THIS WEEK’S SBS WORLD MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS:
- Audio Description (AD) accessible for Rogue, The Fourth Form, Bleed For This, Destroyer, Every and Each Day, Pacific Lockdown: Sea Of Resilience and Killing Them Softly
- Closed Captions (CC) accessible for Looby, Bleed For This, Destroyer, Dolly: The Sheep That Modified the World, The Man Putin Could not Kill, L.A. Story and Killing Them Softly
WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER
Energetic Measures
12:00pm, SBS VICELAND
M
USA, 2018
Style: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jack Bryan
That includes: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Hillary Clinton
What’s it about?
Tells the story of the interconnected rise of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, whereas exposing the biggest and most successfully executed espionage operation in historical past. Counting on unique testimony from 29 world consultants, together with Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, John Podesta, and Jeremy Bash, Energetic Measures is important for understanding the complete context behind immediately’s headlines.
I Am Evel Knievel
8:30pm, SBS VICELAND
M
USA, 2014
Style: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Derik Murray, David Ray
What’s it about?
That is the high-flying story of the best daredevil who ever lived, the hovering celebrity who’s universally recognised because the godfather of maximum sports activities. From the second he stepped foot into his first auto present as a younger baby, there was no turning again for the person who was destined to develop into the “King of the Daredevils”.
Friday the thirteenth
10:15pm, SBS VICELAND
MA15+
USA, 1980
Style: Horror
Language: English
Director: Richard Cunningham
Starring: Betsey Palmer, Kevin Bacon, Adrienne King, Harry Crosby
What’s it about?
When a summer season camp at idyllic Crystal Lake reopens 25 years after the tragic drowning of a younger boy named Jason, the woods fill with the glad squeals of younger campers and the furtive couplings of frisky counsellors. However when a violent rainstorm isolates the lake, one-by-one the counsellors are horribly murdered. Might it’s Jason, out for revenge?
Priest
12:05am, SBS VICELAND
M
USA, 2011
Style: Horror, Motion, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Scott Stewart
Starring: Paul Bettany, Karl City, Lily Collins, Maggie Q, Stephen Moyer, Cam Gigandet
What’s it about?
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for hundreds of years. After the final Vampire Warfare, the veteran Warrior Priest (Bettany) lives in obscurity with different people inside one of many Church’s walled cities. When the Priest’s niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He’s accompanied by the niece’s boyfriend, who’s a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER
I Am Richard Pryor
12:00pm, SBS VICELAND
M
USA, 2019
Style: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jesse James Miller
That includes: Lily Tomlin, Tiffany Haddish, Howie Mandel, Mike Epps, Sandra Bernhard
What’s it about?
The story of the legendary performer and iconic social satirist, who transcended race and social boundaries by delivering his sincere irreverent and biting humour to America’s levels and residing rooms till his dying at 65. That includes a forged of comedians, historians, activists and artists, this movie dives deep into the psyche of a comedic genius.
Rogue
9:30pm, NITV
M, AD
Australia, 2007
Style: Motion, Journey, Horror
Language: English
Director: Greg McLean
Starring: Michael Vartan, Barry Otto, Radha Mitchell, Sam Worthington
What’s it about?
An American journalist (Vartan) on a river cruise within the Australian outback encounters a man-eating crocodile whereas trapped on a quickly flooding mud island. Directed by Greg McLean (Wolf Creek).
REVIEW + INTERVIEW (VIDEO)
FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER
Looby
10:40am, SBS
M, CC
Australia, 2019
Style: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Nick Garner, Iain Knight
What’s it about?
Winner of prestigious artwork prizes and picked up by main galleries at house and overseas, Australian painter Keith Looby’s habit to talking his thoughts has left a string of failed enterprise relationships, marriages and friendships. Bludgeoned into coherence by the film-makers, assessed by sellers, curators, critics and fellow artists, this documentary appears to be like at an excellent artist who had his second within the solar, and to ask whether or not he ought to have one other.
Kirikou and the Males and Girls
7:30pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 15 October, 10:00am)
PG
France, 2012
Style: Household, Journey, Animation
Language: French
Director: Michel Ocelot
Voice Solid: Romann Berrux, Awa Sene Sarr, Sabine Pakora
What’s it about?
Outdated grandfather shares great tales about Kirikou’s childhood, when he helped the women and men from his personal village and from different villages, too. The follow-up to 1998’s Kirikou and the Sorceress and 2005’s Kirikou and the Wild Beasts.
Pornocracy: The New Intercourse Multinationals
10:20pm, SBS VICELAND
M
France, 2017
Style: Documentary
Language: English, French, German, Russian
Director: Ovidie
What’s it about?
French feminist icon, filmmaker, and grownup movie director Ovidie investigates fashionable adjustments within the worldwide grownup movie business, and the way the arrival of internet sites displaying novice and pirated clips has reworked the way in which porn is made and consumed. In her investigation, she exposes how a bunch of programmers hijacked the grownup business to create a mysterious multinational company that nearly controls the whole grownup business worldwide.
SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER
The Fourth Form
8:30pm, NITV
M, AD
USA, 2009
Style: Thriller, Science Fiction, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Olatunde Osunsanmi
Starring: Milla Jovovich, Will Patton, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Corey Johnson, Elias Koteas
What’s it about?
For the reason that Sixties, a disproportionate variety of the inhabitants in and round Nome, Alaska, have gone lacking. Regardless of FBI investigations, the disappearances stay a thriller. Dr. Abigail Tyler (Jovovich), a psychologist, could also be on the verge of blowing the unsolved circumstances large open when, through the course of treating her sufferers, she finds proof of alien abductions.
