A certain wabi-sabi mood grabbed me and I found myself putting on this music film a few times while eating or doing chores. Watching Ryuichi Sakamoto perform his own creations amassed over a lifetime, in preparation for his death, is awe-inspiring.
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I came for the meditative Japanese zen cinema vibes, I fell in love with the gorgeous public bathroom architecture in Tokyo! The film sits beautifully with my own reverence for the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh and learning to be at peace during the storms of life. In reading a reddit thread by someone who had a completely different take, I was interested by the links others made to film makers such as Ozu.
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Robert Gottlieb talks about a work by Shakespeare that he constantly references to make sense of his life – which character is he and what is he playing out at certain times. It made me wonder what my guiding literature might be, and I landed on ‘I Feel Bad About My Neck’ by Nora Ephron (yeah, it’s not Shakespeare, but it’s great advice from a cool Aunt in New York). I came across this documentary her son made about her posthumously – and lo and behold but who should be in there but Robert Gottlieb! It turns out he was a close friend with Nora Ephron.
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This NYT article is a look into the sale of a portion of Robert Gottlieb’s personal library, a man famous for discovering and editing Catch-22, plus working with writers like Toni Morrison and Salman Rushdie. His daughter Lizzie Gottlieb, who made a documentary about her father, finishes the article with this quote “I hope what these young people can take away from my father is that it is joyful to care deeply about your craft and to want to devote yourself to it. It’s not about being precious.”
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