Movies on TV this week
Highlights for each day of the week
Monday, June 22
Mon Oncle (1958)
In French comic Jacques Tati’s most lauded film, bumbling Monsieur Hulot struggles with technology at the sterile home of his adoring young nephew. 10:45 a.m., IFC
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Tuesday
Rambling Rose (1991)
Laura Dern and her mother, Diane Ladd, both earned Oscar nominations for this comedy-drama about a lusty young housekeeper for a 1930s Southern family. 8 p.m., IFC
Wednesday
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Lolita (1962)
Stanley Kubrick directed the film version of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel about a professor besotted with an underage girl. With James Mason, Shelley Winters, and Peter Sellers. 12:15 a.m., TCM
Thursday
Pi (1988)
Darren Aronofsky made his directorial debut on a shoestring with this offbeat thriller about a mathematician on an obsessive quest for the number at the center of the universe. 6:30 p.m., IFC
Friday
Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Long before it spawned a Broadway hit, Gaston Leroux’s The Phantom of the Opera inspired a rock musical from director Brian De Palma. Paul Williams stars in the cult curiosity. 8 p.m., FMC
Saturday
Angela’s Ashes (1999)
A gritty film version of Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize–winning memoir about growing up poor in Ireland and Brooklyn, starring Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle. 11:30 p.m., Flix
Sunday
David Copperfield (1935)
MGM’s highly entertaining all-star version of the Dickens classic features Freddie Bartholomew as young David and W.C. Fields as a memorable Mr. Micawber. 10 a.m., TCM
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