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Film Choice Laurence Phelan ========== The Independent (The Independent) - Clipping Loc. 2712-24 | Added on Tuesday, December 01, 2009, 12:36 PM 251 words On Golden Pond 5.05PM FILM4 (Mark Rydell, 1981) A mawkish drama about old age and inter-generational conflict was elevated into something funny and quite lovely, thanks to the casting of Henry Fonda as the cantankerous septuagenarian at the heart of it, Jane Fonda as the daughter he never knew how to show love for, and Katharine Hepburn as the strong but tender matriarch who mediates between the two. Charade 7PM SKY MOVIES CLASSICS (Stanley Donen, 1963) Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn trade pithy lines in Paris, in a romantic comedy-thriller that is far from the best work by either of them, but still a lot of fun. Hepburn plays a rich widow being pursued by men whom her husband has double-crossed; Grant is the suave protector she meets on a skiing holiday. The Blues Brothers 11.10PM ITV4 (John Landis, 1980) The best film ever derived from a 'Saturday Night Live' sketch, this simultaneously deadpan and delirious rock'n'roll musical comedy is not quite like anything else. Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi (above) star as Jake and Elwood Blues, on a mission from God to get their band back together, while additional musical numbers are performed by Aretha Franklin and James Brown. The Baader Meinhof Complex 12.10AM SKY MOVIES PREMIERE (Uli Edel, 2008) This condenses into 150 minutes 10 years' worth of West Germany's most politically turbulent times, from the formation of the Red Army Faction amid the fervour of the anti-Vietnam student protest movement, until the suicides of its founding members in their prison cells in 1977. An exhilarating film, full of idealism. l.phelan@independent.co.uk