enquiries are met with hostility, especially when he sets his sights on a Greek tycoon who he suspects may be operating as a modern-day pirate.

17:30pm High Anxiety (15) 1977

A psychiatrist takes over the running of an institute following the suspicious death of the previous director. But when he ends up framed for murder, he must keep his own neuroses under control to prove his innocence.

19:15pm The Beverly Hillbillies (PG) 1993

TV comedy series, about a family of country bumpkins who strike it rich and move to a plush Los Angeles suburb. However, the locals greet their new neighbours with dismay.

21:00pm The Butterfly Effect (15) 2003

A college student who discovers he can travel into the past and change events but his inability to cope with the hand life has dealt him leads to nothing but trouble.

23:05pm Swingers (15) 1996

A group of mismatched friends struggle to make an impact on the singles scene, pinning all their hopes on an ill-fated trip to Las Vegas before returning home and facing up to reality.

00:50am Old Joy (15) 2005

Two old friends one a responsible family man, the other a directionless free spirit embark on a camping trip together. But as they journey into the wilderness, they are forced to face up to how much they have changed over the years perhaps too much for their friendship to survive.

02:15am Detroit Rock City (15) 1999

Four teenage boys acquire tickets to see rock band Kiss in concert only to find one of their mothers has torn them up. Luckily, they're not so easily beaten and set off regardless, determined to have the time of their lives but all manner of obstacles stand in their path, leading to chaos.

04.00am Film4 Preview

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13:00 Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

First made as a 1950 film with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt take on the roles of Tom and Kate Baker, parents to a dozen children. He's the coach of a smalltown college American football team, she's an author. But when he takes up a job coaching a big college team just as she has to promote her new best seller, the idyllic if slightly chaotic life they and the children have starts to spiral out of control.

14:45 Cottage to Let (1941)

Anthony Asquith's fast-paced comedy-thriller stars Leslie Banks as John Barrington, an inventor during the Second World War working on a new bomb sight at his home in a remote Scottish glen. He is unaware that he is the target of a Fifth Column organisation operating out of Glasgow who have already installed an agent in his household masquerading as the cook. Also in the house are Banks' wife, daughter Helen and assistant Alan Trently, plus a Scotland Yard detective, disguised as their butler, who suspects Trently of passing on the secrets.

16:25 Death Drums along the River (1963)

Exciting location-filmed thriller based on Sanders of the River and starring Richard Todd as the Inspector Sanders, investigating diamond smuggling, mystery and murder in deepest Africa.

18:10 Independence Day (1996)

Roland Emmerich's science fiction blockbuster sees aliens reach Earth. And they're clearly hostile: their plan is to suck the planet of all its resources, leave behind a burnt cinder circling the sun, and move on. Planting giant ships above the world's major cities, they unleash destruction on an unprecedented scale. All attempts to fight back are met by hordes of fighter craft until pilot Steven Hiller manages to down one and capture the pilot. In tandem, scientist David Levinson, having worked out their purpose, also works out a way to destroy them but he and Hiller need a spacecraft: which brings them to a secret base near Las Vegas...

20:50 Daniel Day-Lewis Interview (Entertainment)

The Oscar-winning actor talks about his role in There Will Be Blood, which opens in London Friday Feb 8, nationally Friday Feb 15.

21:00 My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)

Jim Sheridan's Oscar-nominated film stars Daniel Day Lewis as Christy Brown, who was born with cerebral palsy into an Irish working class family but overcame his disability and background to become an award-winning writer.

23:00 Gangs of New York (2002)

Martin Scorsese's multi Oscar-nominated epic stars Daniel Day-Lewis as William Cutting, the leader of a violent gang in 19th-century New York who take on their rivals, led by 'Priest' Vallon. Vallon dies and his young son Amsterdam disappears, only to return a man torn between a thirst for revenge and a fascination for the charismatic Cutting, with Cameron Diaz as Jenny Everdeane, the pickpocket they both love.

02:10 The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946)

Paulette Goddard plays Celestine, a saucy servant who disrupts the Parisian household she joins. Both the head of the household, Captain Lanlaire and his son Georges fall for her, as does their neighbour Captain Mauger. But lovesick valet Joseph harbours a deep, secret desire for her, so passionate, he will kill to gain her affection.

