Two films stand out in film history: Locke, a minimalist work set on a stage with a single character and broadcast at Sundance, and When Fate Catches Us, a classic of science fiction cinema, broadcast on TCM. La Sexta offers a new episode of Desmontado with Boris Izaguirre on a journey along the Camino de Santiago. Public television broadcasts another episode of Blood Ties on La 1, in this case focusing on the Guillén Cuervo family, and on La 2 a TV report by Documentos depicting the current reality of Taiwan.
“When fate catches up with us”
7:00 p.m., TCM
Soylent Green. USA, 1973 (92 minutes). Director: Richard Fleischer. Cast: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor Young.
Good time to justify Richard Fleischer’s cinema. The cinema of a director who founded classic Hollywood, who worked for two decades under the large studio system and who, without being able to be considered an author, imbued with his personality the images of such emblematic films as “The Vikings” and “Tragic Saturday” masterpieces by artists like The Boston Strangler and Criminal Impulse. Fleischer delivers a science fiction classic that delves into a bleak future and transforms New York into an overcrowded bubble of unbreathable air. A dark, suffocating work in which his ecological proclamation lives between darkness and dirt. As a climax, it marks the last appearance of the great Edward G. Robinson on the screen.
“Lock”
9:15 p.m., Sundance
USA-UK, 2013 (85 minutes). Director: Steven Knight. Actor: Tom Hardy.
A setting, a situation, a single character. This is Locke’s bare narrative framework, tracing in 85 minutes the succinct story of redemption of an ordinary person faced with an intimate drama. A real-time story that connects the viewer with the protagonist behind the wheel of his car throughout the footage of this amazing film. Locke also sets himself an unprecedented technical challenge, keeping the camera locked inside the vehicle, to achieve an example of visual density in each of his overwhelming images.
“Dismantling”, on the Way of St. James
10:30 p.m., sixth
The show, hosted by Boris Izaguirre, which travels through Spain and its history, broadcasts an episode along the Camino de Santiago. Izaguirre becomes a pilgrim to explore the history of the Camino de Santiago and the buildings that accommodate the hiker. In addition, it moves to the Arousa estuary, through which Santiago’s body entered a boat sailing through the sea. And his journey ends in the Cathedral of Santiago, where the remains of the apostle are found.
“Blood Ties” with the Guillén Cuervo saga
11.40 p.m., 1
The “Blood Ties” room dedicates its episode this week to one of the great Spanish sagas of actors and actresses, Guillén Cuervo. The program brings Gemma Cuervo together with her three children, Cayetana, Natalia and Fernando, to remember Fernando Guillén and the years in which actors and directors such as Fernando Fernán Gómez or Adolfo Marsillach shared professions, friendships and social gatherings from the family home . .
“TV Documents” portrays Taiwan
23.50, La 2
China has claimed Taiwan for nearly 75 years and has sought to wipe it off the political, diplomatic and military map. The report “Taiwan, the island coveted by China,” which Documentos TV premieres today, recalls how Taiwan held China’s seat in the UN until 1971, when it was forced to cede it to its continental enemy. Also how Taiwan today does not give up a bit of its identity and status, having developed in recent years a modern, democratic and economically strong society, becoming the largest manufacturer of the latest generation semiconductors that the world uses for electronics requires equipment and weapons.
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