hello and welcome to a new week about some culture robert merrill is a quick look at what's coming up today. on the fortieth anniversary of the iranian revolution we're joined by filmmaker marion's are a born in iran's most infamous political prison a documentary born in evene premiered at berlin's international film festival. she was a love addict and a serial cheater and wasn't afraid to write about it as part of a series on classic german books we look at the poetry as alaska's shooter and her nine hundred twelve confessional my hols. thoughts we begin with a bollywood film with a difference golly boy had its world premiere international film festival over the weekend yes so a love story like old bollywood movies but that's where the similarity ends it's about a poverty stricken indian family whose song rights angry hip hop lyrics and smokes marijuana and he got standing ovations at the premiere. which got me boys about rap loud and freedom from society's expectations for everyone at the i think the whole focus of it was. a guide even to pay. enough that the nickname going to say d

hello welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robert merrill and here's a look at what's coming up today. we find out how you successfully combine eighteenth century opera and contemporary dumb. we take a literary dive into the underbelly of the weimar republic in our latest installment of one hundred german must reads. and we visit an exhibition of christiane dior's iconic fashion in london. but we begin with a production that's new to the hamburg opera it's the baroque opera in your idiocy directed by the legendary choreographer. who has been bad a director there for over forty five years so is this an opera or is it a ballet well actually it's a bit of both a choreographed opera if you like bending the genre a little which noir is celebrated for. with his tragic opera ofis and you really see christoph look at one time revolutionize the world of music director and choreographer john new in my it continues this revolution with his production in. the version is done as a scene of music and dance a good sound.

hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture arm robert merrill we're looking at the following topics today. along with altering films the but also highlights often comic acting talent with its european shooting stars awards will meet two of this year's faces to watch. will also meet up and coming young soprano as a prize it comes making a name for herself and starts. but we begin with the american photographer cindy sherman she's this year's winner of the prestigious max spectrum prize which recognizes outstanding performances in the artistic field sherman is considered one of the most important and influential artists of her generation throughout her career she has explored identity and the nature of representation in society especially of women. cindy sherman has been photographing herself since the one nine hundred seventy. but her works are not self portraits in the classic sense of an artist taking a look at their authentic self instead sherman takes on different personas in her own imagine scenarios critiquing gender and identity. in this series for.

hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robert merrill we're looking at the following topics today. along with altering films the but also highlights often comic acting talent with its european shooting stars awards we'll meet two of this year's faces to watch. we'll also meet up and coming young soprano as a dry suit who's making a name for herself and stop so. but we begin with the american photographer cindy sherman she's this year's winner of the prestigious maxed spectrum prize which recognizes outstanding performances in the artistic field sherman is considered one of the most important and influential artists of her generation throughout her career she has explored identity and the nature of representation in society especially of women. cindy sherman has been photographing herself since the one nine hundred seventy s. but her works are not self portraits in the classic sense of an artist taking a look at their authentic self instead sherman takes on different personas in her own imagine scenarios critiquing gender and identity. in this series for inst

oh welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robert merrill and here's a look at what's coming up today. we find out how you successfully combine eighteenth century opera and contemporary dance. we take a literary dive into the underbelly of the weimar republic in our latest installment of one hundred german must reads. and we visit an exhibition of christiane and yours iconic fashion in london. but we begin with a production that's new to the hamburg opera it's the baroque opera and your idiocy directed by the legendary choreographer. who has been bad a director there for over forty five years so is this an opera or is it a ballet well actually it's a bit of both a choreographed opera if you like bending the genre a little which noir is celebrated for. his tragic opera and you really see christoph look at one time revolutionize the world of music director and choreographer john knew maya continues this revolution with his production. the version is done as a symmetry of music and dance a good sound. will seem to sense of the arts. it was good music.

a welcome to news from the world about some culture i'm robert merrill i'm let's have a look at what's coming up today. net or who won last year's your a vision song contest has released a new single and she's responded to calls to boycott this year's competition being held in our home country of israel. when you boy light from being shed you spread darkness. capernaum a lebanese movie about a young boy born into a world of extreme poverty is home favorite for the foreign language. and giants of the renaissance a multimedia exhibition in leipzig celebrating leonardo da vinci and his contemporaries. israeli sing and that's one the euro vision song called shared with an anthem of female empowerment cold toy now she's got a brand new single and she's been speaking out about this is competition to be held in tel aviv in may speaking out because some office calling for a boycott citing israel's human rights record towards palestinians i'll be discussing this with my colleague david leavitt's in a minute but first the news solved.

get that enough from my own doctor >> exactly >> they'll not have robert frank as a customer just yet a new note from bank of america/merrill lynch downgrading deere from buy to neutral. but highlighting the fact that they -- deere is still dominating caterpillar outperformed by more than 30 percentage points. can you explain this one that's shocking. >> historically speaking, deere and caterpillar, the stocks, have been correlated in terms of how they trade the fact we've seen this over the past year is noteworthy. we've got this downgraduate from b of a today and the argument they are making is lack of apparent progress between washington and beijing weaker demand for construction equipment. it's a valuation story they think this stock is going to come down based on the earnings we're supposed to get later this week. >> is deere as opposed to china as caterpillar is? two stocks became the poster children for the tariff battle that was boeing and caterpillar. and when the talks were going well, caterpillar would go up. when they were going badly, it would go down. we never talked about deere. >> they're exposed selling con

welcome to news from the world about some culture i'm robert merrill i'm glad to have a look at what's coming up today. netanyahu one loss is your vision song contest has released a new single and she's responded to calls to boycott this year's competition big held in home country of israel. when you write from being shed you spread darkness. capernaum lebanese movie about a young boy born into a world of extreme poverty is hot favorites of the foreign language osca. and giants of the renaissance a multimedia exhibition and like seeing celebrating leonardo da vinci.