germany's police station. and explained if i had my way. east germany would still be here the. master of fear me and would hugh know. starting march thirteenth t w. i everyone welcome to the show today we'll take a look back at the oscars here's what else is coming up. a labor of love it took seven years and sixty five thousand paintings to make loving vincents. one stop shop a london church that has it all for brides to be. playing

like a pro the bulgarian town of new putting post some serious wins a fuck. the crime to lie crime of hollywood assembled on the red carpet on sunday for the ninetieth edition of the oscars among them stars like meryl streep who has a record twenty one oscar nominations and won three statues in her career australian actress nicole kidman was also in attendance director steven spielberg's film the post was nominated for best picture and britain gary oldman was also hoping to snap up the statue. in fact there were over a dozen european nominees so here's a roundup of how the continent's hopefuls fat. gary oldman i think the british star gary oldman was crowned best actor it's the first academy award for the fifty nine year old it was presented by jane fonda and heaven mira i would just

like to salute some winston churchill who has been marvelous company on what can be described as. an incredible journey and my wife just sailed for travelling that road with me and being at my side. old the trophy for his performance in office stars british prime minister winston churchill during a critical turning point in the second world war we saw. something in the field that in a scene we saw five. weeks. thank oldman lead the european contingent of winners at the ninetieth academy awards german next and his team got the oscar for best visual effects for their work and a sign find true love blade drama twenty forty nine. this is the mothers in the sky get in is the first time i've won an oscar probably the last time to go see it

think i think now will go out and have some fun drink a little something and post see till the morning hours will be nice for now many thanks even consider the sequel to the nine hundred eighty two classic directed by ridley scott garnered another oscar as well for best achievement in cinematography that ended a record losing streak at the academy awards it was the fourteenth time that roger deakins had been nominated and he finally was thank the they some of my crew on the playground i would have been working with for over thirty and others as i met for the first time and beautiful as. this is for a big. one of every one of them in fact i gotta say it's for us because it was a team it was a really a team thank you i won the award for best live action short film went to british couple chris overton and rachel shenton the silent child was

a team effort overton directed it while shenton wrote the screenplay and played one of the leads the drama focuses on a four year old deaf girl highlighting the barriers deaf children face in a world run by those who can hear. i made a promise to our six year old lead actress thought i'd sign this speech and my hands are shaking a little bit so i'm bipolar dies and deafness is a silent disability you can't see and it's not life threatening so i want to say the biggest if thank yous to the academy for allowing us to put this in front of a mainstream audience. evening's biggest winner was the shape of water from mexican director guillermo del toro it won four oscars in all including best picture best director and best original music school it was the second time french composer alexandra display was on a trip with the prize. mississippi

with a secret i'm very grateful to the academy my mother is also turning ninety soon so i think she'd be very happy to not. have the ninetieth academy award ceremony european film industry professionals took gold in five out of twenty four categories. staying with the subjects of film. directed loving vincent the oscar nominated bio pic of vincent fun the film is the worst welds first fully painted feature each and every one of its thousands of frames is an oil painting on canvas using the same technique as from falk did for his own works and this week. you're a mark series we celebrate women who have broken ground in their fields so we met up with a director who has revolutionized animation using the oldest visual medium. and

loving vincent brings to life the story of dutch post-impressionist painter vincent and in his own pictures it's the first ever feature to animate oil paintings on canvas. it was polish artist of who first came up with the idea. when i saw the paintings as like this is perfect because he painted his life his war of the words around him as he saw it at that's what's on the paintings was really tempting because i thought if it's amazing to bring the paintings to move in front of you ice. after it was shot with actors over one hundred painters and get down meticulously recreated each frame by hand to bring this dream to life.

and her husband and co-director hugh welchman led the team that put together this truly unique film. it's like almost like you know putting out a possible because you you've got the paintings and you don't really want to change them to match or you've got the biography you have you've got the facts from his life and also you've got you know. storytelling like a very important element for a film. it took seven years and sixty five thousand individual paintings to create loving vincent disney's first animated feature length films were painted with water colors and but using oils in animation is unchartered territory for the film industry. you can bring amazing. depth of emotion. by painting it you know lots of you have a lot of control. one of the biggest challenges cappiello and her team had to overcome was finding sponsors and investors for a movie that was very difficult to imagine lots of people we are you know they.

