Monday, Feb. 14
Crazy Heart
Jeff Bridges won a Best Actor Oscar, a Golden Globe, and other honors as a washed-up country singer trying to turn his life around. (2009) 9 p.m., HBO
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Tuesday, Feb. 15
The Lodger
The third of five film adaptations of Marie Belloc Lowndes’s classic Jack the Ripper novel is arguably the best, with the fine Laird Cregar in the title role. (1944) 8 a.m., FMC
Wednesday, Feb. 16
It Might Get Loud
An entertaining documentary about the electric guitar and three of the trade’s foremost practitioners: Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, U2’s The Edge, and Jack White of the White Stripes. (2009) 10 p.m., Encore
Thursday, Feb. 17
Anna Christie
“Garbo talks!” was the tagline for this, Greta Garbo’s first sound film, adapted from Eugene O’Neill’s play about a prostitute fleeing her past. Garbo garnered a Best Actress Oscar nomination. (1930) 4 p.m., TCM
Friday, Feb. 18
Thank You for Smoking
Aaron Eckhart shines as a cheerfully unrepentant lobbyist for the tobacco industry in this smart take on Christopher Buckley’s satirical novel. (2005) 8 p.m., IFC
Saturday, Feb. 19
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This epic spaghetti Western was the final and best part of the Sergio Leone trilogy that began with A Fistful of Dollars. With Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach, and a haunting Ennio Morricone music score. (1966) 11 p.m., AMC
Sunday, Feb. 20
My Fair Lady
Eight Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor, went to the film adaptation of Lerner and Loewe’s musical version of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn star. (1964) 10 p.m., TCM
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