• 2000
Van de schoonheid en de troost

Summary Twenty-six prominent thinkers, scientists, philosophers, writers and artists, reflect on the matter of Beauty and Consolation. View more details

  • 2000

Van de schoonheid en de troost

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Jane Goodall Germaine Greer Simon Schama Roger Scruton

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9.6

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 2025

Countries of origin : Netherlands

Official sites : Official site Netherlands

Language : English Dutch

Filming locations : USA

Production companies : Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)

Summary Twenty-six prominent thinkers, scientists, philosophers, writers and artists, reflect on the matter of Beauty and Consolation. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Feb 6, 2025

Countries of origin : Netherlands

Official sites : Official site Netherlands

Language : English Dutch

Filming locations : USA

Production companies : Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)

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Van de schoonheid en de troost (2000)

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Episode 1 • Dec 31, 1969
Wole Soyinka - Vaders Rozen
The African Nobel Prize winner for literature 1986 reflects on beauty and consolation during the civil war and his imprisonment during the military coup in Nigeria (1966) in which he was politically active. Soyinka tells the story of the singing by the prisoners on an execution day.
Episode 2 • Dec 31, 1969
Roger Scruton - De thuiskomst
Nature, tradition and religion are Scruton's main subjects in his philosophical view on life. Reflecting, at his farm in Wiltshire, on the beauty of an English tradition as foxhunting on the countryside, which brings people closer to nature and the necessity of religion in order to be able to experience consolation.
Episode 3 • Dec 31, 1969
Jane Goodall - Alleen op de berg
Goodall talks about nature, the rain forest as solace, love, the death of her husband, mysticism, reconciliation, ecstasy, peacefulness, chimpanzees, telepathy, beauty, spiritual evolution, God, hope, awareness of death, humor and dogs.
Episode 4 • Dec 31, 1969
George Steiner - De code van Pasternak
Interview with George Steiner, British literary critic and writer (in his home in Cambridge, Great Britain). Steiner talks about beauty, solace, fear, wonder, memory, his photographic memory, the extinction of collective memory and more.
Episode 5 • Dec 31, 1969
Vladimir Ashkenazy - Het einde van de Dertiende
Interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor. He sits at a piano and talks about beauty, consolation, love and hope. He has chosen a number of pieces of music as examples of beauty and consolation.
Episode 6 • Dec 31, 1969
Steven Weinberg - Thor, Newton, Einstein
Interview with Steven Weinberg, American theoretical physicist. Weinberg talks about the demythologization of the world and the consolation for this loss that can be found in the beauty of physical theories.
Episode 7 • Dec 31, 1969
Martha Nussbaum
Nussbaum talks about what philosophy means to her, the attempt at reconciliation with her mother, her childhood, the relationship she had with her father, her mother who became an alcoholic, and the marriage and divorce of her parents.
Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1969
Karel Appel
Interview with Karel Appel, Dutch painter. Appel has specially selected eight of his paintings for the interview as symbols of beauty and comfort.
Episode 9 • Dec 31, 1969
Edward Witten
Interview with Edward Witten, American theoretical physicist. He talks about solving physics riddles, happiness, religion, skepticism, the Big Bang, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, string theory, and the concepts of space and time.
Episode 10 • Dec 31, 1969
Elizabeth Loftus
Interview with Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist. The interview is preceded by the story of a couple who are in therapy with Loftus. They tell about their daughter who has (wrongly) accused her father of sexual abuse.
Episode 11 • Dec 31, 1969
Rutger Kopland
Interview with Rutger Kopland, Dutch poet. He talks about happiness, his heart problems/infarction, the emotional charge and intensity of memories, melancholy, glorification of childhood, poetry, (death) fear, emotion and fascination.
Episode 12 • Dec 31, 1969
Gary Lynch
Interview with Gary Lynch. Lynch talks about his unhappy childhood, finding meaning in life, how a memory is recorded in the brain, why the brain ages, mortality, the aging process, and the loss of childhood memories.
Episode 13 • Dec 31, 1969
Stephen Jay Gould
Interview with Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. Gould talks about sports, modern heroes and myths, eternity and infinity, beauty, calendars, biological diversity, death, religion and music.
Episode 14 • Dec 31, 1969
Dubravka Ugresic
Interview with Dubravka Ugresic, Croatian writer. Ugresic talks about the role of photos and photo albums in her life, why photos move her, about her memories of photos in her childhood and the influence of a photo of her father.
Episode 15 • Dec 31, 1969
Simon Schama
Interview with Simon Schama, British historian. Schama talks about the beauty of history that he recognized as a child, his Jewish background, the necessity of history.
Episode 16 • Dec 31, 1969
Catherine Bott
Interview with Catherine Bott, British soprano and interpreter of medieval songs and operas. Bott talks about the comforting power of music, her hospitalization as a child, the Beatles, shyness, dialects, speech lessons, happiness.
Episode 17 • Dec 31, 1969
John M. Coetzee
Interview with John Coetzee, South African writer. Coetzee talks about the complexity and meaning of beauty, aesthetics, marriage, authorship and the solace of writing, South Africa and the cruelty of the Apartheid system.
Episode 18 • Dec 31, 1969
Richard Dufallo
Richard Dufallo, American conductor, gave a concert. In between the music fragments, Dufallo pays attention to the questions of what beauty lies and where and how man finds consolation, the essence of an artist and the some composers.
Episode 19 • Dec 31, 1969
Leon Ledermann
Interview with Leon Lederman, American experimental physicist. He talks about his passion for his work, Shakespeare, the importance of the disciplines of astrophysics and cosmology within the research into the origin of the universe.
Episode 20 • Dec 31, 1969
Rudi Fuchs
Interview with Rudi Fuchs, art historian. Fuchs shows various postcards that he has collected over the years and talks about the beauty and comfort of postcards.
Episode 21 • Dec 31, 1969
Tatjana Tolstaja
Interview with Tatjana Tolstaja, Russian writer and granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. Tolstaja talks about her deceased father, why she finds Russia fascinating, her experience that she probably had multiple lives before this life.
Episode 22 • Dec 31, 1969
Freeman Dyson
Interview with Freeman Dyson, British/American theoretical physicist. Dyson talks about gamma-ray bursts, the lack of a scientific understanding of beauty, the complexity of the brain, and whether animals have a sense of beauty.
Episode 23 • Dec 31, 1969
Richard Rorty
Interview with Richard Rorty, American philosopher. Rorty talks about his childhood memories, Plato, his insight that philosophical systems offer neither structure nor beauty, teaching philosophy for a living, and the term postmodernism.
Episode 24 • Dec 31, 1969
Györgi Konrád
Interview with György Konrád, Hungarian writer. Konrád talks about his interpretation of the concept of beauty, the human desire for eternity and the role that historiography plays in this, the reason why he writes.
Episode 25 • Dec 31, 1969
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer, Australian writer, captures her native Australia with a camera for 'Of Beauty and Comfort', for her the only answer to the question of what beauty and comfort mean.
Episode 26 • Dec 31, 1969
Yehudi Menuhin
Interview with Yehudi Menuhin. Menuhin talks about the moment that represents the now and moves with us through time, composers who give him solace including Ludwig van Beethoven, especially his Ninth Symphony.
Episode 27 • Dec 31, 1969
De Samenkomst
Twenty of the portrayed guests come together for an exchange of thoughts in the De Zaaijer gallery on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, preceded by a visit to the exhibition 'Of Beauty and Consolation' in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
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