4.15 p.m. / Movistar Classics
“My Girl’s Beast”
raise baby. USA 1938 (103 minutes). Director: Howard Hawks. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant.
Howard Hawks, the total filmmaker. Masters of film noir (The Everlasting Dream) and western (Río Bravo) and able to capture the sources of comedy with the simplicity of geniuses in this majestic work. Hawks accumulates gags at such a frenetic pace that it’s almost insane, but he knows how to master them thanks to millimeter-precise, majestic, impeccable staging.
10.17 / Movistar Ciñe Ñ
“The Dog in the Manger”
Spain, 1995 (104 minutes). Director: Pilar Miró. Cast: Emma Suarez, Carmelo Gomez, Miguel Rellán, Ana Duato.
Many producers were afraid of the audacity of Pilar Miró, who desperately wanted to transfer Lope de Vega’s verses to the screen. This latest film from the well-known director faced serious financial problems, but in the end, viewers were not intimidated and responded enthusiastically, and the film received seven Goya Awards. “The Dog in the Manger” is an exercise in good cinematic taste, supported by a superb cast of actors who make the lyrics shine, adapted by Rafael Pérez Sierra.
10.17 / Movistar drama
‘The Age of Innocence’
The age of innocence. USA, 1993 (133 minutes). Director: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder.
Scorsese strolls through New York again, but this time traveling back in time to 1870. And while he distances himself from urban environments, he returns to his recurring themes: the guilt complex, love obsession and the burden of tradition. The Age of Innocence dissects a hideous and corrupt society ruled by the principle of double standards and whose characters must experience a love story that is both painful and passionate. An amazing work with an inexhaustible poetic breath that allows the filmmaker to create a meticulous staging in which every frame, every image, flows like an irresistible visual enchantment.
19.00 / Odyssey
“The Pandemic Factory with Juliette Binoche”
The broadcaster Odyssey premieres the documentary series “The Pandemic Factory” starring Juliette Binoche, in which the actress explores the world of factors that explain the emergence of infectious diseases. In this production, he will speak to various scientists studying the consequences of biodiversity destruction on the spread of new pathogens. The solution will only be possible if it is guided by the idea of ”planetary health”.
20.05 / MCT
“yakuza”
USA, 1975 (112 minutes). Directed by Sydney Pollack. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Takakura Ken, Keiko Kishi.
Robert Mitchum returns to Tokyo, where he lived in the post-war period. There he will rediscover betrayal and almost-forgotten loves in a dry, scathing thriller that hides behind its action film appearance a profound portrait of characters for whom integrity is paramount and unknowingly confronted with a painful past and an inevitable conflict . of cultures.
21.25 / The 2
Essentials, starring Mario Camus
According to cinema, the documentary Mario Camus says goodbye to the season of the Essentials room. Directed by Sigfrid Monleón, the film includes the director’s testimony, shot in the last year of his life. A work that brings together complete sequences and fragments from the author’s cinema to create a portrait of his work as a filmmaker.
21.30 / DMAX
The daily work of Seprona
DMAX releases a new episode of the documentary series ‘Seprona in Action’, which follows the work of members of the Civil Guard’s Conservation Service. Among other things, this week the series shows agents investigating the macabre pet cemetery of some brothers. They also examine trucks full of stolen items and approach a subject dumping garbage in a creek that empties into the sea.
22.00 / SyFy
“King Kong”
USA-New Zealand, 2005 (180 minutes). Director: Peter Jackson. Cast: Naomi Watts, Adrien Brody, Jack Black.
After the recent disaster in Kong: Skull Island, it’s time to revisit Peter Jackson’s approach to the mythical film icon. The director fulfilled a personal dream with a mammoth film that is undoubtedly over the top, but which contains an opening hour of exemplary footage that revisits the aesthetics of classic cinema. While the film spirals into excess after the appearance of the giant gorilla, its imagery reflects Jackson’s love for his story and an accurate portrayal of characters drawn with unprecedented ease.
22.20 / DARK
‘fragile’
Spain, 2005 (100 minutes). Directed by Jaume Balaguero. Actors: Calista Flockhart, Elena Anaya, Richard Roxburgh.
Director Jaume Balagueró’s third foray into horror cinema plunges into the depths of fear with an aggressive story dominated by the filmmaker with an iron fist, locked in a sinister children’s hospital where strange events take place and a new nurse who hides a painful one takes in Secret. Balagueró masters the codes of the genre with ease, creating more than vivid images and knowing how to amaze without fuss. His masterpiece REC, which he co-directed with Paco Plaza, was released two years later.
10:30 p.m. / Sixth
Jordi Evole interviews Pedro Sanchez
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One month before the general elections, Lo de Évole will receive current Prime Minister and PSOE candidate Pedro Sánchez. The President will address issues such as the relationship he has with his government partners, Vox’s ability to get its message across to the working class, its value as an opponent of Feijóo and the pacts with Bildu and ERC. Jordi Évole interviews Sánchez at a symbolic site of socialism: the Casa Labra restaurant, the place where the PSOE was secretly founded in 1879.
22.40 / WE ARE
“Half the Sky”
Spain, 1985 (120 minutes). Directed by Manuel Gutierrez Aragon. Cast: Angela Molina, Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Margarita Lozano.
The plot of La mitad del cielo is shaped by the vicissitudes of a mother who leaves her rural surroundings for post-war Madrid. But this capital film hides much more: a kind of magic in which opinions split and reality and fantasy merged. Thus, a memorable Margarita Lozano, grandmother and witch, lets her spirits in through the cracks of an unforgettable story.
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