Elmer Gantry (Cinemax Sunday at noon, again...
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Elmer Gantry (Cinemax Sunday at noon, again next Sunday at 5:30 a.m.) Writer-director Richard Brooks won an Oscar for his compelling 1960 adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel, which also brought an Oscar for Burt Lancaster as a lusty, fiery salesman who joins up with evangelist Jean Simmons--and yet another Oscar for Shirley Jones as Lancaster’s girlfriend who becomes a prostitute.
The Roaring Twenties (TMC Monday at 8 a.m.) Raoul Walsh’s archetypal 1939 gangster movie with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.
Oblomov (Bravo Monday at 9 p.m.). Nikita Mikhalkov’s warm and sensuous 1981 film of Ivan Goncharov’s classic half-comic novel takes us into a sumptuously evoked life of the privileged in the late 1850s in which the hero Oblomov (Oleg Tabakov), although chained by indolence and almost terminal ennui, emerges as a universal, deeply moving figure.
Don Giovanni (Bravo Thursday at 7 p.m., again at 11) is Joseph Losey’s elegant, subtle 1979 film of the Mozart opera.
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