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he is going to war with netflix pumping billions more dollars into it streaming service. can disney catch up that's coming up here on arts and culture and. nigeria gets its 1st lesbian why the film's makers are risking jail time to tell their story. and cellist yo-yo ma offers songs of comfort and hope a new album for tough times. welcome to arts and culture the battle lines been redrawn and the war over home entertainment disney announced plans to spend $16000000000.00 on streaming content about half of that on

its own streaming platform disney plus where the company is set to release 10 new series from the marvel comics universe and 10 new star wars series which are sure to include disney's cutest new cash cow. now if you could take a good jericho as mandelbrot take a good pure joined now by d.w. stone expert scott roxboro i am he's here to tell us what this means for the global entertainment industry scott so disney launched its disney plus platform just about a year ago it looks like they're going all in on streaming those should netflix be worried yeah i think so i mean netflix is still course the big you know 800 pound gorilla in streaming they they they have something like $200000000.00 subscribers worldwide but took them a decade to get there disney launched its disney plus service just last year they're already at $86000000.00 and they expect 300000000 subscribers in the next 3 years i think they they could make it and as you're saying they're just pouring money into streaming i mean 10 new marvel t.v. series 10 new star wars t.v.

series basically what disney strategy is taking minor characters from their big film franchises like loki or wanda vision from the avengers movies and they're making them into a spin off t.v. series basically they're hoping that. these stories these characters have global fan bases from the films they're hoping with the series they can basically go toe to toe with netflix internationally so does that mean that disney is giving up on cinemas on the big screen no actually not i mean disney made a very clear they said last year we made $13000000000.00 at the box office in cinemas there not to throw that business away but i think what we are going to see now is a real division that we're going to see the very very big movies the big disney movies the big marvel movies the big star wars movies those are going cinemas for the smaller stuff is probably going to go online and we might even see smaller films from studios that disney owns like like fox or searchlight pictures also go

straight to straight on line ok it's got stick around because it's also the european film awards they've been handing out prizes all week and we've got a look now at some of the winners. italian period drama hidden away in one european film honors for best cinematography and best costume design. the film star in the of johnno is also up for best actor for his performance as self-taught italian artist and tony only got to have. the right turn out to be the hero of my own story whether that station will be held by anybody else is a european film award for best production design went to british comedy the personal history of david copperfield come until you. come in if you were you very ill or you are real dangerously she's got. a very sorry.

shape. because this having been taken to study of your. condition or whatever fairy spanish side try dystopia the platform which netflix released worldwide won for best visual effects. so it could be due to the just the. best original score went to the heartache soundtrack of perlin alexanderplatz a modern day update of the german classic novel. i'm back with our film guys got rocks for sky it looks like it was a great year for european cinema i'm a little embarrassed to say that i haven't seen any of these movies yeah but of course it barest obviously we have locked down across most of europe and that's case in most the world so a lot of these films never even made it into indiscernible because cinemas were

shut which is actually why the european film awards are extremely important this year because this is a chance to really shine a light on on some of these movies that maybe maybe got overlooked and as you say it's been a great great year for european cinema 2020 ok so the technical awards have already been announced but there are the really big awards best actor best actress best film those are going to be announced saturday night germany already has one u.f.a. with berlin onyx on up but any chance of another yeah i think the best chance for me to win another is in the best actress category because you got 2 german actuals nominee 2 by favorite german actresses i think either could win you've got nina hoss she's nominated for little sister where she plays the long suffering little sister of a famous theater actor played by famous theater actor lars i did her and she sort of cares for him as he's dying of cancer i really hope the last wins for this but she's up against big competition because there's another german actress polar bear and she stars in dino which is a love story from the director kristen petzold both these are 2 incredible

