What do you watch today on TV? Thursday 25 August 2022 | Television

13.25 / we

year of lights

Spain, 1986 (104 minutes). Director: Fernando Tripa. Interpreters: Jorge Sanz, Maribel Verdo, Manuel Alexander.

In his fifth film, Fernando Tropa departed from the intent of his previous successes, get out of the fat and be unfaithful and don’t look at who, to enter a cinema that covers more ground and fills its images with remarkable tenderness. year of lights It is an intense portrait of the teenage universe, with warm intentions, backed up by a text by Rafael Azcona and Tropa himself, which places the action in the post-war era, but with the aim of avoiding vulgar opinions. Trueba approaches his main partner with subtle tenderness and gradually lets some bitter residue take over the story. In this way, he achieves a film that is as simple as it is emotional.

16.30 / AMC

“Kong: Skull Island”

Kong: Skull Island. USA, 2017 (118 min). Director: Jordan Vogt Roberts. Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson.

A very accurate film in which the spirit of the old adventure genre excels. This new journey into the home of the legendary King Kong is underpinned by a fantastic theater that is a stylistic science of expressive dryness, thus achieving a story that is as fictional as it is thrilling.

17.00 / AXN White

Elizabeth

UK 1998 (120 min). Director: Sekhar Kapoor. Cast: Cate Blanchett, Jeffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes.

boss Bandit Queen He embarks on the painstaking reconstruction of England in the mid-16th century. Protestants and Catholics face each other in a web of palace intrigue before the death of Mary Tudor and the accession of the young Princess Elizabeth to the throne. The director is supported by the excellent work of a large cast in which Cate Blanchett’s powerful talent shines through.

18.15 / Movistar Classics

‘pure formality’

Italy – France 1994 (108 minutes). Director: Giuseppe Tornatore. Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Roman Polanski.

The unexpected director of the greats Paradiso Cinema It offers a disturbing exercise in suspense centered around an imprisoned writer with an amnesiac and the commissioner in charge of making his case clear. The story of claustrophobia and aggressiveness to almost unsustainable limits, which is tempered somewhat in the last part, is very complex.

18.45 / Sundance

“samba”

France 2014 (115 min). Directors: Olivier Nacache and Eric Toledano. Cast: Omar Sy, Charlotte Ginsburg, Tahir Rahim, Isaiah Heiglin.

The authors of “The Remembered Castaway” paint a story that is much less illuminating, and more substantial, which gives them wonderful narrative depth. Samba joins the paths of several characters, including an undocumented immigrant of Senegalese descent and an executive, to create a plot that leaves deep dramatic relics inhabited by tiny and believable beings.

19.45 / Movistar Drama

While the war continues

Spain 2019 (103 minutes). Director: Alejandro Amenabar. Interpreters: Cara Elekalde, Edward Fernandez, Santi Prigo.

One of the pinnacles of Aminabar Cinema, which provides an example of historical analysis to try to understand the present from the understanding of the past. Contrasting, but always monumental, Unamuno’s character fills a story backed by a slow and subtle scene, dwelling on both the character and his surroundings.

22.00 / metric ton

Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams

USA – Japan 1990 (120 min). Director: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Chisme Ryo.

One of the last films of Mr. Kurosawa, who was in his 80s and still knew how to exude talent and imagination. dreams It proposes a thrilling journey through eight sequential stories, some delicate and some cruel, that shift between the magical and the mystical to envelop the viewer in a whirlwind of sensations, captured with the gaze of a uniquely opulent director. marvel.

22.00 / Telecinco

Another date with the police scheming Blanca.

Tonight’s episode of the series white Its plot centers around the investigation conducted by the protagonist, together with Inspector Liguori, into the kidnapping of two young men, the son of a person close to the agent and the son of one of the most important businessmen in Genoa. During the investigation, a shooting will take place in which Leno, Blanca’s guide dog, will be seriously injured.

22.30 / sixth

Two final episodes of “Little Seashells”

The film, written and directed by Javier Vega, and starring himself alongside Marta Hazas, says goodbye with the last two sequels. The first tells about the reunion between Marta and Jaffe, when he was finally going to deliver the criticism that was waiting for him. In the second, Marta has already decided to marry Mario. This is what Javi discovered as a donor to Joaquin. With the girl gone, Javi doesn’t think he has a chance to stop her.

22.45 / four

“The Bourne Affair”

Bourne’s identity. USA, 2002 (114 min). Director: Doug Lyman. Cast: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper.

You can still make commercial movies that have interesting sequences. It is possible that the story is supported by a script that not only looks for the bustle and a director who takes things calmly. Bourne affair It is the first film about the adventures of a special agent with amnesia who becomes embroiled in a criminal plot while trying to discover his identity. The excitement, Spooky and exciting, it’s heavily shot and the characters track is as steady as they are true.

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