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In response to some recent-ish posts here about “SJI” and the movies, I got a nice note from reader Maria (writing in from South America, proving once again the global appeal of “SJI”), who pointed out two other films that the song has popped in and that I haven’t mentioned. One is Henry and June. [...]

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Speaking of “SJI” in the movies, here’s another example — rather different from the previously mentioned Taste of Cherry.
I forget how I got wind that the tune appears in the 2001 anime film Metropolis; it may be that I became aware of the sound track first, and then backed into it from there.
In any case, [...]

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A year or two ago I checked out the 1999 film A Taste of Cherry, by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, on a tip from a friend. As this recent article about Kiarostami in The Berkeley Daily Planet, by Justin DeFreitas, summarizes, it is:
A slow, meditative film about a man, Mr. Badii, trolling through the [...]

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