and later on the author johnny pitts his book afro pm about the search for black european identity wins a major european prize. ringback welcomes arts and culture just when you think meryl streep has done it all well think again the queen of hollywood's latest straight to streaming movie is new territory even for her street films let them all talk and just 2 weeks on a real atlantica crossing and with no script that takes a lot of trust and a director who loves to experiment steven soderbergh. stopped work meryl streep plays a famous author trying to finish her latest novel while on a cruise with her nephew into artist friends the film was shot in sequence and dialogue was improvised and the actors including lucas hedges diane least in candice bergen had no idea where the story was going to go have a think later no i can't. it's not anything any of us has ever

seen before. as it came out of the perfervid imagination of everybody you know in it and it was a real seat of the pants kind of production. director steven soderbergh a 3 time pastor winter street only a rough line before each day's shoot your entire film was shot over 2 weeks as the cast crossed the atlantic on the queen mary 2 back when you could still take cruises. and it was like a fever dream it was i who i'm not sure of that. any of us you think we made a movie it was so fast and that was all steven and he shot the entire movie himself with a little teeny weeny camera that needed no lights and we just worked all the time on the ship we didn't get to go to the scraw our gym member we just did this movie

let them all talk premiers on line on h.b.o. max on december 10th compas who is the real. joining me now to talk about let them all talk is you know his movie guy scott roxboro scott this actually looks like the sybase amazing cast it looks like kind of a small movie for director i steven soderbergh yeah yeah of course that's sort of makes is maybe a big movie the ocean 11 series you know magic mike you know but in between those huge movies he likes to make really small experimental films he's done a lot of these type of boobies which are. basically with no budget where he shoots everything himself i mean this film is say we shot 2 weeks on this cruise across the atlantic he shot all by himself like rolling in a wheelchair with with with with with his camera improvise a script and essentially he does it for almost no budget he gets these great actors to work with them you know meryl streep diana west you know. candice bergen they

simply work for nothing just so they can be on the project to be part of it and and this film is getting great reviews i mean it shows you maybe you don't need a 100000000 dollars to make a great movie you just need a great director great actors and you know the energy to power through skype so we've got to stick around because i want to look at some different movies let's check out this year's crop of christmas flicks. there's a more diverse crop of christmas movies this holiday season kick in michael keaton forest whitaker play rival toy makers and netflix is jingle jangle it's a fresh take on the holiday musical genre with the only african-american leave. it school. are proof that there are foods pools school food food food food you are seeing people of color being represented in a way you have seldom seen and the christmas romantic comedy gets a new twist with happiest season starring kristen stewart and mackenzie davis as

lesbian 'd couple abby and harper their holiday trip home gets harper admits she hasn't come out to her family to talk so i think this is her 1st foreign country and the. cars are very. brave. need to queue lots of cringe comedy and some on the nose for gas they are. what are you doing in this stuff. there's no reason to wait a minute more traditional is dolly parton's christmas on the square also from netflix one for me it's an update on a christmas carol christine baranski has screwed. themselves dolly parton of course does this signal. christmas is a time for champagne and. christmas eve is a time frame to begin things. you have to love dolly parton working 9 to 5 as an

angel scott actually let's talk more about how to be a seasoned lesbian christmas rom com in a way this just looks like a lot of other christmas movies we've seen it is it yeah it's very much so it follows the exact same sort of formula of these christmas movies you can really read the beat throughout the front the film i mean they even have scenes in there that are in every single sort of. christmas rom com the sort of skating scene where everyone gathers together there's sort of conflict for him a lot of romance and so on they have all those traditional scenes you see in every christmas movie but it kind of works i mean particularly the chemistry between kristen stewart and mackenzie davis is amazing even though i think david is far too tall for workers. it's a matter of personal taste ok so maybe not the most radical film for the 1st big wise beyond their christmas it's actually also not the only day christmas comedy this year is never no no exactly i mean there seems to be a bill little bit of

