26-jan-2019
Terwijl de wereld op de rand van de afgrond balanceert, wordt de regering Kennedy opgeschrikt door schandalen die Johns huwelijk dreigen te verwoesten, zijn presidentschap te ondermijnen en iedere hoop op herverkiezing de grond in te boren. De president en zijn broer Bobby moeten de handen ineenslaan om een nucleaire ramp te voorkomen en de erfenis van de Kennedy's te beschermen.
zondag 27 januari 2019
zondag 20 januari 2019
De Kennedy's een Amerikaanse Dynastie - 3
19-01-2019
Een nieuw tijdperk breekt aan met de beëdiging van John F. Kennedy, de jongste Amerikaanse president uit de geschiedenis. Zijn vrouw Jackie nodigt de camera's uit in het Witte Huis. Kennedy's eerste jaar als president wordt echter gekenmerkt door nationale en internationale crises. Hij leunt zwaar op zijn familie en ontwikkelt een sterke band met zijn broer Bobby, die hem bijstaat tijdens de uitdagingen in 1961.
Een nieuw tijdperk breekt aan met de beëdiging van John F. Kennedy, de jongste Amerikaanse president uit de geschiedenis. Zijn vrouw Jackie nodigt de camera's uit in het Witte Huis. Kennedy's eerste jaar als president wordt echter gekenmerkt door nationale en internationale crises. Hij leunt zwaar op zijn familie en ontwikkelt een sterke band met zijn broer Bobby, die hem bijstaat tijdens de uitdagingen in 1961.
dinsdag 15 januari 2019
BBC Four - The eyes of Orson Welles
BBC4 13-01-2019
Granted exclusive access to hundreds of drawings and paintings by Orson Welles, film-maker Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of this legendary director and actor, to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before – through his own eyes, sketched by his own hand, painted with his own brush. Executive produced by Michael Moore, The Eyes of Orson Welles brings vividly to life the passions, politics and power of this 20th-century showman and explores how the genius of Welles still resonates today, more than 30 years after his death.
Welles was one of the great creative figures of the 20th century. But one aspect of his life and art has never been discussed. Like Akira Kurosawa and Sergei Eisenstein, Welles loved to draw and paint. As a child prodigy, he trained as an artist, before a drawing trip to Ireland in his teens led to his sensational stage debut at Dublin’s Gate Theatre. Welles continued to draw and paint throughout his life, and his groundbreaking film and theatre work was profoundly shaped by his graphic imagination.
When he died over 30 years ago, he left behind hundreds of character sketches, set designs, visualisations of unmade projects, illustrations to entertain his children and friends, images in the margins of personal letters, and portraits of the people and places that inspired him. They are a window on to the world of Welles, and a vivid illustration of his creativity and visual thinking. Most of these have never been made public. Now, for the first time, Welles’s daughter Beatrice has granted Mark Cousins access to this treasure trove of imagery, to make a film about what he finds there.
The Eyes of Orson Welles is a cinematic essay which avoids the techniques of conventional TV documentaries. It combines Cousins’s trademark commentary with new digital scans and specially made animations of the artworks, which bring vividly to life the magic of Welles’s graphic world. These are intercut with clips from Welles’s films, recordings of his radio performances and TV interviews, and encounters with Beatrice Welles, telling the personal stories of the images. An original score by young Northern Irish composer Matt Regan gives the film emotion and expressivity. The title music is Albinoni’s famous Adagio, a nod to the fact that Welles was the first film-maker to use this in a movie soundtrack, in his 1961 adaptation of Kafka’s The Trial.
The film is told in three central acts – Pawn, Knight and King – with an epilogue on the theme of Jester. The Pawn sequence looks at Welles’s politics, his sympathy with ordinary people, those images that deal with the modesty of human beings – children, decent people who are not in positions of power. The Knight section looks at Welles's obsession with love, his romances with the likes of Dolores del Rio and Rita Hayworth, and his quixotic attachment to what he himself saw as outmoded chivalric ideals. The King section looks at Welles’s fascination with power and its corruption, through illustrations that deal with figures such as Macbeth, Henry V, Kane and Welles himself – the epic mode of human beings, the lawmakers and abusers. The Jester epilogue explores the images that are about fun or mockery, with a surprising intervention by Welles himself.
Cousins also travels to key locations in Welles’s life – New York, Chicago, Kenosha, Arizona, Los Angeles, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Ireland – to capture beautiful images and locate the artworks, and serve to dramatise some of the defining moments in Welles’s career and personal life.
