![]() ![]() This underseen 1961 effort, in which a surpris. 30, at 9:30 pmOne, Two, Three | TCM When it came to comedies, Billy Wilder made some of the funniest (Some Like It Hot) and sharpest (The Apartment) ever. On the short list of revelatory moments that suddenly redefine an actor’ s career, this one’ s close to the top.Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 10 pmFrances | FLX Jessica Lange took everyone by surprise with her shockingly raw portrayal of the troubled movie star Frances Farmer, a promising but difficult actress who went from Paramount costumes to a straightjacket in record time. ![]() Could anything sound duller? But this wonderful documentary is actually a surprisingly complex and deeply poignant portrait of a stubborn and irascible loner who meets his match in the last person he ever expected.Tuesday, Jan. And finds his marriage is about to fall apart. And tries to do business with some Communists, to expand Coca-Cola beyond the Iron Curtain. Set in Berlin shortly before the wall was built, its about the boss of Coca-Cola West Berlin, who has to care for the daughter of his boss spending her holiday there. 28 at 9 pm/ETThe Monastery | SUND An old man who dreams of converting his crumbling Danish chateau into a Russian Orthodox monastery butts heads with a strong-willed nun. One, Two, Three is a comedy movie by Billy Wilder from 1961. Movies-on-TV: Ken Fox's Picks for the Week of Jan.
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