A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 13 May 2018
Today’s Number One Film: 
Waltz with Bashir, 9.10pm Cinemax BEST FILM OF THE DAY. Watch this if you liked The Fog of War, American Splendour or Frost-Nixon. Though
the animation is eerily beautiful and enough of a reward in itself, its
immense power is only realised at the very end, in the last few
seconds, when the incredible good sense of making a documentary about
war in a cartoon is revealed in an unforgettable sequence, the only
non-animated portion of the film. With most of the narration and
dialogue being in Hebrew and/or Arabic, and with English subtitles such
an unpredictable quantity in Latin American cable/DIRECTV
The best of the DIRECTV primetime lineup
Today’s Number One Film:
Stranger Than Fiction, 6.15pm The Film Channel. Watch this if you liked The Truman Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Pleasantville. In our cluttered modern mediascape, it is unusual to find anything that stands out at all, far less a young director original enough to be declared an auteur – but Marc Forster (b Switzerland, November 1968) is one, as his earlier films, Stay, Finding Neverland and Monster’s Ball substantiate.