Get ready for your next marathon with Max! This February, the streamer is saying goodbye to major award winners, camp classics, and more. Most of the platform’s exits will take place on the final day of the month, including the genre and history-changing “The Exorcist,” the recent Oscar winner “Drive My Car,” and more, but Max will remove several other major TV and film titles throughout the month.
We at The Streamable have assembled our top picks for what’s leaving Max this month— continue below to find your next thing to watch and see the full list below to plan your next movie night before they’re gone!
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A recent Oscar winner for Best International Feature Film, the Japanese drama stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yūsuke Kafuku,...
We at The Streamable have assembled our top picks for what’s leaving Max this month— continue below to find your next thing to watch and see the full list below to plan your next movie night before they’re gone!
7-Day Free Trial $9.99+ / month Max via amazon.com What are the 5 Best Shows and Movies Leaving Max in February 2024? “Drive My Car” | Thursday, Feb. 29
A recent Oscar winner for Best International Feature Film, the Japanese drama stars Hidetoshi Nishijima as Yūsuke Kafuku,...
- 2/2/2024
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
by Earl Jackson
In Part 1 I sketched a brief cinema-historical survey of Chekov in Japanese cinema, as a background for a more direct appreciation of “Drive My Car” here in Part 2. Staying with the focus on theater, I will consider three aspects of the film’s structure and internal dynamics: the orchestration of voices, “Uncle Vanya”, and Noh. Ryusuke Hamaguchi seems to inhabit a universe similar to that of Patricia Highsmith – one composed of seemingly random details whose significance depends on the kind of attention paid to them. When Yusuke asks the dramaturg Gong Yoon-soo (Jin Dae-yeon) why he had learned Japanese, Yoon-soo replied that as a graduate student he had studied Noh at Waseda University for two years. This would also explain why he was so interested in the experimental version of “Uncle Vanya” they were rehearsing (on the level of plot) and would provide a key to the...
In Part 1 I sketched a brief cinema-historical survey of Chekov in Japanese cinema, as a background for a more direct appreciation of “Drive My Car” here in Part 2. Staying with the focus on theater, I will consider three aspects of the film’s structure and internal dynamics: the orchestration of voices, “Uncle Vanya”, and Noh. Ryusuke Hamaguchi seems to inhabit a universe similar to that of Patricia Highsmith – one composed of seemingly random details whose significance depends on the kind of attention paid to them. When Yusuke asks the dramaturg Gong Yoon-soo (Jin Dae-yeon) why he had learned Japanese, Yoon-soo replied that as a graduate student he had studied Noh at Waseda University for two years. This would also explain why he was so interested in the experimental version of “Uncle Vanya” they were rehearsing (on the level of plot) and would provide a key to the...
- 3/3/2022
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: Warnermedia OneFifty has acquired the Japanese road drama Drive My Car to premiere on HBO Max on March 2, 2022.
The film is directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi who also co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe, adapted from the short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami. It tells the of a renowned stage actor and director, Yūsuke Kafukuwho (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who connects with a taciturn young woman assigned to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900.
The Sideshow/Janus Films project also stars Tōko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Park Yoo-rim, Satoko Abe, Jin Dae-yeon, and Sonia Yuan.
Drive My Car recently received Academy Award Nominations in four categories: Best Picture, Directing, International Feature Film, and Adapted Screenplay. It is the first Japanese film ever to be nominated for Best Picture.
Thanks to all the Oscar love, the film has seen an uptick in interest at the box office. The...
The film is directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi who also co-wrote the screenplay with Takamasa Oe, adapted from the short story of the same name by Haruki Murakami. It tells the of a renowned stage actor and director, Yūsuke Kafukuwho (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who connects with a taciturn young woman assigned to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900.
The Sideshow/Janus Films project also stars Tōko Miura, Masaki Okada, Reika Kirishima, Park Yoo-rim, Satoko Abe, Jin Dae-yeon, and Sonia Yuan.
Drive My Car recently received Academy Award Nominations in four categories: Best Picture, Directing, International Feature Film, and Adapted Screenplay. It is the first Japanese film ever to be nominated for Best Picture.
Thanks to all the Oscar love, the film has seen an uptick in interest at the box office. The...
- 2/14/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
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