The gentlemen
Gangster film, Pro Sieben, Sunday, 8:15 p.m
British cinema is strongly represented in this Easter programme, particularly through Guy Ritchie, whose films oscillate brutally between shudders and tenderness. The gentlemen in the Movie of 2019, led by Matthew McConaughey and Charlie Hunnam, are tastelessly style-conscious, their beards trimmed to the millimeter, what they do has to do with large-scale marijuana cultivation, blood and puke and racism – a Jewish antagonist they actually want to cut “a pound of flesh” out of the body, following the literary example. At your side Hugh Grant and Michelle Dockery in completely unfamiliar roles. Also by Guy Ritchie: cash truck2021 (Pro Sieben, Sunday 11.35 p.m.), Sherlock Holmes: Play in the Shadows2011 (Sat 1, Sunday, 11 p.m.), Aladdin2019 (Sat 1, Saturday, 8:15 p.m.).
Looking for a friend for the end of the world
End time film, ARD One, Monday night, 12:55 a.m
Three more weeks, then Matilda will be here, and with it the end of the world. Then the huge asteroid will crash to earth and destroy everything. Three ultimate weeks of desperation and chaos, sincerity and freedom. Only the cleaning lady says goodbye with an unmoved “See you next week”. Two people find their love, Steve Carell and Keira Knightley, their happiness is so intense because it can’t last… Lorene Scafaria best conveys the feeling of freedom through the songs on the radio: “The Air That I Breathe”. Community that arises from music also exists in School of Rock, 2003, by Richard Linklater (RTL 2, Saturday, 10:30 p.m.). Jack Black, the deranged musician, sneaks into a job as a teacher and then boldly puts rock on the schedule. Until the excitement spreads to the kids.
The fugitives
Crime comedy, ZDF Neo, Saturday, 9.35 a.m
Gérard Depardieu as a bank robber, who immediately gets into another bank robbery after being released from prison, executed in a completely amateurish way by clumsy Pierre Richard, with whom he now has to flee. After years of Louis de Funès fidgeting, Francis Veber has brought a new purity to French slapstick. Even old Robert Redford is busy robbing banks in A crook & gentleman2018 (ARD, night on Monday, 0 a.m.), he acts extremely discreetly and cautiously during the raids and escapes, which makes David Lowery’s film strangely unreal. Gold robbery in London is in the only cinema film by the radio and TV director Guglielmo Morandi, 1968 (ARD One, Saturday, 11.45 a.m.): planned precisely and as a model and carried out professionally. With a golden anchor.
Hook
Fantasy, ZDF Neo, Saturday, 8:15 p.m
Peter Pan has grown up, is a lawyer (Robin Williams), his swashbuckling dynamic gone – until his nemesis Captain Hook and Tinker Bell, his old elf love, come back into his life, Dustin Hoffman & Julia Roberts. Already here, in 1991, Steven Spielberg tells of the shudder at the loss of youth, which is also the case in his latest film The Fabelmans resonates. Another London classic: Mary Poppins, 1964 embodied by Julie Andrews, who floats to prudish London like the Marvel superheroes later (Disney Channel, Sunday, 8:15 p.m.). Come by ocean liner Stan & Ollie to London in the 1950s, in the film by Jon S. Baird, 2018, played by Steve Coogan & John O’Reilly (Servus TV, Saturday 8.15pm). The shadow of death lies over this tour, letting it shimmer melancholy.
