13.40 / Movistar Classic
“Two Men in Town”
Deux hommes dans la Ville. France, 1973 (93 minutes). Directed by Jose Giovanni. Cast: Alain Delon, Jean Gabin, Mimsy Farmer, Cecile Vassort.
The author of The Clan of the Marseillaises brings Alain Delon and Jean Gabin together for the last time in this furious plea against the death penalty, which becomes one of the best examples of the level reached by the so-called polars, the French, in the 1970s became film noir. Two Men in a Town is a desperate tale centered around the impossibility of redemption, following in the footsteps of a recently released Delon who is determined to fight the weight of his own past, both of whom are represented in Chief Constable’s place as with his former colleagues.
15.20 / TNT
“Stitches in the Back”
knife out. USA, 2019 (130 minutes). Director: Rian Johnson. Cast: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Chris Evans.
A cheerful reconstruction of Agatha Christie’s universe referentially insatiable in a postmodern example. Meticulous intrigue, like a Russian puppet show, constantly twists the plot and includes comic moments of cheeky glee.
15.50 / Movistar cinema Ñ
‘Sunrise, that’s no small thing’
Spain, 1988 (103 minutes). Directed by Jose Luis Cuerda. Actors: Antonio Resines, José Sazatornil, Cassen, Luis Ciges, Manuel Alexandre.
Spanish cinema cannot boast of too many cult films. Dawn, which is no small feat, has become one of them thanks to an insane narrative depicting a town of utterly bewildered residents. Entangled in farce and surrealism, the film is a hymn to the wildest imagination and an exemplary compendium of sequences that are as absurd as they are humorous.
16.55 / MCT
‘Count on me’
Stand by Me. United States, 1986 (90 minutes). Directed by Rob Reiner. Cast: River Phoenix, Will Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell.
Sometimes it’s handy to remember what life was like when you were 14 years old. Count on Me shows it with amazing simplicity; You just have to accompany four boys who go into the Maine forest and follow the train tracks to find an abandoned body. Counting on me contains some of the most beautiful and candid images of cheesy American cinema of the 1980s. Images born of simplicity, of the warmth of a director’s gaze, of the frankly serious interpretation of four teenage actors… At the same time, the film proposes a nostalgic song mixing heat and bitterness, astonishment and despair: From the looks of the guys from Count on me you can see the certainty that they have very little time left to break into the dirty world of adults.
17.20 / Be crazy
‘bitelchos’
bug juice. USA, 1988 (89 minutes). Directed by Tim Burton. Cast: Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder.
The film that launched the then-unknown Tim Burton to stardom is still a long way off from the screen adaptations of masterpieces like Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood. Burton undoubtedly possesses a visual imagination and is also a risk-taking filmmaker who likes to swim against the current, even when adapting well-loved characters like Batman for the screen. In this case, he proposes a chilling comedy, halfway between homage and parody, in which a disheveled Michael Keaton is a ghost intent on scaring a couple out of a mansion. All this in a climate of hooligans.
18.00 / #0
“Apollo 13”
Apollo 13. USA, 1995 (133 minutes). Directed by Ron Howard. Cast: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris.
The director of Cocoon and A Far Away Horizon creates a top-notch visual spectacle, even if its narrative development is entirely predictable. This is the case of a lab-made film with all the elements of entertainment, where it doesn’t even matter that the viewer knows the outcome beforehand. Understandable commercial cinema that does not hide its tricks and intentions.
18.50 / Movistar promotion
“White Hell”
The grey. United States, 2011 (112 minutes). Directed by Joe Carnahan. Cast: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Frank Grillo.
The almost repressed adventure cinema can also be revived in the hands of nonsense authors such as Hot Aces or The A-Team: Joe Carnahan shows an unexpected narrative intensity when he tells the odyssey of a dark group of subjects who suffer an accident in the USA mountains of Alaska and are being pursued by wolves.