Mark shot the film with two handheld cameras, one a conventional HD camera and one a 4K camera which gives a new Steadicam style of tracking shot without the need for tracks and dolly. It’s the sort of technology that Welles would have loved and could only have dreamed of as he spent a lifetime wrestling with the creative and financial limitations of traditional film-making techniques. This shooting style reflects the immediacy of Welles’s sketches and paintings in their swift engagement with the visual world. These cameras are like Mark’s paintbrushes, giving him a direct, personal and tactile contact between his hand and the captured/created image, without the intermediation of cumbersome equipment and crews.
In the end, this essay film is about much more than the drawings and paintings. Just as Leonardo da Vinci’s sketchbooks show his passions, his changes of mind, his trains of thought and visual thinking, so this film is an almost mythic encounter with the imagination of this great artist, who extended cinema, was profoundly political, engaged with questions about power, existentialism, memory, destiny, psychology, space and light. These ingredients make The Eyes of Orson Welles not only a portrait of a great man, but an account of the 20th century and a meditation on the continuing relevance of his genius in what Mark describes as these Wellesian times.
Granted exclusive access to hundreds of drawings and paintings by Orson Welles, film-maker Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of this legendary director and actor, to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before – through his own eyes, sketched by his own hand, painted with his own brush. Executive produced by Michael Moore, The Eyes of Orson Welles brings vividly to life the passions, politics and power of this 20th-century showman and explores how the genius of Welles still resonates today, more than 30 years after his death.
Welles was one of the great creative figures of the 20th century. But one aspect of his life and art has never been discussed. Like Akira Kurosawa and Sergei Eisenstein, Welles loved to draw and paint. As a child prodigy, he trained as an artist, before a drawing trip to Ireland in his teens led to his sensational stage debut at Dublin’s Gate Theatre. Welles continued to draw and paint throughout his life, and his groundbreaking film and theatre work was profoundly shaped by his graphic imagination.
When he died over 30 years ago, he left behind hundreds of character sketches, set designs, visualisations of unmade projects, illustrations to entertain his children and friends, images in the margins of personal letters, and portraits of the people and places that inspired him. They are a window on to the world of Welles, and a vivid illustration of his creativity and visual thinking. Most of these have never been made public. Now, for the first time, Welles’s daughter Beatrice has granted Mark Cousins access to this treasure trove of imagery, to make a film about what he finds there.
The Eyes of Orson Welles is a cinematic essay which avoids the techniques of conventional TV documentaries. It combines Cousins’s trademark commentary with new digital scans and specially made animations of the artworks, which bring vividly to life the magic of Welles’s graphic world. These are intercut with clips from Welles’s films, recordings of his radio performances and TV interviews, and encounters with Beatrice Welles, telling the personal stories of the images. An original score by young Northern Irish composer Matt Regan gives the film emotion and expressivity. The title music is Albinoni’s famous Adagio, a nod to the fact that Welles was the first film-maker to use this in a movie soundtrack, in his 1961 adaptation of Kafka’s The Trial.
The film is told in three central acts – Pawn, Knight and King – with an epilogue on the theme of Jester. The Pawn sequence looks at Welles’s politics, his sympathy with ordinary people, those images that deal with the modesty of human beings – children, decent people who are not in positions of power. The Knight section looks at Welles's obsession with love, his romances with the likes of Dolores del Rio and Rita Hayworth, and his quixotic attachment to what he himself saw as outmoded chivalric ideals. The King section looks at Welles’s fascination with power and its corruption, through illustrations that deal with figures such as Macbeth, Henry V, Kane and Welles himself – the epic mode of human beings, the lawmakers and abusers. The Jester epilogue explores the images that are about fun or mockery, with a surprising intervention by Welles himself.
Cousins also travels to key locations in Welles’s life – New York, Chicago, Kenosha, Arizona, Los Angeles, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Ireland – to capture beautiful images and locate the artworks, and serve to dramatise some of the defining moments in Welles’s career and personal life.
Mark shot the film with two handheld cameras, one a conventional HD camera and one a 4K camera which gives a new Steadicam style of tracking shot without the need for tracks and dolly. It’s the sort of technology that Welles would have loved and could only have dreamed of as he spent a lifetime wrestling with the creative and financial limitations of traditional film-making techniques. This shooting style reflects the immediacy of Welles’s sketches and paintings in their swift engagement with the visual world. These cameras are like Mark’s paintbrushes, giving him a direct, personal and tactile contact between his hand and the captured/created image, without the intermediation of cumbersome equipment and crews.
In the end, this essay film is about much more than the drawings and paintings. Just as Leonardo da Vinci’s sketchbooks show his passions, his changes of mind, his trains of thought and visual thinking, so this film is an almost mythic encounter with the imagination of this great artist, who extended cinema, was profoundly political, engaged with questions about power, existentialism, memory, destiny, psychology, space and light. These ingredients make The Eyes of Orson Welles not only a portrait of a great man, but an account of the 20th century and a meditation on the continuing relevance of his genius in what Mark describes as these Wellesian times.
zondag 13 januari 2019
De Kennedy's, een Amerikaanse dynastie - 2
12-jan-2019
De weg naar de macht.
