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Wow, the hack job as better than any of the originals? Blasphemy!
I'd be interested in a fanedit that rescored film 2 with the SA synths, or dubbed SA back into Japanese.
I feel like you need to track down the final film then if you're including that one....
I've seen some lo-res clips and it doesn't look good to me (and looks nothing like a continuation or conclusion to the original 6 movies). If it gets remastered by Criterion or something I'll give it a spin but I'm not inclined to search the ends of the earth for it.
Rye Lane (2023)
I've got a lot to catch up with but this could easily be my favourite film of last year. Raine Allen-Miller has a refreshing new approach to the romcom featuring fantasy flashback interludes. Set around Rye Lane Market, Peckham and other areas of London, Allen-Miller captures the city in vibrant saturated multicolour with super distorted fish-eye lenses, wrapping our two love heroes around with quirky people and places. The soundtrack by Kwes is fab, I hadn't kept up with his stuff since the early 2010s EPs, so had no idea he was doing scoring. David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah are wonderful as two people who might feel like life isn't working but one joyful day changes their outlook.
Wham! (2023)
A very enjoyable documentary about pop duo 'Wham!' and George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley's friendship since they were kids at school. Director Chris Smith employs the trademarked Asif Kapadia technique of using no to-camera interviews, just period footage and the pair telling their own story. This allows George and Andrew to feel like they are ageless and/or still live, maybe sitting together in the same fantasy recording booth reminiscing. I had no idea they were so young, scoring several top-10 singles before they even hit 20. The fame they achieved at that age must have been a total head trip. The fast pace of the doc does sometimes feel superficial, gliding past important details in a "so we recorded our first album and then after that we..." type of way.