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Alec Guinness: Before Obi-Wan Kenobi, there were the eight D’Ascoyne family members (photo: Alec Guiness, Dennis Price in ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’) (See previous post: “Alec Guinness Movies: Pre-Star Wars Career.”) TCM won’t be showing The Bridge on the River Kwai on Alec Guinness day, though obviously not because the cable network programmers believe that one four-hour David Lean epic per day should be enough. After all, prior to Lawrence of Arabia TCM will be presenting the three-and-a-half-hour-long Doctor Zhivago (1965), a great-looking but never-ending romantic drama in which Guinness — quite poorly — plays a Kgb official. He’s slightly less miscast as a mere Englishman — one much too young for the then 32-year-old actor — in Lean’s Great Expectations (1946), a movie that fully belongs to boy-loving (in a chaste, fatherly manner) fugitive Finlay Currie. And finally, make sure to watch Robert Hamer’s dark comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets...

Director: Duncan Wood Writer: Daniel Moynihan Starring: Danny Huston, Stellan Skarsgard, Heather Graham, Amanda Seyfried, Alan Cumming Cinematographer: John Mathieson Studio/Run Time: IFC Films, 94 min. Star-splashed artworld spoof is only skin-deep Can the world ever have too much Amanda Seyfried on roller skates? I think not. Seyfried, a prolific young actress whose ubiquity recently prompted some wit on Twitter to dub her “the Gene Hackman of her generation,” turns up as a source of temptation in Boogie Woogie, a star-studded comedy of manners set in the London art scene of the ’90s. It’s a small role, offering a...