Monday, Sept. 20
Benny & Joon
Johnny Depp was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as an eccentric Buster Keaton fan who finds romance with a mentally ill young woman. With Mary Stuart Masterson. (1993) 9:15 p.m., IFC
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Tuesday
That Hamilton Woman
Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, then husband and wife, starred in this handsome biodrama about Emma Hamilton, who went from dance-hall girl to mistress of Adm. Horatio Nelson. (1941) 9:45 p.m., TCM
Wednesday
Greed
A restored, four-hour version of director Erich von Stroheim’s silent epic about three lives destroyed by a lottery windfall. (1925) 8:30 a.m., TCM
Thursday
Che
Benicio del Toro won a Best Actor award at Cannes for his performance as Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Steven Soderbergh directed the impressionistic, four-hour portrait of the Argentine revolutionary and counterculture icon. (2008) 1 p.m., IFC
Friday
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Nominated for 10 Oscars, this dazzling martial-arts epic won four. Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) directed. With Chow Yun-Fat. (2000) 8 p.m., AMC
Saturday
The Hurt Locker
Six Oscars, including Best Picture and Director (Kathryn Bigelow), went to this taut drama about a trio of U.S. soldiers who defuse bombs in post-invasion Iraq. (2008) 8 p.m., Showtime
Sunday
The Big Lebowski
In this cult comedy from Joel and Ethan Cohen, Jeff Bridges stars as an L.A. slacker who runs afoul of gangsters due to mistaken identity. (1998) 9:35 p.m., Encore
