#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Fri Jan 2: The most underrated film in the Powell & Pressburger oeuvre … THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 1pm
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Fri Jan 2: The most underrated film in the Powell & Pressburger oeuvre … THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 1pm
January 2, 2026 at 8:38 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Fri Jan 2: The most underrated film in the Powell & Pressburger oeuvre … THE SMALL BACK ROOM (1949) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 1pm
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Wed Dec 24: ‘the best place I know of to start thinking about movies in general’ @davekehr.bsky.social. No1 Sight & Sound mag movie of all-time for 50 years … CITIZEN KANE (1941) 9am BBC2 & on BBC i-Player
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Wed Dec 24: ‘the best place I know of to start thinking about movies in general’ @davekehr.bsky.social. No1 Sight & Sound mag movie of all-time for 50 years … CITIZEN KANE (1941) 9am BBC2 & on BBC i-Player
December 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Wed Dec 24: ‘the best place I know of to start thinking about movies in general’ @davekehr.bsky.social. No1 Sight & Sound mag movie of all-time for 50 years … CITIZEN KANE (1941) 9am BBC2 & on BBC i-Player
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 23: ‘Capturing the essence of 1950s literature such as Sam Selvon's 'The Lonely Londoners' and the works of Colin MacInnes’ … one of Scorsese’s BFI hidden British gems … thriller SAPPHIRE (1959) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 10.25pm
December 11, 2025 at 9:23 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 23: ‘Capturing the essence of 1950s literature such as Sam Selvon's 'The Lonely Londoners' and the works of Colin MacInnes’ … one of Scorsese’s BFI hidden British gems … thriller SAPPHIRE (1959) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 10.25pm
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sat Dec 20: Not on the telly for over a decade, Nick Cave-scripted savage 2005 western THE PROPOSITION @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 9pm. “the characters so pure of purpose they seem to have stepped out of a murder ballad” Capsule review, J R Jones Chicago Reader
December 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sat Dec 20: Not on the telly for over a decade, Nick Cave-scripted savage 2005 western THE PROPOSITION @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 9pm. “the characters so pure of purpose they seem to have stepped out of a murder ballad” Capsule review, J R Jones Chicago Reader
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sat Dec 28: THE holiday movies on TV highlight. V rare screening of Kusturica’s “goofy, disturbing piece of magical realism” ARIZONA DREAM “wild & audacious black comedy about way we all think & dream” @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 9.05pm (review J Rosenbaum)
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sat Dec 28: THE holiday movies on TV highlight. V rare screening of Kusturica’s “goofy, disturbing piece of magical realism” ARIZONA DREAM “wild & audacious black comedy about way we all think & dream” @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 9.05pm (review J Rosenbaum)
December 28, 2024 at 8:52 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sat Dec 28: THE holiday movies on TV highlight. V rare screening of Kusturica’s “goofy, disturbing piece of magical realism” ARIZONA DREAM “wild & audacious black comedy about way we all think & dream” @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 9.05pm (review J Rosenbaum)
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sun Dec 29: Sorely underrated and hugely influential western, Aldrich’s VERA CRUZ (1954) 4.40pm on Great Action channel … Review: @dave_kehr_
December 18, 2024 at 2:53 PM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sun Dec 29: Sorely underrated and hugely influential western, Aldrich’s VERA CRUZ (1954) 4.40pm on Great Action channel … Review: @dave_kehr_
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Wed Jan 1: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975) BBC Two 3.10pm with the late, great Sean Connery ... 'the film has genuine wit, an appealing sense of grandeur, and very little of the overt "philosophizing" that marred much of Huston's work' @davekehr.bsky.social
December 18, 2024 at 3:10 PM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Wed Jan 1: THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING (1975) BBC Two 3.10pm with the late, great Sean Connery ... 'the film has genuine wit, an appealing sense of grandeur, and very little of the overt "philosophizing" that marred much of Huston's work' @davekehr.bsky.social
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Fri Dec 27: “There is no such thing as truth” I TONYA ahead of its time. youtu.be/OXZQ5DfSAAc?... 'terrific lead from Margot Robbie ... crisply entertaining' I, TONYA (2017) @BBCTwo 11.15pm (capsule review Jonathan Romney). End credits unmissable.
December 14, 2024 at 3:36 PM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Fri Dec 27: “There is no such thing as truth” I TONYA ahead of its time. youtu.be/OXZQ5DfSAAc?... 'terrific lead from Margot Robbie ... crisply entertaining' I, TONYA (2017) @BBCTwo 11.15pm (capsule review Jonathan Romney). End credits unmissable.
