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CATCH-22
November 12, 2016  | By David Bianculli

RetroPlex, 1:15 p.m. ET

 

Here’s a network that has snuck up on me: Have you ever heard of RetroPlex? Neither have I. But this sister operation of the Starz network is here, on my satellite lineup, and it offers movies – very vintage and a bit more recent – unedited and uninterrupted. Today’s schedule, for example, includes Woody Allen’s Play It Again, Sam at 9:30 a.m. ET and Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at 9:35 p.m. ET – and really caught my attention by making room, at 1:15 p.m. ET, for Mike Nichols’ 1970 version of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, starring Alan Arkin as WWII soldier Yossarian. It’s a very underrated movie, with a ridiculously talented and sprawling cast. Buck Henry, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Orson Welles, Jon Voight, Martin Sheen, Art Garfunkel. Paula Prentiss, Jack Gilford, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Bob Balaban…. And that’s just for starters.

 
 
 
 
 
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