Japanese film director Sho Miyake's "Tabi to Hibi" ("Two Seasons, Two Strangers") has won the top prize in the international competition division at the 78th Locarno Film Festival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/17/film/two-seasons-two-strangers-locarno-film-festival-top-prize/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #locarnofilmfestival #tabitohibi #japanesefilm #awards #switzerland
Showcasing the breadth of Atsushi Kitagawara’s career, the exhibition at the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection comes as he passes his practice to three architects, ushering in a new era under a different name. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/16/art/atsushi-kitagawara-architecture-exhibition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #art #architecture #exhibitions#atsushikitagawara #metteamarchitects #nakamurakeithharingcollection
A restored 1970 Expo treasure leads 68 films from emerging voices across Asia at the Osaka Asian Film Festival. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/15/film/osaka-asian-film-festival-preview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #2025osakaexpo #filmfestivals #shortfilms #asiancinema #osaka
In the time it takes to get to work, streaming platform Samansa says it can change the way you watch movies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/14/tv-streaming/samansa-short-film-streaming/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #tvstreaming #film #streaming #samansa #shortfilms #startups
Toshihisa Yamada’s first feature gives a lightly fictionalized spin to the tale of the “lucky” Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer that survived World War II. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/14/film/yukikaze/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #worldwarii #yutakatakenouchi #toshihisayamada
fresco
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Mon libraire préféré ! À « L’Autre monde » à Avallon.
Avec Pierre, on se retrouve au café de Julie autour d’un café et on parle littérature. Souvent, après une de ces discussions, je vais acheter le livre dont nous avons parlé.
#librairie #avallon #morvan #bourgogne #livre #culture
Mon libraire préféré ! À « L’Autre monde » à Avallon.
Avec Pierre, on se retrouve au café de Julie autour d’un café et on parle littérature. Souvent, après une de ces discussions, je vais acheter le livre dont nous avons parlé.
#librairie #avallon #morvan #bourgogne #livre #culture
Rise, shine and rave. Summer Sonic 2025 is putting its biggest J-pop and K-pop stars in early slots — with Babymetal, Mrs. Green Apple, aespa and more turning the weekend into an all-day sprint. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/13/music/summer-sonic-festival-preview/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #music #musicfestivals #summersonic #kpop #jpop #sonicmania
Jay 🆘
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After 70 years of tucking America into bed, the curtain may be about to come down on late night TV. Steven Zeitchik explains how it’s more than tradition that’s being lost in this article for @THR:
After 70 years of tucking America into bed, the curtain may be about to come down on late night TV. Steven Zeitchik explains how it’s more than tradition that’s being lost in this article for @THR:
WNBA Incidents Expose Misogyny in Sports Culture
As a coach, an uncle, and a son, I believe we must speak out against the normalization of misogyny. This is bigger than sports—it’s about the dignity and humanity of every woman.
Silence teaches the next generation that power means domination.
#culture #discrimination#Equality #SportsNews #womenrights#WNBA #fitnessindustry #coaching#Boston #athletes #equity #misogyny #business #personaltrainer #womeninsports #genderequality
Joseph Nuthalapati :fbx:
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"The old culture industries at least had to make products that held our attention. In the postbroadcast era, the culture industries are superseded by the vulture industries. They don't even bother to provide any entertainment. We have to entertain each other, while they collect the rent, and they collect it on all social media time, public or private, work or leisure, and (if you keep your FitBit on) even when you sleep."
#MckenzieWark, Capital is Dead, 2019
"The old culture industries at least had to make products that held our attention. In the postbroadcast era, the culture industries are superseded by the vulture industries. They don't even bother to provide any entertainment. We have to entertain each other, while they collect the rent, and they collect it on all social media time, public or private, work or leisure, and (if you keep your FitBit on) even when you sleep."
#MckenzieWark, Capital is Dead, 2019
Sung in Japanese, German and Ukrainian, “Natasha” tells the story of an immigrant wandering through a series of hells on Earth. The modern opera opens in Tokyo with a star-studded crosscultural team behind it. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/09/stage/natasha-opera-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #stage #newnationaltheatretokyo #opera #theater #yokotawada #kazushiono #toshiohosokawa
Set in near-future Shanghai, romantic comedy anime "ChaO" reimagines "The Little Mermaid" in vibrant, hand-drawn detail. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/08/film/chao-anime-yasuhiro-aoki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #anime #yasuhiroaoki
Takeru Satoh looks gorgeous playing a tortured genius in “Glass Heart” — a show that sounds great but rings hollow. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/07/tv-streaming/glass-heart/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #tvstreaming #netflix #jpop #takerusatoh #yumiyazaki#keitamachida #junshison
Not saints, not martyrs — teenage nurses struggle to care for others while barely holding themselves together in “Nagasaki: In the Shadow of the Flash.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/08/07/film/nagasaki-in-the-shadow-of-the-flash/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #wwii #hiroshima #nagasaki #atomicbombings #jumpeimatsumoto
jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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First look images released from second series of S4C smash hit mystery drama, Y Golau
#Culture
First look images released from second series of S4C smash hit mystery drama, Y Golau
#Culture
Jess Mahler
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"It was important for me to have this lead character who’s going through it and is not being pretty and sweet and nice about it.”
New from Kit @oconnell: This 9-part #audio comedy from Audible centers around a still all-too-rare depiction of a very funny, very human disabled main character. https://www.texasobserver.org/shaky-audio-series-messy-real-disabled-life/