In a special interview, Lucy Dallas meets artist William Kentridge to explore his new set of films.
'Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot', by William Kentridge, available on Mubi
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Today’s great political film is John Frankenheimer’s masterpiece of Cold War paranoia The Manchurian Candidate (1962), which came out the week of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s a 1960s movie about 1950s fears: brainwashing, the Korean War, McCarthyism, all shot through with Kennedy-era anxieties about sexual potency and psychoanalysis. Who’s a Soviet agent? Who’s a mummy’s boy? And it managed to anticipate what was coming next in American politics: the age of assassination.
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This week, Oonagh Devitt Tremblay is intrigued by the multiple voices in Sarah Moss's new memoir; and Lucy Dallas speaks to artist William Kentridge.
'My Good Bright Wolf', by Sarah Moss
'Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot', by William Kentridge, streaming on Mubi
Produced by Charlotte Pardy
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In today’s episode David discusses Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), a great patriotic anti-war film made in the depths of WWII. Why did Churchill want the film’s production stopped and was he right to suspect it was about him? What does the film say about the politics of nostalgia and the illusions of heroism? And how is Blimp’s moustache like Kane’s Rosebud?
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Neste episódio de podcast, mergulhamos no universo do fisiculturismo.
De acordo com a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS), um humano adulto “comum” deve consumir algo entre 2.000 e 2.500 calorias por dia para se manter saudável e em forma. Para manter-se hidratado, esse humano também deve beber, pelo menos, dois litros de água.
Essas médias, porém, não se aplicam a fisiculturistas. Esses atletas vivem uma “gangorra fisiológica”, entre os limites do corpo humano, para perseguir um padrão super-humano de estética e forma física.
Afinal, o que faz as pessoas aceitarem rotinas extremas de alimentação e treinos na academia para provarem que são os indivíduos mais sarados e definidos do planeta? Quais são as consequências de se viver esse estilo de vida?
Entrevistados do episódio
Doutor em Ciências do Movimento Humano pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), educador físico, e pesquisador especializado em fisiculturismo.
Ficha técnica
Reportagem, produção e apoio de edição: Matheus Marcolino.
Mixagem de som: Vitor Coroa.
Trilha sonora tema: Paulo Gama.
Design das capas dos aplicativos e do site: Cláudia Furnari.
Direção, roteiro e edição: Tomás Chiaverini
Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) is many people’s favourite film of all time, including Donald Trump’s. Why does Trump love it so? What does he get right and what does he get wrong about the trajectory of the life of Charles Foster Kane? What does the film reveal about the relationship between celebrity, influence and political power? And why is Rosebud not the real mystery at the heart of this story?
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