FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, 1967 (Courtesy Everett Collection)
GOODFELLAS, 1990 (©Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Co)
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007)
Friday, 1:03 a.m., USA
Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem) and Best Picture Oscars went to this crazy Coen brothers movie about a hunter (Josh Brolin) who stumbles upon two million big ones. He is then chased across Texas by a crazed killer (Bardem) and an exhausted sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones). As insanely violent as it is wonderfully bizarre.
GALAXY QUEST (1999)
Wednesday, 3 a.m., TBS
Has-been actors of a cancelled TV sci-fi show who are reduced to showing up at fan conventions in cheesy spacesuits are offered a paying gig. What they don’t know is that space aliens who think they are real space heroes have hired them. Their mission? Save their planet. Hilarious. Starring Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, and Sam Rockwell.
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (1967)
Thursday, 6 a.m., TCM
Julie Christie has never been more beautiful than in this classic about the entangled lives of a woman and the three men who love her desperately. Alan Bates is the sheep farmer who wants to marry her, Terence Stamp is the reckless soldier, and Peter Finch is the older rich man. Based on Thomas Hardy’s 19th century novel. Swooning and sweeping.
GOODFELLAS (1990)
Friday, 11 p.m., TNT
Martin Scorsese’s story of mob turncoat, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) who grows from boy desperate to be a wise guy to big-shot gangster. Drugs, sex, rock ‘n roll and the JFK Lufthansa heist leads to their downfall. Lorraine Bracco, Robert De Niro, are great, yes, but Joe Pesci could have been arrested for stealing the movie, for which he won an Oscar.