SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES (1980)
Five, 3.40pm
Scripted by the Broadway legend Neil Simon, Jay Sandrich’s self-conscious throwback to the golden age of Hollywood screwball comedy stars Goldie Hawn as a quirky housewife who looks after an army of stray dogs in her plush suburban home. Chevy Chase co-stars as Hawn’s sappy ex-husband, with Charles Grodin as her stuffy current spouse. The hit-and-miss jokes are hardly vintage Simon, but Hawn exhibits an unusually crumpled charm while Grodin’s deadpan pomposity hits all the right wrong notes. (100 min)
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INFERNAL AFFAIRS (2002)
FilmFour, 10.15pm
The opening chapter in a hugely successful Hong Kong gangster trilogy, Infernal Affairs is a complex and visually ravishing thriller. Tony Leung stars as a police officer who goes under cover to infiltrate a Triad gang, while Andy Lau plays his opposite number, an underworld sleeper agent inside the police ranks. Andrew Lau and Alan Mak shoot Hong Kong in Gothic shadows and saturated colours, aided by Wong Kar Wei’s cinematographer, Chris Doyle. The sequel can be seen tomorrow night at 10pm. (101 min)
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WINTER KILLS (1979)
BBC Two, 12.20am
William Richert’s cult comic thriller is based on a thinly veiled version of JFK’s assassination and its aftermath. Adapted from a novel by Richard Condon, who also wrote The Manchurian Candidate, Richert’s dark farce stars Jeff Bridges as the dysfunctional youngest son of a Kennedy-style political dynasty and John Huston ashis lecherous, Machiavellian father. Containing more spoof conspiracy theories than a dozen Oliver Stone films, Winter Kills co-stars Anthony Perkins and, in a brief cameo, Elizabeth Taylor. (96 min)