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tv   Arts and Culture  Deutsche Welle  February 28, 2020 7:45am-8:00am CET

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but we begin at the bell and every year there is a golden baffle lifetime achievement award to someone in the film business this year it goes to the british actress helen mirren who's made over 60 films from playing a gangster a small opposite hoskyns in the long good friday to that memorable winning performance in the queen and she is in my mind one of the greatest living actresses around us i wonder what experts on this subject thinks film critics rocks is downtown at the festival no arm a little bias but how do you write to mr and as an actress. yeah i mean how do i write her as an actress my lord she's obviously the queen you know won the oscar for the queen but i put her above that i put her as that as an empress of british that about world cinema i mean this is
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a woman who's who's who's range is incredible she's won the triple crown of acting out of the the emmy the oscar the tony and has played everything from willis but the 2nd to jason state thems gangster mother in a fast and furious movie i mean the woman has incredible range and i think it's because she though she seems to take or acting her craft incredibly seriously she doesn't take herself that seriously she still remains very very down to earth i think that's what gives her particular charm she has i think the exact right mix of of class and sass if you will are couldn't agree more you know she doesn't take too seriously but her acting seriously great now you've just seen another film in competition this year days from the renowned time when he's directed signing. now i've seen business looks very slow paced. yes yes very very so i betcha past the furious this is slow and well ponderous maybe perhaps but it's incredibly good i mean this. is
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a master of slow set of almost the creator of the term slow cinema and he's a real master of the long take he is basically pushing back against the whole idea of hollywood cinema with this sort of western concept that narrative is important or that dialogue is important this is a 2 hour movie with no dialogue with a series of long slow takes i mean he himself has said that he wants cinema to be a temple not a shopping mall and if you imagine hollywood cinema as being sort of like the mcdonald's this is much more of a delicate dish that's takes a while to enjoy but it's really worth it ok scott stay with us. we'll be joining scott in a minute will be the director of this next movie it's being hailed as one of the movies to see if she has been in on all screening at joaquin phoenix's it's a great off the street it's poetic it's heartwarming it heartbreaking and his main
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stoss are large family pigs here's a clip. chances are you've never seen pegs this way before. director victor casa cobbs he puts us on a high level with the narrator documentary. the film's protagonist a norwegian pig named go and enjoys a lot more freedom than most farm animals but there are still limits such as electric fences. the hour and a half long documentary also follows goodness piglets is there a crazed for slaughter. animal rights film doesn't appeal to us with facts or figures there's no mention of the hundreds of millions of pig. killed each year raised on factory farms instead he shows us a family of social individuals. and this chicken
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and county burst deliver their own compelling performances as the movies supporting cast. intriguing now will go straight back to scott who has the director victor cross across the with him over to you skull. yeah thanks rob yes victor thank you so much for joining us thank you so much for this movie 1st i mean this is an animal documentary unlike any i've ever seen before there's no no dialogue no voiceover no musical there was music on that clip there but in the film itself there's no music why did you decide to take star radical approach in telling the story and can i pick up what you just said a minute ago you said you caught that scene in ways a temple not a shopping mall you know they're writing a book of set i want to read the rest become. yours and if i continue this i would say on my view just become for most writers. why do you do
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and this is so obvious that you should not. kill. it's actually read them do not care what i write so why you are kidding and we already agreed you shouldn't care people who write your average or grieve with you shouldn't have slavery where is your greens of the press isn't is wrong reality is your griese if you have to be we have to accept that some people have different sex. and we have to agree that we already agreed that 3 men has same rights was man so we should agree that not to kill animals you know. that there why then did you choose to pick the setting in a pig in a quite nice farm relatively and not in a factory because because maine if else was making mean slaughterhouses and firms. didn't make jokes right so if people watch it but people don't want to seem to bother people block it from book people decided not to seem to party every time you
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eat you every time you or the people your they do you know use have to ask yourself what do you eat was just a few minutes ago in life and so so just briefly what do you hope that people take away from this the most what you hope that they do after being so eating and living with going so easy it's so easy we can do better and look at us we really if you don't really are not kind of kind of us anymore right be careful not slavery any more right you're not kidding me being as how he did 70 years ago in the busiest client we can do where we can store became a meter even when they attacked a kenyan from our life for ever and he gives him. the right to leave it just by the same as agreed to we are not there more simpler than creatures in the world no . planet is assholes and that's all it's so simple i'm i should be dickless if they have to repeat it they just so oh well definitely after seeing this movie don't
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think i have to repeat anymore because that's the thank you so much for joining us and back to you robin. scott thank you victor thank you very much i'm going to change my diet now since october 23rd. picture gallery in dresden has been closed for reconstruction and indeed it's priceless collection of old masters put in storage or in some cases meticulously restored now once again great art works by the likes of rembrandt rubens and me have angelo can be seen in all their glory. this sistine madonna had less than a dresden living she was part of this billboard the dresden state art collections used while their old masters picture gallery was closed for renovations. now after 70 years of reconstruction and refer bish ments its reopening visitors can expect a journey through european art history. idea was to reclaim the
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sensuality of these works by allowing people to take a kind of stroll through the centuries represented in the collections on the stock is. a new color scheme helps visitors dive into the past red walls for the italian masterpieces raphael sistine madonna or their own is a cycle a commission from a rich merchant family with a monopoly on a red pigment from mexican cochineal insects having faded over the centuries this work also needed extensive restoration. of the scene here then he had been from in sr live various shades of red he used from a radiant warm red to a cherry red in the robes of the soldier can be seen sitting noise or a vibrant orange in the coat of this writer he said today does by doing all of that he was obliging his patron then off that and if i was of the collections
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28000 sculptures 400 can now be displayed some close to similarly themed paintings to demonstrate how many painters took inspiration from sculpture. natural light brings the dresden classics alive including kind of let the scene of dresden historic old town it's one of 36 works by the italian painter who depicted 18th century life in stunning detail from this weekend visitors can once again admired these masterpieces interest. 36 can i last i was a lot slower small i don't really recommend. museum german photographer mountain shirt is famous for what he calls his big head technique taking very close up photos of people with unflinching attention to facial detail now while based in new york over the years he's managed to persuade many celebrities to pose for him in this way now right now there's an exhibition of his work in the western german town
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of just a little. it's the reflections in their eyes that make these portraits come alive close ups like these are my team showed us trademark and they've launched his career. they said the from for jobs and 1998 i had 5 assignments 3 weddings and 2 small still lifes and then vanessa redgrave and then in 1909 i had 127 commissions it was like an avalanche. since then he's photographed famous people with the same lighting the same backdrop and from the same distance in this exhibition the portraits are hung to allow for connections say between german singer pay to modify and soccer coach will give you. this him and his around the same age you can see their lives edged in their faces and somehow even though they're nothing alike i start comparing the 2 i like comparing faces from right through this series of photos of drag queens he opened up his framing to include
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their upper body as he took the same approach with women bodybuilders whose nontraditional presentation of female beauty often makes them outsiders sometimes mounting shallow goes in a different direction shooting robert de niro with a bag of chips on the new york subway or quentin tarantino in a straight jacket surrounded by darkness photos that tell stories. and did you spot a picture of her head of the near and that she was that but say it's for today loads more. of the berlin film festival and culture stories on our websites. dot com slash culture but i leave you with images from the paris fashion week which is currently underway in the french capital thanks for joining us and to join us again at the same time some are up if you kept.
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