14.35 / Movistar cinema Ñ
“Death of a Cyclist”
Spain, 1955 (90 minutes). Directed by Juan Antonio Bardem. Cast: Alberto Closas, Lucia Bosé.
Death of a Cyclist remains one of the main films in the history of Spanish cinema. Even more: From today’s perspective, it is an example of modernity. And not only because Juan Antonio Bardem develops his story with exemplary dramatic intensity and creates a staging of unusual formal depth in which every picture is charged with expressiveness, but also because it still maintains the radical nature of his portrait of an ossified society always disturbing, proud, their provincial spirit, their meanness and their double standards.
17.30 / Be crazy
“The Bridge on the River Kwai”
United Kingdom, 1957 (154 minutes). Directed by David Lean. Cast: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins.
Although the debate about the union of quality and commerciality is still open, possible solutions do not come from Spielberg. They were pioneered by David Lean almost 60 years ago in works such as The Bridge on the River Kwai. A turbulent war drama in which he uses an epic story that brings together English and American soldiers in a Japanese concentration camp who are forced to build a bridge; As they do so, they plan how to destroy it. Lean transcends its story to transform its blockbuster into an intimate and valuable narrative.
17.35 / Movistar drama
‘A true story’
The Straight Story. USA, 1999 (107 minutes). Directed by David Lynch. Cast: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton.
Some felt that the great David Lynch changed registers in this simple yet moving fable. He just changed the packaging. His luminous images follow in the footsteps of an old man who rides a lawnmower 500 kilometers to visit his dying brother. Using minimal elements, Lynch develops an overwhelming story that, like almost all of his works, delves into the dark realms of man in search of his identity, which emerges from a bevy of random events.
18.05 / WE ARE
‘Guantanamera’
Cuba-Spain, 1994 (102 minutes). Director: Tomás Gutierrez Alea. Cast: Jorge Perugorria, Mirta Ibarra, Carlos Cruz.
A social satire wrapped in a romantic comedy. Or a love story walking alongside a political portrait. Guantanamera combines both intentions. It’s a film that’s as funny as it is critical, in which a truck and a funeral procession share a journey and adventure for a thrifty government plan to transport the dead.
18.35 / Movistar Classic
‘Cylinder’
Cylinder. USA, 1935 (98 minutes). Director: Markus Sandrich. Cast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Norton.
An undeniable classic of American musical comedy of the 1930s and an unavoidable reference in the careers of Astaire and Rogers. Top Hat is the best of the five films starring the couple and directed by Mark Sandrich for RKO. With minimal argumentative apology, the story threads together unrepeatable musical numbers springing from the talent of Irving Berlin and the choreography of Astaire himself. A pleasure, even for the most genre-averse viewers.
19.45 / The 2
Antonio Resines, in “Warning Works”
Cayetana Guillén Cuervo interviews the actor Antonio Resines who, after overcoming the Covid and one of the most difficult periods of his life, has returned to cinema and television. The Academy of Performing Arts of Spain awards him the Extraordinary Prize Talía Vuelta a la Vida on March 27th. In addition, the program focuses on one of last season’s standout productions, Malvivir, reviews the latest album by brothers Iván and Amaro Ferreiro, and stops at the latest album by legendary British band Depeche Mode.
22.00 / The 2
A study of the importance of rivers
This episode of The Flux Capacitor will discover how closely human history is linked to rivers. The program will show its use as a frontier by the Roman Empire, it will examine the terrain of sea monsters, it will explain what the carved rocks known as “hunger stones” are and it will travel to Murcia to learn all about the Santa Teresa tell flood.
22.00 / channel 24 hours
Special program on the motion of censure
Tonight, Canal 24 Horas launches a new image and renews its graphics and set. This is done with a special no-confidence motion program. Directed by Xabier Fortes, it starts at 22:00 on La 1, Canal 24 Horas and RTVE Play (from 22:55 it will be broadcast exclusively on Canal 24 Horas) and will be accompanied by Esther Palomera, Chema Crespo and Jose María Brunet, Javier García Vila, May Mariño and Pablo Simón to analyze the debate and the subsequent vote.
22.00 / Hollywood
‘Murder 1, 2, 3’
Murder by Numbers. USA, 2002 (120 minutes). Director: Barbet Schroeder. Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ben Chaplin.
Barbet Schroeder twists the thriller’s codes in this intrigue, retitled a pathetic Spanish title, that deals with the evil of two young people who seem straight out of Hitchcock’s The Rope: they murder a random victim in order to commit a perfect crime accomplish . This creates a macabre conflict between the two subjects and the agent investigating the case.
22.05 / 1
In “The Hunt” a body turns up in the river. Guadiana’
The second episode of The Hunt. Guadiana is rich in new intrigues. As tension builds between Sara and Víctor, hampering their investigation, the GEAS team locates the missing girl’s cell phone. The device’s memory will reveal more than one lie. The device’s memory will reveal more than one lie. Soon the agents are faced with a macabre discovery when a dead body turns up in the river bed.
22.05 / AMC
‘The Mercenaries’
United States, 2010 (103 minutes). Director: Sylvester Stallone. Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li.
There’s nothing brings Stallone, Statham, Jet Li and Dolph Lundgren together! And briefly mention Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis. A movie that must be considered a gigantic joke, The Expendables attempts a homage to the action movies of the 1980s (unworthy of congratulations). Here are all his stars, some preserved in formaldehyde, others revived with botox, accompanied by a camera with the dance of San Vito. Even if it’s just for its boldness, it can be fun.
22.45 / antenna 3
Last episode of “The Penultimate and I Go”
The documentary series La penúltima y me voy reaches its final part, in which the soccer player Joaquín shows other moments of his everyday life and his way of taking life “with art”. In this eighth part, among other amusing moments, his wife Susana recounts how passers-by in Seville gasped when they saw her husband walking down the street in his heels.
23.45 / The 2
Time control, in ‘TV Documents’
From prehistory to the present, people have always wanted to know, measure and control time. This is the focus of The Time Factory report, which analyzes the path that led from the Babylonian gnomon, a simple stick stuck into the ground that cast a shadow, which they used to trace the sundials and observed the equinoxes current atomic clock that produces the official world time.
23.50 / TCM
‘Umberto D’
Italy, 1952 (90 minutes). Directed by Vittorio de Sica. Actors: Carlo Battisti, Maria-Pia Castillo, Lia Gennari.
In the years when Vittorio de Sica was making Umberto D, a whole generation of Italians were still struggling to heal from their war wounds. And perhaps this emblematic film is the most heartfelt tribute ever released from a screen. After Ladrón de bicicletas and Milagro en Milán, De Sica delivered his last work fully framed in the neorealist movement, which also became his last collaboration with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini. Umberto D’s transparent images haunt a retired civil servant; Unable to pay the rent, he wanders the Roman streets selling his belongings. In times of imaginary, hectic, distracted cinema, a film like Umberto D, shot in nature and with the support of amateur actors, is an oasis of calm and emotion.
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