Two-Lane Blacktop (Arts & Entertainment Sunday at...
Two-Lane Blacktop (Arts & Entertainment Sunday at 11 a.m., Monday at 6 a.m.) is Monte Hellman’s intriguing 1971 slice of existentialist Americana, with James Taylor, Warren Oates and Dennis Wilson.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Cinemax Sunday at 12:30 p.m.) is the entertaining and robust 1939 historical drama film about the tumultuous love affair between Queen Elizabeth I (played with much passion by Bette Davis) and her dashing paramour (Errol Flynn).
Gaby: A True Story (Showtime Monday at 3:20 a.m.) The measure of the success of Luis Mandoki’s emotion-charged 1987 film lies in our ability to identify with, rather than pity, his real-life heroine, Gaby Brimmer (Rachel Levin, a remarkable actress in her film debut), a victim of cerebral palsy.
The Statue of Liberty (KCET Monday at 8 p.m.) and Roger & Me (KCET Monday at 9 p.m.) The first is Ken Burns’ 1985 homage to the great lady; the second is Michael Moore’s outrageous, often hilarious and finally scathing 1989 attack on General Motors’s plant closures in Flint, Mich.
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