Cinema Paradiso (Showtime Sunday at 10:30 a.m.)...

Cinema Paradiso (Showtime Sunday at 10:30 a.m.) Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1989 Oscar-winning shining valentine to the movies centers on a Sicilian village’s wonderful old movie theater and follows two lives dominated by the Paradiso: a child (Salvatore Cascio), who grows up to be a film director, and his surrogate father, the theater’s projectionist (Philippe Noiret).

The Blood of a Poet (Bravo Monday at 9 p.m., Tuesday at 2 a.m.) Jean Cocteau’s landmark 1930 avant-garde experiment, with themes and motifs and themes that would reappear in his films for the rest of his life.

George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (Arts & Entertainment Tuesday at 10 p.m.) George Stevens Jr.’s 1984 documentary on the life and work of his father is the real stuff of drama, a deeply American life with a shadow of sadness over its last third, and with much that is as profoundly moving as the best novels.