Four-Star Films : ‘The Birds’
Alfred Hitchcock’s great, bleak 1963 apocalyptic fable about the end of the world--brought about not by the Bomb, by famine, by plague or cosmic cataclysm, but by the birds--the sparrows, gulls, robins, whom we neglected and slaughtered, and who are now massing to destroy us. Based on a Daphne DuMaurier novella; Hitchcock says its theme is “the dangers of complacency.” Tippi Hedren stars (TNT Thursday at 5 p.m. and 9:35 p.m.).
Other four-star films airing this week:
The Big Sleep (1946) / TMC, Sunday, 9:35 a.m.; Thursday, 6 a.m. and 3:20 p.m.
La Strada / Bravo, Monday, 5:05 p.m. and 11 p.m.
La Dolce Vita / Bravo, Monday, 8 p.m.
On the Waterfront / Showtime, Wednesday, 3:35 p.m.
The Pride of the Yankees / AMC, Friday, 7 p.m.; early Saturday, 1:15 a.m.
MASH / TMC, Saturday, 6:50 p.m.
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