Withnail & I (Bravo Monday at 5...
Withnail & I (Bravo Monday at 5 and 10 p.m.) is Bruce Robinson’s sly, hilarious 1986 account of two seedy young Londoners (Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann) on a country holiday.
Hidden Agenda (HBO Thursday at 4:15 a.m.), set in Belfast in the the early 1980s, is a taut 1990 Ken Loach thriller that indicts the shoot-to-kill ruthlessness of the British police. With Frances McDormand, Brian Cox.
The Emigrants (Bravo Thursday at 6 and 11 p.m.). Jan Troell’s superb 1971 account of the migration of Swedish farm families to America in the mid-19th Century, stars Max Von Sydow and Liv Ullmann.
Thelonius Monk: Straight, No Chaser (Bravo Saturday at 5 p.m.) is an outstanding, full-scale 1988 documentary by Charlotte Zwerin on the jazz innovator.
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