Weekend on TV: more Planet Earth, various songs and many Oscar-winning films | Television

MOVIE THEATER

On the Margins
TVCine Emotion, Saturday, 8:02 pm

In Madrid, several people face the day that will change their lives forever. Azucena has to avoid being evicted at all costs, as she has difficulty paying her rent with the poverty she earns working in a supermarket. Rafa, a lawyer and activist, tries to find the mother of a girl taken by social services before her custody is taken away. Teodora, now elderly, tries to contact her son, who avoids her out of shame for having invested all his savings in a business that ruined them.

Argentinean Juan Diego Botto directs this drama about poverty and hopelessness – but also about solidarity – according to a script co-written with his wife, Olga Rodriguez. Botto is also part of the main cast, alongside Luis Tosar, Adelfa Calvo, Christian Checa, Aixa Villagrán, Ame Aneiro and Penélope Cruz.

The latter reappears shortly afterwards, at 9:45 pm, in L’Immensità – For Lovea family drama by Emanuele Crialese, set in the 1970s, around a couple in crisis who move to Rome with their three children – one of them, dealing with gender dysphoria.

Silence
Star Movies, Saturday, 9:15 pm

Portugal, 1633. When the Society of Jesus receives the news that the missionary Cristóvão Ferreira has publicly renounced the Christian faith, two of his faithful disciples leave for Japan to confirm this. Martin Scorsese signs this historical drama based on the bestseller written in 1966 by the Japanese Shusaku Endo. The cast includes Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson and Tadanobu Asano.

The Sword and the Rose
RTP2, Saturday, 11:18 pm

João Nicolau’s first feature film, with Manuel Mesquita as the protagonist and appearances by Michael Biberstein, José Mário Branco and Luís Miguel Cintra. Living alone in Lisbon with his cat Maradona and fed up with his routine days, Manuel abandons everything and sets off on an adventure on a 15th century Portuguese caravel, named Vera Cruz. There, he will meet a crew of pirates, his longtime friends. But a betrayal comes to shake the logic of that unusual group. In the words of the director, this is “a musical film that addresses and plunders utopias”. “An itinerary of perdition,” he adds.

Interrupted Melody
TVCine Edition, Sunday, 7:35 am

O biopic by Australian opera singer Marjorie Lawrence, which Curtis Bernhardt directed in 1955, which had the memorable Eleanor Parker in the lead role and which won the Oscar for best screenplay (for William Ludwig and Sonya Levien), opens another marathon of films that received golden statuettes . Next come The candidate (at 9:25 am), Philadelphia (11am), Jerry Maguire (1 p.m.), Better is impossible (3:15 p.m.), Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood (5:30 p.m.), Judy (8:05 p.m.), The whale (10pm) and Dying in Las Vegas (11:55 p.m.).

1917
Hollywood, Sunday, 9:30 p.m.

Hollywood is counting down to the Oscars with the broadcast of one award-winning film per night, until the awards are handed out on March 10. The first is this war drama written and directed by Sam Mendes, inspired by a story told by his grandfather director’s father, who served in the First World War. In addition to winning three Hollywood Academy Awards, he won two Golden Globes and seven BAFTAs. George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburc, Colin Firth and Benedict Cumberbatch form the cast.

The Oscars Week special continues Monday with Tenet and, in the following days, with The big Gatsby, Minari, The Dallas Club, Moonlight, King Richard: Beyond the Game It is Dune – Dune: Part Onealways at the same time.

Pleasure Games
Star Movies, Sunday, 11:24 pm

Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) lives with his family on the outskirts of Los Angeles. His father (Lawrence Hudd) barely speaks; the mother (Joanna Gleason) is always accusing her son of being a loser. And Eddie goes to work washing dishes in a trendy bar. One day, Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), a pornographic film director, discovers the teenager’s physical attributes and offers him an opportunity. Eddie accepts, changes his name to Dirk Diggler and lets himself be seduced by that environment, dazzled by the dream of making it as an actor.

Written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the film was nominated for three Oscars and gave Reynolds the Golden Globe for best supporting actor.

DOCUMENTARIES

Concorde: The Untold Story
RTP2, Saturday, 5:36 pm

The story of the supersonic commercial plane is told in this series of four episodes, broadcast weekly starting this Saturday. It goes from the race to build the first device of its kind between the great powers of the 1960s (USA, Soviet Union and the Franco-British consortium that would produce the Concorde) to the accident that killed 113 people in the year 2000 and would eventually lead to the model shutdown.

Planet Earth II
Odyssey, Sunday, 4pm

On this World Wildlife Day, Odyssey hosts the second chapter of the award-winning mega documentary production presented by David Attenborough and endorsed by the BBC, which already had four Emmys under its belt and won two more with this “sequel”. It was ready in 2016, ten years after the first, a time period corresponding to a technological evolution that allowed images of life across the planet to be captured in even greater detail and definition.

This Sunday, the first two (of six) episodes will air, dedicated to islands and mountains. Then, one is issued per week, traveling through jungles, deserts, prairies and cities.

MUSIC

Song Festival
RTP1, Saturday, 9:12 pm

Direct. Buba Espinho (with The headlight), Cristina Clara (Spring), Leo Middea (Sweet mystery), Filipa (You can’t hide), João Couto (Room for one), Huca (crying foot), No Maka with Ana Maria (To accept), Maria João (Day), Rita Onofre (Creature) and Noble Silk (Change) compete in the second semi-final.

Those chosen will meet the semi-finalists from the first round – Rita Rocha, Nena, Perpétua, Iolanda, João Borsch and Noble – in the final on March 9th, where Portugal’s representative will emerge in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, in May, at Swedish city of Malmö.

Snarky Puppy live at Baloise Session
RTP2, Sunday, 11:25 pm

Snarky Puppy are a group of Brooklyn musicians brought together under the leadership of Michael League, who describes his predominantly jazz project as “a pop band that improvises a lot, without voices”. Here, we watch their visit to the Swiss festival Baloise Session, in November 2022, shortly after releasing the album Empire Central and, thanks to him, they added another Grammy to their CV.

SHOW

Obscure Domain
RTP2, Saturday, 10:24 pm

Homage to Eugénio de Andrade (1923-2005), created by Daniel Gorjão on the centenary of the poet’s birth. Interpreters are the performers André Loubet, Duarte Melo and Nuno Nolasco, with Máximo on the piano. The title comes from Obscure Domainthe 1971 book in which poems such as Ariadne or Art of navigation. The show had its first presentation at ModaLisboa, in October last year.

CHILDREN

The Ghost House (VP)
At the Studios, Saturday, 9:35 am

On Halloween Eve, three kids discover a house that seems to have a life of its own and swallow everything and everyone that comes near it. Animated in 3D and released in 2006, it was Gil Kenan’s first film and was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis.

The Seven Dwarfs and the Magic Shoes (VP)
SIC Kids, Sunday, 5:13 pm

Immortalized by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th century, the famous Snow White fairy tale received a new version in 2019 in this South Korean animated film directed by Sung-ho Hong, in collaboration with Moo-Hyun Jang and Young Sik Uhm as co-directors.

In this parody of the original story, some princes have been transformed into dwarfs and know that only a kiss from the most beautiful woman in the world can break the spell. It turns out that, around that time, a princess finds magical red shoes in her stepmother’s enchanted tree that make her the most beautiful of the maidens – which, obviously, puts her in the sights of the dwarves.