Cinema and television come together for a good purpose: to enjoy from the small screen the beautiful classic or cinematographic rarities of history. It all comes together in the cycle Movie library, movie themes that, then almost two seasons were gone due to the pandemicwas re-installed on the Public Television screen, at midnight over the weekend.

Its historic driver, Fernando Martín Peña (since 2000 at the head of the cycle) was again joined by Roger Koza has been around since 2016, and together they opened the projector to illuminate collector’s cinema from around the world and all the time in this sixteenth season of the cycle.

So, on the Public TV screen they keep going through classic and modern films, intended and hidden, famous and forgottenadjustment or complete deviation from the canon, many times, with unpublished findings and unknown details of each work, contributed by both specialists.

And all this is added to the data and information about the context of its production and its contribution to the genre in which it falls, the artistic journey of its director and the actors participating in each film presented.

The reception

“People received us well, they saw two kinds of reality, no imposition,” Peña said of the effects of returning to the screen. For his part, Koza added that “the enthusiasm of the public was in line with the enthusiasm when we arrived at the studio of TV “.

The freshness of going on Saturday and Sunday (before it was from Monday to Friday) at night led them to think differently about programming, and to think about issues from a different point of view, which considering other issues.

This weekend is the turn of airing rscience fiction stories with two films: willing wiveswhich suggests a critique of patriarchyY omicrona satire that questions capitalism.

According to drivers, it is one of the favorite genres of Movie library …, and one of his audience’s favorites. The proof is in the number of weeks allotted to it, with different slogans.

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But there are films that seem to escape all frames. To include them, this weekend is scheduled with films that clearly belong to science fiction but that, from within, explode with its limitations and conventions, expanding its possibilities towards other directions of the proposed plot, language, drama or tone. , as they explain.

Two films will be screened that, despite their years, are unique: on Saturday 23rd at midnight: willing wives (1975) Bryan Forbes. Includes Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Mary Stuart Masterson and Dee Wallace.

Based on the novel’s Ira LevinThe, is a mixture of thriller, horror, and science fiction in a small town that is too idyllic, with wives too contented and wives too submissive. This is a truly harsh criticism of patriarchy, earlier in its era.

And on Sunday the 24th at midnight you will see omicron (1963) by Ugo Gregoretti. They include Renato Salvatori, Rosemary Dexter, Gaetano Quartararo, Mara Carisi and Ida Serasini. It is a fascinating satire and a clever critique of capitalism, whose name refers to variants of the current pandemic.

Also ahead of its time, the film refers to the term ómicron used in 1963 to baptize a foreigner to come to know how humanity works and draw destructive conclusions.

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