Watched the live-action "The Adam Project" last night...

An adventurous film on time travel...

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Watched "From Up on Poppy Hill" again last night... and cried a number of times while watching, even though I knew what was coming!!

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I should rewatch it some time too!

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Watched the Live-action "Blueback" last night... Particularly liked it for the snorkeling scenes (which I've done a lot of, over my younger years). Basically an eco story, set in Australia, with a Mother and her daughter...

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Was flipping channels and found the 2020 version of "Doolittle". Not the famed American aviator, Jimmie Doolittle, but the animal talking Dr. Doolittle... lol

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The local Japanese consulate and my university Japanese department put on a few films at this time every year. I saw one of them yesterday, a documentary about sumo. It mainly followed two high-ranking rikishi as they dealt with injuries and prepared for big tournaments. It was pretty interesting stuff, and fun to be reminded of what the atmosphere at the tournaments is like. I don't know how widely available it is, but it's called Sumodo if anybody wants to try and watch it!

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watched "Teenage Kraken" Lively, colorful movie...

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The first movie was "Magical Elephant", a moving story and yes, my soggy eyeballs got wet again...

The next movie was "Eden", about a world taken over by robots, an interesting tale and ending...

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Wasn't a movie I watched today, but a four-part science (?) possibility of life on otherf planets... Interesting suppositions...

On Netflix titled "Alien Worlds"...

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I saw Anatomy of a Fall last night. Very tense and intriguing, with some great performances.

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The other night I saw Sabakan in the Japan Foundation touring film festival (unrelated to the films shown at the university!) A very sweet and often pretty funny film about two kids in Nagasaki prefecture in the 80s.

And I have a lot planned for next week! I'm gonna see Drive-Away Dolls (new film by Ethan Coen), Monster (the latest from Koreeda Hirokazu) AND another film festival screening called Ice Cream Fever.

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Watched "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" again...

I had forgotten how the Phoenix helped Harry...

(edit) finished up the night watching "Orion and the Dark"... A cool little film about dealing with childhood fears...

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Watched Jackie Chan's "Wish Dragon" .. Lots of color and action and a nice storyline... Loved it...

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Watched the 'live action' "Rim of the World"...

a typical 'survivor kids at summer camp trying to save the world from a space-alien invasion.'

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Watching John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara in "The Quiet Man" A movie from 1952

... It's been decades since I'd last seen it...

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Watched "the Mitchell's vs the Machines"...

dis-functional family trying to save the world... But do they really succeed?

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I saw one more Japanese film last night, called Undercurrent. I liked it, often a lot, some parts a bit less, but I think I appreciate what the filmmaker was trying to do. It was definitely directed and shot very nicely.

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Went to see Dune Part 2 the other day. I'd say I enjoyed it even more than the first one, because a lot of that interesting setup came to a head this time. At the same time, it's very clear that it needs one last film to wrap up this story.

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Watched the movie "Suzume" (2023) esrly this morning and although (to me at least) rather convoluted and a bit hard to follow, especially when there was a lot of conversation in Japanese that did not seem to be subtitledm while most of it was...

A bit of trivia that I found on IMDb:
"Makoto Shinkai cites the short story "Super-Frog Saves Tokyo" and the novel "Kafka on the Shore," both by Haruki Murakami, as well the anime film Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) as the main inspirations for this film...





Edit: broad letters mine...

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Oh yeah, there's at least one song from Kiki's Delivery Service in it! It's in the scene where the guy plays "oldies" on the car radio.

I watched American Fiction on a flight the other day. It was very good!

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