if they're looking for a distraction from the pandemic but some are excited about watching more pandemics and movies and series here's a look at what's playing starting with the stand featuring a new ending written by stephen king himself the story starts 5 months after a bioengineered super flu has decimated the world's population directed by josh boone this new and timely adaptation of stephen king's 1978 novel the stand is not about viral epidemic as such but it uses one to set the scene for a battle of good versus evil. on the one side there's a mysterious centenarian played by will be goldberg. hello friend of. my day is abigail fremantle. you come see me at every foot hole colorado kid you remember that for me.

fremantle drools have followers in infiltrating their dreams. but many choose the dark side to follow in alexander styles guard as randall flag was. told it was no more i hear charming southern man. stephen king not content with the original ending if he sprawling nothing personally scripted only one to stand is a vision of a world blasted by a plague with the survivors forced to take sides. another series planned before the pandemic and now with added timeliness is the german danish series slobodan written directed and filmed by christian albert so born sees a north sea island community confronted with

a fatal virus and what that's your india problem influence of history that. the epic series explores what happens when the thin veneer of civilization is from moved. it. up to. its ability to be yourself i. cannot. touch. this series was nearly pulled off to broadcasters express concern that it might be too close to reality for some viewers to cope with. something else and also expect that real invited you to it 6. a 2nd season is now in the works. with the without a pandemic terry gilliam's $996.00 dystopian 12 monkeys starring bruce willis and brad pitt remains a modern masterpiece. deliveries over. the film's 25 year

anniversary rerelease has basically full in june the coronavirus pandemic giving its predictions a lot more punch. pandemic films old and new and the very real coronavirus pandemic is also changing the film industry my colleague michael kroger has got more on that. some of the big changes we're seeing in the movie industry are happening actually where the coronavirus started in china absolutely the people there are going all right the. restaurant they're going to the clubs and they're going to the cinema and. yet and for the 1st time in film history the chinese movie theaters the big box office the u.s. ones which is not really surprised due to the corona pandemic especially over the past a weekend they set a record high on around 162000000 euro by the way exclusively with chinese films

and everybody is wearing a mask it's a bit different but i have to admit i've really enjoy watching people watching the film also a bit jealous. of where it's hopefully to come for the rest of us and some not so distant future we'll talk more in just a moment but 1st what are movie theaters going to do with all those films they couldn't show last year. the number of films held back from release in 2020 is considerable could there be a glass of movies in the cinemas this year will james bond have to fight it out with other film heroes of the box office film journalists cabin crews on a beach says that's unlikely to save and they schedule films so they don't cannibalize each others week there have been some movements toward shortening the window and the window is for exhibitors how long it's going to be on the big screen

at your local can you know cineplex then it will go if you go to either blu ray or d.v.d. or streaming there is a shortening of that which endangered 6 exhibition but for the most part i think we're going to look forward to a really great 2021 and possibly even better 2022 and she cautions against worrying too much that streaming services will be the death of movie theaters once kind of it is a thing of the past so now i think people are looking at people they're thinking all streaming is going to take over cinema exhibition well it won't because the income from streaming still cannot cannot even vied with what they get from from cinema with rhesus so there's that also with netflix netflix in their favor there's a lot of original content even for feature films but they're very strange about putting out financial figures so we don't really know what money they're making and

what they're saying. mike and i are back and mike or maybe it's encouraging for us to remember that this pandemic is actually not the 1st big crisis that the movie industry is not that it isn't it isn't at all looking back at the history of cinema they have been so many crisis. and that flick let flicks you know they started with d.v.d.'s and which many thought could be the end of cinema us as well but before that there was the h.s. do you remember if you look at this month. i mean one of the video recorders and i do remember also the picture and sound quality of the movies which might have been quite didn't kill movie theaters either and before that was of course television. yeah which me and many also addicted would be the end of cinema it wasn't right yes but they survived the 1st world war for example he nearly destroyed also the european film industry but at the same time you know they invented hollywood so the

theater always evolved into depth. yeah some very historical cinemas some say shit transformed into museums ok michael thank you for reminding us that there is reason to hope speaking of history as well well last week cinema very quietly celebrated its 125th birthday of course 125 years ago there weren't cinemas to speak of but that's when the brothers in france oh sure their very 1st moving pictures to an audience what films do they show because there was no industry and they invented a device which was a camera and a project at the same time they did little films from the daily life situations not really a big sensation but it was moving images were a big sensation we have an example of the 1st phone that was shown with this train from today's perspective quite vaulting of the people in the audience were absolutely scared they were afraid that the train could run over them all the.

she's filmed the work of their own factory maybe you can see this as well yeah there's so many of those you can find them easily on the you tube channel institute limb here and after that the development right really fast absolutely it's amazing to look back and see how different the films were how different your perception was thanks so much. the director of animated films including spirited away and princes modern ok is celebrating his 80th birthday legendary japanese animator and oscar winner and yes zaki made movie history bringing japanese animation to a global audience while creating some of his country's highest grossing films and for the new year me as arky put out an illustration showing 2021 as an ox crushing the coronavirus under its huff how to destroy your enemy well that's

what the late swiss author and playwright freak which dylan might wrote about in his classic play the visit it's the story of a rich old woman who returns to her poor hometown and promises to help rebuild it if the townspeople murder her ex lover quite the moral dilemma driven mad stories are wild and unpredictable and so was he if you were alive today it would be the author's 100th birthday. miss would silence and mentality looks like a postcard being blown he didn't stop all the free drink during mad from writing sentences like the world is a gunpowder factory was smoking isn't food. that's typical during much of the past a son who skipped school or a military service was a low not and was committed to provocation he was also a swiss national monument whose youthful activities drew the attention of the swiss secret service and to his works a modern classics. what's less well known is that he was unable to feed his family

of 5 at age 31 he was broke his desperation was so great that in 1952 the swiss magazine. called for donations to support what it called a 1st rate talent $170.00 donors gave 5 francs a month for 3 years that's about $100000.00 euros. the magazine decided it was better to help people while they're still alive and make it possible for them to work than to commemorate them when they did. thanks to this crowdfunding dura matt was able to produce one bestseller after another in 1950 to the judge and his hangman 956 the visit in 1960 to the physicists about an insane asylum or a brilliant scientist poses as a mental patient to protect humanity from its own dangerous discovery. he did

believe that reason could win out but he was also just a fantastic storyteller. during that steams with justice complicity and the repression of memories his passions food and drink gods. his specialty tragicomedy works the pointed out the weaknesses the corruption of society. bob for my entire youth i was always in opposition against my whole environment. that's how my imagination grew much larger than reality. t.v. a cricket some present day critics say his works was sexist duramax biography very best says he was a man of his times in the visit the main character seeks revenge on men. she demonstrates to the men the hypocrisy of their petrie arkell society.

one more dramatic quote for the authors hundreds those who despair lose their wits those who write comedies use them. well that's it for this edition of arts and culture.

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