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Sunday, 7 August 2005
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Wenders' work earns leopard of honour.
Wim Wenders, director of Paris, Texas and Buena Vista Social Club, has
been awarded a leopard of honour for his life's work at the 58th
Locarno film festival in southern Switzerland.
I've never seen a Wenders film I haven't liked.
In particular, Wings of Desire is
possibly my favourite film ever. Through the character, the angel
Damiel, it captures exactly what it feels like to be me, and how I view
the world.
What a pity Hollywood turned it into that bag of shit City of Angels.
The follow-up Faraway, So Close!
(Wenders insisist it's not a sequel) was nearly as good, but in this I
no longer identify with the now happy, loved and loving, human Damiel,
but with the tortured, confused, unhappy, addictive and unsuccessful angel
Cassiel.
Both films feature Nick Cave as an added bonus.
And this is not even to mention The Buena Vista Social Club, Paris, Texas, Alice in the Cities, Hammett, Until the End of the World (made in Australia), and the blues documentary The Soul of a Man.
[ABC News: Entertainment (with Mpeg1)]
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Hiroshima: photography by Hiromi Tsuchida.
Xeni Jardin:
Photographer Hiromi Tsuchida's documentation of the survivors and the dead from the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, which took place 60 years ago today.
In an online gallery hosted on the servers of Lewis And Clark College in Oregon, there are several categories of images: places, people, and personal belongings.
Watch.
[Owner] Kengo Futagawa (59 at the time) was crossing the Kannon
Bridge (1,600 meters from the hypocenter) by bicycle on his way to do
fire prevention work.
He jumped into the river, terribly burned. He returned home, but died on August 22, 1945.
Mr. Osamu Kataoka. Age: 45; occupation: university professor; family:
wife. At that time -- age: 13; at school (800 meters from the
hypocenter); father and elder brother died; mother and two elder
sisters injured.
"I ran to the edge of the pool. What did I see there? A drowned
classmate, who was burned all over. Another classmate was trying to put
out a fire on a friend's clothes with his own spouting blood." (written
at age 17)
Link to gallery home.
[Boing Boing]
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