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I’m very much enjoying the variety of late night comedians responding to the sacking/suspension of Jimmy Kimmel (in case you missed it, here’s what Kimmel said to get the boot). I’ve put the links of various commentators below in case you wanna have a laugh/get concerned about who might be next.
Jon Stewart - Stephen Colbert - Seth Myers - Jimmy Fallon - even David Letterman.
Enjoy
I’ve just booked IMAX tickets for Paul Thomas Anderson’s highly anticipated One Battle After Another starring Leo Di - I’m trying to avoid reviews but apparently its mega so highly suggest you do the same. If you can try and watch it in VistaVision for some full frame glory. Here’s what PTA said about VistaVision:
One Battle After Another will play in many formats across the world. For the first time in a long time, a film will be projected in VistaVision.
It’s unlikely many of us have ever seen this. The last wide release film projected in VistaVision was One-Eyed Jacks in 1961. But now, it’s back.
We have made three VistaVision prints. They will play in Los Angeles, New York, and London. I hope, if you can, that it’s possible to see it this way.
-PTA
Finally, we’ve had record submissions for our film night at the BFI during London Film Festival. But don’t worry, there’s still time to submit your short.
Deadline 28th Sept. Submit your short now via the RecDek app. Tell your friends.
And don’t forget about our efficiently named pick of the week…
Our pick of the week…
Fifty years after Saigon's fall, Netflix examines how Vietnam still haunts the American psyche. Director Brian Knappenberger's five-part series traces how America's longest war fundamentally changed the country. Using extensive archival footage and secretly recorded Oval Office conversations, it reveals the yawning gap between what presidents said publicly and what they knew privately.
The series breaks new ground by including Vietnamese perspectives from all sides - North and South Vietnamese soldiers, Viet Cong fighters (over 70% women), civilians caught between warring visions of their country's future. Rather than just another American-centric retelling, this explores Vietnam's civil war complexity.
Most damning are the presidential recordings showing leaders continuing a war they knew was un-winnable for electoral reasons. By 1967, officials understood America couldn't decisively defeat the North Vietnamese, yet kept fighting to avoid being "the president who lost Vietnam."
The parallels to today are stark - campus protests then and now, the chaotic withdrawals from Saigon and Kabul decades apart. Knappenberger asks whether America learned anything from this "unfathomably costly, poorly run, incomprehensibly horrific folly."
Essential viewing for understanding how Vietnam's wounds still shape American politics and foreign policy.
Catch you next week.
Ed
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