7:00 p.m.	Bedazzled Stanley Donen (U.K., 1967)

Bedazzled was remade in 2000, but nothing compares to the original British version, a sacrilegious updating of Faust written by and starring the comedy team of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, half of Britain's proto-Pythonian Beyond the Fringe. A little anger would be a good thing for Moore's luckless young man Stanley Moon. So might a little gluttony, avarice, envy, and lust, according to the Devil (Cook), a suave interceder who offers suicidal Stanley seven (booby-trapped) chances at happiness with his muse Margaret Spencer (Help!'s Eleanor Bron), a waitress at Wimpy's where he flips burgers. This, in exchange for the minor detail of his soul. Stanley Donen directs the film in sixties-Pop style, but the devil is in the dialogue, a veritable tutorial on freedom of choice for the working-class lad, or an Anglican Young Man's existential epiphany. As the poet said, this is how the world ends, not with a banger but a Wimpy.

—Judy Bloch

• Written by Peter Cook, from a story by Cook and Dudley Moore. Photographed by Austin Dempster. With Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Eleanor Bron, Raquel Welch. (103 mins, Color, 35mm, From Criterion Pictures/20th Century Fox)