13.00 / The 2
“Treason at Fort King”
Seminoles. USA United States, 1953 (83 minutes). Director: Budd Boetticher. Cast: Rock Hudson, Barbara Hale, Anthony Quinn.
Another example of Budd Boetticher’s talent, always able to beat the low budget most of his films had. One day he will appear in anthologies as the filmmaker he is: one of the greats. In this case, he emanates from the pro-Indian line that opened Westerns like Broken Arrow and The Devil’s Door: The always excellent Rock Hudson is an officer court-martialed for his friendship with the Seminole tribe. Cinema with classic and artisanal flair.
14.55 / Movistar classic
‘The Vikings’
The Vikings. USA, 1957 (112 minutes). Directed by Richard Fleischer. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh.
Adventure filmmaking in the 1950s wasn’t about tying one spectacular sequence to another. Those were the times when cinema was alive thanks to directors like Richard Fleischer, creator of memorable works like Tragic Saturday or Criminal Impulse. The Vikings breathes epic and adventurous breath thanks to the staging of its author, who strives to delve into the corners of the picture, creating constant visual icons. The presence of Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis complete a masterpiece.
16.25 / Hollywood
‘Happy Feet’
USA-Australia, 2006 (103 minutes). Directed by George Muller.
In the 1980s, George Miller swept across screens with three episodes of Mad Max. He later changed careers with the wonderful Babe, the brave little pig. And after eight years of film silence, he returned with this fun 3D animated film that delves into a community of singing penguins, including a little penguin who can’t sing but turns out to be an excellent dancer. From his hand, Miller launches a proclamation in favor of difference and the search for personality. Ideal for children.
16.05 / Movistar cinema Ñ
‘The hunt’
Spain, 1965 (83 minutes). Directed by Carlos Saura. Actors: Ismael Merlo, José Maria Prada, Alfredo Mayo, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba.
Few young fans today look at the work of Carlos Saura. Even less La caza, one of his debut films, which still stands as an important film in the history of Spanish cinema, one to look back on with pleasure, especially in times of frivolous and banal films. Saura managed to circumvent censorship to create a brutal metaphor for Spain at the time: the hunt invites us to descend into hell in the form of an allegory of violence and animality. Four friends who go to a limited farm to hunt rabbits will explode in a climate of bitter tension, expressed through Luis Cuadrado’s amazing photography and through the actors’ extraordinary work.
20.00 / Teleport
King’s Cup: Oviedo – Atlético Madrid
The Carlos Tartiere stadium is the scene of the clash between Oviedo and Atlético de Madrid in their Copa del Rey round of 16 match. Oviedo play at their stadium after beating Granada in their last clash, while Atlético come to play after beating Arenteiro.
22.00 / TCM
‘Red Jim’
The bare spur. USA, 1953 (95 minutes). Directed by Anthony Mann. Cast: James Stewart, Janet Leigh, Robert Ryan.
It’s not unreasonable to call Mann the finest Western director in history, even above John Ford. No one has managed to express the depth of the genre so fully, embrace its landscapes with such intensity, and embody the visual laconicism to raise to a style figure. Colorado Jim is a traveling western that brings three characters together and sends them on a perilous route to create a lesson in narrative complexity resolved with offending simplicity.
22.00 / 1
The music of ‘Benidorm Fest Stars’ arrives
TVE recreates the spirit of the first edition of the Benidorm Fest, held last January, with Benidorm Fest Stars, a program presented by Alaska in which the participants in the Spanish preselection for Eurovision remember the songs they performed with and will discover their new jobs. On stage are Varry Brava, Marta Sango, Xeinn, Unique, Sara Deop and Azúcar Moreno, among others. To end the party, Chanel will perform SloMo, the song that brought Spain third place in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, held in Turin last May.
22.30 / Neox
‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’
United States, 2005 (157 minutes). Director: Mike Newell. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Ralph Fiennes.
Harry Potter’s fourth adventure delves into dark images. The magician has grown and with it the dark tone of his adventures. The film does not skimp on the spectacle, but also goes into its characters and creates narrative density. And this part accumulates events: Harry competes against the young wizards of Europe in the Triwizard tournament; Lord Voldemort seems to have returned; The Death Eaters appear…
22.50 / Telecinco
Premiere of the miniseries ‘Sissi’
Sisi (Dominique Devenport, left) and Emperor Franz (Jannik Schümann, right) get closer for the first time after an emotional battle of words in the forest. The use of the program-related material is only permitted with the reference and link to TVNOW. Louis Zeno Kuhn
The legendary Empress Sissi is revived in a two-part miniseries offered by Telecinco tonight and tomorrow, Thursday. In 19th-century Europe, Elisabeth of Austria presented herself as a modern woman, ahead of her time and with many facets. A blockbuster set in imperial Austria and filmed on locations in Lithuania and Latvia, including a re-creation of the Hofburg Palace in Vienna.
22.50 / Four
Another Part of The Good Doctor
This week’s episode of The Good Doctor proposes new predicaments for its characters. This part tells how Salen goes to extremes after finding out that the hospital’s operating room staff had killed Dr. Assisted Audrey Lim in fighting her. Meanwhile, doctors treat a transplant patient who unknowingly received an organ with cancer.
23.30 / TCM
“The Last Temptation of Christ”
The Last Temptation of Christ. USA, 1988 (164 minutes). Director: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey.
At that time, this work by Scorsese had to face a gigantic controversy, although the underlying novel by Nikos Kazantzakis was published in the 50s without scandal. Scorsese recreates the final weeks of Jesus Christ’s life through dense and dark imagery that respects religious iconography but delves into the human dimension of a suffering and confused character as he tries to understand the inevitability of his fate.
0.05 / Sun Dance
‘alice’
USA, 1990 (102 minutes). Director: Woody Allen. Cast: Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna.
A fantastic comedy format, Woody Allen’s twentieth film is based on his usual obsessions. The protagonist replaces the psychoanalyst’s couch with an oriental doctor’s office, which supplies her with herbs that make her invisible. Thus begins an amusing story that oscillates between bouts of hidden acidity.
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