THIS WEEK’S SBS WORLD MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS:
- Audio Description (AD) available for Free Fire, The Man From Snowy River II and Yardie
- Closed Captions (CC) available for Franklin, Gurrumul, I Am JFK Jr. and Navalny
WEDNESDAY 7 DECEMBER
Nineteen Eighty-Four
9:25pm, SBS VICELAND
M
UK, 1984
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Michael Radford
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher
What’s it about?
A man (Hurt), whose daily work is rewriting history, searches for hope amid a repressive totalitarian society that he can neither comprehend nor tolerate. He dares to fall in love and is hunted down for heinous ‘crimes of the mind’. Based on George Orwell’s classic novel of the same name.
Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James
9:40pm, NITV (repeats Thursday 8 December, 12:00pm)
MA15+
USA, 2021
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Sacha Jenkins
Featuring: Rick James, Oscar Alston, Big Daddy Kane, Todd Boyd, George Clinton
What’s it about?
This profile of legendary funk/R&B icon Rick James captures the peaks and valleys of his storied career to reveal a complicated and rebellious soul, driven to share his talent with the world.
Free Fire
11:30pm, SBS VICELAND
MA15+, AD
UK, 2017
Genre: Action, Crime, Comedy
Language: English
Director: Ben Wheatley
Starring: Brie Larson, Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley
What’s it about?
An action comedy set in 1970s Boston, about a gun sale which goes wrong. Acclaimed filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise) propels the audience head-on into an epic shootout as he crafts a spectacular parody – and biting critique – of the insanity of gun violence.
THURSDAY 8 DECEMBER
The Man From Snowy River II
9:20pm, NITV (repeats Friday 9 December, 12:00pm)
PG, AD
Australia, 1988
Genre: Drama, Adventure, Western, Family, Action
Language: English
Director: Geoff Burrowes
Starring: Tom Burlinson, Sigrid Thornton, Brian Dennehy, Nicholas Eadie, Mark Hembrow
What’s it about?
Young Jim Craig (Burlinson) returns to the Australian high country, after being away herding the horses he caught and sold, in order to provide a stake for his future.
FRIDAY 9 DECEMBER
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
8:00pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 10 December, 10:30pm)
PG
USA, 1993
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Language: English
Director: Stuart Gillard
Starring: Elias Koteas, Paige Turco, Stuart Wilson, Sab Shimono, Vivian Wu, Mark Caso
What’s it about?
The four turtles travel back in time to the days of the legendary and deadly samurai in ancient Japan, where they train to perfect the art of becoming one. The turtles also assist a small village in an uprising.
The Case of the Three Sided Dream
10:50pm, NITV (repeats Saturday 10 December, 4:00pm)
PG
USA, 2014
Genre: Documentary, Music
Language: English
Director: Adam Kahan
Featuring: Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Betty Neals, Rory Kirk, Michael Max Fleming, Sonelius Smith
What’s it about?
The documentary film on the life and legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk – a one of a kind musician, personality, activist and windmill slayer who despite being blind, becoming paralyzed, and facing America’s racial injustices – did not relent.
At Eternity’s Gate
1:10am, SBS VICELAND
PG
USA, France, Ireland, Switzerland, UK, 2018
Genre: Drama
Language: English, French
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric
What’s it about?
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh (Dafoe) spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him. Directed by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls, The Diving Bell & The Butterfly).
SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER
Arizona Dream
8:30pm, NITV
M
France, USA, 1993
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Language: English
Director: Emir Kusturica
Starring: Johnny Depp, Jerry Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor, Vincent Gallo, Paulina Porizkova
What’s it about?
Axel (Depp) travels to Arizona in order to attend his uncle’s wedding. There, he encounters two women who have suffered atrocities of familial discord. Gradually, Axel falls in love with one of the women. Directed by Emir Kusturica (Black Cat White Cat, Underground).
The Other Bond Fellow
9:25pm, SBS VICELAND
M
UK, 2022
Genre: Documentary
Language: English, Swedish
Director: Matthew Bauer
Starring: Matthew Bauer, Gunnar Schäfer, Charley Palmer Rothwell, Gregory Itzin, Tacey Adams
What’s it about?
An energetic exploration of masculine identity through the lives, personalities and adventures of a diverse band of men – real men across the globe all sharing the name James Bond. Spanning tales from Swedish 007 super-fan with a Nazi past, a gay New York theatre director, an African American Bond accused of murder, and two resilient women caught up in it all.
