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The Boy and the Heron 2023
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- What’s up with the english localised title?
- The movie looks like it was painted on cels in 2003 at the latest in some scenes, then, in other places, it has visually clashing modern digital techniques. Tracking shots are excellent as always except the early one with the heron fleeing the one-sided sword-fight.
- I need to listen again but this is not my favourite Ghibli score. The music was overbearing, repetitive and much more compositionally basic than I’ve…
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Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar 2021
I'd wondered whatever happened to these 'distended SNL skit' sorts of movies...
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The Last Mimzy 2007
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I feel like there used to be a period where these kinds of non-animated, family movies were able to get wide theatrical releases. Today, 'Mimzy' would get relegated to streaming.
I dunno what possessed me to revisit this the other day, curious as to whether it still held up, but I am delighted to report that it does.
The film is by no means a masterpiece; a campy, midbudget treatise on the power of love. It's bookended by a somewhat…
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006
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As a teen, I saw an AMV of this movie set to the Tomoyo Harada song of the same name and must have thought it was the trailer. I remember there being a breathtaking edit of Makoto leaping impossibly into a vast blue sky as the chorus goes "[Love] ...will transcend the past, the future / and constellations..". I promptly added it to my ever growing list of things to watch and then proceeded not to watch it until years…
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