calling us names lunatics crazy you know and yeah but mainly because of the concept of painting for a friend so that people are just. going to work. passion for van cos painting began a very young age she read the artist's letters when she was fifteen after studying fine art she went on to specialize in animation at the warsaw film school. in twenty eleven she created her first short film little postman from her own oil painting. i felt. it's missing from my life the painting is just and i really felt i would like to. bring it back or clubs that chapter of my life you know i just felt this is open

and so i thought ok of the great to combine these two things and to paint a movie so that was a short film idea. vincent was first planned as a short film but eventually grew into a ninety minute feature the work might not boast any special effects but it's still a unique in the industry. film critic scott roxboro believes his idea could even mark the birth of a new genre. computer animation so dominates the field now we've gotten used to seeing to such a degree that we've forgotten what paint looks like almost. and that pack is really is really revolutionary i think i hope really that all inspire. new generation of filmmakers to embrace this this really new medium which is of course the oldest media. of visual representation. since it premiered in twenty seventeen the movie has been a major success receiving numerous international awards it was even nominated for

an oscar in the best animated feature category. it was also a lot for me as a person because i know it's a first film it's pushed film that's been ever. there's no money man in an emotion industry and i'm not a cow both poland and general problem very. thorough took o.b.l. has painted a pioneering portrait of vincent and called her groundbreaking bio epic is at once immersive and it's not a. moral film in our express we start off a round up of what's happening across europe in the french capital. francis hines film almost the city's awards were handed out this week and the big window was one hundred twenty b.p.m. the drama about an aids activist struggle in the early nine hundred ninety s.

screwtop six awards including best film. the spanish actress penelope cruz picked up an honorary caesar for her achievements in the industry. and the ready to wear shows continued in paris with strong outings over the weekend from valentino and liaison who took his cue from the victorian era. and. vivienne westwood the collection rolled out by the designers husband and her labels creative director under various grown taller focused strongly on westwood's early days in the british punk. of mint of the one nine hundred seventy s. . i started to work on it three four months ago didn't tell her anything and she didn't even ask anything so i think you missed the fence out there and a couple of weeks ago i told to you know the stories about you have been

a quality the. fashion week in paris continues until tuesday. because constructing at the train tunnel in rome have uncovered the ancient home of a roman officer adjacent to sleeping quarters in a military barracks the building dates back to the second century archaeologists say it's the first time such an ancient housing complex has been discovered in the capital and now dismantling the structure and moving it temporarily to another location as work continues on. in just over two months it'll be time for a royal wedding with meghan markle set to walk down the aisle to marry prince harry organizing the big day is a hassle for any couple there are so many things to plan and so many different people to deal with wouldn't it be great if you could just walk into one shop and

take care of nearly everything well that's possible in london at the luxury wedding gallery. i'm. from wedding gowns to wedding cakes the wedding gallery offers anything a bridal party in london could possibly desire. before you tie the knot you'll need to visit this church built in eighteen twenty eight what used to be a place of worship has evolved into a luxury department store. we have all the best fashion brands under one roof so we have vera wang dollar and so at least pally great menswear selection and amazing in-house. we can cater for everything whether. the sprawling two thousand square metre store offers more than just accessories customers can commission the experts here to take over planning every detail of the happiest day of their life. the wedding

gallery can put you in touch with wedding photographers help plan your honeymoon or even offer insurance in case the bride or groom change their mind last minute. basically the bride can come here and spend the whole day and enjoy the whole process and basically we can do everything for her details on her dress are still being kept secret actress meghan markle and prince harry are set to marry in may and preparations are in full swing britain is abuzz with speculation about two thousand and eighteen smokes popular bride to be and what her dress might look like . i would never say she will go with something also tradition maybe like a lace and a bit more princess soon because i think it. will say like. a nice on her and we will be really happy to have her here and to find the. dawn of

the days when a wedding brought together just a few select guests and your parents yard. they've become much more elaborate events in britain than average couple now splashes out about thirty thousand euros . is quite daunting timing alleging and so being able to come in and pick and choose from different brands that were in one place and different things i mean this cakes this is what a station to look like especially with the dresses and shoes as well i think it's very good. london's one stop shop for a wedding and a great way to help calm those fluttery nerves before the big day. now every musician dreams of playing in front of big audiences but most start small some take to the streets playing in squares and trains to entertain commuters and pastas by that's just how people to a bother started out but he has since made the leap to

a much bigger audience the polish is now playing in front of paying crowds as part of the berlin symphony orchestra we found out just how he made the transition. performs with the birdland symphony orchestra it's a huge step up from busking as a street musician. i am in november i played in oban station in macon broken and mad to me oh boy east king he played first stop boy in funding cut a long time and listen to me how i play and next he in a way to me. play in this orchestra. his colleague kim village says their encounter was destined to happen. looking back he recalls having heard puro turn and the number of stations.

