Free Thinking - Mike Leigh
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2014
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Mike Leigh discusses his film about Turner. Steve Connor and Matthew Sweet discuss an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge which brings together 180 paintings and models to explore the way mannequins have been used by artists - from a technical tool to a fetishised object. And New Generation Thinker Naomi Paxton discusses Guy Fawkes traditions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the home of the oxymoron. Evil genius. He asked the newspaper to print his obituary early so he'd enjoy it. That's like hiding at your own funeral. Yeah, it's a big, great gig. I'm Russell Kane. Join me to weigh in on whether the biggest players in history are more evil or genius. Becoming that rich, I'd say that at some level of genius. It also helps |
| 0:21.2 | that it's a long time ago, right? It's like the podcast version of telling your kids the ice cream |
| 0:26.1 | van plays music when it's out of ice cream. Listen to evil genius on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:32.2 | Are you a man or a mannequin? Tonight on free thinking, we disarticulate the dummy in art, in science, and maybe in the bedroom too. |
| 0:41.1 | We'll explore the valley of the dolls that's been constructed at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, |
| 0:46.2 | where shop window dummies and horsehair-filled artist models rub artificial shoulders |
| 0:51.6 | with Oscar Kukoshka's life-size love doll. |
| 0:55.1 | We'll also cast new light on that old guy, Guy Fawkes, |
| 0:58.6 | and learn how, a hundred years ago, the cause of feminism was furthered |
| 1:02.4 | by replacing him with another enemy of the crown. |
| 1:05.5 | And we go back to the studio of an artist who preferred to keep the human figure |
| 1:09.6 | at a distance, J.M.W. Turner. |
| 1:12.4 | Mike Lee has put him on screen. Tonight, the director shares the secrets of his art with us |
| 1:17.0 | and his anxieties about misleading movie trailers. |
| 1:21.2 | Exceedingly beautiful. I thank you. |
| 1:24.3 | Thank you, Mr Turner. |
| 1:26.9 | All trailers suffer to a greater or less for this particular disease, including the |
| 1:32.3 | current trailer in the UK for Mr Turner. |
| 1:35.3 | I mean, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a slightly different kind of film from the film it is. |
| 1:41.3 | The universe is chaotic and you make us see it. |
| 1:46.7 | You are a man of great vision, Mr Turner. |
| 1:55.0 | The voice of Leslie Manville in the trailer for Mr Turner. |
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