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 23: ‘Capturing the essence of 1950s literature such as Sam Selvon's 'The Lonely Londoners' and the works of Colin MacInnes’ … one of Scorsese’s BFI hidden British gems … thriller SAPPHIRE (1959) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 10.25pm
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 23: ‘Capturing the essence of 1950s literature such as Sam Selvon's 'The Lonely Londoners' and the works of Colin MacInnes’ … one of Scorsese’s BFI hidden British gems … thriller SAPPHIRE (1959) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 10.25pm
December 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 23: ‘Capturing the essence of 1950s literature such as Sam Selvon's 'The Lonely Londoners' and the works of Colin MacInnes’ … one of Scorsese’s BFI hidden British gems … thriller SAPPHIRE (1959) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 10.25pm
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 31: Billy Wilder's sumptuous, witty, moving late masterpiece THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970) Sky Arts channel 1.05pm Here’s novelist @jonathancoe.bsky.social on his love of the film www.theguardian.com/film/2005/ap...
9th & 13th by Jonathan Coe
It started with a chance encounter, and led to a lifelong obsession. Jonathan Coe on the clues he unearthed, the music he heard, and the friends he made as he pursued Billy Wilder's Sherlock Holmes.
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 31: Billy Wilder's sumptuous, witty, moving late masterpiece THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970) Sky Arts channel 1.05pm Here’s novelist @jonathancoe.bsky.social on his love of the film www.theguardian.com/film/2005/ap...
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Thu Dec 26: The great Peter Bogdanovich comedy WHAT’S UP, DOC? (1972) 10.40am BBCTwo ... I don’t normally “do trailers” but this is a brilliant one www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hejp...
December 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Thu Dec 26: The great Peter Bogdanovich comedy WHAT’S UP, DOC? (1972) 10.40am BBCTwo ... I don’t normally “do trailers” but this is a brilliant one www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hejp...
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Thu Jan 1: ‘ One of Ophuls's 4 Hollywood films, this masterpiece nearly defines the film melodrama' Extraordinary LETTER FROM AN UNKOWN WOMAN (1948) BBCTwo 8.50am … and of course now on BBCiPlayer
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Thu Jan 1: ‘ One of Ophuls's 4 Hollywood films, this masterpiece nearly defines the film melodrama' Extraordinary LETTER FROM AN UNKOWN WOMAN (1948) BBC Two 8.50am
January 1, 2026 at 9:54 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Thu Jan 1: ‘ One of Ophuls's 4 Hollywood films, this masterpiece nearly defines the film melodrama' Extraordinary LETTER FROM AN UNKOWN WOMAN (1948) BBCTwo 8.50am … and of course now on BBCiPlayer
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sun Dec 29: Sorely underrated and hugely influential western, Aldrich’s VERA CRUZ (1954) 4.40pm on Great Action channel … Review: @davekehr.bsky.social
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sun Dec 29: Sorely underrated and hugely influential western, Aldrich’s VERA CRUZ (1954) 4.40pm on Great Action channel … Review: @dave_kehr_
December 29, 2024 at 8:50 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Sun Dec 29: Sorely underrated and hugely influential western, Aldrich’s VERA CRUZ (1954) 4.40pm on Great Action channel … Review: @davekehr.bsky.social
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 31: Billy Wilder's sumptuous, witty, moving late masterpiece THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970) Sky Arts channel 1.05pm.
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 31: Billy Wilder's sumptuous, witty, moving late masterpiece THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970) Sky Arts channel 1.05pm Here’s novelist @jonathancoe.bsky.social on his love of the film www.theguardian.com/film/2005/ap...
9th & 13th by Jonathan Coe
It started with a chance encounter, and led to a lifelong obsession. Jonathan Coe on the clues he unearthed, the music he heard, and the friends he made as he pursued Billy Wilder's Sherlock Holmes.
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:15 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 31: Billy Wilder's sumptuous, witty, moving late masterpiece THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970) Sky Arts channel 1.05pm.
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Thu Dec 26: The great Peter Bogdanovich comedy WHAT’S UP, DOC? (1972) 11.35pm BBC4 … also December 21st 3.20pm BBC Two. I don’t normally “do trailers” but this is a brilliant one youtu.be/HejpRrOWIRc?...
What's Up Doc? (1972) Official Trailer - Barbara Streisand Movie HD
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December 14, 2024 at 3:18 PM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Thu Dec 26: The great Peter Bogdanovich comedy WHAT’S UP, DOC? (1972) 11.35pm BBC4 … also December 21st 3.20pm BBC Two. I don’t normally “do trailers” but this is a brilliant one youtu.be/HejpRrOWIRc?...