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13:00 Convicted (1950)

Glenn Ford stars in Henry Levin's film noir as Joe Hufford, convicted of manslaughter, who attracts the approval of warden George Knowland, who rewards him with trusty tasks, including chauffeuring his daughter Kay. However, Hufford witnesses the killing of a stoolie and, refusing to grass, is accused and convicted of the crime. Only a deathbed confession by the real killer spares him the electric chair but at last he walks out of prison a free man, into the arms of the waiting Kay.

14:45 Private Hell 36 (1954)

Don Siegel's thriller stars Steve Cochran and Howard Duff as Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham, two cops assigned to track down $300,000 stolen in a hold-up. When nightclub singer Lilli Marlowe turns up with a $50 bill from the raid, they're told to shadow her and identify the man who gave it to her. They spot him, and the ensuing car chase leaves him dead and reveals a trunk stuffed full of money. Bruner suggests they keep some but Farnham eventually decides to do the honest thing. With one of the other thieves on their trail and a partner who's willing to turn him in, Bruner has to act fast if he's to save his skin and the loot.

16:20 The Cassandra Crossing (1977)

Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster and Sophia Loren are among the passengers trapped on a plague-infested train as it hurtles across Europe. Will any of them make it off alive?

18:55 Gallipoli (1981)

The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.

21:00 Just Married (2003)

Ashton Kutcher and Brittany Murphy are Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney, a chalk-and-cheese couple who fall in love and marry. Now, all they need for the union to work is to survive both families who disapprove of the match, deal with the well-meaning friends who meddle too much and, on their honeymoon, suffer a selection of Europe's worst accommodation.

22:50 Daniel Day-Lewis Interview (Entertainment)

The Oscar-winning actor talks about his role in There Will Be Blood, which opens in London Friday Feb 8, nationally Friday Feb 15.

23:00 My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Directed by Stephen Frears and written by Hanif Kureishi, this multi-layered social comedy stars Daniel Day Lewis as Johnny, an ex-NF member who befriends Asian Omar and helps him realise his dream of opening a laundrette that is more like a picture palace than a laundromat.

00:50 All the Pretty Horses (2000)

Matt Damon and Henry Thomas play John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins, two cowboys in the fading west of the late 40s, seeking adventure and employment in Mexico. Falling in with drifter Blevins, they start work on a Mexican ranch, whose owner's daughter Alejandra takes a shine to Cole but an episode from Blavein's past comes to haunt all of them, resulting in brutal imprisonment that will test them to the limits.

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FilmFour & Film Four +1 06.02.08

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13:00 Human Desire (1954)

Railroad worker Carl Buckley asks his wife Vicki to beg her lover John Owens to use his influence to save his job. She succeeds but when Buckley sees them together, he kills Owens in a fit of jealous rage and brutally dominates her, blackmailing her with her letter that implicates her in the murder. But the murder was witnessed by Jeff Warren, who lies at Owens' inquest and, dazzled by Vicki's beauty, begins an affair with her. She begs him to kill her now-alcoholic husband but he refuses. Eventually, Buckley is sacked from his job and he forces Vicki to leave town with him on the train, little knowing she plans to murder him. But in another compartment is Warren and as the train thunders through the night, insane rage leads to another brutal tragedy.

14:45 Julia (1977)

Fred Zinnemann's sensitive and compelling dramatisation tells of the awakening in the 1930s of playwright Lillian Hellman to the growing threat of Nazism through the persecution and final execution of her childhood friend Julia.

17:00 Daniel Day-Lewis Interview

Daniel Day-Lewis talks about his latest film There Will Be Blood, currently on general release.

17:10 When Eight Bells Toll (1971)

Etienne Perier's thriller stars Anthony Hopkins as Philip Calvert, a tough navy secret service agent called in to track down gold bullion smugglers. With Hunslett, he follows the trail to Greek tycoon Sir Anthony Skouras' yacht off the Scottish coast, but are his suspicions right?

19:05 Blast From The Past (1999)

When the Cuban missile crisis arrives, Calvin Webber hurries pregnant wife Helen into their huge, luxurious bomb shelter. A plane crash near their property convinces them they've dropped the Big One and for 35 years, the couple and their son Adam stay put, with Adam learning ballroom dancing, four languages and culture from Jackie Gleason tapes. Then one day he's sent out to find a girl and meets Eve Rustikoff, who's more than confused by his manner...

