(2004) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
viewed: 03/24/06
I’ve been really busy with this 19th Century Mystery class that I am taking, in which I am reading about 500 or more pages a week and I just haven’t had much time to see movies lately. Oddly enough, for the first film that I have watched in two weeks, I [...]
Archive of entries posted on March 2006
Howl’s Moving Castle
Memories of Murder
(2003) dir. Joon-ho Bong
viewed: 03/08/06
Until earlier this year, I don’t know if I’d ever seen a Korean film before. Now I have been on a bit of a Korean film bender. Memories of Murder was recommended and loaned to me by some friends. I guess that it had been a huge film [...]
Save the Green Planet!
(2004) dir. Jun-hwan Jeong
viewed: 03/09/06
My little Korean film fetish may have run itself out on this film.
Recommended by a friend (and by Netflix), I didn’t know much about this film. Though it scores some points for bizarreness, this black comedy is a pretty mixed bag, in my opinion. This crazy guy kidnaps his [...]
Tony Takitani
(2004) dir. Jun Ichikawa
viewed: 03/04/06
Tony Takitani is adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami, the very popular Japanese writer. I have read a couple of his books and have liked them. So, this seemed like an interesting film to see and it had a pretty decent buzz around it, though it’s moderately [...]
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
(1985) dir. Tim Burton
viewed: 03/04/06 Found with some looking in an old box of videos was a copy of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure that I had found many years ago for $5 or something — an old video store copy sent for the glue factory. I have had a fondness for the film, as well as [...]
