Kōji Wakamatsu

- Ecstasy of the Angels

1972

- Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw

2004

Masao Adachi

- Revolution+1

2022

Revolution+1 (2022) dir. Masao Adachi

Revolution+1 (Adachi Masao, 2022)

I don't think i've seen a movie so devoted to causality. Not so much a form of rationalisation but the interceding, compounding, addling steps to decision and action - its own rationality. As long as action is taken, all that matters. The revolution variable, revolution+1 forming a sequence on which further causes and effects are plotted to infinity, always running ahead of mitigating encapsulations (legal, journalistic, refined historical narratives, movies).

Winny, Eternal New Mornings, My Beautiful Man Special Edit Version, SSSS.DYNAZENON Movie Compilation, Battle King!! We’ll rise again, Touched Perry, Ano wo Wasurete, Iitate-mura be ko ya no Kaa-chan Sorezore no Sentaku, Written Face, Revolution+1 Japanese Film Trailers

Happy Weekend This is the sole trailer post for this week. The number of films came to ten. Anything above that number and I tend to break trailer posts up into two. Another reason is that I am beginning coverage of the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2023 tomorrow. On Monday, I published an overview of the Japanese films and a handful of others that caught my eye as I have worked for this year’s…

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* the writers were kind of insane for this one actually

charming & terrible, etc

The Glance Agenda™

Ryan Guzman : Step Up Revolution (2012)

The one niche thing im good at is historical clothing. so. Historically inspired l'manberg uniforms :)

The uniforms are from the french imperial guard circa late 1800s/early 1810s: Wilbur's uniform is a chef de bataillon, fusiliers-grenadiers regiment. The other one is of a lieutenant general. Tommy and tubbo's uniforms are the same; cuirassiers (which yes is a cavalry regiment but shhh). Eret's is a trumpeter of line infantry if im not mistaken and Fundy's is from the medical regiment.

(Most of my choices were purely based on aesthetics, researching this far back in military history is hell as is and im not about to spend another week doing it. )

Anyway Happy birthday to the one and only country for which im a patriot

If twitter existed in the Napoleonic Era

͏ ͏ ͏· ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏/ᐠ - ˕ -マ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ jihoon ?!

Masao Adachi

- Revolution+1

2022

I just want to announce that I think this is the sexiest moment in S1. The music, the lighting, the choreography and framing. The sudden, sharp eye contact. The entire football field scene is perhaps the most gorgeous part of the show, but I never fail to get goosebumps every time this particular bit comes around.

The music in the background drowns out Wille and Simon’s dialogue. The words they are saying (“Pull yourself together.” “I don’t want you to be mad.” “Come on.”), while heartfelt, are secondary to what is really happening. The lyrics Let’s start a revolution ring out as Wille swings his hair out of his face—and for a fraction of a second, Wille seems completely sober. There is a sense of profound clarity in his gaze, while Simon meets his eyes in a frenzy of panicked concern.

Simon looks incredulous at his impulsive decision to bike all the way to school in freezing temperatures in the dead of night—all to rescue a boy who had effectively dumped him earlier. He is bewildered and upset by Wille’s physical state, and his state of mind. Simon has every reason to avoid men who engage in substance abuse. Despite his anger and annoyance, something in him intuitively trusts Wille, and in Wille’s abilities to respectfully accept support from him.

Each boy is suddenly discovering the staggering extent of their affection for the other; it feels real now, and the enormity of a potential affair crashes into them.

Wille has been fighting to keep thoughts of the collateral damage of his feelings for Simon at bay for so long, but right now, he looks immune to his anxiety. He has finally admitted to himself that the conventions and traditions that his family and late brother cared deeply about were simply made up. In a world where everything is fake—where he mostly tolerates his life by dissociating—Wille’s feelings for Simon are so tangible that suppressing them have been driving him over the edge. The surety he feels (towards his authentic identity, his wants, his needs) when he is with Simon has grown to become his anchor, the only thing that might keep him sane. With Simon, he feels relief.

They face each other directly across the scene, and we watch closely from behind as an audience peeking in. With their stance and the way they take up space, the music and lyrics egg on a sense of victory. This is a turning point in both their lives, but not because they decide now that they will truly commit to a revolutionary relationship—It’s altogether too soon for that.

This moment is just a simple, beautiful, wondrous realization: I would start a revolution, with you. For you. It would be worth it.

2024 reads / storygraph

Those Beyond The Wall

sequel/companion to The Space Between Worlds, set a decade later

character-focused sci-fi set in an area divided in two, the rich protected city on one side and everyone else in the post-apocalyptic desert

follows a woman who works under the Emperor in Ashtown, keeping the peace

when mangled bodies start showing up with seemingly no murderer, she’s tasked with finding the cause, and finds out that it’s the result of corruption spanning both cities and multiple worlds

explores oppression and messy revolution, police violence and apartheid

bi & polyamorous MC

Amnesiac Love, Wolf The Last Stuntman, Players Talk, At Baywalk, REVOLUTION+1 Japanese Film Trailers

Amnesiac Love, Wolf The Last Stuntman, Players Talk, At Baywalk, REVOLUTION+1 Japanese Film Trailers

Happy Weekend Today is Christmas Eve but that doesn’t mean the movies stop! This week, I watched Stand By Me, Ju-On: Origins, Eyes Without a Face and Out of the Past. On Tuesday, Japan Foundation UK announced their programme for the 2023 edition of the Touring Film Programme and I posted about that. What else was released this weekend? (more…)

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Officer of the Russian Armoured Car Division talking to a wounded Russian soldier while his servicemen trying to recover their Lanchester armoured car bogged down in mud in Galicia (the Austro-Hungarian partition of Poland) while retreating during the Kerensky Offensive, summer 1917.