What to see on TV today? | Thursday, January 24, 2019 | TV

Rope. USA, 1948 (77 minutes). Director: Alfred Hitchcock. Performers: James Stewart, John Dahl, Farley Granger.

In the cinema of the new millennium - the Iñárritu of Birdman-, The technical boast that Hitchcock tackled in La soga, his first film in color, persists as a key moment in the history of cinema: a work shot in a single shot, with no cut of any montage, narrated in real time and in a single set. Many directors who call themselves avant-garde should learn from the teacher. In The rope, the montage lives within the plane, which causes the camera to enclose or let its characters breathe in the frame. And it poses a bitter portrait of the human being around two young people who seek to commit the perfect crime to demonstrate their intellectual superiority.

17.30 / Antenna 3

2000 afternoons in Puente Viejo

About to turn eight years old, The secret of Old Bridge celebrates its chapter 2,000. Up to now, 750 actors and 21,000 extras have passed through the series, 600 sets have been built and more than 90,000 pages of script have been written for 1,892 days of recording. This afternoon, the series commemorates its longevity with a tribute that concerns precisely its writers: some of them will become actors for a day in this installment.

19.30 and 21.30 / beIN LaLiga

A double date with the King's Cup

The last two first-leg matches of the quarter-final matches in the Copa del Rey are coming to beIN LaLiga. At 19.30, the stadium of Cornellà-El Prat hosts the clash between Espanyol and Betis. Next, at 9.30 pm, the duel between Real Madrid and Girona will begin at the Santiago Bernabéu. The return matches of those crosses will take place next week, on days 30 and 31.

22.00 / Cosmo

'Call my agent', new French series

Centered within an agency representing artists, the French series Call my agent, which combines drama and comedy, has as an incentive that some great names of French cinema interpret themselves. In the first season, which consists of six episodes, actors and actresses such as Nathalie Baye, Françoise Fabian, Cécile de France, François Berléand and Julie Gayet will be present.

22.30 / Paramount Channel

the last warriors

The Last of Dogmen. USA, 1995 (112 minutes). Director: Tab Murphy. Performers: Tom Berenger, Barbara Hershey, Kurtwood Smith, Andrew Miller.

An estimable environmental parable at the expense of a tracker who tracks three fugitives in the mountains. Of modest intentions, the film benefits from a valuable adventurous breath and an accurate portrait of the landscape, in addition to the presence of the always intense Tom Berenger.

22.40 / La 1

Django unchained

Django Unchained. USA, 2012 (165 minutes). Director: Quentin Tarantino. Performers: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson.

It was a matter of time before Quentin Tarantino fixed his gaze on the spaghetti western. Faithful to his predatory disposition of film referents, he proposes a vision of the West that is as linguistic as a prankster, which eliminates, in part, the dramatic rigor, an issue that is always secondary to the filmmaker. Tarantino shows his ability to handle the rhythm of the dialogues and boasts a staging of indisputable power, wrapped, yes, in his love of visual disproportion.

23.25 / La 2

The drama of living in unemployment

The report Paralyzed, that tonight premieres Chronicles, it approaches the vital drama of the unemployed. A unemployed person is considered to be long-term unemployed when he or she has been unemployed for more than 12 months, but most of the more than one and a half million Spaniards who are in this situation have been waiting for years to return to work, which makes them people who arrive be on the verge of social exclusion.