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the russian. foreign minister described.
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the. experience. hello again a welcome to spotlight the show on. i'm now doing all day today my guest is geraldine chaplin. and granddaughter of the nobel prize winning playwright eugene o'neill and a daughter of charles spencer chaplin the movie genius she herself managed to achieve international arena and today she's often invited to be a member of the jury's tough international film festivals to talk about cinema talk about her life to talk about the days she spent here in moscow my guest today is
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geraldine chapter. chop and comes from the family of an actor who is a symbol of cinema itself she's the daughter of charlie chaplin and just like a father she's a brilliant actress she's rage work tirelessly day night and own ways with a contagious smile probably that's why she's a frequent guest of different festivals this year geraldine was chosen to head to moscow international film festival. chaplin thank you very much for being with us on the show pleasure well russians are pretty critical self critical everything from weather to the government that football their movies what's your point of view how did you. would you estimate the thirty third film festival because the press was pretty lousy over the radio in
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the russian press and they were they. about this election you know about the first one's self oh i thought i had the greatest time i saw a really a movie we discovered. discovered i mean that i discovered these three four extraordinary films. utter luxury of being in a hotel room where i open the curtains and there's the red square every morning i got to see that with this beautiful weather the absolutely charming more lovely people. so i can't find any you. maybe this afternoon somebody who is what about the movies. you were the chair of the jury so it was through the criteria you yourself introduced through for selection for judging no not at all i mean to me it had to be. it's you can't really rationalize emotion
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and it went through my eyes my heart my stomach my brain not necessarily in that order and the amazing thing was that the jury we were all very very different and we were sort of avoiding each other at the beginning and thinking oh boy this is going to be such a battle and everything and hey came the reunion we had all picked the same film. we were all absolutely. and that was incredible i mean i had in the matter of the night before i was saying ok i want number one to be the special prize the jury prize to be the story and i want the best directed to be from the chinese film which is the hong kong no one's going to do that out of criteria without coming across you know and the only thing i can compare it to would be. say. you're presented with
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this. chest the chest and is then it's full of treasures and you have all this wonderful jewelry and you take and there are this necklace and this necklace and this ring and this and this brace and it's all full of this treasure and suddenly there is this perfect pearl. and you take that out. and that is the film. and then you take out the amazing opulent full of jewelry magical really and necklace and that is the story and then you find this very strange but perfect design and you can some of the something exotic about but it's such the artistry is so amazing that's the chinese film there's no other criteria and then it doesn't mean all the rest are fake no we had
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a couple of fakes there. but they were. comparing it to jewelry isn't that awful but. i'm not surprised. because you do have a special feeling that everything spanish you can speak you speak spanish well i mean that in my local area oh no but but but what what's your opinion spanish cinema today is really as different a special a spanish football what we can say what makes polish football different but what makes spanish cinema's so special. when good directors good directors under fortunately there's a severe lack of value of. a produces i mean the crisis there's very little money. well there's the really makes you think he's and then people know that people go for something that they're pretty sure that they're going to get mum's on seats.
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for the first week and that's it. but this film is really such a jewel and the amazing thing is that that the free press he also gave that the first prize so it wasn't just because we spoke spanish and this is a what's your opinion about the contemporary russians and which is which is also very much criticized by the russians say well these were the days when the soviet times when the russians did good movies what about today's russia is your personal do you see a lot of them no i saw two the two that were in competition and they were both f. ing brilliant shop ito show which we gave the special jury prize to is a magnificent film it is well it is unbelievably funny it's very sad very russian it is incredibly intelligent it tells four different stories and it tells them from different different as not
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different point of view but you see what yes it is when you see one story and then suddenly that story is in the other side of the story it is the beautiful images at one point you know the subtitles were very low and very tiny and suddenly the image didn't matter the images they completely took over and. it went out thing i want to work with this guy this is an amazing film it is amazing the other spanish movie heart of boomerang is very. very beautiful spanish version russian mission actually spanish. russian you know special feeling to the spanish now it was. it's the story of a young guy twenty three year old he works on the metro and the doctor says to at the beginning of the movie you know you have this heart problem and you could die any second and how everything suddenly is transformed
