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Chris Wilcha is best known for The Target Shoots First , the autobiographical documentary he shot while working at the Columbia House music club in the mid-1990s .
Flipside is a chronicle of the success that bred that string of failures, and the attempt to reconcile what his life has become with what he thought he wanted it to be.
Wim Wenders' Perfect Days is a Japanese toilet cleaner who plays tapes of vintage rock in his van as he watches the Tokyo skyline slip by his windows.
The movie, which has been selected as Japan ’s Oscar submission, will open later this year .
Wenders’ shots linger on the poetry of everyday life that movies can capture so well, even if they rarely bother to.
The very imperfections that led earlier generations to shun tapes makes them attractive to a new one, for whom inconvenience and decay are like rare ingredients used to spice up a familiar dish.
Perfect Days never gives us more than a hint about Hirayama 's past, but the tears that flood his eyes in one extraordinary close-up suggest he’s known both the joy and the pain that life has to offer.
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