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Tuesday
The Perfect Storm
The film version of Sebastian Junger’s best-seller about the 1991 northeaster that doomed a Gloucester, Mass., fishing boat. With George Clooney and a fine Mark Wahlberg. (2000) 10 a.m., AMC
Wednesday
Living the Legacy: The Untold Story of Milton Hershey School
Cameras follow four students through their first year at a school for underprivileged children founded by a famed Pennsylvania chocolate-maker. (2009) 3:45 p.m., IFC
Thursday
Water
The third part of director Deepa Mehta’s “Elements” trilogy focuses on a group of widows living at an ashram in 1938 India. An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. (2005) 2:50 p.m., IFC
Friday
Groundhog Day
In this witty comedy-fantasy, Bill Murray plays a selfish weatherman condemned to live February 2 over and over again until he gets it right. (1993) 6:15 p.m., Encore
Saturday
The Snake Pit
Olivia de Havilland received a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a woman institutionalized after a nervous breakdown. (1948) 8 p.m., TCM
Sunday
The Leopard
Director Luchino Visconti’s sweeping historical epic about the decline of Italy’s 19th-century aristocracy won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. With Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon. (1963) 12 p.m., FMC
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One great cookbook: Joshua McFadden’s ‘Six Seasons of Pasta’the week recommends The pasta you know and love. But ever so much better.
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Scientists are worried about amoebasUnder the radar Small and very mighty
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Buddhist monks’ US walk for peaceUnder the Radar Crowds have turned out on the roads from California to Washington and ‘millions are finding hope in their journey’