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but not in an obvious way he tells no one he doesn't tell his mommy doesn't tell his friends he doesn't tell his girlfriend he doesn't tell anyone but the filmmaker by showing it by staying a little longer than he should on this cup makes you feel that maybe difficult course this guy and in two seconds may never see a cup again and the relationships change or become more that new feel of this man it's looking at the last moments of his life you have to part you played him in the number of movies that were nominated different systems so you know this feeling of being judged of the way they were what's more difficult to to be judged or to judge for yourselves. can you compare again i'm not
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mad about the word judge i mean i think the prizes are often often in this case not but often the prizes are certain. compromise i mean i've been in a lot of juries where. part of the jury is that about one film in another part is passionate about another film and so one chooses for the first prize a film that sort of both people agree that they like and so and then after insisting you know that really doesn't mean we get this consensus which is which is not good. in this in our case it wasn't like that we were all of the jury were absolutely passionate about these three films but in answer to your question. i don't know the festivals they're always when you go to a festival as a as a participant in the film it's just you're so overworked and it's so crazy and it's so you don't see and you don't don't get to see any movies all you do are interviews and selling the movie and you don't even have time to worry when people talk about sport this. isn't about selecting the best it's about selecting the
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winning the will will be the festival is about selecting the best movie or is it again about. who's won this mel it's just a certain thing that happens at a certain time i'm sure a lot of it has to do with what time the jury see the film how late they were up the night before. yes which none of us went to win two of them but no i don't think i don't think it's i don't think it's the best i don't think it's it's those those words are all awful i mean we're looking for. movies and we're passionate about movies if you get into injury have to because otherwise it's. it's an uncomfortable job as you say judging no movies and you see and you learn and you learn from every movie that you see is it fun being part of. it is a good it's very hard work it's very hard work we saw. i'll tell you the number
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thirty four hours and twenty minutes of movies. which but working into they give you chills to to watch something on a d.v.d. and you hope solo no that wouldn't have everything that wasn't me that wouldn't be fair and we have to be in the in the movie theater here at a certain time and see it on the big screen with a public gaze any action of the public yes yes prejudices if you see the reaction that i don't want to do them to shut down i don't think it is for me i think i'm going to get completely involved. in the film so the children chaplin chair of the early moscow its national film festival spotlight will be back shortly after a break we'll continue this interview so stay with us don't go.
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song from funds to pressure. from stunts on t.v. . fifty fifty. five. welcome back to spotlight i'm arguing over just a reminder that my guest on the show today is joe chapman the famous actress and she came to moscow this summer to be the head of the jury in moscow international film. children well we talked about a first about yourself well bit well you actually started your acting career maybe
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not the career but to learn. when you took dancing classes in switzerland is that true now i wanted to be a ballet dancer because i fell in love with my sister in law who was a ballet dancer and i thought she was the greatest thing on earth and so i wanted to do i wanted to have her hairdo and so i went into dancing and then i fell in love with ballet ballet with my feet and that was when you went to boarding school so it's a little nose a little bit later i wasn't you know honestly i wasn't boarding school but my parents live nearby and i go to ballet class and you into the belly and i went to ballet classes and then i was a dancer then i was a professional dancer and then i worked for a while in the circus i trained elephants and then you train goes then then. it's not as romantic as it sounds and so i love the let's find a look for something easy it's interesting that you told me that because in some of your interviews i heard that your dad spencer he was he was strongly against his children taken acting oh yes and you started out of her of the very for from a very early age being
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a ballet dancer than serious so what do you see that ballet how it was ok for him dosing was ok well he never thought i'd be that serious about it i was fourteen when i started which is a bit late now he wanted his children's to have his children to have decent professions like doctor lawyer and dentists says a lot of engineers would have been ok marmie techs would have been ok but actor i know that's the pits and so. i i left home i can but did i leave home or was i thrown out i'm not quite sure i either left home or i was thrown away out of the seventeen and and went into ballet and went to school and became a dancer and although i danced really beautifully in my head. the body never falls. oh i was soon without a job and i thought well let's look for something easy with a name like kaplan hey i can get a job or not. you are through. should watch the chaplin
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movie once again to see how it happened the question i wanted to ask you many people today they know your family they knew your father. from the film. i know anything about charles chaplin you played in the movie you played you rio grande so how quickly i love this movie myself but how adequate is the food from your point of view is chaplin himself adequate when you watch this movie was it really do. you know. i thought robert downey jr was absolutely extraordinary but i don't know if that was daddy i was born when my father was already of white haired. i've got to know him when he must have been about sixty five or six and it was all you see you see. from a child the man the little tramp in the movies with this guy with dark hair when curly hair and it had nothing to do with my father my father was charlie chaplin