performances and i would want to pick between them ok what's your pick for best film best film i mean i think we talk about this early in the week another round the danish dramedy i love it's about 4 high school teachers in mid-life crisis and the side to sort of get through it by good. really into day drinking where it's a movie it stars mads mikkelsen. it's also not just a comedy though it's quite a touching life affirming film i love this movie my favorite movie of the year competition particularly from a polish movie called corpus christi which is about a priest. who a person needs a priest and so gets involved with small town spiritual community also great film. oscar this year so maybe that's the big competition but i'll definitely be pulling for another round to wed ok thanks so much. another movie making headlines is nigeria's 1st lesbian feature film effect meaning what's the movie was

released online this thursday for human rights day that's because the country's censors won't allow it to be shown in cinemas nigeria has one of the world's biggest film industries known as nollywood it also has laws that punish homosexuality with up to 14 years in prison. this is a part of. the faith tells the story of 2 women who fall in love in nigeria a country where same sex relationships are illegal in the past nollywood has often depicted queer characters as mentally ill or deeply troubled but the filmmakers say their film portrays normal life for a sizable percentage of the nigerian population i feel like for a very long time we've been told one sided story and the story is not complete if it doesn't represent all the groups in the society so what i wanted to do until the

full story by representing l.g.b. 3 people in 1000. production had to take place in secret the film's director the actors all face prosecution if censors decide their work promotes homosexuality and indeed thora these have threatened legal action in nigeria it's not accepted and so doing something like that puts you where you feel like it's not it's not the norm but but but i don't feel that it's bold i feel that it's ordinary i feel that it's my life just being shown on screen but it's been beautiful so the filmmakers have opted to have released on a streaming platform to ensure it can be seen by people within nigeria as well as. more arts and culture headlines now and hold onto your mask the elusive street artist banksy confirmed on instagram that he is the creator of this rather gras. public health warning the painting appeared

a few days on vale street england's steepest road in bristol reminding us that coded safety measures are nothing to sneeze at. but they were swift drop terse 2nd surprise album of 2020 the new work is called evermore swift says it's the sister album to her chart topping record folklore which came out just 5 months ago the 1st video from the new album had millions of you tube hits within hours. lucky her while the world's most famous cellist yo-yo ma has also been keeping busy during the pandemic he's got a new album together with pianist catherine stott it's called songs of comfort and something a lot of us can use here's a preview of the album starting with somewhere over the rainbow.

this is. tough times and you know lost people who are who are pushing through and leading their strenuous life and and. and for the longest time not knowing whether there's light at the end of the tunnel. all of these songs have i think specific meaning for people in different places and

since this is you know a worldwide epidemic and and it's one of the few things that actually. all at once are joining us together you know i mean in a horrible way but we're all kind of faced with the same issues right and and so we think music kind of could do that at various times also and we're hoping that this is sort of like a you know a way. into people's hearts and memories. i think when i think of the words. of over the rainbow it's like it kills me

you know. it's like it's good for you know you care like you know it's or. it's just it just kills me and every time we play it you know we're sort of. misty eyed. ready. that's all for this edition for me and the whole arts and culture team here in berlin thanks for joining us we have to have a very peaceful we got. a.

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petersburg and became artistic director of the opera houses in over sabir sc and parent. today he is in demand around the globe including the salzburg festival the world's most celebrated event for classical music. caresses and his russian orchestra musical at tara are among the big needs. it's 2 days before the concert. and. good morning. to all. of. the banality. but.

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here in the music department of the berlin state library lies a 200 year old treasure. its value is incalculable its significance universal. its a musical score an autograph in the composer's hand of a piece that unleashed a musical revolution and continues to move and inspire listeners to this day. ludwig fun beethoven symphony number 9 in d. minor. this masterpiece is about 17 minutes long. its climax is the famous 4th movement finale ode to joy with words by the poet.

