About TomsTVpicks

Most TV programs are crap, reflecting the fact that TV programming is designed primarily to keep advertisers happy or, in the case of the ABC, to reproduce the values of Australian nationalism. In this blog I try to sort out the wheat from the chaff. If you know of programs coming up that you think a left-wing audience would be interested in hearing about please contact me, Tom Bramble, at tombram@gmail.com. Please "follow" this blog by inserting your email in the box below to the right if you'd like to be sure of getting posts in your email inbox, and tell your friends about this blog (or "share" it on Facebook) if you think they'd like to read it too.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Tom's TV picks w/b 20 June 2011

Two very different movies about Israeli expansionism coming up next week. "Beaufort", one of a flourishing stream of Israeli "war is hell" films, none of which however show any sympathy for the main victims of war, the Palestinians (or Lebanese in this case): SBS1 Tues 11.50pm. And the rather better "Lemon Tree" set on the West Bank with the fantastic Hiam Abbass as lead: SBS2 Weds 9.30pm.
And for something completely different, the classic Max Ophuls romantic melodrama, featuring a completely selfish bastard of an anti-hero, "Letter from an Unknown Woman": ABC2 Saturday (25th) at 10.15pm
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