For some reason, I forgot to have a vacation in the summer '11. Sooo here is a very long list for all the nights spent in the city.
Who makes babies? The clouds, of course, and they all have partner storks who carry off the babies to their surrogate parents down on the ground! Our stork is a little bit unlucky, its partner cloud always makes babies that hurt it, when carrying them down to the gr
ound. It really needs to find a solution, and very soon, otherwise he will have no feathers left for him to fly!.
It is a bleak
world, a bit different from ours . every time and every day of a person's life seems to be planned and lived all the sa
me. when our boy is on the beach he finds a thing. He plays with the thing, and when it's time to leave the beach, the beach is closed on the same hour like like any other day, he finds that there is no one to take care of the thing. He takes the thing home, the thing is not welcomed by his parents, no not at all. He will either have to take the thing to the authorities, - there seem to be other things like him, the authorities collect them all under the same roof,- or he can trust a
whisper, and take the thing to the land of the lost things.
It is his decision to make..
This is the story of the life of Elzeard Bouffier between 1910-1947. When we meet Elzeard he is already a middle aged man, living alone in the barren mountains with his sheep. The remaining 40 years he turns the barren mountains into a thriving forest. He does everything by himself, with no soul to talk to, he even loses his sheep after the first few years. It is a beautiful tale. One should not look for logic as it is a tale. The animation is not easy to watch, but each screen is like an impressionist painting. I don't know if it were my hormones doing the crying, but i cried a good deal in the end.
Hedgehog in on its way to meet his friend the bear, but it is night, and the forest is not the safest place to be.
Presto versus the magician. The magician is ready for his act. He will just pick up Presto and go on stage to perform. Presto only wants his carrot, which he far deserves, so he believes.
a young boy, Vincent Malloy. He is into Edgar Allan Poe, and wants to be like Vincent Price. A 6 minute short by Tim Burton, the movie is narrated by Vincent Price. Suffice to say!
It was this summer i got to see the red balloon finally. Shot in Paris in 1956, the movie unintentially feels nostalgic when seen in 2011. We see a little boy of 6-7 befriend a red balloon, across the streets of Paris. They frolic in the streets, on the way to school, after school. The balloon is banned by the adults from school, from home; but they still manage to stay in touch. Then expectedly a gang of boys are after the baloon , the boy and the baloon try to run away , but are captured. The boy gets to watch his beloved balloon get tortured and...
This is a movie about Rebiya Kadeer, of whom I knew nothing about. Apparently she is the informal leader of Uyghur people in the Chinese Republic Of China. She now lives in Washington DC with her husband, daughter and grandson and continues to campaign for the Uyghur people. Whereas the rest of her children are in China and her sons are in imprisonment. She has turned herself into one
of the richest person in China and represented the Chinese Government in several global meeting before branded as a traitor. the movie itself is not very objective, so further investigation on the subject is recommended.
Admittedly i turned off the TV after the first 20 minutes. This is not a movie for people like myself who tend to ignore cruel facts. The movie is about what one species does to the remaining species on our planet. You think you are ready and know everything, wait till you see a garbage man throw a stray dog in a garbage truck and watch him get squashed as the rest of the garbage.
Some rural French town, there is one teacher to all the children between the ages 4-11. We see all of the children and the teacher interact. We see the parents of the children struggle to help the children with their homework. This is the last teaching year for teacher, he is retiring next year and two of the children will go to middle school. The teacher is strict but he loves each child individually and you see their respect and love for him. you can see the teacher's contribution to the the adults the children will turn into.
All the following movies are the Production Of Ghibli Studios (founded in 1985 to bring a fresh wind to the Japanese cinema, thus the name Ghibli- run by Miyazaki, Takahata and producer Suziki). And they were all lovely.
