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By Reynaldo Ballast

The alternative Cuban television film in a broad spectrum, both specialized and thematic programs in which presenters luxury and sharpest critics recommend major films, either release or replacement with these other film programs not for lack of legitimizing these figures fail to provide viewers a group of essential films.

This week, a kind of random, some of the most interesting tapes, either in spaces legitimized by critics or specialists or for those who suffer the anonymity of these, billboard announces a collection of fantasy films and science fiction. As is known, these genres have taken lightly throughout the history of cinema, albeit with great masters such as Andrei Tarkovsky or American Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott, to name these three, critics praised the possibility of including works by this court between the great films of all time. It is not a secret to anyone that the great American industry has become so noble and intelligent genre in literature already had touched the stars with names like Isaac Asimov or Ray Bradbury, a gateway technical developments facing the show. But thanks to the perseverance of great masters, and up to 2016 it is possible to organize a negligible catalog undisputed master films that are positioned from the fantastic and science fiction genres.

One of the most interesting pieces in recent years, Son of Man (Children of Men) It was shot in 2006 in the UK by Alfonso Cuaron. Cuarón is already an established director in American industry, with important decisions in the production of his films, some of the courtyard privilege have never come to acquire. In 2013 he opened the Cannes Film Festival with his film Gravity , and last year he was invited as jury president of the Venice, the other most important Festival in Europe. Children of Men , which can be seen by Cubavisión Tuesday at 12:30 am, is a disturbing thriller set in the England of 2027, where women have mysteriously lost the ability to procreate and human race is heading for its inevitable demise. The pregnancy of a young, impossible in the context of the film, detonates the conflict by creating a film in the foreground a doomsday scenario, it is capable of generating debates about the moral, political and contemporary society.

Meanwhile, on the morning of Sunday, also Cubavisión one, also set and produced in the UK presents fantastic comedy . It is Spoon (Scoop, 2006) , veteran Woody Allen. The New Yorker has relapsed in addressing the fantasy genre, just remember Sleeper (Sleeper, 1973) , that tape where an absurd experiment ensures passage for life in the future, thanks to which the protagonist ( Allen himself) lives an irrational totalitarian nightmare. Scoop adds to the list of Allen’s later works. In this case, a young journalist, played by Scarlett Johansson carefree lives a mystical experience, when a clumsy magic show a ghost warns him of the existence of a serial murderer (the murderer of Tarot) and the film takes an detective rotation. In this delightful comedy the viewer can enter again in the director’s personal world view with reflections on sex, death and the ironies of fate.

As a premiere, Cubavisión has two interesting films: An intergalactic comedy (Absolutely Anything, 2015) , also British film directed by Terry Jones, one of the founders Monty Python’s renewing; and The challenge (The Walk, 2015) Robert Zemeckis. Jones’s film presents an argument quite relieved. In this case, a teacher acquires unexpected abilities that let you perform breathtaking maneuvers, thanks to an experiment developed by aliens. Although it is not a masterpiece, the film proposes a reflection on human nature and our ability to distinguish right from wrong. In a test of ten days, the “common man”, as Chesterton would say, must prove that the human race can go beyond their own selfishness. The Walk , meanwhile, is not exactly a fantasy or science fiction movie, but its ability to create fear of heights (thanks to the extraordinary use of the camera), you can create almost unreal sensations. Zemeckis, the director, is considered a major director in the realm of fantasy film, just remember the saga of Back to the Future to verify this. But in this case, he decided to recreate the extraordinary event of the French acrobat and tightrope artist Philippe Petit, when he decided to practice what he called “the artistic crime of the century”. With the help of a close group of friends, will hold his dream: to travel the immense gap between the now extinct Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The film reconstructs the years of preparation for this clever tightrope, both physical exercise, such as learning about urban architecture (in relation to megaconstructions) and safety systems of the towers.

Outside of these genres, although it said that this week the television resets the second part of Robocop (1990) Irvin Kershner, as well as the second episode of Star Wars: Attack of clones ( Star Wars II , 2002), television opens interesting films in the spaces of the Seventh Gate (Friday night, for Cubavisión) and critical Spectator (Saturday night on the educational channel). The space of the Seventh Gate was responsible for years to present and discuss the contemporary world cinema. This time releases the debut of Austrian director Markus Schleinzer. Michael , name of the movie and starring in it, recalls the great documentary Basement (Im Keller, 2014), his compatriot Ulrich Seidl, which draws attention about the strange use that Europeans developed make that space hidden from their homes. While Seidl slide the question What do the Austrians in their basements? analyzing a considerable number of cases, Schleinzer focuses on the life of this young 35-year-old who leads a normal public life (working as a clerk in an insurance agency), whereas has kidnapped his own son in the basement his house. For its part, he proposes a critical viewer of the latest films in one of the great American directors of the nineties: Abel Ferrara. Welcome to New York (Welcome to New York, 2014) rotation opens the biopic Ferrara continued with Pasolini (2015) . It is rebuilding the lives of Devereux, a character openly inspired by the ancient head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn following his arrest in New York on charges of sexual abuse to a cleaner hotel. Played by the usually impeccable Gerard Depardieu, the film shows the emotional imbalance and inner contradictions of a man wearing behind a decisive economic power in the contemporary world. A reflection on power and corruption, the film presents a different Ferrara, away from those bizarre films that gave notoriety two decades ago, but able to sustain an unmistakable style.

Finally, it is fair to recommend space Saturday The film, which in recent times has turned 180 degrees and has gone from being a repository of blood and violence, misinterpretations and predictable turns, to become a space for good films, not to take a thrilling turn of contemporary cinema, addresses violence from a thoughtful and intelligent view. The week before he could see the German film Victoria (2015), the thriller Sebastian Schipper where technical virtuosity achieved more than two hours by plane sequence (uncut). This Saturday will be Sicario (2015), by Denis Villeneuve, a film that had its premiere at the last Cannes Film Festival. The film, which has angered the citizens of Juarez returns to the issue of drug trafficking and murder on the border of Mexico and the United States. In the context of survival, the true nature of humans is revealed, but preach the opposite in an ordinary context. This will be the theme of the latest film by Villeneuve, who returns to his motivations for space limits, in this case, one of the most violent and dangerous places in the world.

We hope that this approaches to some of the most interesting films of the week will be broadcast on Cuban television, we provide a lover of film reader to revisit the possibility, or see for the first time, films that open frameworks for discussion and debates beyond passive entertainment that counterparty it can be seen in other areas of the TV film. The choice is in your hands.

(From the site of the UNEAC)