everyone knows these melodies they convey a seemingly simple message. but in fact to unravel the mystery of the 9th symphony you have to travel the globe. 10 dawn is a composer of operas orchestral works in film music in 2001 he won an oscar for his score for crouching tiger hidden dragon. he grew up in rural china. later he studied in the united states and his career has taken him around the world . his current project is called choral concerto 9 a work intended for performance with beethoven's 9th symphony the piece has been

commissioned by the beethoven anniversary society in bonn and the royal philharmonic society in london for which beethoven wrote his symphony 200 years ago 2 2. sometimes you feel when you want to reach beethoven here you have to pass there's there's this folk that tradition there what do you wish to do with all those tradition common to beethoven here then.

here it gets too complicated. and then one day i was thinking to myself forget it forget about this forget about forget to forget everything forget it just to go to for them to use the paint off and calm all heart to heart i too i ear to ear. 200 years ago. for from 9 symphony. he was trying to talk to. everybody. of course he may not. imagine. he was talking to me i mean

200 years later i'm standing here in shanghai. listen. that's the heartbeat of shanghai and the here there is just the winds and the blonde. moving that's the people in the city. but to me this is the beethoven i thought at that that that that. you can feel the whole world is vibrating and the music from beethoven actually had all the cold there already and i'm trying to do cold the beethoven the rhythms

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the whole whitaker is on a mission to transmit music through other means he has a music degree from oxford university and works as a teacher and motivational coach he was on it with the prestigious o.b.e. award by queen elizabeth. the field the music project has brought whitaker to barcelona where he's working with musicians of the mahler chamber orchestra and hearing impaired children this musical encounter is taking place at the pullout the land a concert hall. and. hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo. pal. like you i am gone. i'm. me i've had

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i. do. every year an extraordinary event takes place in osaka beethoven's 9th performed with no fewer than $10000.00 singers. she's now come out so we singing for the 1st time in this choir made up. non-professionals. for the past 20 years the mega concert has been conducted by japanese my stroll.

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according to darcy then some other more and i could deny it's a bonk or macari yeah see the clock says this yesterday the scum will jubilant of coming on what he wanted to do they're not oh never quite out of the white house. conductor utaka saddle has come to the provincial city of no ruta it was here that the story of the 9th symphony in japan began. the enthusiasm for beethoven is mingled with stories of war time. in 1914

japanese troops conquered the german colony of tsingtao in china. 4600 german soldiers were held as prisoners of war around a 1000 of them were interned in a router. but the prisoner of war camp offered the germans some freedom. they had a bakery a newspaper and cultural events. to orchestras provided entertainment. in june 1918 the prisoners staged a big concert the 1st ever performance of beethoven's 9th symphony in japan indeed in all of asia for a long time this chapter of german japanese history was forgotten today it's documented in the c.m. and immemorial.

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and. you. look at. it that. beethoven dedicated the 9th symphony to a powerful ruler the pression king vilhelm the 3rd. time and again the work has been played in a political context. in 1942 vilhelm conducted the berlin philharmonic in a performance of the symphony to mark adult hitler's birthday. in the audience propaganda minister yours of goebbels and other high ranking nazis

. beethoven touching the hearts of the heartless. during the cold war division of germany the ninety's became a kind of substitute national anthem. from 1956 to $964.00 east and west germany competed together at the olympic games with athletes from both countries forming a single team. beethoven as a symbol of unity. in southern africa the racist white minority regime of radiation the country that is now zimbabwe made the melody of the 4th movement its national anthem. beethoven's music misused by oppressors.

in germany. chinese students protested in tiananmen square in beijing to the strains of the 9th symphony. of beethoven as an expression of hope. after the berlin wall sell later that year the symphony became part of the soundtrack of german reunification. the american conductor leonard bernstein performed the nights in the eastern and western parts of the once divided city. she changed the text from joy to freedom. to. i. some experts believe that may have been the word schiller originally wrote. since 1905 the ode to joy melody has been the official anthem of the european

community now the european union. it stands for the common values of the member states freedom peace and solidarity. to avoid favoring one language over any other and instrumental version was chosen as the european anthem. of. its example might it if. it was it's exactly the way that that is a lot of. really feeling this way of us is that. this is a clip of the whole mayan if then and known to the bodies on smog there's. a.

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