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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  February 4, 2020 12:45am-1:00am CET

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the bafta took place in london on sunday nights they are the british oscars really a very much a precursor for the academy awards which are coming up next week there has been criticism of the lack of diversity in the bafta nominations this year and this was addressed by a number of the stars who are either got or presented prizes and as i said a very british film school the major awards. so mendez world war one film 1917 was the big winner at the bafta it won 7 prizes in total including best film best british film history actor and best cinematography. thank you bafta for giving us a really wonderful night thank you very very much and thank you for all the people who've gone to see this movie in the cinema it's still on. thank you for the crew
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to the crew out there in the gods thank you 2. renée zellweger was named best actress for her portrayal of judy garland. garland london town which you have always loved so much still lets you know that this is for you thanks everyone. joker 13 awards including best actor for walking phoenix. in his acceptance speech phoenix took aim at systemic racism and oppression with the film industry. unashamed to say that i'm part of the problem i have not done everything in my power to ensure that asserts i work on our inclusive but i think that it's more
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than just having said that a multicultural i think that. we have to really do the hard work to truly understand systemic racism. i think that it is the obligation. of the people that have created and perpetuate and benefit from a system of oppression to be the ones that dismantle it so that's on us with it is there and while presenting the award for best director australian actress rebeled wilson commented on the lack of women nominees in that category. sam mendez the man scorsese todd phillips clinton turned teen our. own jeanne hi. i look at the exceptional daring talent nominated in this category and i guess i don't think i could do what they do. honestly i just
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don't have the balls was. south korean film parasite one only to have the 4 categories for which it was nominated with one original screenplay and film not in the english language that could be an indication of its chances at the oscar awards later this month dr congo learned some steam off. the flemish office was one of the great innovators of renaissance off in the early 15th century and eat up the time his free di mentioned illusions were so realistic some thought he was a source for fun ike an optical revolution is the title of the most comprehensive exhibition of his work ever assembled it's just opened up a museum of fine arts in the belgian city of ghent. these statues seem to leap out
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of the frame the figures are given a 3 dimensional quality by the painted reflection in the background they have a physical presence but they're actually just 2 dimensional paintings in the middle ages eon fun ike was the 1st artist to paint optical illusions on wooden panels. it was the one who showed us how we need to look and he still has a decisive influence on how we see really as a more to this day. sun i did that by perfecting his own oil painting technique 600 years ago he was rendering detail down to the millimeter he made garments so real you can almost feel their textures he created masterpieces so realistic that they almost seem photographic as a cuts me off i think he was perhaps short sighted because short sighted people of concentrate on detail. but found i also never loses view of the complete picture
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that the. fine ike depict of the people of his time and biblical figures in equal measure this is a unique opportunity to get up close to numerous fan hikes there usually scattered around the world in various museums these alter panels adorn the cathedral and get his 1st large work is protected behind bulletproof glass yann fun i master of realism i'm a revolutionary who changed the course of art history. now in our continuing series $100.00 german must reads highlighting the best german books available in english we come to an amount creased by money come our own it's a love story between $2.00 older people won from the former communist east of one from the capitalist west germany 2 proud protagonists made off of the berlin wall has full and however that different personal histories in the vastly different
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upbringings they experience creates an emotional wall between them. sooner or later we'll all be just a pile of bones so before you're as dead as this guy how about taking a few risks you could even take a chance on love. the ageing married or of money come out of one's novel and the mud ceased meets her bow right here under the brucie sorious at berlin's natural history museum the man's name is and everything about him is gray his eyes his hair his coat fronts cause the dinosaur a beautiful island and the narrator falls head over heels for she's a paleontologist from east berlin who worships these here monkeys fossils he's a west german insect researcher both of them are married both of them are getting on in years love is never easy with const the writing is on the line every night he
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sneaks back out to his wife every intimate question he answers with a girl so what does she see in the sky why is she willing to give up her old life for him. i can't even tell if love breaks in or out sometimes it seems to me that it breaks into us like a strange being that has been lurking about us for months even years until we are visited by memories and dreams and we want mainly open our ports through which it seeps within seconds and blends with every substance contained within our skin. but now a 90 year old narrator recalls her boundless love for france with passion tenderness and brutality she also recounts her life after world war 2 and under communism but in the end it's all about hunt's hans hans what becomes of the grey man
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and how does the affair and you'll have to read i mean my taste yourself to find out whatever you do. don't expect happy ending. incidentally later this week we'll have a report about tristan the t.v. rex you saw the beginning of the report who's been the superstar of the natural history museum here in berlin for some years now. now the american. influenced by so many musical genres it is impossible to pigeonhole them experimental yes but also there's a lot of classic soul in the music as well that name was chosen deliberately as a political statement in the city hall just being an important place regarding the post-colonial struggle the band were here in berlin recently promoting their 3rd album cold there is no you're. wrong nowhere from
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you know america. they saying about in america in flames and dream of rebellion seeing algiers and their singer franklin james fischer have created the sound of a down phone but it's also a declaration of war. because. 3 of the 4 band members grew up in atlanta georgia there's music combines the coolness of post-punk with the defiance of gospel they've just released their 3rd album there is a new here it continues what's been described as their industrial solo sound as well as fisher's explosive lyrics very personal and also very political. it's not that i necessarily believe in the in the philosophy of real politic but i
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mean if you even want to appeal to that it is absolutely absurd if you do not think if if you do not think that this man donald trump is not a threat to your national security. it's absurd. but they've taken their ideology and they've run with it it's the equivalent is the equivalent politically and culturally of a murder suicide that's what the republicans are doing the right we're going to take you all down with us. fisher was born in the american south in 1981 his father was a doctor one of only 2 black people in the entire county the band is influenced by the themes of black culture racism police violence the civil rights movement and a feeling of alienation the result is a dark sound but one that strives for liberation. fisher and keyboardist brian mccann have no interest in hero worship but on
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a recent promotional visit to berlin they were very interested to visit a memorial to 2 other thinkers driven by a search for liberation. i feel like you can't have cultural critique without. as a starting point as the basis of all the truth to be. the solution to all of. yours expresses criticism of the current conditions through their unmistakable music. it's a complex sound made for a complex world but the message behind it is a simple. don't oppress other people try to find a way that we can like just because it exists.
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because. they are currently on tour here in europe from plans are afoot for gigs elsewhere. in the weld mall also in culture stories on the web site at v.w. dot com such culture about so for this edition thanks ever so much for watching and bob barr.
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