La 2 premieres a new season of Bits of iron and chrome with the addition of Ángel Carmona as the new presenter. Also on La 2, TV Documents broadcasts a report on the five spies that Cuban Intelligence infiltrated in Miami in the nineties. In Odisea, the documentary series begins Wild Planet: Interconnected Species. As for cinema, AMC is broadcasting a masterpiece of journalistic cinema, Spotlight, and TCM offers a peak of Spike Lee’s early cinema, Do what you must.
‘Do what you must’
14.05, TCM
Do the Right Thing. USA, 1989 (120 minutes). Director: Spike Lee. Cast: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee.
Spike Lee’s third film is a militant and aggressive film that begins as a portrait of manners and culminates in an explosion of violence. Do what you must combines unique touches of humour with brushstrokes of brutality. In the Brooklyn summer the asphalt is almost boiling, but what is boiling is the blood of the characters, who live in a predominantly black neighbourhood where an Italian family runs a pizzeria. Behind the feigned calm lives an anguished and racist society. And a simple spark will be enough to reveal the beast within.
Connections between species
16.00, Odyssey
The documentary series Wild Planet: Interconnected Species, The film, which premieres today, Odyssey, shows, with the help of British biologist and explorer Patrick Aryee, the connections that occur between the tiniest beings and the most powerful carnivores on the planet. Among other places, Aryee visits Costa Rica, where the viewer witnesses the annual mass nesting of sea turtles, but also the arrival of predatory jaguars that come to kill them. He also analyzes the intricate network that connects prairie grasses and dung beetles with bison and the powerful brown bear. And, in British Columbia, Canada, he shows how the annual salmon run is a migration that guarantees their survival while sustaining an entire ecosystem.
New season of ‘Cachitos’
22.00, La 2
Space Bits of iron and chrome premieres its twelfth season with a new presenter, Ángel Carmona. This first date will focus on the 60s, full of political and social events and will offer a review of the sound black power, of hippie music and some of the artists who changed music in a particular catwalk “60’s torp parade”.
‘Spotlight’
22.10, AMC
USA, 2015 (130 minutes). Director: Tom McCarthy. Starring: Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams.
True to the spirit of the best American journalistic cinema, Spotlight offers a dense and absorbing plot about the investigation carried out by the journalists of the Boston Globe concerning priestly pederasty in the city and the subsequent cover-up by its hierarchy. Spotlight It is a committed film, with an attentive gaze and firm calligraphy, with an angular staging, which, far from fuss and shouting, captures a fragment of life to universalize its intentions and praise the journalistic profession.
‘Castro’s spies’, on ‘Documentos TV’
23.50, La 2
The report Castro’s spies recalls the story of the so-called ‘Cuban Five’, who in the 1990s were recruited by Cuban intelligence to infiltrate anti-Castro organisations that had set up shop in Miami. The spies would be arrested and tried in a trial that remains the largest multi-defendant espionage case ever tried in the United States.
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