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tribeca film festival edition of talking movies. i m tom brook. in today s programme, with sections on gaming, television and virtual reality, is tribeca moving away from just being a film festival? we will always be about film, there is no question. that is in our dna. it was a festival in which the wonders of virtual reality were fully on display. if you sit in a movie theatre and the character turns and looks at the camera, they call it breaking the fourth wall. but in vr, there are no walls. plus: tribeca had movies from around the world. a drama set in china, and the story of women s emancipation in switzerland in the 19705. they actually had these arguments in the 19705. they were like if women do politics, it is apocalypse. then there were tribeca s political films, for politically charged, confusing times. we are living in a surreal time. i just don t know what to make of it. and a feature on people for whom the environment makes them ill. all that and more in ....
involves go. ahead in the week it will turn cooler for all of us with a mix of sunshine and showers. hello, this is bbc news with me, maxine mawhinney. the headlines at 10:30am: tributes have been paid to the rock and roll legend chuck berry who has died at the age of 90. the american singer and guitarist enjoyed a successful seven decade career which produced classic hits including roll over beethoven and johnny b. goode. a one year old boy has died and a girl of the same age is in a critical condition following an incident in north london. police have said that family members have have been informed as inquiries continue. a bbc investigation has found that skin creams containing paraffin have been linked to a number of fire deaths. creams for conditions like eczema and psoriasis could put people at risk. rape victims in england and wales could be spared cross examination in front of the accused under new plans unveiled by the justice secretary. the reforms would allow sex a ....
first, talking movies: hello and welcome to austin, in texas, in our special south by southwest film festival edition of talking movies, i m tom brook. in today s programme, the festival s opening night film from a visionary american director. did it live up to expectations? most films out there have the same formula. and terence malik has a different formula. the action oriented big budget films also came to town. hopefully the movie just takes someone on a ride. it is designed to be seen large and loud. the south by southwest film have a special resonance in these politically charged times. it a film that totally normalises the image of the average american muslim and also the average american mexican immigrant. this is about religious freedom. and oscar winer melissa leo playing an activist atheist once dubbed the most hated woman in america . i think the question of religious freedom has come up again in our world. plus an experimental film that uses the rat as the ....
and hate director for the arc an endeavor to address these questions in the film. vs my day she s my alter ego in the film the middle east she s a woman and arean what i can project so many of my own fears onto this character. so after a few good quits. after enjoying success in hollywood this is diane kruger first film and her native german it s an intense layered to the force her performance and her the best actress prize at the cannes film festival. the crime in the film is reminiscent of a string of real life neo nazi killings in germany the court scenes are especially harrowing. it s a bit of time to better think about it it s the engineer could cite he has an excuse and sentence but once was a thousandth part to much but in connecticut of what i was i d have been on from cop position alone for armin went to washington are higher than the copper bands was on on but i had a hunch a little un was of the cops but never grand of the only reason for going on out of . morton an ....
of two women one living in the united states illegally the other with an undocumented mexican husband it was the period just after donald trump s electoral college victory. after the election i. dreamt that there were vigil in tikrit scarring toward a door in our neighborhood and my son was born and i was holding him in my arms and i was hiding my husband and the floorboards. the political tension right now in the us is really heavy and it s affecting people in very traumatic ways so making a documentary about these kinds of issues is a way to allow the. these communities to express themselves and to have that platform. ileana is well acquainted with such stories she also has undocumented friends and relatives all possible texas where she grew up is right on the mexican ink. would be an asset. can i be at my course any having. the reality is that it s difficult for a woman of color to make films it s still a very sexist and racist industry so. i think it s more difficult becau ....