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TV Review: First Love, A Soft-Hearted Jigsaw Puzzle On The Meaningful Encounters In Life

Life doesn’t turn out the way we planned it as youngsters and yet every instant turns out to be meaningful. As Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once said: “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.” This concept is beautifully portrayed in the Japanese television series First Love — available on Netflix…

Japan Society’s Flash Forward Series: Vision, A Herbal MacGuffin Leads To A Transcendental Journey

Japanese film director, Naomi Kawase, delivers a suave homage to the interactive complex of biological and nonbiological worlds on the planet, through her Vision. The French-Japanese drama — starring Juliette Binoche and Masatoshi Nagase, with Takanori Iwata, Minami, Mirai Moriyama in supporting roles — is part of Japan Society’s ACA Cinema Project series Flash Forward:…

‘Minamata’ Director Andrew Levitas Says MGM is Burying the Movie Because of Johnny Depp

It’s been a year and a half since Minamata premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and the film has yet to be released, and its director believes it’s not only because of the pandemic. According to Deadline, filmmaker Andrew Levitas sent a letter to MGM in which he alleges that the studio sought to…