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Louis Malle at Home: One of France’s...

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Louis Malle at Home: One of France’s most iconoclastic filmmakers take two unconventional looks at family and home life: in the 1971 incest comedy, Murmur of the Heart (Bravo Tuesday at 5 and 10 p.m.) and the 1990 political reverie, May Fools (Bravo Tuesday at 7 p.m. and midnight).

Design for Living (AMC Tuesday at 4 and 9:30 p.m.), Ernst Lubitsch’s 1933 play adaptation, has more Hecht-MacArthur and less of original playwright Noel Coward, but in the hands of triangle Gary Cooper-Miriam Hopkins-Fredric March, it’s still an urbane, fizzy delight.

That Hamilton Woman (TNT Friday at 10:20 p.m.) is the 1941 British period romance, directed by Alexander Korda and starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh (as Lord Nelson and his love), which critic Andrew Sarris has confessed to seeing, and paying for, more than 100 times.

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Autumn Sonata (KTTV Monday at noon) gives us the 1978 conjunction of two legendary film Bergman’s--star Ingrid and writer-director Ingmar--in an intense portrayal of a pianist’s troubled home life; Liv Ullmann is the resentful daughter.

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