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Life and Art from FT Weekend

Oscars 2018: the movies and the moment. Plus: Ekow Eshun on Black Panther

Life and Art from FT Weekend

Forhecz Topher

Tv & Film, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6601 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Film special! We debate the Academy Awards, why they matter and who should win: Get Out, Call Me By Your Name or Lady Bird? And what does Three Billboards — its success and backlash — say about the current climate? Later, Griselda talks to Ekow Eshun about why Black Panther is a cultural turning point.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Everything Else, the FT Culture Podcast.

0:09.0

I'm Grizalda, I'm one of the arts editors here, and this episode is devoted to all things film.

0:15.0

First, I'll be joined by two of the FT's film buffs to argue over the Oscars on Sunday.

0:20.0

Who deserves an award, who doesn't deserve

0:22.0

one, and how is the Academy and Hollywood in general reacting to the Me Too moment?

0:28.1

Later I'll be talking to the cultural commentator Echo Eschen about Black Panther, what the comic

0:33.0

book superhero meant to him growing up in 1970s London and why the new movie is a cultural turning point.

0:46.0

So I'm here in the studio with Raphael Abraham. Hey, Ralph. Hello, Griselda. And India Ross.

0:52.3

Hey, Griselda. Okay, so I'm going to take the temperature of the room quickly and ask you guys, which film do you want to win best film and which film do you think is actually going to win? Okay, well, the film I would like to see win is call me by your name, which, unfortunately, I think is a complete underdog. The most likely to win, the strong favourite is three billboards

1:10.9

outside Ebbing, Missouri. I agree with the three billboards prediction. I think it's going to

1:16.2

run away with it. I would like get out to win. In the interest of balance, I would like Ladybird to win.

1:22.6

I think the hat. Came from the heart. But I do think either threebods or I think shape of water actually has an outside chance of winning.

1:31.9

It has a lot of nominations.

1:33.5

But let's start, Raff, with the film that you're gunning for.

1:36.3

Call me by your name.

1:37.5

In this clip, the two central characters played by Timothy Shalameh and Army Hammer are in the town square of this northern Italian,

1:45.9

very beautiful town where they're spending the summer together.

1:48.3

It's quite early in the film,

1:50.6

and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

1:54.2

I never even heard of the Battle of Piave.

1:56.5

Battle of Piave is one of the most lethal battles in World War I.

1:59.8

170,000 people die.

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