Smoke and strong whiskey, the stirring sound of contemporary Ireland captured in the haunting songs of Christy Moore.
Billy Power, Dick McElroy, Kenny, Skip Goetzel.
How's it going there everybody?
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Smoke and strong whiskey, Christy Moore's fabulous new album is available now from SBS Marketing and all good music stores.
Smoke and strong whiskey, Christy Moore's fabulous new album is available now from SBS Marketing and all good music stores.
Smoke and strong whiskey, Christy Moore's fabulous new album is available now from SBS Marketing and all good music stores.
On Sunday, live across Australia from Olympic Park in Melbourne, the Grand Final of Australia's national soccer competition, the Coca-Cola Soccer League.
Last year's grand finalist, Melbourne, Croatia have the home advantage over Adelaide City, a side which boasts almost half the national team.
The cream of Australian talent promises a gripping match in the Coca-Cola Soccer League Grand Final, live from Melbourne on Sunday afternoon with a full replay to all states on Sunday night.
Top soccer action exclusively on SBS.
In the weeks to come on Cinema Classics, Tudor Rose, the story of the ill-fated boy king, Edward VI and the nine-day queen, Lady Jane Grey.
And an early work from award-winning director Ingmar Bergman, Summer with Monica follows the unexpected twists of a holiday romance.
And the return of that lovable priest, Don Camillo, his unconventional behaviour gets him into even more trouble.
Coming soon to Cinema Classics.
This program is proudly sponsored by Telecom.
The Germans like to be in the forefront of technology.
Their big high-tech cars are built to carry powerful men in the back, flat out between cities.
When the powerful man pulls off to refuel, he wants his powerful man's snack of cream cake with extra cream, the famous Schmalzkuchen with extra Schmalz, to have been whipped by lasers.
In a country where two out of every three children are born with a PhD in electronics, high-tech is a way of life.
So it's no wonder their telephone system is being replaced with new high-tech optical fibre.
The Germans realise that optical fibre delivers the clearest sound quality.
What they don't realise is that Telecom already uses optical fibre to link the capital cities of Australia.
Willkommen! Telecomen!
Telecomen!
The Australian was so much better.
Good evening. Welcome to Cinema Classics. I'm David Stratton.
Two beautiful films for you this evening.
Films made 40 years apart, but both of them dealing with the effect of progress on the lives of people unused to change.
Later on, from Holland, I'll be bringing you Dead Water, which was made in 1934 and which depicts the effect on fishermen of the building of the Zydersee.
But first, a more modern classic, The Seedling, or Angkor, was made in 1974 and it was the first film directed by Shyam Benegal, who became one of the most important Indian filmmakers.
Unlike Satyajit Rai, who made his films in Bengali from his Calcutta base, Benegal worked out of Bombay.
But his concern for the poor, the dispossessed and the downtrodden is every bit as passionate as Rai's.
The Seedling is set in the countryside and concerns a rich young man who's sent by his father, a prosperous city lawyer, to act as overseer of a rural property.
Surya, played by Anand Nag, isn't keen to go and when he gets out into the lush countryside he's quickly bored.
The point of the film is that the foul way Surya behaves towards his servants, the beautiful Lakshmi, played by Shabana Azmi, and her deaf mute husband, Kishhtaya, Sadhu Meher,
is not because he's inherently cruel, but because he considers it his right to behave the way he does.
So this is a film about man's inhumanity to man in a very Indian context, beautifully photographed by Govind Nihalani, who later on became a director himself,
and sensitively directed by Shyam Benegal. Here it is then, Angkor, The Seedling.
That defiant stone thrown by the little boy at the landlord's house at the end is The Seedling of the title.
Something has to change, Benegal is saying, and yet it's hard to imagine that anything will change,
and I think we can assume that in the nearly twenty years since The Seedling was made, life in rural India is much the same.
That was Shyam Benegal's first feature film. He had made documentaries before and his background shows.
He now works mostly in television in India.
