2:00 p.m. / Hollywood
‘Infection’
cotagion United States, 2011 (106 minutes). Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Cast: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law.
Contagion’s convulsive images envelop the viewer in the chaos of a pandemic that threatens to wipe out all of humanity. Steven Soderbergh chooses a visual tone very close to a documentary, with a tense camera that shakes to the rhythm of the characters, an example of a staging that infuses the story with veracity. Contagion is also aided by a script that harnesses the intrigue with great skill and a large and excellent cast.
15.35 / #0
‘The Queen’
United Kingdom, 2006 (97 minutes). Directed by Stephen Frears. Cast: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings.
Stephen Frears travels back to 1997, to the days when Tony Blair was elected Prime Minister and the British people were choking on the death of Diana of Wales. Frears weaves threads of reality into an intense drama in which he treats his characters with a sharp scalpel, injures Blair’s character and exploits a gigantic actress like Helen Mirren. In this way he makes The Queen a first-rate political chronicle.
16.00 / 1
Premiere of the daily series “The Ladies’ Paradise”
Italian fiction El paraíso de las señoras premieres this afternoon on La 1 and the public broadcaster will air it daily Monday through Friday at 5:25 p.m. It is a production that tells a story of love and rivalry, set in a department store in Milan in the ’50s, a story in which different personal plots converge and at the same time a complete reflection of the Italy of the time with the universe of fashion as the main stage.
18.25 / Movistar Classic
“The Last Movie”
The last picture show. USA, 1971 (114 minutes). Director: Peter Bogdanovich. Cast: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Cybill Shepherd.
Peter Bogdanovich films a lament that delves into the emotional intricacies of a generation; he also intones an emotional response to a disappearing cinema. The 1970s began, and by the end of the previous decade, the Nouvelle Vague was declaring the death of a way of understanding films, while its constituents worshiped the directors who made them. In 1971, the masterpieces of Coppola and Scorsese were already close in American cinema. Before them, in The Last Film, Bogdanovich traveled to a dusty city to portray wounds and scars and embrace the death of utopias.
22.10 / antenna 3
A new episode of “Family Secrets”
The plots of the Turkish series Family Secrets involve its characters in new conflicts, like the one Yavuz takes on when he is imprisoned for Zafer’s murder. On the other hand, Metin thinks about writing his will and writes a suicide note to his children, while Ceylin believes that the only way to be happy again is to have a baby with Ilgaz and a family in a new one to set up at home.
8:30 p.m. / Comedy Central
‘The Italian Job’
United States, 2003 (105 minutes). Directed by F Gary Gray. Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Donald Sutherland.
The leader of a gang of thieves is betrayed and loses the loot: he will draw up a detailed revenge plan. So begins this remake of A Job in Italy, an old 1969 film that still has a terrific cast and skilfully avoids twists and turns.
20.40 / TNT
‘Jack the Giant Slayer’
United States, 2013 (114 minutes). Director: Bryan Singer. Cast: Nicholas Hoult, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ewan McGregor.
The popular story Jack and the Magic Beans was filmed back in 1962 by Nathan Juran, with special effects done by the great Ray Harryhausen. Now comes a big-budget version, backed by Bryan Singer, author of the best films in the X-Men franchise. And the truth is that the director’s presence is noticed: visual imagination, well-defined characters in a short stroke and a sense of adventure are his hallmarks.
22.00 / TCM
‘The Glow’
The glow. USA, 1980 (120 minutes). Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
Although there is some consensus today about its quality, The Shining was ignored by many critics at the time. Perhaps the fact that Kubrick went five years without making a film, and also that his new work adapted an otherwise remarkable Stephen King novel, had some influence. The Shining chronicles the horrors, real and imagined, experienced by a married couple who remain isolated with their son at a mountain hotel that is closed for vacation. Kubrick literally paralyzes the action in a first part that drowns the viewer in fear; in the second part, terror suddenly comes: a torrent of horrible images of unheard-of formal perfection.
22.00 / SyFy
“The Darker Hour”
The darkest hour. United States, 2012 (90 minutes). Directed by Chris Gorak. Cast: Emile Hirsch, Olivia Thirlby, Max Minghella.
The first images of Darkest Hour do not bode well: a group of American youths doing some stupid things in Moscow; However, the story is soon settled at the expense of an evil alien invasion. A more than banal affair that surprisingly turns into a disturbing nightmare thanks to a suspenseful staging and a succession of unhealthy and gloomy scenarios. The Darkest Hour shows how a director’s personal perspective can transcend the predictable in a story.
22.05 / 1
Triple edition of ‘MasterChef’ on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
The fourth MasterChef shipment arrives at La 1 with a shipment that will take aspirants to cook at the Oceanogràfic in Valencia. You must prepare a menu by Chef Rakel Cernicharo that will cost 120 guests. In the elimination test, they get to know the food ranges with Isabelle Junot. The culinary appointment continues tomorrow Monday and Tuesday with two new deliveries.
22.25 / DMAX
The work of the highway masters
In this double premiere episode of the documentary series Control de carreteras, Civil Guard agents search for drugs at checkpoints and provide assistance in car accidents. A patrol will go to a car indicating a burning car. They will also arrest a driver who tested positive for drugs and a young man who drives with his helmet on.
0.05 / Be crazy
‘The Prophecy’
The Omen. USA, 1976 (106 minutes). Directed by Richard Donner. Cast: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens.
To find some of the horror genre’s references, it’s handy to look back to the seventies. Even more so in this new millennium committing nonsense like the insane remake of The Prophecy filmed in 2006. The original film still remains an undeniable classic at more than 30 years of life. A diplomat receives news that his wife has given birth to a stillborn child and agrees to replace it with another baby without her knowing the truth. From that disturbing beginning, the story maintains a hypnotic sobriety, displaying a compendium of visual resources that incites more fear than any of the guts that later ravaged the genre.
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