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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, 1951

TRUE CONFESSIONS, 1981

STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN, 2002

The Hours, 2002

Sunday, 7 p.m., Flixe

This is how Hollywood saw Virginia Woolf, the superior British novelist and essayist who committed suicide in 1941: a giant fake nose, a dumpy housedress and a crazy hairdo. Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for disguising her beauty with the above-mentioned makeup and costumes. The best story in this three-in-one drama is the one starring Julianne Moore (above left) as a 1950s housewife whose unhappiness almost drives her to suicide. With Meryl Streep (overacting while cracking eggs), Ed Harris, Allison Janney and Jeff Daniels.

A Streetcar


Named Desire, 1951

Wednesday, 8 p.m., TCM

The staggering descent into madness of sleazy Southern belle Blanche DuBois is chronicled in this masterful adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ most harrowing and poetic play. As Blanche, Vivien Leigh gives the performance of a lifetime. As Stanley Kowalski, Blanche’s nemesis, Marlon Brando (right) changed the way actors in America acted. Four Oscars.

True Confessions, 1981

Thursday, 11:20 a.m., ENC

A gritty and sordid murder story that pits two brothers, one a cop (Robert Duvall) and an ambitious Catholic monsignor (Robert De Niro, left) against each other when a murder investigation of a starlet uncovers the priest’s connection to the crime’s prime suspect.Great ’40s period detail. Co-starring Rose Gregorio. Well-directed by Ulu Grosbard.

Standing in the Shadows of Motown, 2002

Friday, 8 p.m., Sundance

Anybody who grew up “Dancing in the Streets” and singing “Stop! In the Name of Love” will adore this documentary about the Funk Brothers, those inimitable Motown studio musicians who laid down irresistible instrumental tracks for Diana Ross and The Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, Marvin Gaye, the Tempations, to name just a few of the stellar acts to come out of Berry Gordy’s Motor City empire. Narrated by Andre Braugher.