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“If in our century there are still sacred things … if there was something like a sacred treasure of the cinema, then for me that would have to be the work of the Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu.”

Genius Campaign to Stop People From Littering 

UK organization Hubbub’s aim is to maintain the streets of London completely clean through their #neatstreets campaign. The ingenious project prompts smokers to dispose of their cigarette butts into transparent divided containers in public areas. 

The campaign also encourages gum chewers to play connect the dots on specifically designed boards to prevent further littering. 

You know what that means

From our August issue: Anya Jaremko-Greenwold on Before Sunset

“Both Jesse and Celine are secretly regretful they weren’t able to extend their connection past a one-night stand. They represent for one another something we all can understand: the possibility of what might have been. Before Sunset reeks of that nagging potential for something better. Their connection can be classified as “unrequited,” not in the sense that it’s unreciprocated—though neither of them know how much the other cares—but in the sense that it’s unfinished.

The monster of Jaws is most frightening out of sight, below the water, before we ever see his empty eyes or gnashing teeth. Our imaginations conjure worse spectacle than any special effects or animatronics could muster. Similarly, the repressed tenderness between these two seems endlessly ideal, because their fantasies of one another are more rampant with possibility than any reality is kind enough to allow for. What the characters realize, in a self-reflective twist that saves Before Sunset from humdrum rom-com territory, is that the appeal they see in one another might be illusory. If their coupling were to become concrete, they fear, it could quickly lose its charm. Should they really get to know each other, spend more than a brief period of time walking around a foreign city, the mystery would likely be lost.”