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Woodstock (A&E; Sunday at 5 p.m., again at 9 p.m.) Michael Wadleigh’s rousing 1970 documentary account of a three-day weekend of music was distilled from 315,000 feet of film shot by 20 cameramen and 81 hours of eight-track sound. The film is a record, not an analysis, and music is the principal commodity. Featured are the key rock and folk musicians of the era.

The Stationmaster’s Wife (Bravo Thursday at 6 p.m., again Friday at midnight). Adapted by R.W. Fassbinder from an obscure 1931 novel, this 1977 film is a familiar tale of a pompous minor official (Kurt Raab) undone by his sensuous, glamorous wife (Elisabeth Trissenaar). In Fassbinder’s hands, however, it emerges dazzlingly as a rueful study in human misery with which we can all identify, thanks both to the filmmaker’s compassion and outrageous sense of humor.

Hello, Sister (KDOC Saturday at 1 p.m.) Originally titled “Walking Down Broadway,” this 1933 film is the last directed by Erich Von Stroheim. Re-edited, partially re-shot (by Alfred Werker) it’s a typical boy-meets-girl story set in Manhattan but some characteristic Stroheim touches survive. Not very good by any standards but fascinating for film buffs.

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