Word: japon
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Alfonso Cuaron (Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban), Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Amores perros, Babel) and Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy). Yet Reygadas, 37, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take...
...Reygadas' name is rarely mentioned when journalists write about the new surge of Mexican cinema; they usually cite the three amigos: Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo Del Toro. Yet Reygadas, 36, has made the biggest noise at international film festivals and among the more intellectual critics. His Japon and Battle in Heaven won praise for their filmmaking rigor, caustic view of Mexico's social ills and often frank take on sex. With his competition film Stellet Licht (Silent Light), Reygadas shocks again: this drama of a Mennonite community in northern Mexico contains no explicit hanky-panky...
...typical Air fashion with echoing choral “ahhs” and synth. The ominous intro to “Photograph” is reminiscent of “The Virgin Suicides” and maintains intensity without an overstated volume or tempo. “Mer du Japon,” a further exploration of Air’s quite apparent Asian fetish, is closer to “Talkie Walkie” than any of the proceeding tracks. The song even comes fully equipped with a bridge devoid of all other sounds besides waves crashing...
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