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July 20, 2017  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 6:00 p.m. ET

 

Today, in the morning and afternoon hours, TCM is presenting a series of movies starring Natalie Wood, including such charming light comedies as 1964’s Sex and the Single Girl (10:30 a.m. ET) and 1965’s The Great Race (12:30 p.m. ET). The movie most rarely televised, however, is 1983’s Brainstorm, a sci-fi drama in which Wood stars opposite Christopher Walken. Wood died in 1981,  after completing almost all her principal photography, and the movie – a fantasy thriller about a scientist able to record and transplant people’s memories and fantasies into other people’s brains – was completed after her death by director Douglas Trumbull. Questions surrounding the actress’ mysterious death persist, but this film, which has been largely ignored as part of her film canon, nonetheless suggests strongly that, on screen, she had a lot more to give.

 
 
 
 
 
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