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… pation. Made you wait, huh?
Anyway, what’s been going on chez A Damn Fine Cup of Culture this week? Our schedule was a bit wobbly, due to a post that wasn’t scheduled properly, which means we had two posts going up on Saturday, starting with Matt’s Six Damn Fine Degrees about adaptations into different media, and the ways that film and TV adaptations don’t necessarily restrict our imagination. Case in point: the BBC’s Wolf Hall.
For our second Saturday post, Matt gave us a triple bill of Japanese films released as part of the Criterion Collection.
And what else is happening out there in trailer land?
Matt: We finally got the first proper trailer (i.e. not teaser) for the new collaboration between Vince Gilligan and Rhea Seehorn, a combination that previously brought us Kim Wexler in Better Call Saul. Pluribus feels a bit like a riff on a Black Mirror idea, but it’s certainly intriguing, and I trust Gilligan’s understanding of the TV series medium. I certainly trust Seehorn after her superb work on Gilligan’s previous series. November 7 can’t come soon enough.
Matt: In comparison, I don’t expect the second season of Hijack to be pure gold, but differently from many I thought that the first season of the series was perfectly cromulent pulp entertainment, of the kind you might quite fittingly buy at an airport before a long flight. Obviously the whole thing smacks of Die Hard 2 (and the entire Die Hard franchise): how can one man keep ending up in such situations… even if that man is Bruce Willis Idris Elba? Then again, who other than Idris Elba would find himself in these particular pickles?
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