By THE PHANTOM OF THE MOVIES

Friday

3:30 p.m. (HBO) "For Your Consideration" (2006). Catherine O'Hara, Harry Shearer. Director Christopher ("Best in Show," "A Mighty Wind") Guest sets his satiric sights on Hollywood in a consistently funny sendup featuring top comic work by O'Hara as a hack indie actress suddenly surrounded by unexpected Oscar buzz.

10:00 (MAX) "Blue Streak" (1999). Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson. Light-fingered felon Lawrence poses as a cop in a bid to retrieve some lost loot in Les Mayfield's honestly funny farce, buoyed by a clever script, inventive comic set pieces and Lawrence's relatively restrained turn.

11:00 (AMC) "Alien Resurrection" (1997). Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder. Under French auteur Jean-Pierre Jeunet's supervision, the Ridley Scott-spawned "Alien" franchise rebounds with this imaginative, agreeably slimy sequel, with Weaver in fine form as the resilient Ripley (or a reasonable clone thereof).

Saturday

12:15 p.m. (AMC) "High Noon" (1952). Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly. Sheriff Coop goes it alone against a gang of gunslingers in Fred Zinnemann's ultimate showdown film, an Oscar-winning Western that unfolds in "real" time. The opening scene, with its haunting theme song, remains a classic sequence.

8:00 (FLIX) "Quiz Show" (1994). John Turturro, Rob Morrow. Robert Redford directs a fascinating, fact-based, cameo-studded dissection of the infamous TV quiz-show scandals of the 1950s. Turturro's a standout as an ultimately outraged contestant.

9:15 (TNT) "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). Judy Garland, Bert Lahr. L. Frank Baum's weird, fertile fable gets the grand-scale Hollywood treatment, complete with surreal imagery, memorable characters and music galore. A film for the ages that never seems to age.

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