Colossus: The Forbin Project (Showtime Monday at...
Colossus: The Forbin Project (Showtime Monday at 10 a.m.). This splendid 1970 sci-fi film, which involves the completion of a gigantic computer capable of launching offensive missiles and designed to maintain the security of the entire world, cuts right to the core of the chronic fear that machines really will enslave us, or worse, destroy us. Eric Braeden stars.
Don’t Look Back (Cinemax Tuesday at 8 p.m.), D.A. Pennebaker’s landmark 1967 documentary on Bob Dylan’s 1965 concert tour of Britain, pulls no punches in revealing its subject’s prickly personality. A time capsule film, it also features Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg and many others.
Blonde Venus (TMC Friday at 8 a.m.). This is the 1932 Josef Von Sternberg film in which a King Kong look-alike comes on to a nightclub stage and sheds its fur to reveal inside Marlene Dietrich, who then sings “Hot Voodoo.” One of the six Sternberg films which celebrated Dietrich as the ultimate femme fatale. With Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant.
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