Yardie
12:45am, SBS VICELAND
MA15+, AD
UK, 2018
Genre: Crime
Language: English
Director: Idris Elba
Starring: Aml Ameen, Stephen Graham, Shantol Jackson, Calvin Demba, Sheldon Shepherd
What’s it about?
Set in ’70s Kingston and ’80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Ameen), who has never fully recovered from the murder, committed during his childhood, of his older brother Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary). The directorial debut of actor Idris Elba, star of Luther and The Wire.
SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER
Peter O’Toole: Along The Sky Roads To Aqaba
7:30pm, SBS
M
Ireland, 2022
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jim Sheridan
What’s it about?
Legendary actor Peter O’Toole brought a touch of danger to his art and a stroke of madness to his life, yet inspired a generation of movie makers. Reflecting O’Toole’s theatrical legacy, this feature documentary is structured into four acts, each introduced by a quote about O’Toole that encapsulates his life during a specific period. Directed by Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father).
Charley Pride: I’m Just Me
8:40pm, NITV (repeats Monday 27 June, 12:00pm)
PG
USA, 2019
Genre: Music, Documentary
Language: English
Director: Barbara Hall
Featuring: Charley Pride, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Whoopi Goldberg, Garth Brooks
What’s it about?
This film traces the improbable journey of Charley Pride, from his humble beginnings as a sharecropper’s son on a cotton farm in segregated Sledge, Mississippi to his career as a Negro American League baseball player and his meteoric rise as a trailblazing country music superstar. The new documentary reveals how Pride’s love for music led him from the Delta to a larger, grander world.
Franklin
9:10pm, SBS
MA15+, CC
Australia, 2022
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Kasimir Burgess
Featuring: Hugo Weaving, Oliver Cassidy, Bob Brown
What’s it about?
When Tasmania’s Hydro-Electric Commission planned to build a dam on the Franklin River, Launceston’s Wilderness Society mobilised to protect it. Franklin recounts this seminal environmental protest through the eyes of Oliver Cassidy, who retraces the journey on the World Heritage–listed river taken some 40 years before by his late activist father.
Westwind: Djalu’s Legacy
10:00pm, NITV
PG
Australia, 2017
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Ben Strunin
Featuring: Djalu Gurruwiwi, Gotye
What’s it about?
Ancient knowledge. A way forward. A legacy shared. An Old Man, Djalu Gurruwiwi warrior, shaman, and father, must find a way to bring two worlds together to save his sons and his culture.
Gurrumul
11:30pm, SBS VICELAND
PG, CC
Australia, 2018
Genre: Documentary, Music
Language: English
Director: Paul Damien Williams
Featuring: Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Sting, Michael Hohnen, Mark Grose
What’s it about?
Celebrated by audiences at home and abroad, Indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most important and acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia. Blind from birth, he found purpose and meaning – and eventually mainstream success – through songs and music inspired by his community and country on Elcho Island in far North East Arnhem Land.
Why Gurrumul is Australia’s most important documentary
I Am JFK Jr.
11:50pm, SBS
M, CC
USA, 2016
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Derik Murray, Steve Burgess
What’s it about?
This documentary tells the story of a life cut tragically short, the story of a little boy whose salute transfixed a nation, a boy who would grow to become the embodiment of American hopes for the future. Those who knew him (including Robert De Niro, Cindy Crawford and Mike Tyson, who are interviewed here) paint a picture of a man who handled the intense glare of fame with a rare grace and poise that reflected both of his famous parents.
MONDAY 12 DECEMBER
I Am Richard Pryor
11:20pm, SBS VICELAND
M
USA, 2019
Genre: Documentary
Language: English
Director: Jesse James Miller
Featuring: 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 barriers by delivering his honest irreverent and biting humour to America’s stages and living rooms until his death at 65. Featuring a cast of comedians, historians, activists and artists, this film dives deep into the psyche of a comedic genius.
TUESDAY 13 DECEMBER
Navalny
8:30pm, SBS
M, CC
USA, 2022
Genre: Documentary, Thriller
Language: English, Russian
Director: Daniel Roher
What’s it about?
This feature documentary takes viewers inside the careful investigation into the shocking and brazen assassination attempt against Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. During his months-long recovery, Navalny makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.
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