Four-Star Films : ‘Under the Volcano’
This memorable 1984 film chronicles the last hours of an alcoholic British consul--an impossible romantic whose marriage is crushed, whose soul is rotting--on the Day of the Dead in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Based on Malcolm Lowry’s great novel, cannily directed by John Huston; with a performance of sodden, magnificent grandeur by Albert Finney (right) as the consul. Jacqueline Bisset (left) co-stars as the consul’s loving but fed-up wife (A&E; early Tuesday at 1 a.m.).
Other selected four-star films airing this week:
Oliver! Showtime, Monday, 1:25 p.m.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind / Disney, Monday, 7 p.m.
America, America / AMC, Wednesday, 11 a.m.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) AMC, Wednesday, 7 and 10:30 p.m.
Atlantic City / TMC, early Thursday, 4:45 a.m.
Little Women (1994) HBO, Friday, 10 a.m.
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