A Cry in the Dark (HBO Monday...
A Cry in the Dark (HBO Monday at 2:30 p.m.) Once again under the direction of Fred Schepisi, who first directed her in the 1985 “Plenty,” Meryl Streep is even better portraying an actual Australian housewife whose religious rigor and refusal to play to the crowd finds her accused of the murder of her baby in this outstanding 1988 film.
The White Sheik (Bravo Monday at 9 p.m.) Federico Fellini’s first solo directing credit is a robust 1951 comedy in which a provincial bride (Giuletta Masina) endangers her honeymoon in Rome with her fantasies over a romantic comic-strip hero, the “White Sheik” (Alberto Sordi, in a broad Valentino spoof).
Nanook of the North (KCET Saturday at 9 p.m.) After 70 years Robert Flaherty’s seminal 1922 documentary of daily Eskimo life remains a compelling and meticulous study of a family’s solidarity and struggle to survive in the barren Arctic.
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