Van de Schoonheid en de Troost or Of Beauty and Consolation is Dutch TV program hosted by Wim Kayzer and broadcasted in 2000.
There are several reasons for me to recomend this tv series. First of all I like the title very much. The title is in itself consoling, says that there is somewhere or somehow the possibility of consolation (that for some reason I feel the need). The second reason is the music of the beginning of each episode. Then, of course, the interviews themselves, since they are long enough and free enough to allow these brilliant people to show a little bit of their work, of their personality, of their idiosyncrasies. And probably the nicest thing of the series is the diversity of the people interviewed, scientists, writers, philosophers, painters, some incredibly shy, some the opposite, some believe in ghosts, most don't, all in all an interesting catalog of the human species.
The tv series ends with a show in which they gather many of the guests to discuss the topic of the series.
There are several reasons for me to recomend this tv series. First of all I like the title very much. The title is in itself consoling, says that there is somewhere or somehow the possibility of consolation (that for some reason I feel the need). The second reason is the music of the beginning of each episode. Then, of course, the interviews themselves, since they are long enough and free enough to allow these brilliant people to show a little bit of their work, of their personality, of their idiosyncrasies. And probably the nicest thing of the series is the diversity of the people interviewed, scientists, writers, philosophers, painters, some incredibly shy, some the opposite, some believe in ghosts, most don't, all in all an interesting catalog of the human species.
The tv series ends with a show in which they gather many of the guests to discuss the topic of the series.
The list of interviews:
5 Vladimir Ashkenazy (with Portuguese subtitles)
6 Steven Weinberg (with Portuguese subtitles)
7 Martha Nussbaum (with Portuguese subtitles)
8 Karel Appel (with Portuguese subtitles)
9 Edward Witten (with Portuguese subtitles)
10 Elizabeth Loftus (with Portuguese subtitles)
11 Rutger Kopland (with Portuguese subtitles)
12 Gary Lynch (with Portuguese subtitles)
13 Stephen Jay Gould (with Portuguese subtitles)
14 Dubravka Ugresic (with Portuguese subtitles)
15 Simon Schama (with Portuguese subtitles)
16 Catherine Bott (with Portuguese subtitles)
17 John M. Coetzee (with Portuguese subtitles)
18 Richard Dufallo (with Portuguese subtitles)
19 Leon Lederman (with Portuguese subtitles)
20 Rudi Fuchs (with Portuguese subtitles)
21 Tatjana Tolstaja (with Portuguese subtitles)
22 Freeman Dyson (with Portuguese subtitles)
23 Richard Rorty (with Portuguese subtitles)
24 Gyorgy Konrad (with Portuguese subtitles)
25 Germaine Greer (with Portuguese subtitles)
26 Yehudi Menuhin (with Portuguese subtitles)
27 Grand final (with Portuguese subtitles)
6 Steven Weinberg (with Portuguese subtitles)
7 Martha Nussbaum (with Portuguese subtitles)
8 Karel Appel (with Portuguese subtitles)
9 Edward Witten (with Portuguese subtitles)
10 Elizabeth Loftus (with Portuguese subtitles)
11 Rutger Kopland (with Portuguese subtitles)
12 Gary Lynch (with Portuguese subtitles)
13 Stephen Jay Gould (with Portuguese subtitles)
14 Dubravka Ugresic (with Portuguese subtitles)
15 Simon Schama (with Portuguese subtitles)
16 Catherine Bott (with Portuguese subtitles)
17 John M. Coetzee (with Portuguese subtitles)
18 Richard Dufallo (with Portuguese subtitles)
19 Leon Lederman (with Portuguese subtitles)
20 Rudi Fuchs (with Portuguese subtitles)
21 Tatjana Tolstaja (with Portuguese subtitles)
22 Freeman Dyson (with Portuguese subtitles)
23 Richard Rorty (with Portuguese subtitles)
24 Gyorgy Konrad (with Portuguese subtitles)
25 Germaine Greer (with Portuguese subtitles)
26 Yehudi Menuhin (with Portuguese subtitles)
27 Grand final (with Portuguese subtitles)
Eccolo! Thanks, Claudia. Great bounce!
ReplyDeleteI just watched the chapter with Freeman Dyson. It is more than a simple documentary or an interview. It is a work of art. And I would add that it is a magnificent one. (I expect no less from the other episodes.) Nothing to do with the cerebral debates I have suggested before. This is plenty of emotional discussions and reflections about lack of understanding and imprecision, but at the same time smoothed with the rationalization of one of the greatest minds of our times. Dyson speaks about his family and his family speaks about him, and the tenderness is interlocked with their speech logic. Very deep philosophical questions arise and they linger till we see that we cannot work our way through them by reasoning only although we might fairly try. And we are left with just that... Beauty and Consolation.
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