Paterson, Saturday, 8.30pm, Rialto
Brief Encounter, Tonight, 8.30pm, Rialto
Classic 1945 British romantic drama about a woman who is tempted to cheat when she meets a man at a railway station. ‘‘One of the most vivid, impassioned and painfully believable love stories ever committed to celluloid,’’ wrote Time Out magazine’s Tom Huddleston.
The Dance Exponents: Why Does Love?, Tonight, 8.30pm, TVNZ1
New feature-length tale dramatising the story of one of New Zealand’s most iconic bands. Jordan Luck (Jordan Mooney) and Dave Gent (Matariki Whatarau) met as teens and formed a band called The Dance Exponents. Billed as ‘‘a rocking insight into New Zealand music in the 1980s’’, it promises to cover the rise, fall, and eventual resurgence of the group.
The Wolfpack, Tuesday, 8.30pm, Maori TV
Much like 2003’s Capturing the Friedmans, Crystal Moselle’s 2015 documentary looks at a bizarre family dynamic. Locked away from society in a Manhattan apartment, the six Angulo brothers and their sister have learned about the outside world through the films that they watch. Through their home movies, re-enactments of scenes from the likes of Pulp Fiction, and their eventual emergence into society, we get to see our world from a very different perspective.
Casablancas: The Man Who Loved Women, Wednesday, 8.30pm, Rialto
This 2016 documentary follows the rise and smash success of John Casablancas and his Elite modelling agency. ‘‘Works best as a glimpse at how one man managed to transform the sleepy world of modelling, circa the mid-1960s, into a star-driven enterprise of the 80s and 90s that made beautiful women into rich and famous celebrities,’’ wrote The Hollywood Reporter‘s Jordan Mintzer. With its on-screen cursive, laconic voiceover and fly-on-the-wall-style observational film-making, this 2016 dramedy is another understated gem from Jim Jarmusch. Like Broken Flowers, Night on Earth and Coffee and Cigarettes, this offers up a series of dramatically rewarding encounters, rather than a truly driving narrative. Structured as a week in the life of Adam Driver’s public transport worker, it’s the repetition and variations that form part of its charm. – James Croot