Film Day offers three very different films. A classic comedy like “Bringing Up Baby,” an excited and amoral thriller like “Heat,” and Tarantino’s take on the Western like “Django Unchained.” In La Sexta, the special Apatrullando la Navidad brings together Jelis de la Serna with the Italian Zazza to attend various festivals. In addition, new dates with Forged in Fire arrive at Mega.
'Heat'
1:20 p.m., TCM
USA, 1995 (163 minutes). Director: Michael Mann. Actors: Robert de Niro, Al Pacino, Val Kilmer.
Next to “The Dilemma”, Michael Mann is making perhaps his most complete film. A frenetic and exuberant thriller, filmed with austere spectacularity and enhanced by the work of its actors. In addition, it is the first time that Al Pacino and Robert de Niro will share the screen. Now only in one sequence and in a strict opposite view that never shows them together in the picture. At that moment the film explodes.
“My Girl’s Beast”
8:15 p.m., Movistar Classics
Raise baby. USA 1938 (103 minutes). Directed by Howard Hawks. Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant.
If there is such a thing as a total filmmaker, it's none other than Howard Hawks. Master of film noir (The Big Sleep) and western (Río Bravo) and able to capture all sources of comedy in this majestic work. Hawks piles up gags at such a hectic pace that it all comes close to madness, but he knows how to control them thanks to millimeter-perfect staging.
New chapters of “Forged in Fire”
9 p.m., mega
Atresmedia's themed channel presents new episodes of Forged by Fire, the format in which four specialized blacksmiths compete against each other in the manufacture of swords and weapons of all kinds. In Forged in Fire, participants take on the program's recognized challenges such as forging Napoleon's saber, the knife sword, the namagaki or the falchion.
Conflicting Christmas with Zazza, the Italian
10:30 p.m., sixth
laSexta is presenting the special “Apatrullando la Navidad” for the first time with Jalis de la Serna and Zazza el Italian, one of the world's best-known YouTubers for his reports in conflict areas. The program goes to places where the Three Wise Men parades are not held and the streets are not full of lights. Or when it does happen, it doesn't happen as usual. These are places where Christmas is experienced in an atypical way.
'Django Unchained'
10.50 p.m., 1
Django Unchained. USA, 2012 (165 minutes). Director: Quentin Tarantino. Actors: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Tarantino signs on for the spaghetti western. As always, he is an expert hunter of film references and insists on recycling elements of popular culture. And in Django Unchained he combines the best and the worst of his cinema: a particular rhythm management in the dialogues and an undeniable visual power coexist with a love of excess that works through accumulation and eliminates dramatic rigor. His vision of the West is ironic and facetious, and the farcical tone takes its toll on a film that also accumulates an excessive amount of footage.
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