12.55 / Movistar drama
“The Wind That Shakes the Barley”
The wind that shakes the barley. United Kingdom, 2006 (120 minutes). Director: Ken Loach. Cast: Cillian Murphy, Liam Cunningham, Padraic Delaney.
The great Ken Loach travels to Ireland in 1920 to take a heartfelt look at a group of characters forming the banner of the revolutionary struggle against the English. The wind that shakes the barley, a beautiful title taken from a popular song, depicts the struggle for Irish independence, although it takes a step forward halfway: its protagonist, faced with the loss of his dreams, will face his fratricidal struggle, between those who accept independence despite being under the head of state of the King of England, and those who bet on continuing the armed struggle until full independence. The film’s transparent images, in which the sequences flow with an air of simplicity, reveal the essence of Ken Loach’s cinema like few others.
15.35 / MCT
“Mysterious Train”
USA, 1989 (110 minutes). Directed by Jim Jarmusch. Int.: Masathoshi Nagase, Youki Kudoh, Nicoletta Braschi, Cinque Lee, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.
Jim Jarmusch’s early films, before he refined his visual style, were always made up of small gestures, scraps of life. Miracles like Under the Weight of the Law or Strangers in Paradise bear witness to this. Also Mystery Train, in which the director plays with telling three everyday stories that may come together in the last segment of footage. Mystery Train wants to seem like a comedy, but hides a deep reflection on man and coexistence with fate.
16.35 / Movistar cinema Ñ
‘The Miracle of P. Tinto’
Spain, 1998 (102 minutes). Directed by Javier Fesser. Cast: Luis Ciges, Silvia Casanova, Pablo Pinedo, Javier Aller.
Nobody can deny the originality of Javier Fesser’s cinema. The Miracle of Fr. Tinto is a comedy as atypical as it is imaginative: an elderly couple content their prayers to Saint Nicholas with having children; the bad thing is that he does not have a son, but two picturesque Martians. Irregular, yes, but very personal.
17.20 / Movistar Classic
“The Elephant Man”
The Elephant Man, United States, 1980 (125 minutes). Directed by David Lynch. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud.
In 1980, David Lynch was not yet the pre-eminent director of works like Blue Velvet and Wild Heart. But he was a filmmaker of astonishing visual rigor and plenty of narrative wisdom. The Elephant Man is a terrifying film, but also a beautiful one, telling the true story of John Merrick, a brutally deformed man who is shamelessly exploited as a carnival attraction. From his own hand, without cheap sensationalism, Lynch presents the viewer with a grim portrait of human intolerance and cruelty.
18.30 / Be crazy
‘The Prophecy’
The Omen. USA, 1976 (106 minutes). Directed by Richard Donner. Cast: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens.
Several horror film icons were born in the 1970s. Even the British hammer was still alive after its classics of the sixties. Since then, The Prophecy has remained one of the pinnacles of the genre, which was further upgraded after 2006’s insane remake. A diplomat receives word that his wife has given birth to a stillborn child and agrees to replace it with another baby without his – she knows the truth. From that disturbing beginning, The Prophecy maintains a hypnotic sobriety, displaying a compendium of visual resources that incites more fear than any of the guts that caused the genre to degenerate in the years that followed.
18.50 / Sun Dance
‘Perfume’
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. USA-Germany, 2006 (145 minutes). Director: Tom Tykwer. Cast: Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Dustin Hoffman.
The German Tom Tykwer translates Patrick Süskind’s explosive bestseller into pictures. Perfume is a compelling film that rises to the challenge of translating the dense prose of the literary original into images. Tykwer produces images with a bombastic visual style, but also offers a staging of calculated coldness in which the camera exploits attention to detail. So he traces a rough section of human nature around a group of cruel and devastated characters.
19.30 / Hollywood
‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’
United States, 2009 (153 minutes). Director: David Yates. Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Michael Gambon, Jim Broadbent, Emma Watson.
The Sixth Date with Harry, Ron and Hermione suffers somewhat from its role as a bridge to the exciting ending to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Nevertheless, it is stimulating as a taste of well-understood commercial cinema, which does not give up its love of detail and delves into its characters (the tender handling of the protagonists’ first feelings of love is exemplary). Furthermore, the trio embodying the young magicians reinforces their interpretive effort.
21.50 / The 2
Inés Hernand, Antonio Najarro and Ramoncín in “The Three Doors”
This week, María Casado speaks to three generations of artists in Las tres puertas. It starts with Inés Hernand, communicator and influencer and one of the most recognizable faces of Generation Z thanks to her work on the RTVE digital Playz channel and Benidorm Fest. It continues with dancer and choreographer Antonio Najarro, the youngest director in history of the National Dance Company of Spain. Finally, he welcomes Ramoncín, a pioneer of punk rock in Spain with a music career of more than 40 years.
22.00 / Movistar Classic
‘Phone’
Phone. USA, 1977 (97 minutes). Directed by Don Siegel. Cast: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence.
A great success by Don Siegel, who builds a powerful thriller in which he boasts a staging that is as sober as it is rigorous. A pinpoint conspiracy entangles a joint CIA-KGB operation as they join forces to capture a crazed defector.
22.30 / The sixth
Special edition of ‘El objetivo’ from Ukraine
Ana Pastor returns with a delivery of El objetivo, broadcast from Ukraine. A year after Vladimir Putin decided to attack the country, Pastor and his team went to Kiev to conduct the program from Maidan Square in the capital. Pastor will also visit some of the cities most attacked by the Russian army over the past 12 months and see first-hand how Ukrainian families live under the threat of bombs on a daily basis.
22.50 / 1st
Family TV, in “Days of TV”
How do you watch TV today, alone or in company? This week, Días de tele, directed by Julia Otero, remembers a program that brought the whole family together in front of the television, Summer Grand Prix, which also put many cities on the map. Otero will host Ramón García, presenter of the well-remembered room, and will also have on set the writer Elvira Lindo, the actor Antonio de la Torre and the gymnast Almudena Cid, who will share their TV memories of their childhood.
22.50 / Four
Palomo Spain, in Lapland with Jesús Calleja
Designer Palomo Spain is traveling with Lapland in Planeta Calleja’s delivery this week. Both will be touring the country in the middle of winter, performing activities such as crossing a frozen lake on a snowmobile, fishing in an open hole in the ice, being swept along by the current in a river in the middle of a snowy landscape, or visiting a reindeer farm. . In addition, they will participate in two races: one in speed sleds on the Ruka Station tracks and one in go-karts on an ice rink. Both are betting that the loser will have to swim in a frozen lake with an outside temperature of -26 °C.
22.50 / Telecinco
“Scandal”: Hugo and Ainara begin a secret relationship
Many conflicts are piling up this week in the episodes of the series Scandal, Tale of an Obsession. This part tells how Hugo, overwhelmed by the events and eager to break free from Iné’s pressure, cuts ties with Ainara until they start a secret relationship. Inés soon becomes suspicious and Ainara herself doesn’t understand why they keep their relationship a secret.
1.00 / The 1
Digital Fraud, in ‘Comando actualidad’
The report Fraud at a click shows several cases of fraud on the Internet, where one in five crimes is committed in Spain. If ten years ago the Spaniards filed 20,000 complaints a year for computer fraud, now they are filing 200,000. Phishing scams, real estate scams, fake investors… There are many risks that lurk users on the other side of the computer or mobile screen.
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