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hello again the welcome to spotlight the interview show on part two now with my guest. the never ending standout action against. even more urgent it's three d. craze encourages directors to shoot spectacular movies but skimp on story and character there are lots of filmmakers of course who treat cinema as art rather than showbiz but their work as art house is going deeper and deeper out of the

ground with fewer people here are paying respects so there's the future of cinema look or like. this is the last battle of arts where the bread and circuses will discuss where award winning filmmaker is part of a little here a little help from francis ford. for a few years by now lots of special effects and three d. have been winning minds and turning films into instant cash cow technology only makes movies look cool but critics say the trend is scary because the rush for spectacular makes good acting and story they need to wait while hollywood continues to struggle for the quality of filmmaking is moving to the independent american studios and the european blocks. too with more and more. films taken the most prestigious international.

welcome to the show. this is stand by quoting you you said people think the trash is biggest problem is the real shortage the lack of money in other words in reality you say. we're suffocating in a cultural vacuum in other words the problem is your moral deficiency well it's so my question is what religion has been a prominent theme in the last three films first the island and czar and now the conductor do you think religion can help the people like yourself who are suffocating in this vacuum. that's not the way i put it to. simply points us to eternity. religion is mansur response to turn all questions.

religion talks about life and death religion talks about the soul of the truth self control the meaning of life and so on. once you start thinking about these things one way or another you will come in touch with religion because that is specifically with christianity because we have been living in christian civilization for the past two thousand years but the should so all my films have this eternal issues present in them but in different ways. i like what. i have said it is and this was when the nats the war about to take over france they had taken over germany and they were about to take over france said these days and agonizing atheist schools are to god then it complacent christian. who is. this thing to do you know it's

a system that is so i prefer an agonizing atheist over a complete believe or. you know some people are very complacent it's as if they give their money and there are hard to the church and now they don't worry about anything at all. the film's on me car budget crisis they're about shame repentance and crisis screwed with the russians so many people say the conductor is part of a trilogy. of the island's czar and the conductor. what is this trilogy about. all films about the conflicts between spirituality and real life is the way that they were but i didn't. do this i don't think so this year this ecstatic feeling in common. it's a little like prayer. but actually there are quite a difference in the conductor is a contemporary story about

a man experiencing an internal crisis an intellectual who discovers that he's actually drawn cold that he's a control freak he wants to be the conductor in music and in life but there is no life in what he does. not only part of the little good but also francis ford coppola's promoting his new movie and he recently came to moscow and it was quite extraordinary how he got the idea i mean off his new movie let's listen to francis for copland so telling the story i was in this boy i was looking for a place to make. it so i was out. with . it was a woman but she was giving me. advice about tried to make

a movie in turkey and she invited her sister and they said you have a had turkish rocky and you know turkish rocky is like y in that but it was very good and they were really charming and so i was very happy and i drank it all and. i went home and went to bed and i had this vivid dream it was i never had a dream like this it was almost like a movie and right in the middle of the dream after edgar allen poe appeared in the dream. there was the call to prayer and i woke up in the window it was from the mosque you know it's right close the window and i have to. sleep i have to find the end of the story but i never could fall asleep so instead i just recorded what part of the dream and in a way then i thought well why i don't know maybe i can make a movie about a filmmaker goes to turkey and he meets the lawyer and sister and he gets drunk and

he has a dream and then he can't find the ending because he couldn't go back to sleep and i thought well i don't have to really do it in this time by just do it where i live . have you ever experienced anything like that have you would go to see if you're moving in a flash or do you always spend a lot of saw him working on the scenario. in my case it's more like i work a lot sometimes when i get stuck working on a scenario me see a scene in a dream but it's not like you can see the whole film. so will feel minute dream i mean i think you should work harder. to save the conjuring so much. know why i have a house in montenegro so i can drink quite a bit of. another quote the problem with filmmaking on the market

conditions is that there are two types of movies and to say me movies and those that make you think there are these two cancer. things of the first type the entertaining type dominates in russia why. it's strange russia has always been strong in a different kind of films we had directors like on traitor coast ski and others who by the way this year we celebrate eighty years since sundry birth. but the market prevailed eventually. people in russia want a week return on their money. so they mostly just copy what they do in the west. and it's hard to copy something that's really good. for example but it's hard to copy suisse watch. but it's easy to copy

