Last year, on this summer date, El Periódico de Catalunya released its first list of 10 movies that are dying from the heat. Twelve months later, dog days have increased, rather than decreased, in the form of inexplicable heatwaves and horrific fires. We propose a new list of movies with intense high temperatures, sun, desert and sea. unbreathable heat They are extraordinary heroes. From this list, we took two symptomatic titles, ‘Fever in the Body’ and ‘Back window’, and added eight other signs. Some were left out for not being on the ‘stream’, like the violent ‘Labios Arboles’ where a man travels with the head of a killed individual swallowed by dragonflies, or ‘I want the head of Alfredo García’. Mexican in midsummer. The heat in the cinema can be a real nightmareeven worse than real life.
‘The wages of fear’ (HG Clouzot, 1953)
nitroglycerin, exposed high temperatures, sweat and can explode at any moment. So the story of this movie is the most disturbing: four drivers hired by an oil company based in a Latin American country must provide transportation. some nitroglycerin in two trucks on the winding roads and the heat of the heat. The remarkable direction of HG Clouzot, Yves Montand and Charles Vanel leading the actors and moments of maximum suspense: hot and summer as a deadly threat. William Friedkin did a good remake of ‘Cursed Cargo’ in 1977.Available in the movie.
‘Rear Window’ (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Greenwich Village, New York, 1954. The city suffers unusual heat wave. The photographer, played by James Stewart, has broken his leg and has to stay in a cast in his apartment during the hot summer. In addition to visits from his girlfriend, Grace Kelly, he spends his time watching what happens at the crime scene. neighbor courtyard. There are people dancing, there is a woman who always eats dinner alone, there are mattresses to sleep in a cool place on the balcony… and most of all, there is a man who killed his wife, or what the photographer infers. High temperatures and the shadow of doubt: Hitchcock-style high voltage. Available in the movie.
“The Cat on the Hot Tin Roof” (Richard Brooks, 1958)
tennessee williams He placed several artifacts in the middle of a heatwave near Mississippi. This is one of them, he snatched the bodies. Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor wear less clothes More than the Puritans demanded. According to William Faulkner, he also flared up in New Orleans in the movie ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ with Marlon Brando’s wet empire T-shirt that Newman would wear himself. Available on film and Movistar+.
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ (David Lean, 1962)
No other movie did it better desert, burning heat by day and freezing cold at night. For David Lean, the desert and its warmth are as important as its character, military incompatibility, arrogance, and extensive knowledge of the Bedouin people. A movie about a man and a spaceship. this high temperatures They can be felt in every shot, and not just because of the sweaty makeup with glycerine and water to which the interpreters are exposed: The three dots, from the faint flame of a match to the sunrise in the middle of the desert, are brutal. Available on Movistar+.
‘The Journey’ (Nicolas Roeg, 1971)
David Lean filmed the Arabian desert in ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ in all the splendor the 65mm format has to offer. Nicholas Roeg more mundane, almost documentaryly captured, with a camera on his shoulder, australian desert His second movie after ‘Performance’ is in ‘Walkabout’. The story of two children wandering the desert after their father committed suicide. Heat is not negotiableas well as the sex drive that occurs when they find a young native. The desire for puberty, in this extreme case, goes from innocence to perversion. Available on Prime Video.
‘Fever in the body’ (Lawrence Kasdan, 1981)
Heat plays an important role in classic novels and films noir. The beginning of the ‘Great Sleep’ is in a suffocating greenhouse. ‘The postman always rings twice’ combines sex and high temperatures. The latter was the model chosen for her by Lawrence Kasdan. erotic revival of ‘film noir’. Body fire or burning body refers to the sexual appetite of the couple. William Hurt-Kathleen Turnerto her plans to assassinate her husband, and to the scorching and breathless summer where it all happened. It’s impossible to forget the scenes where they fight the heat while drinking iced tea with pleasure. It can be rented on Rakuten and Google Play and purchased on Apple TV+.
‘Law of Desire’ (Pedro Almodóvar, 1987)
Transgender Tina, played by Carmen Maura, tells the cleaning worker, “Come on, water me, don’t cut yourself, water me!” she exclaims. The overheated streets of Madrid in the summer of the ‘Law of Desire’. “What choking, I can’t stand it tonight!” He screams as the exaggerated jets of water from the hose feed his body. Later, her brother (Eusebio Poncela) puts up a funny mental health note and says to her: “Come on, hydrotherapy session is over.” The most summery, warm and refreshing shot of all ‘Almodovarian’ cinema belongs to a tale of transsexuality, jealousy profusely, extreme love and suicide. Available on Netflix.
‘Do What You Gotta Do’ (Spike Lee, 1989)
Summer invites you to the beach and desire and adventure in the movies. But it can also be the framework for a social revolt. This is how Spike Lee understood it in his most notable work. Temperature raises tension in Brooklyn neighborhood African-Americans, Latinos, Italian-Americans and Vietnamese live together. A punchy movie, a persistent agitation: it’s hard to stay calm when the heat is too hot. Complete with Public Enemy’s ‘Battle with Force’ theme. Available on Prime Video and Film.
‘Barton Fink’ (Joel Coen, 1991)
Mixing together Franz Kafka, David Lynch, and William Faulkner, the Coen brothers still made one of their most iconic and surprising films. John Turturro plays a New York playwright who had great success with his latest play, so he was hired by a film studio to write the script for a movie about wrestlers starring Wallace Beery. He arrives at a strange little hotel and The California heat begins to intensify, so that the paste that protects the wallpaper on the walls of his room gradually comes off. and in his nightmares, the hotel is set in flames. The writer’s mental blockage increases with the burden of suffocating literature. Available in the movie.
‘The Core’ (Jon Amiel, 2003)
Skyscrapers destroyed in fire ‘Burning Giant’, the quintessential disaster movie, unrepeatable. But other films committed to this modality have invoked the flamboyance of heat and fire as an argument. The ‘core’ action begins when the Earth’s rotation stops and high temperatures will swallow everything. Fun apocalyptic nonsense still unaware of climate change. Can be rented on Rakuten and Apple TV.