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2019
Sep
2
 
 
The latest of TCM’s periodic dips into the Walt Disney vault contains some small pleasures and rarities – smaller than usual, but still well worth noting, experiencing, and enjoying. The 1947 movie Fun and Fancy Free (8 p.m. ET), a pairing of two different film shorts, includes “Mickey and the Beanstalk,” a successful Disney reworking of the classic Jack and the Beanstalk fable. It’s the last time Disney himself provided the voice of his famous cartoon rod
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
2
 
 
The complex case of retaliatory killings in and around the West Bank continues in this fact-based miniseries – and the more we learn about the motives, the more we learn how complicated this case really was, and is.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
2
 
 
Director Shaena Mallett presents this new documentary about what many of us, or at least some of us, have held as a sort of imaginary American dream: chucking it all and retiring to a family farm. Farmsteaders tells of Chris Nolan, and his wife, Celeste, and family, who decided to resurrect, occupy, and run the dairy farm once owned by Chris’ grandfather. The question, becomes, is this a dream – or more like a nightmare? Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
2
 
 
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2019
Sep
1
 
 
CNN’s recent documentary series The Movies was so good, I’m hungry for more (how about a prequel series called The Silents?). Meanwhile, if you’re interested in returning for seconds, CNN tonight is repeating, in one big buffet, the three installments that covered the most recent four decades of filmmaking, beginning at 9 p.m. ET with “The Eighties,” which includes, of course, ET: The Extra-Terrestrial. Lots of memories – and lots of i
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
1
 
 
Last week’s season opener included a sad death and a happy birth, and some touching, intimate acting by Maura Tierney, who said much more with her expressions than with any dialogue that was given to her. This week, The Affair gets a new arrival: Anna Paquin, playing a daughter searching for meaning in her mother’s death.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Sep
1
 
 
In last week’s two-episode series premiere, Kirsten Dunst’s character went from being the devoted wife of a Florida salesman to a widow who learned her late husband was not at all what he seemed – and nowhere near as good a salesman as he was purported to be. As a result, she’s now attacking life on her own terms, and those terms, springing from a low-rent Florida water park, are close to a miraculous attitudinal reincarnation…