THE BULLETIN • FEBRUARY 4 - 10, 2021
TV • PAGE 25
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“Movie: Bliss”
Mike Cahill (“Another Earth”) directed
this mind-bending sci-fi drama that
stars Owen Wilson (“Midnight in
Paris”) as a recently divorced man who
meets a mysterious homeless woman
(Salma Hayek, “Like a Boss”) and
together they become convinced that the
broken world around them is actually a
computer simulation. Madeline Zima
(“Californication”), Nesta Cooper and
Joshua Leonard also star. (ORIGINAL)
“Jazz”
“Grantchester”
“Movie: Gretel & Hansel”
You needn’t be a jazz fan to enjoy Ken
Burns’ 2001 documentary miniseries
but you may be one by the time it’s
over. Along with the profiles and film
clips of legends like Louis Armstrong
and Duke Ellington, it has plenty of
history lessons, including a look at
jazz’s impact on race relations, and
vice versa. Wynton Marsalis provides
insight.
Based on “The Grantchester
Mysteries,” the collection of short
stories by James Runcie, this British
detective series follows the adventures
of vicars Sidney Chambers (James
Norton) and William Davenport (Tom
Brittney), who develop a second job
as sleuths with the help of Detective
Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson
Green). Seasons 1-5 stream here.
Oz Perkins, Anthony Perkins’
(“Psycho”) son, helmed this 2020
horror film adapted from the classic
Grimm fairy tale. Sophia Lillis stars
as Gretel, a plucky 16-year-old who
recently lost her father. Ordered to
search for food in the dark woods with
her kid brother, Hansel (Samuel J.
Leakey), she stumbles upon the home
of a dangerous witch (Alice Krige).
BEST TCM ‘ROMANTIC WEEKEND GETAWAY’ MOVIES
BY JAY BOBBIN “Casablanca” (1942; Friday, Feb.
12) An ideal choice to launch Turner
Classic Movies’ “Romantic Weekend
Getaway” festival, this all-time-great
drama revolves largely around the revived
love story of Rick and Ilsa (Humphrey
Bogart, Ingrid Bergman), who face plenty
of odds in the midst of wartime intrigue.
“Casablanca”
“West Side Story” (1961; Friday)
A new, Steven Spielberg-directed version
of the musical is on the way, but Robert
Wise’s edition starring Natalie Wood and
Richard Beymer as star-crossed lovers
Maria and Tony always will retain its place
with film fans.
“Doctor
Zhivago”
(1965;
“West Side Story”
Saturday) David Lean’s epic telling of the
Boris Pasternak novel has gorgeous music
(by Maurice Jarre) and cinematography
(by Freddie Young), plus a tremendous
duo in Omar Sharif and Julie Christie as
Zhivago and Lara. Its landscapes make
this one to watch on the biggest screen
“Doctor Zhivago”
possible.
“The Goodbye Girl” (1977;
Sunday, Feb. 14) Oscar winner Richard
Dreyfuss and Marsha Mason make a
great team in Neil Simon’s comedy of a
single mom and the ambitious actor she
unwillingly takes as an apartment-mate.
“The Philadelphia Story” (1940;
Sunday) A socialite’s (Katharine
Hepburn) impending remarriage gives her
tabloid-reporter ex-husband (Cary Grant)
second thoughts in this comedy, legendary
on both stage and screen.
“It Happened One Night” (1934;
Sunday) One of the ultimate “road trip”
movies pairs Clark Gable and Claudette
Colbert as uneasy traveling companions.
Director Frank Capra’s classic swept its
year’s top Oscars.
“The Way We Were” (1973;
Sunday) Barbra Streisand and Robert
Redford evoke sheer star power, as well
as very good acting, in director Sydney
Pollack’s drama that smartly incorporates a
dark period in Hollywood’s history.
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