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Sun Dec 28: “Ignore the sneering intellectuals” (late, great Robin Wood) and catch “one of Leo McCarey’s finest films” @davekehr.bsky.social. THE BELLS OF ST MARYS (1945) 9.25am on Sky Arts
December 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Sun Dec 28: “Ignore the sneering intellectuals” (late, great Robin Wood) and catch “one of Leo McCarey’s finest films” @davekehr.bsky.social. THE BELLS OF ST MARYS (1945) 9.25am on Sky Arts
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 30: “There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray” Jean-Luc Godard on BITTER VICTORY @greatmoviesuk Great Action channel 9.10am
December 18, 2024 at 2:39 PM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 30: “There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray” Jean-Luc Godard on BITTER VICTORY @greatmoviesuk Great Action channel 9.10am
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Wed Dec 31: Legendary cinematographer John Alton’s work on creepy noir THE SPIRITUALIST (1948) not to be missed @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 3.25am
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Wed Dec 31: Legendary cinematographer John Alton’s work on creepy noir THE SPIRITUALIST (1948) not to be missed @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 3.25am
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 30: “There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray” Jean-Luc Godard on BITTER VICTORY Great Movies UK Great Action channel 9.10am
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 30: “There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray” Jean-Luc Godard on BITTER VICTORY @greatmoviesuk Great Action channel 9.10am
December 30, 2024 at 8:46 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 30: “There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray” Jean-Luc Godard on BITTER VICTORY Great Movies UK Great Action channel 9.10am
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Tuesday Dec 30: Read @BradStevens22 … (www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...) at BFI on THE ENTITY (1981) ‘The nightmare to E.T.’s dream of a home-invading paranormal father figure, Sidney J. Furie's radical horror film’ Watch on Film4 1.15am
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Tuesday Dec 30: Read Brad Stevens at BFI www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... on THE ENTITY (1981) ‘The nightmare to E.T.’s dream of a home-invading paranormal father figure, Sidney J. Furie's radical horror film’ Watch on Film 4 1.15am
December 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmonTVtoday Tuesday Dec 30: Read @BradStevens22 … (www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...) at BFI on THE ENTITY (1981) ‘The nightmare to E.T.’s dream of a home-invading paranormal father figure, Sidney J. Furie's radical horror film’ Watch on Film4 1.15am
Fed up with obvious films-on-Christmas-TV lists? The annual #bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday choices are on their way as the Christmas Radio Times is now out and being scoured. The gems (from 21 Dec to 3 Jan) in the TV schedules will appear in this preview thread here ...
December 8, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Fed up with obvious films-on-Christmas-TV lists? The annual #bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday choices are on their way as the Christmas Radio Times is now out and being scoured. The gems (from 21 Dec to 3 Jan) in the TV schedules will appear in this preview thread here ...
bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 24: A proper treat. One of the best films of this year. Voted No2 in NewYorker critic Richard Brody’s @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social 2024 poll. CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT Sky Premiere channel 10pm
bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 24: A proper treat. One of the best films of this year. Voted No2 in NewYorker critic Richard Brody’s @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social 2024 poll. CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT Sky Premiere 10pm
December 24, 2024 at 10:14 AM
bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Tue Dec 24: A proper treat. One of the best films of this year. Voted No2 in NewYorker critic Richard Brody’s @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social 2024 poll. CHRISTMAS EVE IN MILLER’S POINT Sky Premiere channel 10pm
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 30: “There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray” Jean-Luc Godard on BITTER VICTORY @greatmoviesuk Great Action channel 9.10am
December 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 30: “There was theatre (Griffith), poetry (Murnau), painting (Rossellini), dance (Eisenstein), music (Renoir). Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray” Jean-Luc Godard on BITTER VICTORY @greatmoviesuk Great Action channel 9.10am
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Fri Jan 3: Brian De Palma in jaw-dropping Godardian mode … counterculture satire HI, MOM! (1970) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 1am. Capsule review Jonathan Romney
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Fri Jan 3: Brian De Palma in jaw-dropping Godardian mode … counterculture satire HI, MOM! (1970) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 1am. Capsule review Jonathan Romney
January 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Fri Jan 3: Brian De Palma in jaw-dropping Godardian mode … counterculture satire HI, MOM! (1970) @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 1am. Capsule review Jonathan Romney
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 23: THE HAUNTING (Wise, 1963), a film that has an atmosphere and feeling of dread and evil that is hard to shake. A supernatural horror classic. BBC2 11.20pm (Capsule review Jonathan Romney) from - cheers - the Observer New Review
December 13, 2024 at 3:02 PM
#bestxmasholidayfilmontvtoday Mon Dec 23: THE HAUNTING (Wise, 1963), a film that has an atmosphere and feeling of dread and evil that is hard to shake. A supernatural horror classic. BBC2 11.20pm (Capsule review Jonathan Romney) from - cheers - the Observer New Review