Pascali’s Island (Showtime Thursday at 6 p.m.)...
Pascali’s Island (Showtime Thursday at 6 p.m.) A subtle, literate 1988 film in which Ben Kingsley plays a Turkish spy, becalmed some 20 years on a Greek isle during the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, whose serene life unexpectedly unravels with the arrival of a British archeologist (Charles Dance).
Cat People (AMC Saturday at 5 a.m., again at 11:15 p.m.) The moody 1942 original, the first of producer Val Lewton’s highly regarded RKO horror cycle, directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Simone Simon and Kent Smith.
The Little Shop of Horrors (TNT Saturday at 9 p.m.) and The Wasp Woman (TNT Saturday at 10:30 p.m.) Outrageous vintage Roger Corman horror fare; the first, made in 1961 and notoriously shot in two days, features Jack Nicholson.
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