19.15 / BOM
“With him came the scandal”
Home from the hill. USA, 1960 (150 minutes). Directed by Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Eleanor Parker.
A wild southern melodrama in which two brothers are torn between ambition, love and the suffocating weight of a possessive and cruel father. The great Minnelli takes advantage of a torn staging and the actors let their bitter characters beat.
19.30 / Mega
Forged in Fire challenges return
Monday through Friday, the Forged in Fire challenges are returning to Mega. In the new episodes, the participants face the well-known challenges of the program such as forging Napoleon’s saber, the knife sword, the Namagaki or the falchion. Also, Mega also premieres new episodes of Mountain Men, the docu-reality that shows the difficult living conditions of some men who have chosen to live in seclusion in the mountains of the United States.
22.00 / Movistar drama
“All the King’s Men”
All the king’s men. USA, 2006 (120 minutes). Directed by Steven Zaillian. Cast: Sean Penn, Kate Winslet.
It’s true that the distribution of remakes is annoying, but many were outraged by All the King’s Men simply because it was a new version of Robert Rossen’s The Politician. However, Steven Zaillian manages to emphasize the story’s somber tone and handle it with remarkable solvency. An almost utopian story: What would happen if power in the US were in the hands of an idealist? What would happen if you decided to share the wealth and fight corruption? The answers are not optimistic. Perhaps the message of All the King’s Men seems too obvious at this point, but it’s worth remembering: power corrupts.
22.05 / The 2nd
‘Johnny Guitar’
USA, 1954 (108 minutes). Director: Nicolas Ray. Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge.
The passage of time magnifies the figure of perennial protester Nicholas Ray, the tense creator of stormy imagery embodied in majestic films like Seek Your Shelter, Chicago in the 1930s and Rebel Without a Cause. Perhaps Johnny Guitar is the film that most clearly defines Ray’s always passionate style: a memorable, captivating work, a Western that actually hides a torn melodrama that burns the characters in a series of colors that explode with overwhelming intensity; Johnny, Vienna and Emma’s uprooting at the border conveys something like fear, trapped in their bitterness and a past they can never erase. Johnny Guitar contains some of the most emotional sequences that cinema has delivered in its entire history.
22.05 / antenna 3
Another installment in the Brothers series
New conflicts enter the lives of the characters of the Turkish series Brothers. This episode tells how Doruk, Kaan and Oğulcan manage to save Ömer and Asiyeen from the fire. Although he doesn’t know how it happened, Ömer is convinced that Tolga is to blame. On the other hand, Sengul Akif sees and remembers an incident he had with him.
22.30 / DMAX
Monuments of ancient civilizations
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The documentary series Disassembling History approaches the mysteries of the greatest monuments of ancient civilizations. In this week’s issue, you’ll delve into the Red Pyramid of Dahshur, a revolutionary megastructure and the first real pyramid built in ancient Egypt. Later, discover a mysterious Roman settlement buried under the ashes of Mount Vesuvius’ explosion in Pompeii.
22.50 / Four
“Focus”, new reporting program
Cuatro opens the space for investigative reports Focus. The program, which dispenses with the character of the presenter to draw the viewer’s attention to the stories covered, consists of three or four reports of 15 to 20 minutes, prepared by a team of journalists led by Carlos Arévalo . This first part analyzes in different parts the lack of vitamin D that plagues the Spanish population, the history of the controversial religious group Flos Mariae or the work of the union collective of the stevedores.
24.00 / AXN White
‘Samba’
France, 2014 (115 minutes). Directors: Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano. Cast: Omar Sy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tahar Rahim, Izia Higelin.
The directors of the hit Intocable embark on a bigger work, following the converging stories of an undocumented immigrant of Senegalese descent and an executive going through a difficult patch. Between drama and comedy, Samba flows with undeniable fluidity, managing to create a solid narrative framework populated by truthful and close characters.
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