2:00 p.m. / MCT
“Encounters in the Third Phase”
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. USA, 1977 (125 minutes). Directed by Steven Spielberg. Interpreters.: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr.
It’s stimulating to look back at Spielberg in the 1970s. He was not yet the guru of commercial cinema, in which over time he has limited its forms and content. For this reason, Encounters of the Third Kind remains one of his most intimate films: Spielberg delivers a fresh take on alien cinema, filtered through the grand spectacle, yes, but also grown-up and intrigued, delivering a compelling film with careful dramatic development.
14.45 / Be crazy
‘Abyss’
The abyss. United States, 1989 (130 minutes). Directed by James Cameron. Cast: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn.
True to his obsession with technology in cinema and twenty years before filming Avatar, James Cameron had already revolutionized the world of special effects with Abyss. A gripping underwater adventure in which Cameron exudes a suffocating sense of staging to narrate the rescue of a sunken nuclear submarine. A cinematic journey between nightmare and magic, toning down the story’s sentimental elements to encourage a solid portrayal of characters on the fringe.
16.15 / MCT
“Two Ride Together”
Two ride together. United States, 1961 (109 minutes). Director: John Ford. Cast: James Stewart, Richard Widmark, Shirley Jones.
Framed between a masterpiece, Mision de audacious, and an unforgettable hymn to the death of Western myth, The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance, the great John Ford knew how to deliver another memorable film. Two ride together, one of the works in which the filmmaker invested greater dramatic depth, provides a collection of beautiful sequences to follow an officer and a sheriff’s journey into Native American territory. Among all his images, the very long single shot showing the two protagonists in conversation in the river is still incredibly rich: one of the most emotional and captivating moments in the maestro’s cinema.
17.15 / Movistar classic
“The Fall of the Roman Empire”
The fall of the Roman Empire. USA, 1964 (188 minutes). Directed by Anthony Mann. Cast: Alec Guinness, James Mason, Sophia Loren.
After the death of Marcus Aurelius, Rome began its decline. A gripping film produced by Samuel Bronston and directed by Maestro Anthony Mann in the last years of his life, serving an intense and emotional story surrounded by an all-star cast.
17.35 / Movistar cinema Ñ
“As Long as the War Lasts”
Spain, 2019 (103 minutes). Directed by Alejandro Amenabar. Cast: Karra Elejalde, Eduard Fernández, Santi Prego.
Amenábar offers an example of a cinema that analyzes history to try to understand the present from understanding the past. Its slow, almost languid narration finds impeccable accommodation in a mise-en-scène that emphasizes the dramatic use of close-up. Beneath all this, the character of Unamuno, contradictory but always monumental, fills a story sustained by a staging that is as slow as it is precise.
17.45 / #0
“Manchester by the Sea”
Manchester by the Sea, USA 2016 (137 minutes). Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Cast: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Lucas Hedges.
Achieve the highest intensity from the greatest expressive austerity. This is the stylistic commitment of an unfathomable film of uncommon depth, about the inner pain of a man devastated by a dramatic past and the weight of guilt.
20.00 / Telecinco
New competition: “Chain Reaction”
Ion Aramendi presents the Reaction on Chain Contest, a new bet from Telecinco. Dissolving strings of words with a relationship that connects them is the challenge that the two participating teams will face. After surviving five games with this thread running through them, they compete in the “Winning Complicity” test, which decides which of the two teams takes the money accumulated so far and competes again the next day.
22.05 / The 2nd
‘Dr. Zhivago’
USA, 1965 (190 minutes). Directed by David Lean. Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger, Geraldine Chaplin.
There are films that are beyond good and evil and the master David Lean has more than one in his filmography. Doctor Zhivago has become an undeniable classic, all the more so as the years pass and examples of banal and pretentious cinema enthrone. The love and vital adventures experienced by Yuri Zhivago during the Russian Revolution become unforgettable thanks to Lean’s ability to transcend soap opera rules and achieve the difficult fusion of intimacy and spectacularity between offbeat poetic outbursts. The multi-faceted and secure staging is a compendium of cinematic wisdom and immerses the viewer in the passion of unleashed characters who face a hostile world.
22.30 / Paramount Channel
shame
United Kingdom (100 minutes). Director: Steve McQueen. Cast: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie.
The now-exalted director of 12 Years a Slave follows in the footsteps of a sex addict in a film he soon turns into a metaphor for an empty and dehumanized society. The problem with Shame is that he plays with a very slight dramatic progression and, while he achieves high-intensity sequences, his intentions are too flashy and his language too imposed on his images.
22.45 / antenna 3
Another appointment with the series ‘Brothers’
Turkish series Brothers proposes new conflicts for its characters in tonight’s episode. Among his actions, he recounts how Orhan grabs a gun while Sengül calls the police. On the other hand, Nebahat is angry and asks Akif for a divorce when she finds out that Kaan is her son. Kaan, on the other hand, has no place to stay and suffers greatly.
22.50 / Four
New appointment with ‘Ruiz Mateos’ driver’
In the second part of this documentary series, Víctor de la Cruz tells the details of the open war that José María Ruiz-Mateos waged with Miguel Boyer, Minister of Economy, Finance and Trade in the first government of Felipe González. In addition, de la Cruz assures that “La Guerrilla”, Ruiz-Mateos’ trusted group, orchestrated a secret campaign that managed to convert the fugitive from justice into a member of the European Parliament in 1989 and tells how after Success in the European elections, the Ruiz Mateos group ran in national and regional elections.
23.30 / 13th street
‘Hanna’
US-UK, 2011 (110 minutes). Director: Joe Wright. Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander.
Hanna is a deadly teenage hitman whom Joe Wright takes on in a kind of fairy tale in order to make her the epitome of innocence. A stunning Saoirse Ronan appropriates the character with surprising adequacy, amid some stunning imagery covered by The Chemical Brothers’ music.
0.30/1
‘Wrath of the Titans’
Battle of the titans. USA, 2010 (110 minutes). Directed by Louis Letterrier. Cast: Sam Worthington, Mads Mikkelsen, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes.
A contemporary remake of the 1981 classic in which Ray Harryhausen demonstrated his mastery of stop motion (frame-by-frame motion capture). Applied modesty is turning into digital turmoil in 2010, albeit with dramatic restraint.
0.35 / neox
“Train to Busan”
bus trailer South Korea, 2016 (118 minutes). Director: Yeon Sang-ho. Cast: Gong Yoo, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Soo-han.
There are still surprises in zombie movies. Train to Busan shines with a furious staging full of visual impulses and a screenplay of unusual precision to tell the horrific adventures experienced by a group of characters gathered on a bullet train haunted by the living dead.
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