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As the Film Forum folks (FFF) have so elegantly put it, With his starring roles in bona fide classics by Kurosawa and Kobayashi, and multiple leading parts for masters as disparate in style and subject matter as Naruse, Okamoto, Gosha, Teshigahara, Kinoshita, and the late Kon Ichikawa, Nakadai’s career provides a core sample right through the heart of the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema…. I’m imaging a French New-wave episode of Friends adapted for the big screen, a bunch of idealistic kids who wish they could have been Futurists but, for reasons of temporal nativity and philosophical fortitude, in the end were just part of that whole exciting decade whose anticlimax paved the way for our awareness of virtuality.
Something to look forward to while murdering precious living moments. Heretofore mentioned experimental electronic exhibitionist Carsten Nicolai will be performing at New York’s Kitchen on October 6. Tix are $15 bucks. A friggin’ steal. Tokyo’s good-times absurdo-hilarious rockers Moools will be bringing their inter-song banter and poppy rock guitar ditties to New York City in [...]
A week or so ago I Netflixed an animated series I had started watching halfway through its original TV run when I was living in Japan, “Sadamitsu: The Destroyer“. You got your basic rowdy gang of lovable Japanese teen toughs, led by the quick-tempered, never-say-die, brawling Tsubaki Sadamitsu. You got your enabling bombshell high school [...]
DJ For Hire: S/T It’s good to step out of a scene obsessed with itself, good to get away from feeling bored, good to get away from conceits like status, nostalgia, the dictates of history, and the rules of composure. It’s good because once you’re there, you can’t go back. Try this:Turn on your CD [...]
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