Madrid Film Office (a public service of the Madrid City Council) and the Somos channel pay tribute during the month of May to the cinematic Madrid with the cycle De Madrid al cielo (From Madrid to Heaven), on the big screen and free of charge, of three classic titles of Madrid cinema at the MK2 Cines Paz (Calle de Fuencarral, 125) on Saturdays 6, 13 and 20 May, at 12 noon.
The cycle aims to bring Madrid’s cinema closer to the city’s residents and visitors, to highlight the importance of the vast audiovisual legacy filmed in Madrid and to highlight the value of cinema as a historical testimony of the city’s cultural and urban past. Madrid is a city for telling great stories, and this has been reflected in cinema throughout its more than 125 years of history in the city. From Edgar Neville’s castizas stories and Luis García Berlanga’s esperpento, to Pedro Almodóvar’s iconic scenes and Álex de la Iglesia’s excesses.
On 6 May, Manolo Guardia Urbano will be screened, a film set in Madrid in the 1950s that tells the story of two babies who are exchanged by mistake; on 13 May, Los ladrones somos gente honrada, a film adaptation of the play by Jardiel Poncela; and to round off the cycle, El pobre García, a film starring Tony Leblanc and Lina Morgan, will be screened on 20 May. Through the three films, attendees are invited to enjoy the cinema with an eye to the spaces, lives and transformations reflected in them.
To gain access, you simply have to purchase a free ticket in advance through the MK2 Cines Paz website or at the cinema box office, starting the Monday before each screening.
Likewise, the Somos channel, available on the main operators, will be showing a film shot in Madrid every day in May at 21:30. Through 31 films dating from 1936 with Rinconcito madrileño to 2001 with El cielo abierto, the Somos channel shows how the city has changed as an urban set over the decades and invites viewers to recognise such emblematic and traditional settings as the Retiro Park, Cava Baja, Chamberí, Plaza de España, the Royal Palace, the Cuesta de Moyano, the Cibeles fountain and Cascorro. The films to be shown can be consulted on the Somos channel website.
