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...Noah Baumbach's heavily heralded previous picture, The Squid and the Whale, a father defines a philistine as someone who "doesn't care about books or interesting films and things," to which his son calmly replies, "I'm a philistine." To be honest, I'm with the kid - especially if you insist on regarding Baumbach's own movies as "interesting...
Noah Baumbach is no stranger to the strained family dynamic. In his 2005 directorial debut, “The Squid and the Whale,” which he also wrote, Baumbach dealt with the crisis of a looming divorce and the repercussions it had for two young brothers. The film’s anguish rang true in large part because the script was semi-autobiographical for Baumbach; amidst all the emotional turmoil, what survived was the fragile beauty of boyhood innocence. “Margot at the Wedding,” Baumbach’s second feature, retreads much...
...does an admirable job of protecting the land - banning nuclear material, declaring the Antarctic to be a "natural reserve, devoted to peace and science," and prohibiting any mining - but not the surrounding seas, which support a singular ecosystem ranging from krill to penguin, from seal to whale...
Given the country's appetite for whale, it's not surprising that the new mercury studies have divided the tight-knit community of Taiji. "If whaling disappears, our town disappears," says Katsutoshi Mihara, the affable town-council chief. He casts doubt on the accuracy of the mercury tests, which were commissioned by Ryono and another Taiji assemblyman after rumors circulated that locally caught pilot-whale meat might be tainted. "Look at me," says Mihara, 69. "I'm made of whale, head to toe, and I'm fine...
...pressure from fishermen not to publicize the mercury results," he says. Some are afraid of losing their jobs if Taiji takes dolphin off the menu. But Yamashita is pushing an idea that, at least for the long term, may be a more palatable solution: "Instead of relying on whaling, we could shift the town's economy to whale-watching...