10.00 / The 2
“Agrosphere” turns 25
Dedicated to the rural world, the program celebrates a quarter of a century of life. There are almost 2,000 programs that have been broadcast to spread the word about what is happening in the Spanish countryside. Agrosfera celebrates this anniversary with a special delivery focusing on how farming, livestock, fisheries, food, rural tourism and rural development have changed over the last 25 years.
2 p.m. / Movistar LaLiga and DAZN
Four games on football day
Today’s football day includes four games, starting at 2:00 p.m. with the clash between Girona and Cádiz, which will be broadcast by DAZN. The confrontation between Valencia and Elche comes later, broadcast by Movistar LaLiga at 4:15 p.m. Mallorca and Seville, for their part, compete at 6.30 p.m. in a duel broadcast by DAZN. The day ends with the match between Athletic and Atlético de Madrid at 21:00 in front of the Movistar LaLiga cameras.
18.20 / Movistar promotion
‘The last man’
The last man standing. USA, 1996 (100 minutes). Director: Walter Hill. Cast: Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern.
A great success from Walter Hill, in which the filmmaker regained the pulse of his first films of the seventies, works of the magnitude of The Fighter, Driver and The Warriors. Hill crafts a devious adaptation of the classic crime thriller Red Harvest, adopting the Western’s narrative and visual modes to create an all-black story punctuated by sudden outbursts of violence. The Last Man follows in the footsteps of a gunslinger who works for the highest bidder but, deep down, always enforces his own law. A rigorous staging underpins a film that is as surprising as it is innovative.
19.00 / TCM
‘The hunter’
The deer hunter. USA, 1978 (175 minutes). Directed by Michael Cimino. Cast: Robert de Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage.
In Vietnam, life depends on a single shot. Like that of the deer attacked by Robert de Niro on his hunt. Everything reeks of ephemerality in this devastating film that follows a group of friends as they face the death of dreams; Friends who embrace their roots, their traditions, men who ritualize their actions to seek their identity and hold on to themselves and their feelings they know are fragile. The war will destroy their lives. It all hits in this masterpiece, which travels through idyllic terrain for the first hour of footage, only to later explode in a wild wave of anger and despair.
7.30 p.m. / The 1
‘My Uncle Hyacinth’
Spain, 1956 (86 minutes). Director: Ladislaus Vajda. Cast: Antonio Vico, Pablito Calvo, Jose Marco Davo, Miguel Gila, Jose Isbert.
In an excellent example of how to shoot a melodrama with a child without falling into sentimentality, Ladislao Vajda shows that he was a filmmaker capable of turning a sugar-sweet story like An Angel Passed Through Brooklyn into a model to transform or to pulverize the Spanish cinema of the fifties with a terrible work like The Bait. In Mi Uncle Jacinto he brings together an orphan and an extorero in a tale with a costumbrista tone, yes, but in which he reveals a devastating vision of the Madrid of scoundrels and bootleggers, culminating in an outcome of unusual bitterness.
21.00 / DMAX
The daily work of police officers
The best real cases involving Spanish agents can still be seen in the documentary series 091: Police Alert. This week’s installment follows law enforcement as they unravel a drug-trafficking conspiracy hiding behind the facade of a training center in Leganés. In addition, La Brigada Móvil agents are checking the surveillance cameras of several city buses to identify a group of pickpockets.
21.30 / Movistar cinema Ñ
‘my aunt’
Spain, 1986 (100 minutes). Director: Jose Luis Borau. Interpreters: Imperio Argentina, Alfredo Landa, Carmen Maura, Xabier Elorriaga, Miguel Rellán.
A comedy with melodramatic flavors in which Borau shows his talent for narrative rhythm changes and for combining genres. Subtle humor permeates the story, but what matters most are the experiences and passions of a lovable cast of characters led by an Argentine empire that Borau has regained after many years of being absent from screens.
21.30 / The 1
“Weekly Report” analyzes the situation of the CGPJ
The Blockade in Justice report opens this week’s content of the weekly report. A work that analyzes the situation of the General Council of the Judiciary after the resignation of Carlos Lesmes. Later, The Genius in His Labyrinth airs, a report in which the program accompanies filmmaker Tim Burton to the Prado Museum to observe El Bosco’s Garden of Earthly Delights.
21.40 / The sixth
Premiere of ‘laSexta Xplica’
José Yélamo presents the new program laSexta Xplica, which replaces laSexta noche. The space aims to transmit the keys to current events in a simple and educational way, and to do so will use different analysts and experts, innovative audiovisual formats and languages and the most advanced technical means. In addition, the audience present on the set will participate by sharing their experiences and submitting their questions.
22.00 / Paramount Channel
‘Limit: 48 hours’
48 hours. United States, 1982 (90 minutes). Director: Walter Hill. Int.: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O’Toole.
Walter Hill opened the eighties with two emblematic films, The Prey and Outlaws of Legend, to continue this work with lighter intentions. Lightly handled thriller that follows the mutual adventures of a cop and a criminal. You have to blame him: He made the alleged actor Eddie Murphy a star.
11:40 p.m. / Hollywood
‘The Golden’
USA, 1967 (120 minutes). Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan.
In 1966, the heroes of Howard Hawk’s characters were on the brink of old age, weary, wounded if not defeated, surviving with dignity and clinging to the laws of the old west. In his penultimate film, Hawks no longer filmed the open spaces of Hatari!, since El Dorado moves only in streets and indoors. And it iconicizes the friendship between the incorruptible John Wayne and the inebriated Robert Mitchum, while Hawks longs for the classic western. It’s a West that’s about to go away; Just three years later, Sam Peckinpah would blow it up in Wild Group.
23.45 / The 2
“Theme Night”: Risks of Pesticides and Insecticides
The documentary film Pesticides: Slow Poison opens the content of the theme night. A work that follows the studies of toxicologist Laurence Huc, a specialist in the relationship between cancer and chemical products and coordinator of a network of 16 laboratories and 50 scientists studying the dangers of pesticides. Later, the program broadcasts Insecticides, License to Kill, which examines how Western Europe has lost 75% of its invertebrate population since 1990. Blame is said to be a new class of super insecticides: neonicotinoids, a chemical concentration that targets seeds directly.
23.45 / Movistar classic
‘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 film Two Men and a Destiny, its director, George Roy Hill, reunited Paul Newman and Robert Redford to turn them into two high-level con men. The punch speaks to the retro fashion current that reigned in 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 twists that turn the story on its head.
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