Spotlight - 13.2019

46 Spotlight 13/2019

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ARTS

Listeners of NPR, the US umbrella organi-

zation of public radio stations, are familiar

with the news quiz Wa i t Wa i t ... D o n ’ t Te l l Me!

It has become so famous that it’s simply

called WWDTM. The weekly 60-minute quiz

goes out live from Chicago and features a

host and a number of panellists, who are asked to respond to cur-

rent news stories. Listeners are encouraged to take part and each

week, a celebrity guest (such as writer John Grisham or singer

Mary Wilson) is interviewed and tested on his or her knowledge

of an obscure topic. WWDTM’s winning format of different-style

quiz games allows individual and often very funny responses

and offers its six million listeners a chance to stay informed and

buzz [bVz] amused. npr.org/programs/wait-wait-dont-tell-me

, Aufregung

factual reporting

[)fÄktSuEl ri(pO:tIN]

, sachliche Bericht-

erstattung

grab [grÄb]

, packen

interrogation

[In)terE(geIS&n]

, Ve r h ö r-

sober [(sEUbE]

, nüchtern, sachlich

waterboarding

[(wO:tEbO:dIN]

, simuliertes Ertränken

als Foltermethode

Can simple, factual reporting tell a good story or do we always

need to see emotion, drama and adventure on the screen? After

all, there’s no business like show business, especially when it

comes to politics. Take the 1976 film All the President’s Men, which

used the buzz of danger and high-powered secrets. The Report,

directed by Scott Z. Burns, does none of this.

Adam Driver plays Daniel Jones, a young man who studied

at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and

worked for the FBI. Now, he has been recruited to take part in

a secret US Senate investigation into the CIA’s interrogation

methods after 9/11. Jones and his co-workers spend six years

in windowless rooms putting together evidence and present-

ing their findings to the Senate Intelligence Committee under

Senator Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening). Unusually for

Hollywood, Jones and Feinstein are portrayed only in terms

of function: there are no private lives in this story. Yet the film

comes to life as it explores different interpretations of duty:

sober public service on the one hand and acts of barbarity, such

as waterboarding, on the other. It’s this contrast that grabs and

then holds our attention. Starts 7 November.

FILM PREVIEW | THRILLER

ARTS

Politics, poverty

and a panel game

In dieser Ausgabe finden Sie einen Film über die Folgen

von 9/11, einen über Armut im Vereinigten Königreich

sowie einen Podcast über Nachrichten. Von EVE LUCAS

MEDIUM

FILM PREVIEW | DRAMA

British director Ken Loach’s films are

fearlessly working-class in their sympa-

thies. His latest, Sorry We Missed You, is no

exception. Its main characters are Ricky

(Kris Hitchen), who lost his job in the eco-

nomic recession after 2008, and his wife,

Abbie (Debbie Honeywood), a nurse and

in-house carer. As Ricky takes on work as

a deliveryman, both he and his wife find

themselves exploited by employers who, in the gig economy,

can ignore the mental health and family lives of their employ-

ees. While struggling to survive the injustice, Loach’s characters

keep an eye open for the poetry of daily life and the promise of

tomorrow. This director’s special kind of humanity is as impor-

tant now as it ever was. Starts 14 November.

exploit [Ik(splOIt]

, ausbeuten, ausnutzen

gig economy

[gIg i(kQnEmi]

, auf Freiberuflern

basierendes Wirtschafts-

system

in-house carer

[(In haUs )keErE] UK

, ambulante Pflegekraft

PODCAST | NEWS QUIZ

feature [(fi:tSE]

, bringen, darbieten

host [hEUst]

, Moderator

panellist [(pÄn&lIst]

, Diskussions-

teilnehmer(in)

umbrella [Vm(brelE]

, hier: Dach-

Adam Driver

as Senate

investigator

Daniel Jones in

The Report