An almost entirely forgotten film by Kazan, even though it was nominated for Best Picture in 1963. Still some striking photography of Turkey during the First World War.
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Better Man 2024
A better musical than Emilia Perez, a better biopic than Bohemian Rhapsody.
There is zero acknowledgment that he’s a chimpanzee. It would be like a biopic about Adele where everyone is human, but Adele is played by Miss Piggy and not one person even gestures towards the fact that she’s a muppet. Really astounding/confounding way to push the boundaries of cinematic narrative.
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Perfect Days 2023
In 2020, the son of the founder of Fast Retailing (the parent company of Uniqlo), Koji Yanai, funded a series of bathrooms in Tokyo in preparation of the 2020 Olympics, designed by famous Japanese architects, including Shigeru Ban and Tadao Ando. Because of the strict COVID protocols in place in the summer of 2021 that limited the audiences allowed into Japan for the Games, few, if any, saw the bathrooms that Yanai funded. A year later, Yanai provided funding to…
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