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Moonlighting (Bravo Sunday at 8 p.m.) Jerzy...

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Moonlighting (Bravo Sunday at 8 p.m.) Jerzy Skolimowski offers an oblique view of the events of Poland in December, 1981, in this splendid, muted 1982 watercolor of a film, highlighted by the dry, darkly comic performance of Jeremy Irons, who plays the leader of four Polish workmen sent over to England to renovate their boss’ London apartment.

Ziegfeld Follies (Disney Monday at 9 p.m., Tuesday at 4 a.m.) A key example of MGM’s baroque musical style of the ‘40s: lots of pink and chartreuse here, a star-studded revue directed by Vincente Minnelli and presented (from heaven) by William Powell’s Ziegfeld.

Three Bewildered People in the Night (KCET Friday at 11:40 p.m.) Gregg Araki’s 1987 film is astonishing on at least three counts: as an evocation of the stark personality of Los Angeles at night; an incisively acted story of three intelligent young people thrashing about in an attempt to sort out their feelings about each other and themselves; and as a beautiful, stylish film, shot in a dark, gritty 16mm, which incredibly cost only $5,000 to make.

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