The Beggar’s Opera (Bravo today at 5)...
The Beggar’s Opera (Bravo today at 5) Director Peter Brook’s delightfully satirizes the swashbuckler genre, and, as dashing highwayman Macheath, Laurence Olivier gives one of his best comic performances.
The River (Bravo Saturday at 5 p.m. and next Sunday at 12:05 a.m.) Jean Renoir’s last solely English-language film, made in 1951 and based on Rumer Godden’s memoir of British girls growing up in India: a masterwork of quiet serenity, heat, music, golden light.
The Official Story (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) Luis Puenzo’s fervent study of the innocents caught in the wake of Argentina’s long dictatorship. The film’s anger and sincerity sweep you up, as lead actress Norma Aleandro all but breaks your heart.
Shanghai Express (Showtime Friday at 2:30 p.m.) Of all the Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich films, this Oriental thriller may be the most sinfully pleasurable and amusing.
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