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IMOGEN POOTS

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 8, 2017
'Green Room': Saulnier runs a red light on violence
The opening aerial shot of "Green Room" soars over the wavy green mass of an Oregon cornfield, before finding a swath through it where a van has swerved off the highway. Inside the van, so shabby you can practically smell the stale beer and B.O., four members of a rough-living punk band, The Ain't Rights, slowly awake to find that their driver had fallen asleep at the wheel, a common hazard on the overnight slog from one gig to the next. Out of money and gas, the day's first task is trekking to the nearest mall's parking lot and siphoning somebody's tank.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 16, 2015
'That Awkward Moment' takes a submarine to the depths of male idiocy
This is a question for dudes: Why do you assume it's always the woman who wants the stable, solid relationship and that men want to remain free, unencumbered and sex-crazy?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 8, 2015
'Jimi: All is by My Side' takes liberties with the ghost of Hendrix
Even now, some four decades after his death, the name Jimi Hendrix still carries mystique.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 15, 2014
Greetings From Tim Buckley: 'The burden of celebrity-parent expectations'
The problems with "Greetings From Tim Buckley" begin with the title. The film isn't really about 1960-70s singer-songwriter Tim Buckley — who died from an overdose in 1975 — so much as his son, Jeff, who produced a single hit album in 1994, "Grace," before drowning in the Mississippi River a few years later.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 5, 2014
The pleasures of driving like an absolute maniac
"Need for Speed" is an ode to the automobile and not the green, hybrid kind either. The vehicles in this movie are sleek, sexy, gas-guzzling, carbon-spewing planet-destroyers, and director Scott Waugh revels in shooting them from every conceivable angle (plus a few you never even thought possible). In an interview with The Japan Times, Waugh begins by saying that "whatever happens in the world, cars will always be around. People love them too much. And this is a movie that banks on that love."

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