Groovy Movies
Weekly deep dives into your favourite films with Lily Austin and James Brailsford.
Groovy Movies
The Zone of Interest & Perfect Days: Why is mundanity powerful?
This week we discuss the surprising common ground between Jonathan Glazer’s chilling examination of an Auschwitz commandant and his family, The Zone of Interest and Wim Wenders’ meandering meditation on life as a Tokyo Toilet cleaner, Perfect Days.
References
Interview with Jonathan Glazer on The Zone of Interest by David Canfield for Vanity Fair
The Making of The Zone of Interest
Wim Wenders interviewed about Perfect Days for Curzon
The Tokyo Toilet Project
Film Pharmacy
Chinatown (1974) dir. by Roman Polanski
Spoorloos (1990) dir. by George Sluizer
Thoroughbreds (2017) dir. by Cory Finley
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