15.00 / Movistar Classic
“The Fourth Commandment”
The great Ambersons. USA, 1942 (88 minutes). Directed by Orson Welles. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead.
A year after the undisputed Citizen Kane, Orson Welles shot this memorable masterpiece in which he was not responsible for the final editing, manipulated by the production company RKO with cuts and additions that the author did not intend. However, the grandeur, the depth, the density of her images manage to keep all their magic intact: a reflection on the appearance of progress in a stagnant society that causes the rise of a new social structure in which a group of people move fascinating, deep and ambivalent characters. A monumental work, as tragic as it is hopeless.
15.25 / TNT
‘Invictus’
United States, 2009 (134 minutes). Director: Clint Eastwood. Cast: Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge.
In 1995, the Rugby World Cup served as the death certificate for apartheid in South Africa. Clint Eastwood approaches the character of Mandela to produce a film which, while not among his greatest works, is aided by model work by Morgan Freeman, transformed into the South African leader.
15.30 / Movistar drama
‘Traffic’
USA, 2000 (147 minutes). Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Cast: Michael Douglas, Benicio del Toro, Don Cheadle, Catherine Zeta Jones.
In Traffic there are several parallel plots, told by Steven Soderberg with an electrical impulse. Among them, the one starring Benicio del Toro stands out as a Mexican police officer with a rigid code of honor that oscillates between bribes, confidentialities and personal regrets. A spasmodic mosaic of images that culminates in a lyrical finale amidst the bitter aftertaste of a sordid and suffocating story.
17.20 / Sun Dance
‘August’
August. USA, 2013 (120 minutes). Directed by John Wells. Cast: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts. Sam Shepard.
The creator of memorable shows like ER and Shameless, John Wells, appears in this adaptation of Tracy Letts’ work, 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner, as a demanding filmmaker and family with the vital help of a group of excellent interpreters.
19.30 / The 2
The Canon of Civil War Books, on ‘Page 2’
Óscar López interviews the writer Esther López Barceló, who has just published her new novel Cuando ya no queda nadie in Alicante. In addition, in this episode, Página 2 dedicates itself to the theme of death, present in a large part of universal literature, and talks about it with writers such as Ray Loriga and Elvira Navarro. He will also raise the issue of literary debuts with Víctor Balcells and Cristina Araújo, the recent Tusquets Prize winner. On the other hand, a canon of Civil War books is outlined.
20.10 / TCM
“Philadelphia Stories”
The Philadelphia Story. USA, 1940 (112 minutes). Directed by George Cukor. Cast: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart.
George Cukor delivers yet another flawless comedy. And he does it with simple tricks: a staid heiress who is getting married, an ex-husband who wants to prevent this, and a journalist who is right in the middle. Philadelphia Stories was born from the personal efforts of Katharine Hepburn, owner of the rights to the play that inspired it: the actress put through the names of the screenwriter, the director and her two co-stars. Cukor, with transparency as the supreme style figure, subtly poisoned sharp arrows against the press, the new rich and the farce of social appearance.
21.45 / antenna 3
“El Hormiguero” welcomes Belén Cuesta and Jaime Lorente
Tonight, the set of El Hormiguero features guest performers Belén Cuesta and Jaime Lorente. Both will talk about their recent work as protagonists of one of the most anticipated series, Cristo y Rey, which has already premiered on AtresPlayer Premium. It is a fiction based on the media couple Ángel Cristo and Bárbara Rey in the eighties.
22.00 / Hollywood
‘The punch’
The thorn. USA, 1973 (115 minutes). Directed by George Roy Hill. Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw.
Four years after the memorable Two Men and One Fate, its director, George Roy Hill, reunited Paul Newman and Robert Redford to turn them into two high-profile con men. The coup is set in favor of the retro fashion trend that swept through American cinema in the early 1970s; Furthermore, it capitalizes on the chemistry that the two actors exuded and has a juicy script that piles up humorous situations and develops constant twists that shake up the story.
22.05 / Comedy Central
‘Evolution’
USA, 2001 (100 minutes). Directed by Ivan Reitman. Cast: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Orlando Jones.
A meteor falls in the California desert. The effects it will evoke will be as picturesque as it is humorous, and it is that it emits a strange liquid inhabited by microbes that are rapidly evolving, creating an alien ecosystem. The army takes action and prepares for battle. All this accompanied by the clumsiness of some cartoon characters. The comedy is conventional but entertaining and the cast keeps it solid.
22.25 / DARK
‘The curse’
Ju further. Japan, 2002 (92 minutes). Director: Takashi Shimizu. Cast: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Yui Ichikawa.
After the whiplash of Hideo Nakata’s The Ring, The Curse is perhaps the film that best represents the spirit of recent oriental horror films. Hardly shrill beneath seemingly icy imagery, works conceal shivers that reach the viewer’s deepest horrors. This unclassifiable film is based on a situation familiar to any good fan: a house where horrible crimes appear to have been committed is haunted by horrific ghosts and anyone who enters dies without reparation. What’s really great about The Curse is that in an amazing first part it literally paralyzes the plot to show the same sequence of events with different characters. In some sequences in which sheer terror strikes, the viewer feels that although they know what is about to happen, they cannot avoid experiencing terror.
22.45 / four
Traveling with Chester is on the road again
In the return of Traveling with Chester, Risto Mejide moves to different locations along with his sofa. Mejide will speak to the former President of Barcelona, Sandro Rosell, the art collector Tita Cervera, the writer and journalist Máximo Huerta, the musician Ara Malikian or the transgressive artist Samantha Hudson, among others. Tonight, in the first part of the program, he welcomes Cayetano Martínez de Irujo and Mai Meneses.
22.50 / 1st
Julia Otero returns with Days of TV
Julia Otero returns to TVE with Días de tele, a program that will cover iconic television moments that have shaped Spanish society over the last 50 years. The space will have as its starting point an event with great televised impact, which will serve as a starting point for the treatment of other related topics affecting all sectors of society: sport, culture, economy, consumption, science or entertainment. Together with the journalist Julia Otero, she will be accompanied by the humorist and podcaster Carolina Iglesias, the professor of communication sciences José Miguel Contreras and the journalist Pablo González Batista.
0.05 / The 2nd
Europe’s digital future
The TV Documents section presents the Digital Europe report. A work that analyzes one of the great challenges facing the continent, its digital future, on which its competitiveness and independence depend. Digitization is powered by data and from the applications that are used every day to social networks, all interactions happen through data transmitted through undersea cables and stored in vast infrastructures, high-tech data centers, of those that are distributed in the whole world. It is the basis of all activities in the digital world. However, Europe has a problem: Most of the data is collected and managed by American and Chinese technology groups. 75% of the capital of digital platforms is in the hands of American companies, 21% in Chinese and only 4% in European ones.
1.20/AMC
“Legitimate Protection”
The Rainmaker. USA, 1997 (130 minutes). Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Cast: Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes.
Coppola does the impossible: adapt a leaden bestseller by John Grisham and make a good film. With the plot premise of a young paralegal facing a troubling court case, the teacher creates a gripping, acidic film in which he lashes out at corruption, the cult of careerism and worthlessness. The staging sparkles with creativity and the intensity of the story grows by the minute. A chime at the end.
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