I’m headed west tomorrow (Saskatoon and Calgary) until mid-September so am sending this now. On TV, recently the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel showed some classic films by the Japanese master Yasujirô Ozu including Tokyo Twilight (1957) and the greatest Tokyo Story (1953). TCM is a great channel to have for catching up on older movies. To add to the growing list of documentaries examining the Covid-19 pandemic, HBO has aired In the Same Breath (A) by director Nanfu Wang (One Child Nation) , a Sundance premiere that went on to win an audience award at the South By Southwest Festival. This is an incisive look at how Chinese authorities dealt with the Wuhan outbreak, the propaganda effort of the Chinese Communist party and also American government failures. [For more comment see: https://www.indiewire.com/2021/01/in-the-same-breath-review-nanfu-wang-sundance-1234612411/ .] ...
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