Well, next Saturday I won't be with you for cinema classics because of sporting commitments on SBS,
but I'll be back in two weeks' time with another most exciting programme of classic features.
Now I'm sure many of you are familiar with a magnificent Japanese film called The Ballad of Nairama,
which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1983 and which was directed by Shoei Imamura.
I've shown it a couple of times on Movie of the Week, but probably not so many of you have seen the original version of the same film,
the 1958 version of The Ballad of Nairama, which was directed by Kaesuki Kinoshita.
It's the story of life in a small impoverished village on a mountainside and the strange customs of the villages.
A rather more stylised film than the later version.
And that'll be followed by the Scandinavian production Hunger, directed by Henning Carlsen,
in which Pär Oskarsson gives a quite magnificent award-winning performance as a writer on the verge of starvation in Turn of the Century Norway.
So that's the 1958 version of The Ballad of Nairama and Henning Carlsen's Hunger in a fortnight's time on cinema classics.
And now stay viewing and I'll be back in a moment with our second classic of the evening, Dead Water.
This programme was proudly sponsored by Telecom.
America has more freedom of choice than a hungry man can handle.
Breakfast in America is the first nightmare of the day.
Eggs over easy, eggs over difficult, pancakes with pepper jack, crushed wheat fried in the pan, flapjacks with sugar pops,
puff free-range rice twice with freshly squeezed guava juice.
By the time you finish choosing, you have to break for lunch.
If you read the whole lunch menu, you'll miss your dinner.
And if you think the food's complicated, what about the phone system?
Here it can take three different phone companies to get from one part of the country to another.
In Australia it's much simpler because only Telecom connects you from anywhere in the country to anywhere in the world.
America's dream is Australia's reality.
Twist blue, mozzarella, pepper jack, munch, telecom, Australian for so much better.
On Sunday, live across Australia from Olympic Park in Melbourne, the grand final of Australia's national soccer competition, the Coca-Cola Soccer League.
Last year's grand finalists, Melbourne, Croatia, have the home advantage over Adelaide City, a side which boasts almost half the national team.
The cream of Australian talent promises a gripping match in the Coca-Cola Soccer League grand final.
Live from Melbourne on Sunday afternoon with a full replay to all states on Sunday night.
Top soccer action exclusively on SBS.
On Monday, Six Pack continues with Loveless.
51 Take 1.
Starring Ivor Kantz, Simon Burke and Steve Bustoni.
Come on, we are going to talk about this.
We are going to talk about that.
I'm sick of you making me play out your fantasies.
You pushed me.
What are you doing?
Cut it.
Loveless, part of our Six Pack of Australian drama, 8.30 Monday.
Frank Mullis, the representative of the Incubus Association, says it is much better to work with immigrant workers who understand English,
because that way they can
understand English better.
High unemployment has hit unskilled workers hardest, increasing the gap in wealth and health between rich and poor.
Next on the cutting edge, Britain's widening health divide.
Spina bifida is much more common in areas of deprivation.
Asthma is very common.
In poor areas, death rates from some diseases are at least double those in more prosperous parts.
A picture of health, 8.30 Tuesday on the cutting edge.
On Sunday, a film that shocked Soviet Russia.
A film about rebellious youth, sex, drugs and rock and roll.
From the new wave of Russian filmmaking, Little Vera, 8.30 Sunday.
On Monday night, the family game.
An ambitious and affluent family hire a tutor whose methods are a little unorthodox.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
Step right up. Is it fucking worth it?
Gary Oldman stars in the cult classic, Sid and Nancy, 11.10 Wednesday, SBS.
Live on Thursday morning, prepare for a battle of the titans when Monaco and Veda Bremen compete for Europe's most prestigious championship.
A clash between French flair and German precision.
The 1992 European Cup Winners Cup Final, live from Lisbon on Thursday morning with a highlights replay Thursday night exclusively on SBS.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.
The Family Game, 9.30 Monday on SBS.