HBO
Penultimate episode of the series ’30 coins’
Álex de la Iglesia’s series, starring, among others, Eduard Fernández, Megan Montaner, Miguel Ángel Silvestre and Manolo Solo, reaches its penultimate episode on HBO. The plot of this installment tells how a thick and disturbing fog floods the town, prophesying a great event. Meanwhile, Vergara tries to escape Syria and return to Pedraza, the same goal Elena faces.
15.45 / TNT
Tiger and dragon
Wo Hu Cang Long. Taiwan-China (120 minutes). Director: Ang Lee. Performers: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi.
Ang Lee accumulates codes of different genres in a work that begins as an action film with fantastic elements, centered on a turbulent conflict between warriors, to soon become a double love story unleashed and tragic. The choreographies of the successive fights, in which the combatants run up the wall and are supported by the leaves of a tree, intersect with images of astonishing beauty that flow with sensual cadence, with the delicacy and sensitivity typical of an outside artist. standard.
16.05 / TCM
Alicia no longer lives here
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. USA, 1974 (105 minutes). Director: Martin Scorsese. Performers: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Diane Ladd.
Located chronologically between Bad streets and Taxi Driver, This modest film by Scorsese tells without fanfare and quietly the story of a woman who has to start a new life with her young daughter. It is the staging, the director’s gaze towards his characters, which makes them as credible as they are everyday. Ellen Burstyn won a well-deserved Oscar for her work, and Kris Kristofferson also brings her usual category.
16.30 / Kitchen Channel
New gastronomic documentaries
Starting today, at 4.30pm and 11.30pm, Canal Cocina will launch a new programming slot with gastronomic documentaries. This afternoon it debuts 20 years with Jamie Oliver, a production in which he shows his ups and downs and offers an intimate view of himself and his family. Oliver has changed an entire generation’s relationship with food and cooking and, in addition to revolutionizing school meals and shedding light on unhealthy eating habits, he brought gastronomy to the very young. On Sunday, the channel will premiere Grant Achatz in Madrid and on Sunday 24, Maggie Beer in Japan.
16.55 / COSMO
The hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October. USA, 1990 (129 minutes). Director: John McTiernan. Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn.
Agent Jack Ryan came to the screen for the first time, here under the features of Alec Baldwin. The hunt for Red October it poses a sober plot in which a Soviet nuclear submarine disappears in the middle of the ocean; its captain is nothing less than a Sean Connery of dubious intentions. The film guarantees patriotic praise, of course, but also a strong narrative pulse.
19.45 / Movistar CineÑ
The tongue of butterflies
Spain, 1999 (91 minutes). Director: José Luis Cuerda. Performers: Fernando Fernán-Gómez, Manuel Lozano, Uxía Blanco.
A harsh plea against intolerance with which José Luis Cuerda returned to the cinema after four years of silence. The director himself and Rafael Azcona adapt three wonderful stories by Manuel Rivas to create a unique narrative that approaches the relationship between a republican teacher and a young student in the winter of 1936.
21.30 / The 2
‘Essentials’, with Ainhoa Arteta
The documentary White butterflies He approaches the figure of the singer Ainhoa Arteta to tell the story of his passion for music. A work that goes back to the time when a girl from Tolosa used to sing and dance the opera Carmen in French to reach her conversion into one of the most important sopranos in the world. Arteta studied singing at the time of the Spanish transition, when there was no type of aid to the study of the arts and all the financial support had to be assumed by her family and, later, herself with works that have nothing to do with lyric . The documentary accompanies the artist to San Sebastián, her home, to meet the pianist Rubén Fernández, with whom she travels through Spain with the recital of Federico García Lorca The voice and the poet, and New York, the city that offered him the first opportunity to show the world the worth of his voice.
21.30 / DMAX
Animals during the pandemic
A new delivery of Wild Frank: The New Animal Reality. A production in which Frank Cuesta analyzes the change in the life of animals due to the pandemic, both in Spain and in Southeast Asia. From the jungle, markets, zoos and Thai animal centers, Cuesta shows the “new normal” while another team from the program does the same from Spain, allowing Cuesta to peek, through post-production, into the reality of the Spanish animals after confinement.
0.10 / Movistar Action
Training Day
USA, 2001 (118 minutes). Director: Antoine Fuqua. Cast: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke.
A thriller surprising power, even more so when it was signed by the author of nonsense as Replacement assassins. An intense look at the urban jungle, in which cops and criminals fight, bravely played by Ethan Hawke and a flawless Denzel Washington as a corrupt agent.
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