22 - 28 OCTOBER 2022

As Halloween approaches, you won’t be surprised to hear that there are horror films, in abundance, across the Freeview channels. I opted not to focus on them in the notes that follow, but must mention three titles that are on next Friday evening. Who would have thought that the BBC would show an ex-video nasty (The Evil Dead on BBC 3, well done the Beeb) and there are two rare films on Talking Pictures: Brotherhood of Satan (1970) and The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964) starring Martin Landau. 
LILIES OF THE FIELD (1963) Saturday 22 October 2.00-3.30pm BBC 2       
Sensitive, delicate drama directed by Ralph Nelson – especially when considering that his other best-known film was Soldier Blue (1970). Sidney Poitier rightly won an Oscar as the handyman who helps German nuns build a chapel. 
AFTER LOVE (2020) Sunday 23 October 10.50pm-12.15am BBC 2    P     
Here we have another modest, but winning, drama, from our ‘nearly list’. Joanna Scanlan won a Bafta for Best Actress as the widow who discovers that her husband had a secret family. 
THE RIDER (2017) Tuesday 25 October 11.30-1.40am Film 4    P     
A pre-Nomadland Chloé Zhao had already garnered critical acclaim for this authentic drama set in the world of US rodeos.