Damian Barr on Maggie & Me, Italian neorealist film, A.I. and Fake Art
Maggie & Me adapted for stage by Damian Barr, from his own memoir. We also discuss how A.I. is tackling fake art online and Italian neorealism with the release of Rome, Open City.
A memoir about growing up gay in Scotland under the shadow of Thatcherism, Maggie & Me was published to wide acclaim in 2013. Damian Barr joins to discuss how he as adapted it with James Ley for a new National Theatre of Scotland touring production.
As Roberto Rossellini's classic 1945 film Rome, Open City (Roma cittΓ aperta) is re-released by the BFI, writer Thea Lenarduzzi and film historian Ian Christie reassess its role in launching Italian neorealism and compare it with There's Still Tomorrow (C'Γ¨ ancora domani), a new film by Paula Cortellesi that borrows many of neorealism's visual and thematic hallmarks.
With news last week that fake artworks by Renoir and Monet were being sold online, Samira is joined by art specialist and A.I. expert Dr. Carina Popovici and writer and art crime expert Riah Pyror to discuss the problem and how A.I. is being used to solve it.
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