What"s on TV: "Black Orpheus" and "The Walking Dead" Marathon

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Photo Breno Mello and Marpessa Dawn in Black Orpheus. Credit Janus Films

Supplement your Olympics viewing with Black Orpheus, Marcel Camuss intoxicating adaptation of the Greek myth, set during Carnival in Rio. Cinderella and Four Knights puts a South Korean spin on the fairy tale. And wake up before dawn, if you dare, for an all-day marathon of The Walking Dead.

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BLACK ORPHEUS (1959) on Amazon, Fandor and iTunes. The French director Marcel Camus transplants the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to a favela in Rio de Janeiro as a young couple (Breno Mello and Marpessa Dawn) falls rapturously in love at the height of Carnival madness. But it really is not the two lovers that are the focus of interest in this film; it is the music, the movement, the storm of color that go into the two-day festival, Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times about this Oscar winner for best foreign-language film. The language spoken, incidentally, is Brazilian Portuguese, which is translated in English subtitles that completely lack the samba beat, he added. A cat with a cool vocabulary should have been turned loose on them.

Photo Cinderella and Four Nights Credit HB Entertainment

CINDERELLA AND FOUR KNIGHTS on DramaFever. The fairy tale gets a South Korean spin as a beautiful college student (Park So-dam) with dreams of becoming a veterinarian manages to escape her evil stepmother and move into a mansion with three handsome billionaires and their bodyguard. But which one will be her Prince Charming? New episodes will debut on Fridays and Saturdays, with a post-show discussion each Monday at 4 p.m. on Facebook Live at facebook.com/DramaFever. With English subtitles.

Whats on TVPhoto A scene from The Walking Dead. Credit GENE PAGE/AMC

THE WALKING DEAD MARATHON All day on AMC, starting at 4:22 a.m. It will require a lot of commitment to rouse yourself pre-dawn to watch all of Season 6 in one fell swoop. But the payoff The Walking Dead Season 7 Preview Special, at 10 p.m., hosted by Chris Hardwick and featuring cast interviews and behind-the-scenes glimpses just may be worth it.

RIO OLYMPICS 11 a.m. on Bravo. Tennis concludes with the finals in mens singles, womens doubles and mixed doubles. At 1 p.m. on NBC, mens golf an Olympic sport for the first time since 1904 has its final round. And at 7 p.m. on NBC, Usain Bolt of Jamaica tries to become the first man to win three golds in the 100-meter sprint. Simone Biles, the all-around womens gymnastics gold-medalist, competes on the vault in the apparatus finals. And the divers Kassidy Cook and Abby Johnston represent the United States in the 3-meter springboard finals. A schedule is at nbcolympics.com.

INSPECTOR LEWIS, THE FINAL SEASON: MAGNUM OPUS 9 p.m. on PBS. In this second of the shows three last episodes, the dean of an Oxford college is found bludgeoned to death after a passionate debate in a pub. But an image with a connection to alchemy and an unusual tattoo lead Lewis (Kevin Whately) and Hathaway (Laurence Fox) to deduce that this victim wont be the last.

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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/arts/television/whats-on-tv-black-orpheus-and-the-walking-dead-marathon.html