How is culture adapting to quarantine? Plus: our film critic on what to watch now

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, we discuss the future of movies with FT film critic Danny Leigh. Will we see a wave of apocalypse dramas once this is over? Are mid-budget films under threat? And what little-known films should we be watching? In the second half of the show, Gris and Lilah take stock of how culture has been adapting to a new virtual reality, from online exhibitions to gigs on Instagram Live. What's working in URL vs IRL culture — and what isn't? Will the lockdown democratize the arts?

We’d love to hear your thoughts. Which cultural experiences have you been enjoying from your sofa? What are you watching, reading or listening to right now? Let us know at ft.com/culturecallout, or record a short voice note on your phone and send it to [email protected]. You can tweet us at @FTCultureCall, and you can find us on Instagram @lilahrap and @griseldamurraybrown.

Links from the episode:

–Sign up for the FT's Coronavirus Business Update newsletter and get free access to our journalism for 30 days: www.ft.com/culturecallcovid

–The TV adaptation of Normal People: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p089g8rs/normal-people, https://www.hulu.com/series/normal-people-57048262-2ca5-41ee-9b57-53bb9b9e1596

–Gris's podcast interview with Sally Rooney, author of Normal People, from 2018: https://www.ft.com/content/03af4b54-01a0-4220-8f52-168355b36024

–Danny Leigh's review of The Perfect Candidate (paywall), which you can stream online: https://www.ft.com/content/ae5d4364-741e-11ea-95fe-fcd274e920ca

–Danny Leigh's review of And Then We Danced (paywall), which you can stream online: https://www.ft.com/content/61c4f594-7016-11ea-9bca-bf503995cd6f

–Fiona Apple's album Fetch The Bolt Cutters on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0fO1KemWL2uCCQmM22iKlj

–BBC Museums in Quarantine - Warhol: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000hqml/museums-in-quarantine-series-1-1-warhol

–Cyprus Avenue at the Royal Court Theatre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptCyZYzUx4M&feature=emb_logo&has_verified=1

–Dance Church on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dance_church/?hl=en

–Gris's FT piece on having a ballet lesson with Adam Cooper:

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0:00.0	Hello, you're listening to Culture Call, a transatlantic conversation from the Financial Times.
0:10.9	I'm Griselda-Marie Brown in London. And I'm Lila Raptopoulos in New York.
0:16.1	Coming up on today's episode.
0:19.8	I think one of the appeals of films right now is the idea of putting ourselves into a narrative,
0:25.3	a scripted, comforting narrative with the beginning, the middle and an end.
0:28.7	Most crucially, an end.
0:39.6	Hi, Groves. Hi, Lila. How are you? Hi, Gris.
0:40.9	Hi, Lila. How are you?
0:47.4	Honestly, this week, every week feels different, but this week I really have been missing my colleagues.
0:52.3	Maybe because Zoom calls are so awkward.
0:56.8	And they just don't really, like, cut it.
1:00.7	I can't really, like, gossip with my colleagues on Zoom.
1:02.6	And there's, like, this new etiquette to learn.
1:07.3	It's, like, so hard to be warm on a Zoom call with 15 other people.
1:12.1	And watching people laugh on mute has been, like, my own personal form of torture this week. That is so true. How are you doing? Are you finding that too? Yeah, I'm yeah,
1:19.2	I'm completely that yeah. And I'm sure like everyone who's ever been in a Zoom meeting knows exactly
1:24.1	what you mean. They are kind of excruciating. Actually, you know, um, Philippa Perry,
1:29.4	who's this psychotherapist? Yes, we love psychotherapists. We do love therapists on cultural.
1:36.2	She tweeted recently about this, about exactly why kind of video calls are so unsatisfying and so
1:42.8	energy sapping as well.
1:46.2	Like there's something quite exhausting about them.
1:46.7	Really?
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