a mini trend this year lifetime you know lifetime it's a t.v. channel in the us actually quite conservative traditional channel and they do almost a day program like a dozen christmas movies every year this year for the very 1st time they've done one where a same sex romantic relationship is at the center of the story the film is called the christmas set up and it's about a matchmaker mom played by fran drescher of nanny fame who sets up her gay son when he's home for christmas by setting up with his old high school crush is exactly what you'd expect from a lifetime movie incredibly cheesy you know exactly where this is going and a happy end of course is guaranteed and a little bit of an unexpected turn for fran drescher notably one of the funniest jewish comedians now and a christmas comedy scott thanks so much for for coming on and radio through all these wonderful movies. some more arts and culture news now tenet director christopher nolan has slammed the warner brothers over its new streaming strategy

the studio announced it will put all its new films next year online the very same day cinema director says one of the others should have told filmmakers 1st before deciding to premiere their long run in project on h.b.o.'s streaming platform wonder woman director patti jenkins agrees with no one but she says she's glad her film will be released online instead of being held back. she won't do well here longest running soap opera in the world britain's coronation street is turning 60 with more than 10000 episodes broadcast the show has served as a model for daily television around the globe pairing a light humor with plenty of intrigue. lots of drama there and former u.s. president and best selling author of barack obama accepted the voice of influence

award given by literary and human rights organization pen america singer and writer patti smith was also honored at the virtual edition of pam's annual gala she accepted the literary serviceable award for authors who write about the human condition have the power well african american culture is known around the globe but the experiences of black europeans have only recently gained visibility within the white mainstream british author photographer johnny pitts has done his part to help as a 21000 book afro p.n. notes from black europe has just been named the winner of the leipzig book award for european understanding we met up with pets a few months ago in his hometown. sheffield city in the north of england is where journalist television presenter and photographer johnny pitts grew up his mother was from a white working class family and his father was an african-american so musician

it's his book after a peon has just won the lights a book award for european understanding in it he traces his journey through black europe to uncover black european identities that go beyond cliches. you either get images of black people in tower blocks and hoodies looking like they're violent or you get images of black people or sports stars and smiley and all festivals or carnivals and having foreign parts but there's this you don't often see the in between this of things the banality of the every day in this. work commute i want to people on the metro going going to pick their kids up from school so you get a kind of every day black experience that kind of tries to normalize for the next size blackness in your from sheffield pitts travel to paris and brussels on to amsterdam berlin stark rome and my say he wanted to meet black europeans from the most diverse backgrounds the result is a look at a black d.

aspirant in europe whose realities often go unnoticed. did start to rise in racism and it troubled me and i started to know it's a kind of insularity that was taking place in this country that scares me a smooth brown skin living on an island. is leaning towards the right so i want to look beyond britain i discovered an old continent that was creaking. black community is very often living on the periphery of europe. the notion of blackness that never really fit together properly you know the more i tried the afro peon solidly on to something the more it fell apart what is afro paean isn't something that actually exists or is it a construct. stefania construct i think that's something that the black community in europe haven't had historically in the same way that the african-american community of you know

a kind of solidarity in the face of racism. in interweave stories of the people pets met on his journey with the history of european colonialism. light on atrocities white europeans committed on africans that are still often shrouded in silence today genocide perpetrated by german imperial troops against the herero a number of people in present day namibia where the cruelty of belgian colonial forces in the congo. says it's high time europe faced up to its past i think there needs to be a level of honesty and i think it does start with teaching colonialism in schools when i'm criticizing europe when i'm criticizing this country i want europe to be a better place i want to take part in europe. i want britain to be a better place i'm fighting for this country but maybe not in the way that people traditionally fought for it which is you know to keep. prejudices in place. europe that confronts its colonial past head on and stops marginalizing black people

that's johnny now word winning vision. and we've got more online about johnny pitts and others making waves in the world of arts and culture peirce a visit any time at d.f.w. dot com for us culture stay safe and see backstop.

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