A Summer to Remember. The Soviet film industry, which has recently been testing products of high entertainment yield and low propaganda fallout (Ballad of a Soldier, Fate of a Man), now releases a warm and wonderfully funny story of a little boy's life with father in contemporary Russia.
The Kitchen. Too many cooks cannot spoil this spluttering slumgullion of socialism and melodrama, heated to a rolling boil by British Playwright Arnold Wesker.
Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the Skye terrier who, a century ago, won for himself the freedom of the city of Edinburgh.
West Side Story. Despite some sick-sick-sick pseudosociology, Broadway's long-running choreoperetta makes a big, fast, exciting cinemusical.
Loss of Innocence. A thriller of sensibility, based on Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer, celebrates a sophisticated rite of puberty in a French chateau.
Breakfast at Tiffany's. Audrey Hepburn's soignée expense accountess may not quite be Holly, but she plays Truman Capote's heroine with both grace and fluent wit.
Macario. The black-and-white magic of the motion-picture camera is artfully employed in this Mexican adaptation of B. Traven's profound little fable about the woodcutter who sups with Death and discovers the inevitable consequences.
The Hustler. Director Robert Rossen racks up an impressive total score in this tale of a young pool paladin (Paul Newman) who learns that character, meaning Old Champ Gleason, is more important than talent.
TELEVISION
Wed., Nov. 22 Bell & Howell Close-Up! (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.).*Interviews and film clips, made in West Berlin and West Germany, sampling German attitudes about the German crisis.
The Bob Newhart Show (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). A master comic in a not always masterly show.
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Dramatized study of the North American Air Defense Command.
David Brinkley's Journal (NBC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Tonight's subjects are modern poetry and rock 'n' roll as practiced abroad.
Thurs., Nov. 23
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC, 10 a.m. to noon). A program of circus acts is thrown in.
Thanksgiving Parade Jubilee (CBS, 10:30-11:55 a.m.). Curb-siding at the big parades in three cities: Detroit, Philadelphia and New York.
CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The second program drawn from Dwight D. Eisenhower's informal taped comments on the U.S. presidency and his Administration.
Fri., Nov. 24
U. S. Grant, an Improbable Hero (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). A special NBC portrait of Grant, using old still pictures, some live acting, and new footage of battle locations.
Crossing the Threshold (NBC, 9-10:30 p.m.). Step-by-step analysis of a manned orbital flight, including films of the trips of the Russian astronauts, Gagarin and Titov, released for the first time.
Sat., Nov. 25
Update (NBC, noon to 12:30 p.m.). Robert Abernethy's news program for teenagers.
Sun., Nov. 26
Look Up and Live (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). First of a two-part documentary about how the people of Denmark saved almost all of the 8,000 Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in World War II.