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On this weekend’s program, Bill Moyers interviews former FEC Chairman Trevor Potter, who explains to Moyers, and to us, the differences between corporations and individuals when it comes to funding election campaigns – regardless of what the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled.
Moyers & Company airs from Friday to Sunday on local public TV stations; to find it in your local area, click the
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Encore, 8:00 p.m. ET
Part 5. Having earned the trust and gratitude of Toranaga, Anjin-San (Richard Chamberlain) is offered the return of his old ship. But what does that mean, and does the British sailor actually want to return to his old homeland?
Showtime, 8:00 p.m. ET
Even by Lars von Trier standards, this is a gloomy movie. But this 2011 drama is, if nothing else, visually evocative, and emotionally haunting. It also features some very unadorned and committed performances, starting with Kristen Dunst as the bride who may be witnessing a celestial disaster on her wedding night. But also, watch for some of the other members of the wedding party, including Kiefer Sutherland from 24 and Alexander Skarsgard from True Blood.
TCM, 9:15 p.m. ET
On TCM’s Adolphe Menjou night, this early Stanley Kubrick movie gets a prime-time showing. This is the anti-war film, starring Kirk Douglas, that so impressed the actor that he reached out to Kubrick to take the helm on Spartacus. This 1957 movie has fewer ornate set pieces than the usual Kubrick film, but the hand-held scenes of trench warfare, as well as the top-brass arguments afterward, are electrically charged.
HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET
Among tonight’s guests: author Salman Rushdie and MSNBC host Chris Matthews. Given the uprisings and political gaffes this week, both men should have an awful lot to say.