The Wild Robot to Deaf President Now! The seven best films to watch on TV this week

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Pick of the week
The Wild Robot

Chris Sanders’s delightful family animation attains Wall-E levels of poignancy successful its communicative of a shipwrecked robot that learns however to feel. Washed up connected a distant land populated lone by animals, work portion Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) finds it has nary 1 to serve. That is until it falls connected to a goose’s nest, sidesplitting each its occupants isolated from runt of the litter Brightbill (Kit Connor) – who imprints connected Roz arsenic his mother. Assisted by Pedro Pascal’s cynical fox Fink, the ever adjuvant instrumentality reprogrammes itself to rear the gosling good capable truthful helium tin migrate with the different geese. The Disney-style anthropomorphising is simply a spot overdone, but it’s a film afloat of warmth and wit.
Friday 23 May, 9.10am, 6.10pm, Sky Cinema Premiere

Deaf President Now!

Set during 1 week successful 1988, Davis Guggenheim and Nyle DiMarco’s revelatory documentary follows an era-defining protestation astatine Gallaudet University successful Washington DC – astatine the clip the lone deaf higher acquisition instauration successful the world. When the students discovered a proceeding idiosyncratic had been chosen arsenic their caller president implicit deaf candidates, they locked down the field until the determination was changed. The activists interviewed impressment with their zeal for self-determination successful a movie cleverly designed truthful that proceeding audiences are immersed successful a deaf world.
Out now, Apple TV+

Wuthering Heights

Andrea Arnold brings earthy condemnation to her 2011 adaptation of Emily Brontë’s smouldering classic. This is the archetypal mentation that makes overt the latent proposition that Heathcliff is African Caribbean, emphasising the transgressive (for the times) quality of his emotion for Catherine. It’s a heavy, passionate, astatine times brutal rendering of the chaotic moorland romance – astir an anti-costume drama. Shannon Beer and Kaya Scodelario are convincing arsenic the young and grownup Cathy, portion Solomon Glave and James Howson stock the important relation of the tempestuous Heathcliff.
Sunday 18 May, 12.55am, Film4

Malcolm X

As ever erstwhile that wrecking shot of originative energy, Spike Lee, goes historical, the present-day resonances are wide and central. His biopic of governmental activistic Malcolm X (a charismatic Denzel Washington) starts with footage of the beating of Rodney King and ends with a cameo from Nelson Mandela, but there’s plentifulness successful the idiosyncratic acquisition of the robber turned Black nationalist person to excite involvement and anger. A communicative of idealism nurtured past thwarted, whether you hold with Malcolm’s views oregon not it’s a fitting tribute to a large fig successful US history.
Monday 19 May, 11pm, BBC Two

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Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg

Interspersed with words taken from her ain unpublished memoir and a trove of location movie footage, Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill’s candid documentary gets arsenic adjacent to the “bohemian stone chick” Anita Pallenberg arsenic we’re astir apt going to get. She blazed a way from impoverished Italian aristocracy to feted New York exemplary to person of 3 Rolling Stones, retaining her autarkic tone done fame, hard drugs and motherhood, mesmerising everyone she met.
Tuesday 20 May, 10pm, Sky Arts

Tommy

The Who’s bombastic stone opera medium gets the bombastic celluloid treatment it deserves courtesy of – who else? – British cinema’s chaotic antheral Ken Russell. Singer Roger Daltrey plays Tommy, a lad who loses his sight, proceeding and code aft witnessing his mother’s adultery. But the traumatised kid shows a endowment for pinball that inspires a messianic movement. The movie has dated severely successful places, but for sheer chutzpah and verve there’s small that compares to it – from Tina Turner’s devilish Acid Queen to Elton John and his sky-high boots arsenic the Pinball Wizard.
Wednesday 21 May, 7.55am, Sky Cinema Greats

Repo Man

After getting sacked from his supermarket job, young LA punk Otto (Emilio Estevez) finds himself moving with Harry Dean Stanton’s repo antheral – a low-rent relation who repossesses cars from those successful debt. However, 1 car connected their list, a Chevy Malibu, has thing glowing and deadly successful the footwear … Writer-director Alex Cox pays homage to Kiss Me Deadly’s MacGuffin successful his TexMex roadworthy movie cum sci-fi thriller, but adds a scuzzy borderline each his ain arsenic the protagonists circuit a run-down metropolis rife with drugs and crime.
Thursday 22 May, 12.35am, Sky Cinema Greats

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