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Tough-guy Kikujiro is an unlikely candidate to take a sensitive 8-year-old boy Masac on a quest to find the mother he’s never met. But they’re off on a trek through contemporary Japan, where they encounter an odd assortment of offbeat characters. The wandering duo’s adventure take them on a madcap tour of the Japanese countryside – from the races to an abandoned high-class hotel, to a gangster-infested carnival. Kikujiro is about children’s games, and how they make us see exactly what went wrong in our own lives. This film features an original score composed by leading prolific Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi (Princess Mononoke).
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For a man who puts his trust in God, Kirk Franklin certainly seems defensive on the opening “interlude” of Nu Nation Project, which depicts criticism of his controversial hip-hop-tinged gospel as a court trial complete with urgent reporters outside the courthouse. The message, fortunately, quickly moves from Franklin’s own problems to those of the world–which, notably, the star refuses to ignore while praising Jesus’ name. Whether the Almighty is really impressed by the It’s Showtime at the Apollo!-ready oversinging and clichéd R&B production is another question, but if you are, The Nu Nation Project is another helping of what’s made Franklin a platinum seller. –Rickey Wright
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Frederic Rzewski’s homage to Latin American liberation struggles is well represented, with stunning interpretations by such luminaries as Stephen Drury and Ursula Oppens prior to this version by Marc-André Hamelin. Drury’s version might well be the high-water mark, in part because New Albion Records wisely included a rousing 1975 live version of the original Sergio Ortega liberation anthem with Quilapayun and thousands of singers to give the piano performance context.

But comparing two versions of these 36 variations on the song’s theme is fraught, given Rzewski’s heavily improvisational performance instructions (e.g., to play variation 11 “like fragments of an absent melody–in strict time,” variation 27 “Tenderly, and with a hopeful expression”). Hamelin takes the piece more strictly and in more clearly virtuosic terms than Drury, just as he’s taken Scriabin and Medtner. He starts off stronger and paces himself differently, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, but always more deliberately. People is a work prone to radically different interpretations, and while it’s easy to compare Hamelin and Drury, it’s musically better to take each on its own. It’s folksy, rootsy music that gets microtonal in fragments and deconstructs the melody so thoroughly that it’ll be 36 times lovelier when you’re done listening. The added bonus of Hamelin’s version is the inclusion of the warm “Down by the Riverside” and “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues,” both given the theme-restatement-improvisation processing treatment that marks Rzewski’s unparalleled work in traditional folk musics. –Andrew Bartlett
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