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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