his influence on film features in a new exhibition in basel. and far from the usual kitsch cuckoo clocks as a protest against one german cities housing crunch. you probably know the fairy tale hansel and gretel but this is gretel and hansel a new horror movie that delivers all the terror of the original grimm brothers tale and ben so the sister and brothers lives take a turn for the worse when their father abandons them in the woods on the orders of their wicked stepmother d.w. film. fairy tale has a way of getting into your head. even before you're. somehow you just never. know is when i think. it's a story we all know but never like this scene children. should also smile so they can. great all in huntsville goes back to the dark roots of the original

german grimm brothers fairy tale to concoct its tasty tears. to hungry children lost in the woods come across a house filled with food. but danger lurks within. the war in some. boring heavily from recent poor hits like the witch director hospital perkins there's a new twist to the old tale it's a story this has scared everybody for hundreds of years their hero. testified that he. has to start something you can't stop. in a feminist time the which tries to convince grateful and clears only one thing little bullheads are good for. this is fact.

and don't push your film critic scott rocks for is here with me now scott i have to ask you you said in our report this is a feminist take is there a new feminist agenda which is eating little boys did i miss something yeah it's not really postmodern feminism i mean maybe it's pre-modern of how it isn't yeah i definitely don't think this this is being advocated by modern feminist groups but the way to direct your approach is the story is quite interesting he sets up this does world as being credibly male dominated and that the girls like great all are worth nothing in this world and then she goes out the wood she meets this witch who is the most powerful person much more powerful than any man she's ever met right which becomes sort of a i don't know a mother like figure to her and she teaches her about as we would say day talks like masculinity should consider that over her brother who seems so sweet now he's

going to turn to a horrible man and he's going to abuse her and subjugate her and so forth and so ok the solution to to to eat eat a little boy's probably wouldn't be advocated by most but but very interestingly even some maybe some maybe some who knows but of course you have to also understand the the director of good perkins he's the son of a psycho actor anthony perkins so it could be that he's just trying to work out some money issues you know we don't we're just we're actually going to have a little look at the movie psycho later in the show 1st though in the last decades we're talking about the grim brothers these stories have been so watered down for children in the last decades what kind of details from the original story have they brought back here yeah they brought back all sort of the really gruesome elements of the of the story so so you know the horror of like these kids being cast out basically to starve in the woods which is in the in the original tale and also really the bloodiness of it the way the needs of the which is an essential. dran

and the way she comes to her bitter end i mean no spoilers but you know. but what i find interesting is also the changes of the directors made i mean the main one in the original tale the kids are about the same age here he makes gretel much older and 16 the kid much younger me clear the gretel it's gretel story she's in charge and she's the hero ok so that's why it's gretel and hands one of these are german stories it strikes me that we're here in germany why aren't there german movies and t.v. shows based on the grim brothers' tales yeah i mean it has so many things in german culture goes back to the war before world war 2 germany had made a lot of horror movies of films like nosferatu gold medals created the horror film genre but after that the idea of the holocaust the idea of turning horror into entertainment lost its losses dazed and still is very taboo the only film i can think of that takes elements of the grimm brothers and does a different thing with it is the netflix series dark which isn't about the grimm stories but it uses some elements of the sort of the dark danger of the woods and

so forth but that's basically the only one grimm's built the sort of foundations of these fairy tales but it's up to a non germans mainly americans and then there is this there's going to in ireland gretel and handle had cinemas this week thanks so much scott for coming on the show and and talking about sources of cinematic inspiration artist edward hopper's quiet uncanny paintings of american life have influenced filmmakers from alfred hitchcock to david lynch a new exhibition of harper's works at the phone i assume bio now and switzerland includes a 3 d. movie about his paintings by german director of invent outs now hopper died more than 5 decades ago but his psychologically charged canvas is still make our brains feel all even today. there's a sense of foreboding in the pictures of edward hopper what exactly is going on

here is something panned about to happen. who are these people and what are they waiting for the pictures are very much like stills from a movie. or wonder that so many great film directors have found inspiration here. the museum fanta sean bell near basel in switzerland managed to get them vendors on board to make a 3 d. short film to accompany their major harper show. in its venders brings the pictures to life and reflects on the stories they could be telling stories of solitude and melancholy. when vendors drops by causes quite as they're. both

a father what questions come into your head when you see this picture of this one in. your floggers the other question is clear or to she waiting for what can she see she has pure expectation of that's the crazy thing about hopper pictures or they always demand that you see the next picture you want to take the story further yourself of the fact that the edge could moves over. a major theme in this show hoppers landscapes the framing is narrow but if you like george ford's run with the picture it soon becomes a vast tracks in front of the house so you. things go further what you can't see is often more importance. to the artist and would hope have to say about

his inspiration. from hope and hope his pictures oh most unbearably mysterious it's really this a wonder that hitchcock got them so much over that they influence throughout the film because the director alfred hitchcock and that spooky house from psycho. came out. the most. horrible events took place of course and would hop out provided the template. now many artists could make a sunny day sunny day look as creepy as edward hopper did but now we're going to move from harper's rambling country houses to the big city to crowded apartment

blocks and this next artist takes his inspiration from big apartment buildings which is rather unusual considering that he makes cuckoo clocks. league concrete apartment blocks as far as the eye can see you know it's him a man has an appreciation for this kind of a static he's exploring frankfurt seeking inspiration for his art. these cuckoo clocks are inspired by this architecture and an artistic form of protest highlighting the lack of affordable housing in frankfurt today but they're also a homage to the prefab apartment blocks so many people call home. the fittingly ghetto symon calls this quirky take on traditional black forest cuckoo

clocks cuckoo clock. who published the front can see i saw my 1st cuckoo clocks by hand but that was really difficult because these buildings in the windows are extremely symmetrical since he lives. he works with great precision paying attention to the smallest details like transforming tiny buttons into minute satellite dishes. creates limited editions of $25.00 cuckoo clocks each. apartment blocks symbolize germany and so do cuckoo clocks so it's a sim b.o.c. of them both they both go together very well that's good. he do appreciates many things that others consider ugly drawing inspiration from apartment blocks and from buildings with a unique history. like the a.f.e.

tower that once belonged to the university of frankfurt but was demolished in 2014 . but. it. also finds inspiration in brutalist architecture from france and the u.k. . was. his coup blocks meanwhile are highly sought after he sells them around the world for $3000.00 euros a piece. talk them over my ask buyers to send me a picture of where they placed the clock and sometimes they live in these swank the realist they put the prefab cuckoo block on their walls it's really funny platen bogus to thomas fish. that's the irony of the success story. kiddos latest project meanwhile involves creating homes for indigenous birds and insects. he's even developed an eco insect hotel for inspired by the housing

blocks of hong kong skinning estate. thanks for watching and if you're still craving culture don't worry we've got plenty more for you online at d.f.w. dot com slash culture by for now.

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