The other night I watched this stunning 4K edition of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, from 1988, one of the best animes and one of the best cyberpunk films ever made, the animation looks stellar and it features the original Japanese dubbing, better in its emotional conveyance than the English version.
Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious, a thrilling and masterful kung-fu justice thriller featuring a ballet of absolutely astounding fight choreography, woven through the righteous bromance of its charismatic leads, the kind of excellent action film we expect from Hong Kong cinema. In theaters
The last collection I completed: Abada’s volume bilingual annotated edition of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry, edited by Juan Barja and Juana Inarejos. It entailed sourcing volumes from four different countries. Volume III was sold out everywhere but I tracked a copy to a bookstore in Buenos Aires.
Packing my library: I have this shelf of very long books I want to read or reread, from which I choose these 15 to stay with me through the move. Hopefully I’ll finish six or seven of them and they will heal my anxiety of not having the rest of my library with me for a couple of weeks
Imagine if Tech or Finance allowed their story to be told in the mainstream press almost exclusively by people who hated them. This is what Education has chosen, in large part because it is saboteurs from Finance and Tech who have been doing the choosing.