Movies on TV
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, March 11
The Color of Money
Twenty-five years after The Hustler, Paul Newman reprised his role as Fast Eddie Felson and won an Oscar playing a pool-hall tutor to Tom Cruise. (1986) 2:45 p.m., AMC
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Tuesday, March 12
Memoirs of a Geisha
Zhang Ziyi stars in this gorgeous adaptation of a hit novel in which an orphan is sold into servitude and becomes Japan’s most desired geisha. (2005) 6:30 p.m., Starz
Wednesday, March 13
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Henry & June
The first film to garner an NC-17 steamily portrays a three-way love triangle involving Anaïs Nin, fellow writer Henry Miller, and Miller’s wife, June. (1990) 11:30 p.m., Sundance
Thursday, March 14
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Russell Crowe, as British sea captain Jack Aubrey, battles the French in this Oscar-nominated adaptation of two Patrick O’Brian novels. (2003) 3 p.m., HBO
Friday, March 15
Enter the Dragon
Bruce Lee was 32 and just hitting his stride when he made his final film, playing a Shaolin martial arts master who infiltrates an island-based drug ring. (1973) 5 p.m., AMC
Saturday, March 16
Little Big Man
In Arthur Penn’s revisionist Western, Dustin Hoffman spins a picaresque life story, beginning with being raised by Cheyenne Indians. (1970) 10 p.m., TCM
Sunday, March 17
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Geena Davis plays a schoolteacher who hires a private eye to help her recover memories of her past as a government assassin. With Samuel L. Jackson.(1996) 6 p.m., Cinemax
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