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The Thief of Baghdad (Channel 28 Sunday at 2 p.m.): This impudent 1924 Arabian Nights fantasy--with its dazzling William Cameron Menzies sets and robust Raoul Walsh direction--was star Douglas Fairbanks’ finest hour. (2:30)
Que Viva Mexico! (Bravo Monday at 6:30 & 11:30 p.m.) Sergei Eisenstein’s never-completed 1932 documentary on Mexico. One of the cinema’s great fragments: a poem to native culture and faces in the sun. (1:30)
Who’s That Knocking at My Door? (A&E; Tuesday at 6 & 10 p.m.): The rarely shown first feature of 26-year-old Martin Scorsese: another stormy look at New York’s Italian-Americans. (2:00)
The Milky Way (Bravo Thursday at 6 & 11 p.m.): Luis Bunuel sometimes called this 1969 comedy--a picaresque, dreamlike fable based on numerous religious heresies--the personal favorite of his entire career. (2:00)
Laura (Channel 28 Saturday at 10 p.m.): The great 1944 Otto Preminger film noir, with Dana Andrews as the tough cop who falls in love with a murder victim (Gene Tierney), Clifton Webb as the acidulous suspect-savant who loved her too. (2:00)
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