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Tokyo offers toilet tours amid flush of excitement over Wim Wenders’s Oscar hopeful

Shibuya district is offering tours of its architect-designed public facilities that feature in Perfect Days

The Guardian - UK

Inside the minds of Yohji Yamamoto, Jeanne Friot, Stéphane Rolland and Julien Fournié

What exactly goes on in designers’ heads? Wim Wenders claims that Yohji Yamamoto has the power to heal people without the need for a therapist’s chair. Meanwhile Jeanne Friot delves into her own lesbian love story. Stéphane Rolland invites students from two Paris fashions schools on stage, as his collection…

France 24

Make coffee. Shower. Clean the loo. In an age of choice, rituals are the key to happiness

Wim Wenders’ film Perfect Days is on to something with its depiction of main character Hirayama’s calm, habitual life

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Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders’s zen Japanese drama is his best feature film in years

The German director makes a strong case for simple living with this achingly lovely tale starring Kōji Yakusho as a Tokyo public toilet cleaner who finds quiet joy in the world around him

The Guardian - UK

Martin Scorsese Honored With Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear

Martin Scorsese honored with the Honorary Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival, reflecting on his career and hinting at future collaborations.

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Oscar-nominated 'Perfect Days' Is 'Not About Toilets', Wenders Says

The movie's taciturn main character is a cleaner who ensures that a set of toilets in downtown Tokyo, designed by famous architects, are kept spotless.

International Business Times

‘If God is in everything, that includes toilets’: Kōji Yakusho on cleaning high-art loos in Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days

The star of Tampopo, Babel and The Eel reveals how it felt to share the screen with 17 stunning Tokyo lavatories in this joyously strange, Oscar-tipped film about a cleaner

The Guardian - UK

Streaming: the best films about artists

From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius

The Guardian - UK

Year in review: top 10 beauty and grooming features of 2023, selected by Wallpaper’s Hannah Tindle

Our top 10 beauty and grooming features of 2023 span from Prada’s make-up debut to Japanese hair styling and the secrets of Björk’s nail artist

Wallpaper

Anselm review – Wim Wenders’s immersive documentary is a treat for art lovers

Presented in both 2D and 3D, this absorbing film allows viewers to experience the epic work of German artist Anselm Kiefer

The Guardian - UK

Byredo holiday collection nods to Wim Wenders and Georgia O’Keefe

Byredo’s creative image director Lucia Pica speaks to Wallpaper* in an exclusive interview, revealing her off-kilter design process

Wallpaper

The Cine Files: everything you need to see at the cinema in December

From a superbly creepy British debut to the return of Godzilla and farewell to a Japanese legend, here are the 21 best films to see this month

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France 24

Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer: 'Attitudes towards Indigenous people have gone backwards'

Australian director Rolf de Heer chats to Lisa Nesselson and Dheepthika Laurent about his first feature film in a decade, "The Survival of Kindness", which was shot in the Australian outback. Also: German director Wim Wenders' Japanese-language film "Perfect Days" shines a spotlight on a toilet cleaner and Disney's latest…

Digital Camera World

Paris, Texas director Wim Wenders shows unseen photographic work in Paris, France

Howard Greenberg Gallery announces the representation of director and photographer Wim Wenders as Paris Photo

France 24

Scorsese reunites DiCaprio & De Niro in historical drama 'Killers of the Flower Moon'

Based on David Grann's best-selling book investigating a wave of suspicious deaths among Oklahoma's Osage Nation, Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" is one of the most anticipated movies of the year. FRANCE 24 film critic Lisa Nesselson says it's both sweeping and intimate, with actress Lily Gladstone subtly…

Chicago Sun-Times

2023 Chicago film festival: 10 movies to see

Fest brings 12 days of opportunity to see entertaining works tackling topics from the Ukraine invasion to Iranian bureaucracy to 19th century French cuisine.

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Asian talents score big at Cannes

From Japan to Malaysia by way of Vietnam, Asian filmmakers of disparate sensibilities triumphed at the recently-wrapped 76th Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d'Or may have gone to French filmmaker Justine Triet from her tense drama Anatomy Of A Fall, but six other awards handed out by the world's most…

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France's Triet becomes third female director to win Cannes' top prize

French director Justine Triet became the third female director to win the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or on Saturday, beating out 20 other films in competition for the top prize.

The Guardian - UK

Cannes 2023 week two roundup – still a country for old men?

Films from Scorsese, Loach, Wim Wenders and more are some of the best in this year’s competition, but ahead of them all is Jonathan Glazer’s mighty Auschwitz drama The Zone of Interest

France 24

Cannes serves up a parade of ageing maestros and a Tarantino masterclass

The final stretch of the world’s premier film festival has seen Cannes roll out the red carpet for a cavalcade of veteran auteurs, including two-time Palme d’Or laureate Ken Loach, past winners Wim Wenders and Nanni Moretti, and fellow Italian Marco Bellocchio, whose magnificent “Kidnapped” joined the list of frontrunners…

Radio France Internationale

Postcard from Cannes #5: Take a drink at the fountain of youth

Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Wim Wenders: there’s no shortage of veteran directors in competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year. But the industry is witnessing a generational overhaul, with new talent climbing quickly up the ranks in both France and abroad.

The Guardian - UK

Perfect Days review – Wim Wenders explores a quiet life in Tokyo

Bittersweet tale of an apparently contented toilet cleaner has an ambient urban charm, but feels a little too understated

The Guardian - UK

Nazis and normality: UK directors unsettle Cannes with films tackling ‘unseen’ evil

Steve McQueen and Jonathan Glazer separately confront the Holocaust with themes prompted by a resurgence of the far right

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