a mass produced plastic watch. what young people like those films. the mass produced ones. yes you know i know a film producer who acts just. boxoffice i can always count on blue collar kids. also we don't have regular movie theaters any longer we have today's multiplexers and multiplexes have a different atmosphere popcorn young people and beer are loud music the movie theater is no longer a police you go to to watch a film people go there to hang out or to pick up somebody. has moved away from commercial cinema he tells us he is working on a smaller project that he used to and is financing his movies himself he says he was happy to get rid of the big studios dictatorship but nevertheless takes

curse of the film industry philosophically let's listen to what he says about it. just real sad about this is the many people have jobs makes money for many people it's like a business is like you know any kind of business. and then there's the independent cinema which you know people who really love. to do work in that would rather be in but the audiences. the audience favors the commercial cinema because the audience has many options either table you know in the old days people web to the movies that was entertainment but now they watch television they can watch movies that's entertainment they can follow politics that's entertainment they can do sports that's entertainment they could go to the saving museum shows that's.

good entertainment. how do you manage to find a happy medium for all fields are not like mass produced one just the know just printed same and people like them tickets are sold out i don't know i'm not sure they're that popular. anyway i don't know how it works but these two therms there are special just to kill i don't know how to answer this question all i know is that any kind of film can be good except a boring one spool sleeve i don't like boring films but by the way he's very good at making studio films to do that you know did he was one of the few directors who could work with big studios on projects like godfather or apokolips now or even dracula. and still make a really moving picture of the actual it's a shame that he cast away the stupider ship of the studios he had to make

a choice but you are comfortable with what you have to get i have been working on a tight budget all along. says prabhu and the word winning russian the filmmaker spotlight will be back shortly after the break so stay with us we'll be back in less.

welcome back to spotlight on amalgam and just a reminder my guest today is. the world winning russian the filmmaker and mr logan with a little help from francis ford coppola is telling us about modern cinema. it is a difficult to make films of the convents you make given that you work in russia quality films are capable of attracting large audiences films with a message and a mission in films you would not be ashamed of you've been successful so far but as you've said commercial films are still winning over the audiences how does that happen but it's. just that they probably will it's

a matter of personal choice. but. i'm in a way i must say that the moment is the government helping us to receive bronze and so on yes do you think all these should be financed by the state needs to be done that's the principle on which european film funding is based. it was invented in france european cinema is funded with government grants entirely a large nation is defined by the movies it makes at the they realized that they needed government support in order to preserve their culture their language. voice and rending to hollywood yes to avoid surrendering to hollywood globalization to go all realize that back after the end of world war two during diggles time when they decided the distant percentage of french songs should remain in radio rotation to keep it from becoming completely english speaking this that's what i'm talking about there were also regulations regarding the sheer francophone shows on

television and the share of french films in movies generally speaking french culture all the benefitted from that french cinema is flourishing does this mean the movies have an educational function to educate people to the cultural function yes you know we still don't understand the nature of culture. brushes is always behind the rest of the world we have discovered the power of money and economics but we still don't understand that culture is the cement if you will that holds the nation together isn't our society still disintegrates into small groups. individuals who feel lonely and lost just to do they're not drawn into a single large scale cultural pro service know a let's listen to what couple says about the need to educate the public has to be educated you know this is the same public when the movies come out the big public

the big public doesn't go to these kind of films that goes to you know whatever the one being sold to them just like politics here. have you know. it's hard to believe for example in america when you listen to these politicians what they're saying hard to believe that the public takes a. seriously that just you know. so the big public is. don't forget has been conditioned by forty years of television you know watching entertainment quick entertainment laughs funny out so so they don't have the same resiliency to interesting projects that you would get if you read literature or something so i mean the public may need to. the public has to be educated. if the public support it wasn't going to give the public conditioned by popcorn

movies to return to watching all the kinds of films it's very difficult because it's easy to run downhill but hard to climb back up you know i actually believe that movie history should be taught in schools it seems to me that the younger public is no longer capable of taking in to over a film if you noticed that series of short films have become a very popular format lately what did not so they can concentrate for fifteen to twenty minutes but not for a two hour story farkas what did that guy say it's the start of the movie i forgot they have forgotten the joy of decipher ing a film detective movies are no longer popular i no longer see any detectives only in russia do thrillers and detectives fail in the box office comedies are popular so that punchline it only takes fifteen minutes and then they move on to the next movie the audience needs to go back to school and they do teach children to analyze

