Joel Kim Booster’s Closet Picks

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The comedian, actor, and writer recalls wearing out videotapes of Mothra Vs. Godzilla; praises Sound of Metal and its star, Riz Ahmed; and talks about the power and importance of seeing love between two Asian men depicted on-screen in Happy Together.

All Our Fears

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This timely and powerfully emotional drama tells the incredible true story of courageous gay artist Daniel Rycharski. After an unexpected tragedy, Daniel’s uneasy relationship with the people of his deeply religious rural hometown – and his closeted young lover – is fractured when he uses his work to shine a light on the challenges faced by the LGBT community in contemporary Poland.

All Our Fears, a film by Lukasz Gutt and Lukasz Ronduda.

Take a tour of the Ark

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"Here they are, out among the stars, waiting to begin a new life. Ready to outsit eternity."

Take a tour of Andrew Orton's renders of the sets used in The Ark in Space, originally recorded in BBC Television Centre TC1 and TC3, 1974.

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The Long Good Friday

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Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is a businessman with great ambitions. Spotting the development potential of London's derelict Docklands area years before the Thatcher government, he tries to broker a deal with his American counterpart (Eddie Constantine) that will make them both millions. But who is killing Harold's other associates and blowing up his businesses - and why?

Universally regarded as one of the greatest gangster films ever made, The Long Good Friday rocketed Hoskins to international stardom. He's given sterling support from Helen Mirren (as his upper-crust girlfriend), Paul Freeman (Raiders of the Lost Ark) and Derek Thompson (Casualty), and there's even an early appearance from future James Bond Pierce Brosnan.

The Long Good Friday, a film by John Mackenzie.

Bipolar Sunshine

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Focus, new music from Bipolar Sunshine.

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I have believed the best of every man

M a s s  in  Motion

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The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself

M a s s  in  Motion

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Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

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Take a tour of Gallifrey

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"Great chunks of my past, detaching themselves like melting icebergs."

Take a tour of Andrew Orton's renders of the sets used in The Five Doctors, originally recorded in BBC Television Centre TC6, in 1983.

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Weaving olden dances; mingling hands and mingling glances

M a s s  in  Motion

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He who made you bitter made you wise

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The Zone of Interest

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Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp.

The Zone of Interest, a film by Jonathan Glazer.

The Fall Guy

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Colt Seavers is a stuntman who left the business a year earlier to focus on both his physical and mental health. He's drafted back into service when the star of a mega-budget studio movie, which is being directed by his ex, goes missing..

The Fall Guy, a film by David Leitch.

I carry the Sun in a Golden Cup, the Moon in a Silver Bag

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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before

M a s s  in  Motion

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Who can distinguish darkness from the soul?

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The Listener

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Follows a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, etc..

The Listener, a film by Steve Buscemi.

All is changed, changed utterly A terrible beauty is born

M a s s  in  Motion

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And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died?

M a s s  in  Motion

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Adonis Bosso

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Chemical, new music from Adonis Bosso.

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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body

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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live

M a s s  in  Motion

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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live

M a s s  in  Motion

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Model

Olaf

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"By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live."

William Yeats, Irish writer, 1865-1935

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The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself

M a s s  in  Motion

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Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet

M a s s  in  Motion

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The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself

M a s s  in  Motion

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Bronze Avery

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Spring Break, new music from Bronze Avery.

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Before us lies eternity; our souls are love, and a continual farewell

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Late Night with the Devil

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A live television broadcast in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

Late Night with the Devil, a film by Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes.

The man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself

M a s s  in  Motion

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I will make rigid my roots and branches. It is not now my turn to burst into leaves and flowers

M a s s  in  Motion

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Surely some revelation is at hand

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