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Re:$700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techie... by defrost on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:11AM (#37639859)
Wenders filmed scenes in Japanese capsule pod hotels of the time ... it's relative to be sure but IMHO these are closer to the rentable pods depicted in the article than the scenes from the Jodorowsky movie.

The motivation here was admittedly to respond to one arthouse film drop with another.

I'm kind of old and while not in the film and TV business I've been tangential enough to work as an extra, tech runner, location support etc for various productions - notably in Berlin for Wings of Desire and in Australia (where I live) for some of the central Australian location work for Until the End of the World.

( Australian band in Wings of Desire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPf6SWcENWo

)

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Re:$700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techie... by kilolima on Monday September 25, 2023 @02:11AM (#37640163)
Wow! Two of my favorite films. Thanks for your work on them!
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Re:$700 a Month for a Bed-Sized “Pod” in Downtown SF? Techie... by defrost on Monday September 25, 2023 @02:40AM (#37640318)
Bit player in a cast of thousands .. but of course I'll take all the credit! (Not! :-) ).

Aussies get about, a classmate of mine from the time had a bit part in a Nicole Kidman film and ended up giving black hole lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain along with being twice in the running for the Lucasian Chair.

That sort of things does wonders for your Erdős-Bacon number!

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.gauntlett

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