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...youthful teenage version of the band writing their first album, “Leisure,” to the seasoned veterans touring their greatest hits around Britain. As such, the film can be a little confusing for those who don’t already have a pretty good idea of what Blur achieved, and is only really appropriate for fans of the band. For these fans, however, “No Distance Left to Run” is perfect in just about every...
...have evaporated.” Bassist Alex James talks about playing “Tender” at Glastonbury as a life-changing experience. The shy and awkward Coxon is particularly fascinating. Of the aftermath of Albarn throwing him out of Blur, he mumbles, “The idea of bumping into any of them was terrifying,” showing just how bad things had gotten for the group. Regarding the reunion and its high-profile nature, however, he says, “I think we all really needed to be very public about this healing process...
...pair of men reappear as Richard Elster, a former scholar employed by the military to “conceptualize,” and Jimmy Finley, the young filmmaker who wishes to record Elster’s account of his experience in one, long take. After initial resistance to the idea, Elster invites Jimmy to stay with him in the vast remoteness of a Western desert—“Not a long visit, he’d said.” But the arbitrariness of such adjectives becomes apparent as days turn to weeks and then, presumably, into months...
Aaron Litvin was a Latin American Studies concentrator in the Romance Languages and Literatures department at Harvard. The idea for a film about Brazil and Japan grew out of Litvin’s senior thesis, entitled “Brazilian Okazaki, a case study of Brazilian migration to Japan.” During his time as an undergraduate, he visited Brazil and studied abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Okazaki, Japan...
Following graduation, Litvin received a Fulbright scholarship to pursue a masters in sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He made the documentary as he finished his graduate work, explaining, “Whereas the research is trying to make generalizations and conclusions, the idea of the movie in parallel is to find the singularities, differences, diversity within this group. If there was anything we wanted to show, it is how different the experience is for each person, and how the expectations shape the experience...