MURDER BY DEATH, 1976
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, 1977
IT’SAMAD,MAD,MAD, MAD,WORLD, 1963
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep,2007
Sunday, 4 p.m., WWOR
A kind of every man’s (or make that every kid’s) “Pan’s Labyrinth” meets “ET,” this is a tale of Angus (Alex Etela), a lonely boy who, during WWII, around Loch Ness, Scotland, finds and brings home a large egg that has washed ashore. The egg hatches and begins to grow, under the boy’s nurturing care, into the legendary sea creature. The film is an allegory about love at the time when the globe was at war and teetering on destruction. Simply fantastic!
Murder by Death, 1976
Sunday, 10 p.m., TCM
The world’s greatest detectives, played by the world’s greatest comic actors — Peter Falk,
Peter Sellers, Richard Narita, Eileen Brennan, James Coco, Alec Guinness, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven and Maggie Smith — are invited to the scary,
secluded mansion of wealthy recluse
(Truman Capote) to solve a murder that has yet to take place. Watch the players get played. Totally hilarious!
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977
Thursday, 8 p.m., AMC
Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi masterpiece. A regular Joe (Richard Dreyfuss) becomes obsessed with finding out the truth about the great bright light from above that killed the power in his truck on a lonely stretch of road. He discovers he’s not alone, and joins other regular folk, such as Melinda Dillon (whose child disappeared into the light) who are so obsessed, they are willing to lose everything. Brilliant!
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad ,World,
1963
Saturday, 1:30 p.m., TCM
Get ready to laugh your gas masks off. Spencer Tracy is the chief of police tracking a bunch of people who witnessed a car crash that killed a bank robber (Jimmy Durante), setting off a race to find his hidden loot. Starring Milton Berle, Phil Silvers, Mickey Rooney, Sid Caesar, Jonathan Winters, Dorothy Provine, Ethel Merman and Edie Adams. One of the funniest movies ever made.