This week: video at home, Nightfall on TV (and you can’t stream it) and my remembrance of the late Sean Connery.
ON VIDEO
The most eclectic watch-at-home recommendations you’ll find ANYWHERE:
- The Trail of the Chicago 7: This really happened in America
- My Octopus Teacher: an octopus and her human pet
- David Byrne’s American Utopia: a most human vibe
- The Artist’s Wife: she finds her gifts
- Dick Johnson Is Dead: funny, heartfelt and frequently bizarre
- Sibyl: trashy, but in that sly and expert French way.
- #Alive: A Korean Home Alone with zombies.
ON TV
On November 9, Turner Classic Movies will present A Place in the Sun, one of the great films of the 1950s. Montgomery Clift is a poor kid who is satisfied to have a job and a trashy girlfriend (Shelly Winters in a brilliant portrayal). Then, he learns that he could have it ALL – the CEO’s gorgeous daughter (19-year-old Elizabeth Taylor), lifelong comfort, status and career. Did I mention Elizabeth Taylor? The now pregnant girlfriend is the only obstacle to more than he could have ever dreamed for – can he get rid of her without getting caught?