John F. Kennedy, de ogenschijnlijk perfecte kandidaat voor het presidentschap, verbergt duistere geheimen. Of hij de verkiezingen kan winnen, hangt af van zijn familie en de populariteit van zijn echtgenote Jackie. Uiteindelijk wordt hij tot president verkozen, waarmee zijn vaders droom in vervulling gaat.
De weg naar de macht.
John F. Kennedy, de ogenschijnlijk perfecte kandidaat voor het presidentschap, verbergt duistere geheimen. Of hij de verkiezingen kan winnen, hangt af van zijn familie en de populariteit van zijn echtgenote Jackie. Uiteindelijk wordt hij tot president verkozen, waarmee zijn vaders droom in vervulling gaat.
dinsdag 8 januari 2019
Brexit - the uncivil war
Channel 4 - 07-01-2019
Benedict Cumberbatch and Rory Kinnear star in this profoundly timely, witty and compelling behind-the-scenes exploration of one of the biggest political earthquakes of recent times
Benedict Cumberbatch and Rory Kinnear star in this profoundly timely, witty and compelling behind-the-scenes exploration of one of the biggest political earthquakes of recent times
maandag 7 januari 2019
De Kennedy's, een Amerikaanse dynastie - 1 de macht van het geld
05 jan 2019
Als de oudste kinderen van Joseph P. Kennedy omkomen bij een vliegtuigongeluk, is het John F. Kennedy die zijn vaders ambities waar moet gaan maken.
Als de oudste kinderen van Joseph P. Kennedy omkomen bij een vliegtuigongeluk, is het John F. Kennedy die zijn vaders ambities waar moet gaan maken.
donderdag 3 januari 2019
Andere Tijden Special: Door weer en wind: drie decennia Hollands weer
02-jan-2019
We bekijken het weer in Nederland en de invloed op de bewoners gedurende de weerperiode 1950-1980. Het blijkt dat het weer Nederland verbroedert: we hebben samen strand-, sneeuw- en schaatspret, maar ook de gedeelde verontwaardiging over de zoveelste regendag, de zomer die maar niet komt of de keren dat het weer wezenlijk verdriet tot gevolg heeft. Zoals de zware storm van 1953 die tot de Watersnoodramp leidde of de windhoos over het Betuwse plaatsje Tricht in de zomer van 1967, waar in twee minuten tijd vijf doden vielen en tientallen huizen en bedrijven van de kaart werden gevaagd.
We bekijken het weer in Nederland en de invloed op de bewoners gedurende de weerperiode 1950-1980. Het blijkt dat het weer Nederland verbroedert: we hebben samen strand-, sneeuw- en schaatspret, maar ook de gedeelde verontwaardiging over de zoveelste regendag, de zomer die maar niet komt of de keren dat het weer wezenlijk verdriet tot gevolg heeft. Zoals de zware storm van 1953 die tot de Watersnoodramp leidde of de windhoos over het Betuwse plaatsje Tricht in de zomer van 1967, waar in twee minuten tijd vijf doden vielen en tientallen huizen en bedrijven van de kaart werden gevaagd.
Jinek - eerste aflevering 2019
di, 01-jan-2019
Gasten: Helene Hendriks, Sjoerd van Ramshorst, Sven Kockelmann, Dries Roelvink en Anna Gimbrere. Helene Hendriks en Sjoerd van Ramshorst over het komende spectaculaire sportjaar. Met media-duo Sven Kockelmann en Dries Roelvink vieren we 1 januari. Wetenschapsjournalist Anna Gimbrere vertelt wat er in 2019 gebeurt in de ruimte.
Gasten: Helene Hendriks, Sjoerd van Ramshorst, Sven Kockelmann, Dries Roelvink en Anna Gimbrere. Helene Hendriks en Sjoerd van Ramshorst over het komende spectaculaire sportjaar. Met media-duo Sven Kockelmann en Dries Roelvink vieren we 1 januari. Wetenschapsjournalist Anna Gimbrere vertelt wat er in 2019 gebeurt in de ruimte.
2DOC - Van verlies kun je niet betalen
di 01-jan-2019
Adrie en Francien runnen al 65 jaar een groentezaak in Vlissingen. Hard werken is hun credo, maar hun gezondheid laat te wensen over en Adrie werkt nog steeds veertien tot zestien uur per dag. Hoe lang houden ze het nog vol?
Adrie en Francien runnen al 65 jaar een groentezaak in Vlissingen. Hard werken is hun credo, maar hun gezondheid laat te wensen over en Adrie werkt nog steeds veertien tot zestien uur per dag. Hoe lang houden ze het nog vol?
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