<i> Noteworthy films, with mini-reviews by Times critics.</i>

My Beautiful Laundrette (Channel 28 Saturday at 9 p.m.): Director Stephen Frears has given writer Hanif Kureishi’s coolly audacious script vitality, directness and astonishing reverberations and cast the 1985 film marvelously. Ingeniously, Kureishi mixes race, class, caste, sexuality, politics and the long shadow of Empire into an irresistible contemporary satirical romance. With Gordon Warnecke, Daniel Day-Lewis (picture left to right), Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth.