fluence 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 then 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. their town has a way of getting into your head. even before you. somehow you just never. know when i think. it's a story we all know but never like this children. should also smiles and 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 how to hungry children lost in the woods come across a house filled with food. danger lurks within. or even so. boring heavily from recent poor hits like the witch director of hospital perkins there's a new twist to the old tale it's a story this has scared everybody for hundreds of years very. tefl that. has to start something you can't stop. in a feminist which tries to convince grateful and clears only one thing little boys are good for. all this is left.

and dover's your film critic has got 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 that i missed something yeah yeah it's not really postmodern feminism i mean maybe it's pretty modern of how it isn't yeah i definitely take this this is being advocated by modern feminist groups but the way the director approaches the story is quite interesting he sets up this does world as being credibly male dominated and that girls like great all are worth nothing in this world and then she goes who would she meets this witch who is the most powerful person much more powerful than any man she's ever met rice which becomes sort of a i don't know mother like figure to her and she teaches her about as we would say 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 interesting even some maybe some maybe some who knows but of course you have to also understand the the director. perkins he's the son of a psycho actor anthony perkins so it could be that he's just trying to work out some 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 grimm 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 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 witches each children and the way she comes to her bitter end. no spoilers. 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 may clear the gravel it's gravel 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 like nosferatu gold novels created the horror films on or off but after that the idea of the holocaust the idea of turning whore into entertainment lost its losses taste and still is very taboo the only thing 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's going to end in ireland gretel and hands will head cinemas this week thanks so much scott for coming on the show. 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 bio now and switzerland includes a 3 d. movie about his paintings by german director of inventor us now hopper died more than 5 decades ago but his psychologically charged canvas is still make our brains feel all tingly even today. a sense of foreboding in the pictures. what exactly is going on here. is something. and 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 from the storm near basel in switzerland managed to get limb vendors on board to make a 3 d. short film to accompany their major show. in it brings the pictures to mind and reflects on the stories they could be telling stories of solitude and melancholy. when vendor stops by and causes quite a stare. both

a father what questions come into your head when you see this picture of this one. to flog is the question is clear what is she waiting for what can she see she is pure expectation and that's the crazy thing about hopper pictures for they always demand that you see the next picture you want to take the story further yourself east of the excrements over. a major theme in this show papa's landscapes the framing is narrow but if you like george ford's run with the picture it soon becomes fast the tracks in front of the house say things go further what you can't see is often more importance. but what did the artist edward hopper have to say about his inspiration.

the build up from hope and hope has pictures oh most unbearably mysterious it's really this a wonder that hitchcock them so much over that they influence throughout the filmmakers the director alfred hitchcock and that spooky house from psycho. and now. the most die hard of all events took place of course and would hope our 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 get out zimmerman has an appreciation for this kind of aesthetic 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. fittingly giteau symon calls this quirky take on traditional black forest cuckoo clocks cuckoo clock. vs saloon which the 400 can

see i saw my 1st cuckoo clocks by hand he says 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. but most retail apartment blocks symbolize germany and so do cuckoo clocks so it's a sim b.o.c. us of them both they both go together very well this pos of a sick would. 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

. also finds inspiration in brutalist architecture from france and the u.k. . was. his cuckoo 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've placed the clock and sometimes they live in these swank evilest they put the cuckoo block on their walls it's really funny platen botha's to post this. 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

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