in school they analyze characters like not i should just go into war and peace. if we follow that logic then music should be taught in schools to music school worrying since contemporary audiences are incapable of perceiving music you have an intimate relationship with music correct. yes yes but we do need history classes i think they have them in france although they're not obligatory now that people need to get the east for something revealed. did you mean when you sense that it has become too easy to make movies in russia since there is no one to compete with that's a joke. look it's easy in the sense that you're. when expected to provide a result. the russian cinema industry produces some two hundred movies a year. but only some sixty to seventy of them make it to movie theaters at the end

of the day. nobody knows what happens to the rest of the productions or the money spent on them we as viewers doona get to see what's on the screen and you know what's behind the scenes you see nobody can write a good story o'donnell these days about the great russian literary tradition where we still go we should be. feel that we still have it just doesn't come through. tradition from my installing to our core ski so we still have its origins history you know. i don't know. this year i'm chairing the jury at the st and i film festival showcases. by the graduates of russia's leading filmmaking schools. they had invited me for a long time and i finally decided to participate i wanted to see

a host of young up and coming filmmakers i haven't seen all of the selected films yet but what i've seen is cert's really discouraging. most of all because it is so derivative and emasculate it's nothing new or personal i've seen half of the selections so far and i'm rather disappointed. now let's talk a little about the best film of last year the film. that got the main the main oscar nomination. was the artist first let's ask francis ford coppola the oscar winning director and self what he thinks of the film which snatch this year a major academy award the artist. the artist tells you there's a lot to learn from that movie the artist says that for cinema project to be very simple but if it's simple it has to have the key ingredients the artist had

a good ending it had a good beginning and had actors that were very lovable and engaging and you know the actor had a beautiful smile and it had one scene in the middle that was very interesting that expressed its theme the theme when he had the dream about the sound so what the artist tells us is that cinema can be simple but if it's simple it has to have these few ingredients and if it does them well it can be a huge and it can it can really please please an audience well you know that was a unique project buddy but they did it well and they had conviction it was very brave. to make a black and white silent film but you know they had the cast is very charming. simple very effective. believes it must have taken courage he says courage to make

the artist but there are other think it was a very smart move and timing. back in the days of sun movie like the artist would not even have been nominated for an award i would look so different compared to tide turning core avatar do you agree with do you agree with the film academy. it is indeed acquired during an interesting project producers normally tend to go with things that have already proved successful. to duplicate success in this sense the organist is a step in a different direction away from technology and i like that about this film i believe the last technology the reason the movie more so than curry's might has. been cinema are rather than video games but that said there is certainly no deep

concept behind the film. in post morgan is it only makes sense in relation to its for beer sunset boulevard the artist is a sort of being in a fine picturesque reciting the great silent black and white cinema we all adore that we take says back to the times of innocence sereny t. sincerity and separates. and i think this kind of success cannot be repeated. movies to follow will not get as big. what the artist being the first though its kind has got all the laurels. and drink too i once worked with when shooting a documentary you would turn me down every time i asked him for a visual effects he'd say filina did everything by we have. keep it simple i see you share the same philosophy but i'm not sure cutting does it all will you keep it

simple but i think how would you feel about three d. in c.g. finks like you know. but if it is to do i'm neutral i think it's great but step by step we're leaning toward videogames the more high tech it is the worse human the more technology the last reports on turn in motion unless you consider the teak so work eight characters emotion. for me the magical future is about three actors on stage two cheers for scenery and the play makes you we should be killed and the magic of cinema human curry's my radiating from the screen . present what's peculiar is that future is at the limits and so it gets by with inventiveness it's the end cinema has gone the way of expensive visual effects meanwhile television has come up with some very high quality t.v. series as usual america was the first to explore this territory but the sopranos

boss boardwalk empire they're all structured is short stories there's no c t human acting is very high caliber very psychological and i think people will watch these t.v. series feature films but my final question your next production is going to be international it will be in english isn't just the language would be something global to it. i hope our cast will be international to. be shooting the film out of russia somewhere in europe we haven't picked a place yet. because on the cost we don't know yet anthony hopkins we don't know. being three d. no no three d. will be filming squee no spades. or it will be part operate for thriller bus a fascinating story coupled with tre called skis do you find music that's stood in

the band the plot is truly international return to the southern roots thank you thank you very much for being with us and just to remind that that my guest today was a possibility and an award winning russian filmmaker and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your sound floodlight drop us a line spotlight will be back with more for the common follow what's going on in and outside pressure until then stay on r.t. and take your.

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