born to smear him as opposed to off the front be as and i would always enjoy the way he played his mozart concerto that it just so happened that we were looking for a musician and was good and on that very day on my way from one train to the next i changed station. that's not where he stood playing. and i decided to approach him and ask if you wanted to join us it's fogged up if i once make mom. the burnin symphony orchestra is a project all construction which means it's musicians work as free lancers and are paid by the performance in december bada flew to china for a special concert never dreamt it one day be performing in the illustrious holes of the berlin philharmonic the night plate more time in melbourne station play in bed in flat money can concept. this is false my dream comes true

and now i so much hate being this is an amazing. renate conrad says also delighted about her. and it has come to television reports on his story brought him to her attention a year ago she was so touched by it that she decided to do something to help the young. and old him a new. a fitness guns when i think it's wonderful such and such a unique chance for him so i can see how he's developing and the way he moves from in style and. thus it's the greatest gift for me the same finish. for people to buy the dream of many street musicians has come true now his music echoes through renowned concert halls instead of train stations.

now it's time for your a mix extra tour where you send us out to explore your dream travel destinations today we've got a request from the usa carol stu from arvada colorado wants to find out more about the varia so we sent our reporters south to one of the state's foremost winter sports resorts who potting has a population of just six thousand three hundred but that figure is dwarfed by the amount of tourists it attracts. the alpine community boasts more than one million visitors every year let's find out why our.

guests of every age can enjoy winter sports here the pace of life is slow and leisure lay in there who pulled a municipality of the bavarian alps. the best is our magnificence and stress seems far away. for here in the mountains and luckily we have some snow and it really is a little more quiet here than in other ski areas that's certainly true here at the own tip bag to lift our nonprofit association keeps the fund going for locals and tourists alike the slopes are rarely full here and the mood is relaxed that keeps many vacationers coming back. this is a claim this one to us is kind of our the living room and it's cozy and it's everything you need practically within reach but it's the movie because you keep meeting people you can talk to when you bring the kids and all the children play together. i have been deployed to look a fin is

a popular coffeehouse here it's famous specialty is a kind of professional. hell h.d.m.i. will produce around four hundred of these giant cream puffs for guests today. they're made with vanilla ice cream cherry compost cream and powdered sugar. one hundred forty nine the barrenness of the cafe here and tried to bake them but she didn't know the cream puffs would turn out quite so long with the locals right fond of cold have there been boiled crayfish of the cream puff contests. while at the tasty joined pastry grew in popularity today the cream puffs like hot cakes even if they're a little harder to east. but far away at the house connect museum visitors can learn about the harsh conditions would cause. as once labored under in the region enormous amounts of lumber were ships of the nearby salt works.

if you can imagine transporting sixteen or seventeen thousand cubic metres of wood it's within these he said only worked over rivers and streams going for the people of it soon became a way to earn a living to put all. those days are long past today many residents of earn their bread providing leisure activities so when sports take a while to learn but the most important thing is to have fun and with a little practice one day you might even be doing. this small community here also has a few must try specialties for foodies like a local cheese that's considered something of a delicacy. it's made with sixty percent goat milk and forty percent mares milk completely organic of course and said to be very healthy. is milk strengthens the immune system does good for your digestion skin we've heard

many reports of ailments that mez milk has helped alleviate. but back to the activities the region has to offer who posing is best known for its patent on center. chairman biathlon legend fritz fish are regularly runs introductory courses in the discipline here they're very popular it isn't often you get to learn from an olympic champion. but a proper cross-country skiing form is a must. and it's time to shoes concentration is key fisher has plenty of advice on how to develop the right technique. would then if you don't push with your left foot. all the cross-country skiing might be easy it's anything boss. the rain has started pouring but the participants are letting that spoil their fun. as it is so long it's the first time i've been cross-country

skiing but it's my first day in the uk so incredible on t.v. but it's a lot harder than it looks. it's really interesting but exhausting too it's fun to do something you've watched the pros do and somehow you think it will be easy but learning the steps is interesting and impressive. for most of the course participants the high point is this using range fisher gives a few tips and some people even manage to hit the targets. after a fun but strenuous afternoon of biathlon training visitors wanting to warm up head for roomies mulled wine stand in the village center with. a dusty when it's quiet a good place to relax in the mountains in the snow it's great here the people are really friendly i have to say recalling has been a pleasant surprise last winter sports in an idyllic setting the small community of

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