Today the thirtieth Magic Week of Cinema has been presented to be held from Thursday 15 to Thursday 22 August.
Thirty years later, edition after edition, page by page, La Linterna Mágika cinema club continues to write the script for this beautiful film, a magical and vindictive film that is the work of many, of all.
"The Cinema Week celebrates its thirtieth birthday in 2019 with the same enthusiasm, the same drive and the same" quixotism "that celebrated its birth with the screening, in 35 mm in a shabby cabin, of" Cinema Paradiso ", film with the which opened the 1st Week in 1990 (and whose trailer we never returned).
Meanwhile many things have happened, thirty years go a long way.
Frame by frame has been filmed in this Magic Film Week, during these thirty years, the film that could be titled, such as Renoir's film "The great illusion."
There are the magnificent thirty posters of the thirty editions that account for it, the programming of more than two hundred films carefully selected in endless debates, sometimes tense, but always fruitful, the many booklets made with the financial help of some good merchants presenting our programming and our desires and the dozens of sets on the most varied social, cultural, cinematographic, ethnological issues that in many cases have overflowed to the laws of imagination.
All with the dedication, effort and work of a human group, that of the Atalaya Club, which wants to continue betting on a collective space of justice and freedom, "thus began the presentation by María Cano, member of the La Linterna Cinema Club Magika
He continued explaining this year's poster, "in this edition, the cry of rebellion is put by a series of movie characters, sociologists, activists, etc ... mounted in a car of the Chicharra as it passes through Cieza between fields of esparto, appealing to the use of common sense, natural resource this one of declining existence, to make analysis of the current social, economic, educational, migratory, ecological, labor situation ... and not derail as a civil society. That is why, Maria stressed, "the cartel advocates the enclave of political ecology in the urgent account of the new left, understanding once and before that the ownership of the means of production is the perception of scarcity and the need to manage it with ecological, first, and political criteria after."
There will be exhibitions with the posters of the 30 weeks, montages of magical scenes of cinema between Spartizales and a photographic report of the "Day of the Esparto 2019".
The nostalgic and identity note will put this year an exhibition in memory of the train "Chicharra", whose final trip has been 50 years old this 2019. "That economic and popular train that we evoked in the poster of this edition, designed for people Humble, that did not unite capitals, it is true, nor transported luxury passengers, but that served to vertebrate by rail an entire region, by joining the emerging Cieza of the 20s with the Murcian highlands and the wine and industrial area of ​​Alicante, in daily transfer of goods and paisanaje that crossed Spartans, pine groves and vineyards, roads and paths, streams, ramblas and ravines, "said Maria.
Therefore, "we claim today that the route of that train and the commitment decided to rescue a railway network and conventional services much more socially useful than the option decided by high speed, that mechanical devouring mole of the train, be recovered as a greenway. space and time, which is largely configured as an antitrén, "he concluded referring to the AVE.
Andrés Villa continued with the presentation of the program for this year, "which aims to be, as always, suggestive, current and varied with six 2018 films and a 1926 silent film classic" and which will take place from Thursday 15 to Thursday 22 August, both inclusive.
This year, issues such as the fight against racism are addressed, in the Oscar-winning 'Green Book' (Thursday 15), that "green book" of shame that is now reissued by the Madrid city council to outlaw the rebel songwriters;
the claim of cinema and surreal humor more ours with 'Time after' (Friday 16), by José Luis Cuerda, following the trail of the mythical Dawn that is not little or the diversity of lives in 'Pain and glory' (Sunday 18 ), like that of Almodóvar.
There is also room, of course, for the social denunciation of poverty in the Lebanese film 'Capernaum' (Monday 19; the defense of women's rights in the French comedy 'The Invisibles' (Tuesday 20) and the denunciation of omnipresent corruption in the Spanish 'El Reino' (Thursday 22).
And, of course, "we have booked a night for live music accompanying and illustrating a silent film classic that tells an adventure against adversity, 'The Machinist of the General' (Wednesday 21), this time with the performance of the "Andrés Santos Station Band" group, formed by seven Murcian musicians from different generations belonging to associations, groups and musical and jazz circles with great tradition in the region, "said Andres.
Cinema tickets have a collaboration price of 4.5 euros per session, except for Wednesday 21 whose collaboration will be 6 euros.
In addition, Andrés has informed about the possibility of acquiring a bonus for the six of the seven sessions, except for the silent music movie, and whose price is 22 euros, being available for sale at the box office.
All screenings will begin at 9:45 p.m.
The members of the cinema club, closed the presentation encouraging citizens to attend and enjoy a year more than much more than summer cinema in the courtyard of the Atalaya Club.
Source: Club Atalaya