31 - You Pray for Perfect Blue Weather
Agitator
English - February 24, 2022 13:27 - 42 minutes - 50.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 39 ratingsTV & Film Arts Books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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On this episode, Kelby and I talk Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue (1999). Identity crises, the early internet, ambiguity, and mixtures of high and low art. At a certain point the film becomes a launchpad for our burgeoning manifesto, which places Japanese film at the center of inspiration for a way forward in our own fiction.
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