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62nd Venice Film Festival

This year’s Biennale in Venice proved to be quite amazing again, featuring a fantastic line-up that made me feel sad as I couldn’t be there myself :(
(My only solace now is the Berlinale Film Festival which I’ll be able to attend next February.)

Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film. Ang Lee is the man for Westerns with a difference. (Think Ride with the Devil.) And of course, he is a brilliant director in general; The Ice Storm is one of my favourite movies ever made.

Speaking of The Ice Storm, Elijah Wood, who was in that film, also attended the Venice Film Festival to promote Everything Is Illuminated, the movie adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s extremely well-written, hilarious and moving novel of the same title. The few trailers I’ve seen suggest that the film is just as weird and funny as the book and I hope it will find its way to a cinema near me very soon :)

Ang Lee was handed his award by none other than Miyazaki Hayao. If that wasn’t wonderful enough, Miyazaki Hayao received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement! I am overjoyed that a European film festival acknowledged again what an outstanding film maker Miyazaki is.

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Categories: European & American Literature, Film/TV, Various.
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Posted on Sep 11, 2005 (Sun, 11:29 pm). .

Winter-y distractions

Dir en grey’s Macabre is such a fine winter album, something I want to drown in at the moment. It’s nice to still be able to sing along to my favourite tracks on it even though I haven’t listened to the CD in about a year.

Picked up all my packages that arrived when I was gone for the holidays. I got Asuka 2. I really love this issue: Gouhou Drug’s on the cover, there’s also a Gouhou Drug clearfile (damn pretty!), new Gouhou Drug and X chapters. And Kazumi Yuana-sensei’s Fukai nemuri hana is getting better and better as well!

Aaand I got my Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi Roman Album yesterday! Ureshiii~ It’s very very beautiful. Unfortunately, there are lots and lots of Chihiro pics (as well as sketches and scenes and stuff) but only very little Haku ones ;_; But ah, it’s a really lovely book nevertheless.

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Categories: Anime, JRock/JPop, Manga, Various.
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Posted on Jan 9, 2003 (Thu, 2:57 pm). .

Anime nostalgia… plus .hack//SIGN

I made a surprising discovery! There is an old anime TV series about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, all with animal characters instead of human ones. I remember watching it when I was little but when I started looking for info on it online all I came up with was the opening clip of it (in French). Well, a while later I bought an Animage with a Studio Ghibli special in it and as it turns out, that Sherlock Holmes anime (or at least a few episodes of it) was written/directed by none other than Miyazaki Hayao! A few days ago, I visited nausicaa.net to get a few Japanese DVD release dates and I found out that the Sherlock Holmes series is being released on DVD in the US. I so need to buy them, just for the nostalgia’s sake^^ I still like most of the old TV series that I watched when I was little (Rascal and that Dog of Flandern series). It must be the same for the Japanese people because they still make movies out of those series, even decades after the TV series aired. Ah yes, Japan must be the best country to live in for nostalgic people ^^;

To make me forget about the fact that I’m anxiously waiting for my x-ray and blood test results to come in, I’ve been looking for a new domain (for new projects). All the good ones I came up with are already taken. Hm. I’ve also watched .hack//SIGN up to episode 9. This series is so damn addictive, a lot more than RahXephon. I love all the songs on it, to the degree that I have them in my head in the early hours of the morning when I can’t sleep. I love all of them, except the opening theme >_< Even though the story development has been dragging a bit too much (the bits about what's happening in the real world are just too few at the moment), I like the character development a lot (especially with all that little 'side events', Mimiru helping that little newbie girl, Tsukasa taking care of that girl's pet, et cetera)...

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Posted on Jul 1, 2002 (Mon, 4:10 pm). .




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