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and the tramp tramp and so i don't know if that's a good portrayal of not. but it's certainly a very attractive one it should have been longer the movie is long as chapel hill because it was a long life. you played your first role. mistaken in limelight. as an extra yeah what was your first impression when you first came to know how it's made i mean that behind the wings of i had no idea i was eight years old. i was just so happy not to have to go to school. and then we had to go to school anyway because that was a law that you had to move your classes but i so yes i still reconstruct in london and it was it was ok it was cool but it was nothing i wasn't old enough to really. be curious and appreciate just up. one of the greatest movies in which used on the
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was a was. tanya marsh reefs wife in dr zhivago well really great movie but there were a later versions of the same movie and clued in the russian version we ever jealous other versions of no i didn't know i didn't know i was. somewhere i can't wear coming away and some journalist found when he sent hey you know they're making. a t.v. version of i think with keira knightley i'm not sure is that a great you know good it's a compliment if they're remaking it they're remaking it it means the story is still good and gives a chance to other people i didn't know there was a russian one oh interesting to see that. there's a lot of talk about the talkies killing the. cinema do you do you share this opinion do you think. that the sound in the movies killed
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the whole era to which you were. not at all no i think that. my father was very brave he made city lights one sound and you know he really was. but. did destroy a lot of activists whose voices had nothing to do with what the public thought i mean there were the lucky ones that had been voices. and but it didn't destroy a lot of people's careers. your daughter also become become a what do you thing about your children following you. know i'm indignant. i want them to have decent professions. lawyer really is a no no you really have you know that's what she wants but i'd said to her the first you know advice is you have to be able to take reject. because if.
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you if you're lucky and you go to if you go to one hundred auditions and you're lucky you're going to be rejected ninety nine times while you were you harbored the daughter of charles spencer chaplin and it's also the same for you you also go to you had to go to a hundred or do you know i was lucky i was lucky the chaplin name opened every door for me i mean i was sell a been so lucky all my life i can't believe it did you enjoy being his dogs i loved it really i just i got through school you know i got to school i would make friends with this is awful i would make friends with the with the girl who was the head of the class cause who was the cleverest and i'd say if you let me copy your latin exam i'll take you to my house and you can be charlie chaplin. and that's how i got through my study that's why i'm totally ignorant i covered all the girl and my mother would say this very strange friends this is with the glasses these studios
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tells us they tell are that's how i got to school that's how it's real life my father was so loved so well will you look enough because hugo chavez which i think you're lucky because you managed to become something yourself not just being his daughter i hope not i have you know i've hoped that just because of the way you are also the granddaughter of a famous playwright nobel prize winner his name's o'neil. in this part of the world people usually ask you about your day in the united states you know who those who chat with those who lost you about only is that true yes i mean they do know it happened but they're much more familiar with you know neal because everyone has studied him in school and because the one dollar stamp is eugene o'neill really i used to i used to collect instead of family photos family stamp. that because there's a charlie chaplin there's a black is now. in english as i don't know and then eugene o'neill is the the one dollar stamp in the states as i open up my my little thing and i say this is my
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family they're all stamps it's not a stamp collection because you symbolizes the renaissance of cinema in the first steps of cinema of the i mean you know that is no today you have to watch a lot of very modern and three d. . it's all those new technologies computer technologies new stuff what's your impression about these these new high tech technology to come and do they bring something good into the cinema or do they kill something good oh well i don't know i saw three d. for the first time here and musk a million transformers yes it's quite amazing i mean yes i think maybe oh apparently venders has done film about pina bausch in three d. now that ought to be research alice in wonderland three d. very very as a matter of fact we right now are sitting in this bar it's a movie theater in the center of moscow where they have been showing soviet three
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d. movies for the last like thirty years what today three d. is. something new well i don't know standing it is a i think being a perfectionist i remember the three days oh you had one one last which was red and one that was eerie and we even had snow movies where. the hero would be walking through a. field of flowers. and the sequel what about our i cloud boys movies . yes so so so do you think do you think movies need that. you can't be it can't be against new technology whatever i mean movie is. stupid to say the movies are movies only when they're done no way you know. i have yet to see a really good movie in the new technology but i don't go to the movies that often except in festivals thank you thank you very much for being with us and just a reminder that my guest on the show was geraldine chaplin granddaughter of the
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nobel prize winner and daughter of a movie genius and that's an american from all of you will be back with more force than comments on what's going on in there and. until then stay with our team and take your.
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