Bleed for This
11:15pm, SBS
M, AD, CC
USA, 2016
Style: Drama
Language: English, French
Director: Ben Youthful
Starring: Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Katey Sagal, Ciaran Hinds, Ted Levine
What’s it about?
Champion boxer Vinny Pazienza (Teller) is informed he might by no means stroll once more after a automobile accident leaves him with a damaged neck. Towards all odds and physician’s orders, famend coach Kevin Rooney (Eckhart) agrees to assist Vinny return to the ring. Govt produced by Martin Scorsese, and scored by acclaimed singer-songwriter and composer Julia Holter.
Destroyer
1:15am, SBS
MA15+, AD, CC
USA, 2018
Style: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Motion
Language: English
Director: Karyn Kusama
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sebastian Stan, Tatiana Maslany, Bradley Whitford, Toby Kebbell
What’s it about?
Erin Bell (Kidman) is an LAPD detective who, as a younger cop, was positioned undercover with a gang within the California desert with tragic outcomes. When the chief (Kebbell) of that gang re-emerges a few years later, she should work her means again via the remaining members and into her personal historical past with them to lastly reckon with the demons that destroyed her previous. Directed by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, The Invitation).
SUNDAY 16 OCTOBER
Celtics/Lakers: Better of Enemies
8:30pm, NITV (repeats Monday 17 October, 12:00pm)
M
USA 2017
Style: Documentary
Language: Englisgh
Director: Jim Podhoretz
That includes: Donnie Wahlberg, Ice Dice, Magic Johnson, Larry Fowl, Pat Riley, David Stern
What’s it about?
There are rivalries, after which there may be the Celtics vs. the Lakers: this documentary will get to the center of the best tug-of-war in NBA historical past, focusing primarily on the Eighties period of Larry Fowl and Magic Johnson but in addition inspecting the whole historical past of the NBA via the rivalry.
Dolly: The Sheep That Modified the World
10:10pm, SBS
PG, CC
UK, 2021
Style: Documentary
Language: English
Narrator: Cora Bissett
What’s it about?
Tells the story of the primary mammal to be cloned and the affect this monumental scientific achievement in 1996 had on the world. That includes beforehand unseen footage, the movie reveals how a handful of the world’s finest genetic scientists labored in secret on a small Scottish farm to crack the holy grail of replicating life.
Love & Basketball
10:20pm, NITV
M
USA, 2000
Style: Motion, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Language: English, Spanish
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Starring: Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Chris Warren, Kyla Pratt, Alfre Woodard, Regina Corridor
What’s it about?
Quincy McCall (Epps) and Monica Wright (Lathan) grew up in the identical neighborhood and have recognized one another since childhood. As they develop into maturity, they fall in love, however additionally they share one other all-consuming ardour: basketball. They ultimately comply with separate profession paths although highschool and faculty basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league skilled ball. Written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Secret Lifetime of Bees, Past the Lights).
The Man Putin Could not Kill
2:45am, SBS
M, CC
UK, 2021
Style: Documentary
Language: English, Russian
Director: Jon Blair
That includes: Marcel Theroux, Alexey Navalny, Vladimir Putin
What’s it about?
The unbelievable story of the Russian plot to kill politician Alexei Navalny – by poisoning his underpants. Plus, what’s going to occur subsequent in Navalny and Putin’s harmful feud?
MONDAY 17 OCTOBER
L.A. Story
12:00pm, SBS VICELAND
M, AD, CC
USA, 1991
Style: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Language: English
Director: Mick Jackson
Starring: Steve Martin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Victoria Tennant, Richard E. Grant
What’s it about?
With the assistance of a speaking freeway billboard, a “wacky weatherman” (Martin, who additionally wrote the movie’s screenplay) tries to win the center of an English newspaper reporter, who’s struggling to make sense of the unusual world of early-’90s Los Angeles.
Every and Each Day
9:30pm, NITV
MA15+, AD
USA, 2021
Style: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Alexandra Shiva
What’s it about?
An exploration of psychological well being via the eyes of younger individuals who share their darkish moments, recoveries, and knowledge about what it means to construct a life value residing.
Pacific Lockdown: Sea Of Resilience
10:30pm, NITV (repeats Tuesday 18 October, 1:00pm)
PG, AD
Australia, 2021
Style: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Ben Bohane
What’s it about?
The Pacific’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been one in all self-reliance and resilience: turning to its communities and church buildings, its lands and seas.
TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER
The Metropolis of Misplaced Youngsters
12:00pm, SBS VICELAND
M
France, 1995
Style: Journey, Drama, Fantasy
Language: French
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Ron Perlman, Judith Vittet, Jean-Claude Dreyfus
What’s it about?
With this follow-up to the black comedy gem Delicatessen, administrators Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) and Marc Caro transport us to a darkish and nightmarish universe the place cynical adults lengthy for the innocence of childhood. In a derelict port, a joyless genius has youngsters kidnapped so their desires might be harvested. It is left to the native circus strongman and an unusually mature street-kid to rescue their buddies.
Killing Them Softly
12:55am, SBS VICELAND
MA15+, AD, CC
USA, 2012
Style: Crime, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Andrew Dominik
Starring: Brad Pitt, Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, Richard Jenkins, Ben Mendelsohn, Sam Shepard
What’s it about?
Jackie Cogan (Pitt) is an enforcer, known as in to take care when a high-stakes card sport has been held up by an unknown gang of thugs. Calculating, ruthless, businesslike, and with a shrewd sense of different individuals’s weaknesses, Cogan plies his commerce, shifting amongst quite a lot of hoods, hangers-on, and big-timers, monitoring these accountable. Primarily based on the novel by George V. Higgins (The Associates of Eddie Coyle) and directed by Andrew Dominik (Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford).
