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The Business

Sebastian Schipper & Laia Costa: One Take Wonder 'Victoria'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The German thriller Victoria follows a bank heist in Berlin in real time. Director Sebastian Schipper shot the entire film in one long take. Schipper and actress Laia Costa tell us how you make a movie without ever saying "cut!"

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. Every week, join Rich Lowry, Bob Shear and me for a contentious yet civilized debate of the week's big political stories, from ISIS to the U.S. economy to this 47 candidate presidential election we're having. You can find Left, Right and Center on KCRW's iTunes page.

0:17.9

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business.

0:24.1

I can do something crazy or maybe brainless if you think about shooting a film in a single

0:30.5

take, but I have to ask for a little money or I ask for a lot of money and then I got to

0:36.1

play it safe.

0:36.9

So I said, I'm not going to play it safe.

0:39.0

I'm going to play it the very, very opposite of safe.

0:42.6

Improbable as it seems, German director Sebastian Shipper

0:45.8

shot his award-winning bank heist film Victoria in one take

0:49.9

with completely improvised dialogue.

0:52.6

Shipper and the star of the film, Lai Acosta,

0:55.0

talk about preparing for a long, uninterrupted shoot,

0:58.2

and what happens when the leading lady is desperate for a bathroom break.

1:02.2

But first on the news banter,

1:04.0

Scientologists ramp up their campaign against Going Clear

1:06.9

and ABC family changes its name.

1:09.8

To what?

1:10.7

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

1:18.9

I'm joined by my partner in banter, Michael Schneider of TV Guide magazine. Hello, Mike. Hi, Kim.

1:24.6

So, at Scientology, Alex Gibney made his film going clear. I'm a talking head in that just to disclose all. I didn't get paid. I just appear as a journalist talking about Scientology. The film won an Emmy for outstanding documentary. And, you know, up until recently, Scientology had been, you know, they'd been tweeting Alex Gibney is a bad person and dishonest and putting things on Facebook.

1:49.6

But, you know, I think because of the Emmy, possibly, there appears to be a ramping up of a campaign against this film.

1:57.8

Yeah, this is much more in line with what we've seen through the years that Scientology

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