Monday, July 22
Gods and Monsters
Ian McKellen replays the last days of Frankenstein’stormented director in a film that won a screenplay Oscar. Lynn Redgrave co-stars. (1998) 3:45 p.m., Sundance
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Tuesday, July 23
Aliens
James Cameron’s effective sequel to 1979’s Alien upped the franchise’s action quotient when it sent Sigourney Weaver back to the planet where she first confronted the creatures of our nightmares. (1986) 4 p.m., Cinemax
Wednesday, July 24
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid
Steve Martin and Carl Reiner collaborated on this sidesplitting send-up of 1940s film noir, with Martin playing a private dick who’s investigating the death of a noted cheesemaker. (1982) 11:45 a.m., Sundance
Thursday, July 25
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Before she was a dame, Maggie Smith won an Oscar playing a spirited Edinburgh schoolmarm in this adaptation of a Muriel Spark novel.(1969) 8 p.m., TCM
Friday, July 26
Knuckleball!
Knuckleball practitioners R.A. Dickey and Tim Wakefield explain the mysteries of baseball’s most esoteric pitch. (2012) 8:55 a.m., Showtime
Saturday, July 27
High Plains Drifter
A mysterious gunfighter fleeces the town that hires him for protection in this Clint Eastwood Western inspired by Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo. (1973) 7 p.m., AMC
Sunday, July 28
Great Expectations
Nearly 70 years after director David Lean adapted the adventures of the orphan Pip, Dickens has yet to be done better on film. (1946) 8 p.m., TCM