21:00 Hide and Seek (2005)

Robert De Niro plays David Callaway, a psychiatrist whose wife has recently committed suicide. Distancing himself and his daughter Emily from the scene of the tragedy, they move from the city to a New York State summer home, complete with lake at the door. But it is winter, the other houses are shut and the weather is bleak. Emily, refusing to be comforted, takes refuge in her imaginary friend Charlie. At first, her father indulges her but blood-stained bathroom walls, drowned pets and veiled threats to his new friend Elizabeth Young lead to murder. Are Emily and Charlie involved or is there another explanation?

23:00 A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

Ewan McGregor is a Scottish cleaner who gets sacked from his job and kidnaps his boss's daughter. But will the angels, played by Holly Hunter and Delroy Lindo, persuade the errant couple to fall in love?

01:00 Trainspotting (1996)

Trainspotting is acknowledged to be one of the most original films to come out of Britain. The multi-award-winning movie, based on Irvine Welsh's novel, stars Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Kelly MacDonald and Kevin McKidd in a story of drugs, survival, scams, friendship and tragedy.

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13:00 If You Could Only Cook (1935)

William A Seitler's comedy stars Herbert Marshall as Jim Buchanan, a successful car designer who walks out of his job after an argument. He bumps into jobless Joan Hawthorne, who persuades him that they should apply for the post of butler and cook to gourmet gangster Mike Rossini. Somehow disguising her inability to cook, the pair muddle along until Buchanan's past life catches up with him and he's dragooned into wedding a society girl. But even gangsters have a romantic side and Rossini uses a little persuasion to make sure the right couple get hitched.

14:20 Cottage to Let (1941)

Anthony Asquith's fast-paced comedy-thriller stars Leslie Banks as John Barrington, an inventor during the Second World War working on a new bomb sight at his home in a remote Scottish glen. He is unaware that he is the target of a Fifth Column organisation operating out of Glasgow who have already installed an agent in his household masquerading as the cook. Also in the house are Banks' wife, daughter Helen and assistant Alan Trently, plus a Scotland Yard detective, disguised as their butler, who suspects Trently of passing on the secrets.

15:55 Death Drums along the River (1963)

Exciting location-filmed thriller based on Sanders of the River and starring Richard Todd as the Inspector Sanders, investigating diamond smuggling, mystery and murder in deepest Africa.

17:30 Bus Stop (1956)

Marilyn Monroe turns in one of her best performances as Cherie, a saloon singer who becomes the object of cowboy Beauregard Decker's affections, the only problem being that she doesn't know he plans to marry her in Joshua Logan's drama.

19:15 Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)

First made as a 1950 film with Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt take on the roles of Tom and Kate Baker, parents to a dozen children. He's the coach of a smalltown college American football team, she's an author. But when he takes up a job coaching a big college team just as she has to promote her new best seller, the idyllic if slightly chaotic life they and the children have starts to spiral out of control.

21:00 Laws of Attraction (2004)

Pierce Brosnan plays divorce lawyer Daniel Rafferty, whose crumpled appearance hides a sharp legal brain, sharp enough to continually outwit his rival Audrey Woods. But their big battle comes when they are retained on opposite sides by rock star Thorne Jamison and his wife Serena, who are fighting for possession of a castle in Ireland. The two lawyers travel to the Republic for the case but, away from the hurly burly of New York, they fall in love with the island's charm, and, inevitably, with each other in Peter Howitt's enjoyable opposites-attract romantic comedy.

22:50 Daniel Day-Lewis Interview (Entertainment)

Daniel Day-Lewis talks about his latest film There Will Be Blood, currently on general release.

23:00 The Last of The Mohicans (1990)

Michael Mann's epic film is set in America in 1757, where the French and the English are fighting for power, with the help of the Huron and Mohican Native Americans respectively. Centre stage in the film is Hawkeye, the orphan of murdered settlers, who was raised by Mohicans, is torn between two cultures, and falls for Cora Munro, the daughter of one of the British commanders.

01:05 Zatôichi (2003)

Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano directs, scripts and stars in this martial arts adventure as Zatôichi, a character well known in Japan through television series and films but rarely seen in the west. Zatôichi is a blind masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman, thanks to his extraordinarily heightened senses. Travelling the country fighting for the weak and oppressed, he joins forces with a young man and woman out to avenge their slaughtered parents, to help them protect a village against a brutal gang led by ronin Hattori.

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