Atlantica - 01.09.2000, Page 86

Atlantica - 01.09.2000, Page 86
84 Atlantica Television On board its Boeing 757-200 aircraft Icelandair offers in-flight music on ten stereo channels on all flights.TV program- ming includes sitcoms and documentaries, with the latest available feature films on North American routes. Headsets are complimentary, with the TV soundtrack on Channel 11 and 12 in the armrest. When flight time is reduced due to weather it may not be possible to show the entire schedule; Glasgow and Oslo routes feature a short version as well. Programming begins ten minutes after take-off. Personal videos may differ from the overhead programme. An airline programming service of Sony Trans Com. MOVIE: Keeping the Faith This is an offbeat romantic comedy about a rabbi, a priest, and the girl they both love. Best friends since they were kids, Rabbi Jacob Schram and Father Brian Finn are dynamic and popu- lar clergymen living and working on New York's Upper West side. Their busy lives are suddenly complicated when their former childhood friend Anna Reilly returns to the city.As romantic sparks fly, both men must wrestle with their commitment to their religious beliefs: the priest has taken a vow of celibacy and the rabbi cannot marry a woman who is not Jewish.The result is one very romantic triangle. Genre: Romantic/Comedy Featuring: Edward Norton, Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Eli Wallach Director: Edward Norton THE SOUTH BANK SHOW: Michael Douglas COMEDY: As Times Goes By SEPTEMBER MOVIE: Up at the Villa Mary Paton, a beautiful but impoverished young widow, arrives in 1938 Florence, and is welcomed into the elite world of the aristocracy – a society that chooses to ignore the rise of pre- war political turmoil on the streets around it. Mary is wooed by an elderly diplomat, Edgar Swift, and she decides to marry him for security, not love. But when a chance remark by a friend compels Mary to abandon her reserve for one night of romantic passion, she risks ruinous scandal Genre: Romance/Drama Featuring: Kristin Schott Thomas, Sean Penn,Anne Bancroft, James Fox Director: Philip Haas THE SOUTH BANK SHOW: Shakespeare COMEDY: That 70s Show COMEDY: Frasier DRAMA: The Practice COMEDY: Keeping Up Appearances COMEDY: Will and Grace DRAMA: Touched by an Angel MOVIE: Where the Money is Henry Manning, famous, elderly, bank robber cons his way out of prison by pretending to have a stroke. Seemingly harmless, he is transferred to a nursing home, where a bored, small-town beau- ty, working as a nurse, discovers that her patient is faking it. Carol, seeking excitement and money, wants him to teach her his old line of work so she can team up with her husband for their own robbery. But Henry has long since learned never to lower his guard, especially when it comes to find- ing out where the money is. Genre: Comedy Featuring: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney Director: Marek Kanievska COMEDY: As Times Goes By COMEDY: Friends DRAMA: Jonathan Creek NEWS MAGAZINE: E-Vision COMEDY: That 70s Show DRAMA: Providence MOVIE: Frequency Before the anniversary of his father's death, John discovers his father's ham radio and makes con- tact with a man who says he is a fire-fighter, awaiting the 1969 world series.At first neither believes it, but soon John is carry- ing on a conversation with his young father, sharing for the first time his deep love, and regret over his future death. John hopes to change this, by altering the mis- take that cost Frank his life. Genre: Science Fiction Featuring: Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Andre Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell Director: Gregory Hoblit COMEDY: Seinfeld OCTOBER NORTH AMERICA - ICELAND COMEDY: Friends DRAMA: The Ambassador NEWS MAGAZINE: E-Vision COMEDY: Frasier DRAMA: ER COMEDY: Babes in the Wood ICELAND - NORTH AMERICA NORTH AMERICA - ICELAND ICELAND - NORTH AMERICA EUROPE - ICELAND EUROPE - ICELANDICELAND - EUROPE ICELAND - EUROPE ATL5/00 FLUGL. (new-nýr) cmsx 22.8.2000 10:11 Page 84

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