The Blue Angel. The 29-year-old Dietrich dazzler updated, with sultry Swedish Actress May Britt as the Berlin Lorelei whose siren song lures West Germany's Box Office Idol Curt Jurgens onto the rocks. Dietrich did it better.
The Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's latest public fantasy, full of sharp physical images and foggy symbols; the story of a mid-19th century Mesmer and his touring Magnetic Health Theater, whose members include his wife (Ingrid Thulin), masquerading as a male helper, his witch-grandmother, an ailing actor and an oversexed coachman.
The Man Upstairs (English). A demented scientist, with only his pistol and his twisted dreams for company, holes up on the top floor of a sleazy London rooming house and defies a world below that tries to coax him into coming down.
North by Northwest. Director Alfred Hitchcock's implausible but entertaining mystery, with Gary Grant as a Madison Avenue adman up to his immaculate collar in spies and counterspies, among them Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.
Anatomy of a Murder. Lee Remick and James Stewart are slickly professional in this adaptation of 1958's most physiological bestseller; yet even they cannot compete with a cinema newcomer from Boston named Joseph N. Welch.
The Nun's Story. A startlingly beautiful though spiritually slight study of convent life, with Audrey Hepburn as the Roman Catholic nun whose choice between love of God and love of mankind comes hard.
TELEVISION
Wed., Sept. 23 The VIP (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* Mr. K. visits the Garst farm at Coon Rapids, Iowa. TV cameras will be sighting in from every angle, hopeful of shooting some well-cured country ham. They will be keeping the vigil all week, at all hours, on all networks.
Thurs., Sept. 24 Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Pianist-Private Eye Johnny Staccato (John Cassavetes) has hardly slugged his way through his first two capers, but his style is already familiar: early Peter Gunn, with plenty of room for more polish. Still, Johnny is already smooth enough to take on a black-market baby racket.
Fri., Sept. 25 An Evening with Jimmy Durante (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Even though he is saddled with such guest stars as Lawrence Welk, Sal Mineo and Bobby Darin, the Old Schnozzola ought to be able to snort up enough enthusiasm to make this rare TV appearance worth the trouble of tuning in. Color.
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Uncle Millie drops in on Lucille and Desi.
Sun., Sept. 27
Sullivan's Travels: Invitation to Mos cow (CBS, 7:30-9 p.m.). Produced in Moscow by Ed Sullivan, this slice of the State Department's cultural exchange program includes Singer Risë Stevens, Accordionist Dick Contino, Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, and, of course, Smiley himself. The Russians loved it.
Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The network continues its impressive series of prime-time specials with another big one: What Makes Sammy Run?, Budd Schulberg's vitriolic story of a young heel on the make. With Larry (Flower Drum Song) Blyden, Barbara Rush and Sidney Blackmer. Act I, with the second coming up next week.