THE PIANIST 2002
Tuesday, 12:30 p.m., TCM
LIFE OF PI 2012
Thursday, 9 p.m., HBO
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK 1981
Saturday, 1 p.m., USA
Moonrise Kingdom 2012
Sunday, 8:45 a.m., Cinemax
Two teens fall in love in the summer of 1965 and cause no end of aggravation in Wes Anderson’s best movie. Suzy (Kara Hayward) is the daughter of hippie lawyers (Bill Murray and Frances McDormand). Sam (Jared Gilman) is under the care of summer camp scoutmaster Ward (Edward Norton). Meanwhile, the camp is under the eye of inept police officer Captain Sharp (Bruce Willis). It sounds sad and dreadful but it’s wonderful. With Jason Schwartzman.
The Pianist 2002
Tuesday, 12:30 p.m., TCM
Roman Polanski, who grew up in Poland during the Nazi occupation, directed this film based on the 1946 memoir “Death of a City” by real-life pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman. The story centers on Szpilman (Adrien Brody), whose wealthy Jewish family assumed they’d be safe. Szpilman’s job playing at a high-end restaurant was a fail-safe — until it wasn’t. Szpilman hides out, first in the home of a patron and then in a series of hovels. Three Oscars went to the film, including one each to Brody and Polanski.
Life of Pi 2012
Thursday, 9 p.m., HBO
Ang Lee won a Best Director Oscar for this movie from Yann Martel’s novel about a young man named Pi (Suraj Sharma) whose father’s zoo in India must close. The father books passage for the family to Canada, where he will sell the animals. But when the boat is destroyed in a storm, Pi is the lone human survivor, with some hungry companions: a zebra, an orangutan and a Bengal tiger he names Richard Parker. Stunning.
Raiders of the Lost Ark 1981
Saturday, 1 p.m., USA
Harrison Ford is Indiana Jones, a bad-boy archeologist in this Steven Spielberg/George Lucas collaboration. It’s 1936 and Indy is told by a museum curator that an artifact, the Ark of the Covenant, which may hold the very secret to human existence, does in fact exist. His job? To travel to Nepal, to Egypt,to God (literally) knows where to find it and get it safely into the hands of US government — before the Nazis get their hands on it. Along the way he runs into former girlfriend Marion Ravenwood, the daughter of his old mentor, and sparks, swords, and artifacts fly. Just great.