hogTV is back for a Wednesday special!
I’ll be starting things a little bit earlier than I usually do at 5:00 pm with an hour-long block of music, before launching into the main show proper at 6:00 pm.
There was originally a theme (it was going to be titled ‘Too hog for TV’), but I abandoned that because it was too smutty and I felt it would tarnish my reputation, so now it’s just a random bunch-a-stuff type show.
Some highlights: I’ll be showing a short film by Mike Leigh, A Sense of History (1992), starring Jim Broadbent as the 23rd Earl of Leete, monologuing to camera in his country estate.
The night’s feature film will be The Vanishing (1988), or Spoorloos as it’s known to Dutchies. It’s a very good thriller about a young woman that mysteriously goes missing and her partner’s obsession to find out where the bloody hell she went!
Afterwards, a short educational film about lupins NEWTS made by pioneering naturalist documentarian, Percy Smith, and after that I’ll show The Dark Glow of the Mountains (1985), a documentary about the legendary rock climber and adventurer, Reinhold Messner, filmed by the dude I admire most, Werner Herzog.
And then finally concluding with an hour or more of The Misc Zone.
Schedule subject to change, times are approximate.
17:00 – hogFM
An hour-long music mixtape of hog’s favourite tunes! (with accompanying visuals & some interstitial bits)
18:00 – Eagleheart – S01E03 – Master of Da Skies
18:15 – Review – S01E09 – Quitting, Last Day, Irish
Forrest becomes deeply invested in a new job that he’s obligated to quit, lives a day as if it’s his last and receives an ultimatum from Suzanne while pretending to be Irish.
Final episode of season 1.
18:35 – A Sense of History (1992)
A tragi-comic spoof documentary from Mike Leigh, with Jim Broadbent is the 23rd Earl of Leete.
19:00 – Out of the Inkwell – Koko Salutes (1925)
Koko and his trusty dog companion ‘Fitz’ fight in a war. Chaos ensues (obviously, it’s a war.)
19:05 – The Rough House (1917)
Silent comedy short written by, directed by and starring both Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. The Rough House was Keaton’s first film as a director.
19:25 – Newsreel and Theatrical Trailer
19:30 – Warner Brothers presents Breakdowns of 1938
An annual “blooper” reel screened by the Warners Club, an organization of Warners actors, crew and executives. Featuring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart!
19:40 – It’s a Bird (1930)
Stop-motion/live-action short by cartoonist & slapstick comedian Charles R. Bowers, in which a junk man travels to Africa to find a rare metal-eating bird.
19:55 – Metro Movietone Revues #3 (1930)
Early MGM sound short featuring vaudeville acts Frances White, The Ponce Sisters, The Reynold Sisters, Joseph Regan, and Jack Pepper.
20:10 – Betty Boop in ‘Red Hot Mamma’ (1934)
Betty ventures into the underworld!
20:15 – The Shooting Of Dan McGoo (1945)
Tex Avery animated short featuring Droopy and The Wolf in the Wild West!
20:30 – The Vanishing [aka Spoorloos] (1988)
Dutch thriller film directed by George Sluizer, adapted from the novella The Golden Egg (1984) by Tim Krabbé.
Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia vanishes. After three years and no sign of Saskia, Rex begins receiving letters from her supposed abductor.
22:10 – Secrets of Life – Lupins (1936) The Life Cycle of the Newt (1942)
A short documentary about – you guessed it – newts!
Photographed by British naturalist and early nature documentary pioneer, Percy Smith.
With additional music and auditory shenanigans.
22:20 – The Dark Glow of the Mountains [aka Gasherbrum – Der Leuchtende Berg] (1984)
A German TV documentary (with English narration) by Werner Herzog about an expedition made by freestyle mountain climber Reinhold Messner and his partner Hans Kammerlander to climb Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one trip without returning to base camp. The film is not so much concerned with showing the climb itself or giving guidelines on mountaineering, but seeks to reveal the inner motivation of the climbers.
23:10 – The Misc Zone
A considerable chunk of misc.
