project could be taking photography to new extremes. but we begin at the venice film festival which in recent years has become more and more important as hollywood likes to premiere films there to give them time to build up steam for the oscars in 6 months time i'll be talking to our man in venice scott rocks in a minute but 1st let's take a look at 2 highly anticipated movies marriage stories starring scarlett johansson and 1st ad astra starring this man brad pitt. its objective was to search for advanced extraterrestrial life the ship disappeared approximately 16 years into the mission and the commander was it was my father's. wish. the shark.

was a great dancer factious. she was a mother who plays really plays. she gives great presence. i thought we should talk ok we. start. right now over to venice and to our correspondent scott rock's. scott alamo now the. fed is known as a kind of starting gun for the oscars so have you seen any awards worthy movies so far. well the the 2 that you just introduced there i think both have a good share. make it to the oscars next year mary story in particular i thought

was amazing this is basically a sort of an update on kramer vs kramer the story of a of a divorce told in excruciating detail adam driver and hanson are the pair that split and they're both phenomenal adam driver particular i think if he doesn't get an oscar nomination for this performance all i don't know i'll turn in my card but it was truly excruciating look at a marriage falling apart but done beautifully with just the right touches of humor i thought it was a really amazing film and. similar with ad astra very different type of movie but the form of the brad pitt gives and that which is almost almost worthless i mean most of the movie was looking at him staring into space or thinking deeply very subtle performance that he gives but the the film as a whole is really sort of an epic look at a very personal story the story of a. man and his is father and tried to deal with his daddy issues essentially but

then on the biggest cat in the financial bubble on the entire universe now no real film festival would be any good without a bit of scandal what's the big controversy this year. well this year it's roman polanski's film an officer in the spy it's a period drama but it's not really the film the controversy is the fact that roman polanski directed in rome clancy of course oscar winning director a legendary film director of china town rosemary's baby but is also infamous for being hasn't been convicted of statutory rape over 40 years ago and having fled the united states and being on the lam a fugitive for the last 40 odd years so the controversy is should a festival like going to celebrate a man who did what roman polanski did by presenting his film in such a glaring glamorous setting as they are doing ok let's move to the film itself

you see in the film what's the film like. the film itself is actually very good i mean whatever you think about roman polanski what if you however you fall in the controversy around him nobody can claim the man is not a great director and this film and often the spies about the dreyfus affair the infamous informatics affair in 1000 century france where a jewish french soldier was falsely accused of treason polanski tells the story like a historical thriller combined with a courtroom drama and it's pacing is great the acting is great really nicely told story very interesting compelling story well told and it was just about the film i think everybody would be in agreement that this is a great movie the fact that it's polanski is it directed it and the fact that they're giving him such a platform to present this film to be celebrated that's what's causing the scandal here. ok what else is coming out in the next week or so what do you getting extra what are people there getting excited about. well people here and myself in

particular are getting really really excited about one film joker premier's here and it's a superhero movie and there's never been a superhero movie premiering in venice or one of the great grand festivals but it's both a very different type of superhero movie joker if you're not familiar with a comic book is batman's nemesis the sort of evil clown in the batman comics here he's given his own movie the walking phoenix plays joker but the film apparently is more in the vein of a martin scorsese film in fact martin scorsese produced the movie it was a very very dark look at the superhero genre is already getting a huge amount of buzz going in and if it plays like people expect it to here i can guarantee you walk in phoenix will be on the oscar stage at a year's time. very briefly spanish legendary spanish direct sampedro dove getting a lot of time achievement award in good time. oh yeah yeah i mean

well overdue. this crazy spaniard with his young melodramatic and that insane technicolor movies he transformed european cinema and world said ok we will all go or do we learn anything new unfortunately and well i still believe it. thanks very much thanks very much scott writes from. an exhibition is just i've been in a museum in the german city of ball which in a way gives hope that some of the ancient sites in the middle east that were destroyed by isis in recent is could be rebuilt with the help of technology it's a leap of faith but they've been virtually recreated in the exhibition maybe one day such technology could help with real reconstruction. aleppo muscle palmyra places that survived millenia before they were reduced to rubble by the so-called islamic state a show at the german art an exhibition hall or one disc once tama and bon now

resurrects the ancient city is virtually leading visitors on an incredible journey to last places of once breathtaking beauty destroyed perhaps forever in the real world by war and fanaticism the viewer can fly over the locations on huge screens going into the buildings with 3 d. glasses and getting their own picture is very important to show a whole group of people of various. of assad's government or who are there for her. to destroy and destroy for the most fervent of shards of the war. it's a painful exhibition for many it's here that the extent of the destruction is made clear world heritage sites within reach.

as well it just feels spooky there is strictly looking at this it's horrible how something like this can happen in this day and age. it's as a human catastrophe for. this is if somehow horrible but you also get the feeling being in the middle of it that you're right there so you may zing. to the projections to raise awareness of this punch out control heritage and prompt questions about its future. so keep that whether the exhibition also gives hope it also gives the political hope that cultural sites like these can be in pollock's reconstructed thanks to these possibilities and technologies certain whether the structures can indeed be rebuilt is a question that can only be answered in peacetime. incredible

. here's a photojournalist who doesn't make life easy for yourself or lower. interest parrot and kids coming up with projects that take it to some of the trickiest places to get to around the world right now she wants to scale the highest peaks in as many european countries as possible or if there are no mountains then the highest place in said country and from there take spectacular photos. has arrived in endora she's going to scale the nearly 3000 meter coma patrols up the tallest peak in this microstate in the period means it's part of her current project and then she here at. this diversity of europe and its mountains are really exciting. that one is a tiny little hill totally covered in cow dung that was. and then there's the vatican where the hardest part was to stand in line for 6 hours in the heat in

front of st peter's basilica. even the ascent of a 75 metre high tower was to become a rather arduous adventure she craved ice and snow to conquer norway's. she teamed up with her husband to take on portugal's highest mountain peak at night she's always on the lookout for a unique angle. her breakthrough is a photojournalist came in 2012 with a story about an indigenous tribes ancestor called in papa new guinea in the south pacific she explored the volcanoes of vanna white who. in 2016 she became the 1st person to climb into the crater of the active ambrym volcano 600 meters down to the edge of a seething pool of lava after. it capped this. guy felt the earth trembling all through my body i smelled the gases and felt the hot wind from the volcano it and i realized i'm suddenly a part of nature. and i think this world would be

a better one if everyone could stand down there by that pool of lava because you realize how incredibly precious life is and how incredibly precious the earth is that gives you moments like these. the sleeve and the couple are taking their one year old son man of up to the summit of the coma petros or he can ride on his mother's back. glides afternoons i'm tired what keeps me going is a passion for telling stories being here i can see things and feel and smell and taste and experience them and that makes me feel totally alive and them and i'd like to share this feeling with others through my pictures in and maybe i can even motivate them to set out and discover nature. and they can discover themselves. and do something with their lives and. the photos and videos or nomen is collecting for heard venture your projects are indeed an incentive to discover the old world

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