DEAD CALMPhillip Noyce’s 1989 thriller is a...

DEAD CALM

Phillip Noyce’s 1989 thriller is a spare, smart, seductive piece of real movie-making, with (almost) every loophole covered, a superlative cast andandough tension to keep us all hyperventilating for hours. Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman are on an extended South Pacific voyage when they cross paths with insinuating Billy Zane.

Sunday 10 p.m., Wednesday 11:45 p.m., Friday 10 p.m. Cinemax

ZELIG

This is a sweet, piercing, startlingly inventive film, a little rueful around the edges, in which Woody Allen fakes a documentary about one Leonard Zelig (played by Allen), who in his meteoric moment in the public eye stood somewhere between Charles Lindbergh and Babe Ruth. What emerges amid considerable technical brilliance and wit is a rather distanced commentary about the perils of living a life in a goldfish bowl.

Monday 10 a.m. KCOP