Loosely based on Mary Norton's "the borrowers" Arrietty tells the story of Young Arrietty and her family. They are small people, very small people (about 4 inches) known as the borrowers, who live in people's houses with what they borrow from them. The niece of the house's owner moves in for a couple of months, he sees Arrietty, himself a lonely young boy ; he wants to make friends . But Arrietty's family is warned against the humans, and they panic and decide to move away. Moreover , the housekeeper learns about them also, and decide to capture the whole family and keep them as pets. I also liked the eerie ( one is 1.60m the other is 10 cm)crush the young people had on each other.
when i was in school i checked out a few books a week. the first thing i did before i checked out the book, was to look at the card history. who checked out this book before me, when did they check it out. i always tried to see a pattern to see if someone (only young or once young women though, my school was an all girls school) enjoyed the same books as i did . Youko first gets irritated by the boy who checks out the same books as she does, then they fall in love, and on the way to that final closure a lot of sweet things happen.
What if you save a cat from being run over by a car, and the cat turns out to be the prince of cats
and the king of cats whisks you off to Kingdom of Cats to marry his son. And what if every hour you spend in the Kingdon you gradually turn into a cat. Who do you need? Yes the cat detective Baron and his sidekick fat Matu; with both of whom we met in the Whisper of the heart. I have a huge crush on Matu.
Shows of the Summer and Early FaLL
Did not really like it, there are people with special abilities and a psychiatric doctor who is both their supervisor and their doctor. They all work for the FBI, they also catch other people with special abilities and brand them with being good or bad. The bad ones go to a FBI facility to be tamed.
Best law show ever, this is its 4th season, and I believe one of the best
A new show, about two bad ass lawyers, who i didn't find appealing
oversexed high school kids and their parents, they are all witches. and apparently there is a circle that need to close for them to have controlled full power
Claire Danes is an FBI agent who believed the war hero saved from Afghanistan after 5 years of torture and imprisonment is actually a traitor. She seems to be right
Buffy is back! This time she plays twins, one a witness to a murder case, the other a rich socialite. One of them commits suicide, the other takes her place..sounds familiar? for some reason i am reminded of seagull island from the 80s
A period french drama, where the girl believes in love and risks everything, where the boy believes in lust , money and status. our girl understands this only very late . a bit boring
korean romantic comedy/drama, i found it very enjoyable. a quote i snatched from imdb, since i didnt write it down during the movie: (When Gyun-Woo tries to give clues to the potential fiancee of his ex-girlfriend)
The 10 Rules: 1. Don't ask her to be feminine 2. Don't let her drink over three glasses 3. Drink coffee instead of Coke/Juice 4. If she hits you, act like it hurts. If it hurts, act like it doesn't 5. On your 100th day together, give her a rose during her class 6. Make sure you learn fencing and squash 7. Be prepared to go to prison sometimes 8. If she says she'll kill you, don't take it lightly 9. If her feet hurt, exchange shoes with her 10. She likes to write. Encourage her
A fun to watch Spanish time travel movie. you think everything makes sense in the end, but not quite.
it's like woody allen made everyone's francophil college dreams into a movie.
a misfit Belgian family, four sons, a mother and a grandson. the grandson reminisces his youth and all the family members that made him what he is. the family is so misfit, it is sometimes difficult to watch. I liked it.
a very boring detective movie, where Depardieu is the detective. I think he should have stayed thin.
The wave has a very good plot. But there are things i dont really buy. I remember being in high school and do not think any of us would be a The Wave fan.
A teacher is teaching autocracy this semester for the project week (he really wanted to teach anarchism) and he offers to live and experiment what an autocracy is. he wants the students to learn while experiencing being part of a group and how strong and safe that group feeling makes the individuals. Unfortunately, he does not realize how some students are vulnerable to this feeling.
summary: dead poets society gone wrong
Imperial China: detectve dee is pulled out of prison to solve a crime where the top officials start burning within just a few days before the crowning of the ever first empress.
a bullshit movie. the actors dont make sense together. they are not believable. the plot starts as promising but gets bored with itself. people start losing their senses all around the world, first smell than taste. everyone is waiting what the next sense will be. These losses start with infinite crying for smell loss and gorging on everthing for taste loss. Ewan and Eva find each other accidentally and try to make out with the time little time they have. I walked out after the first hour, so i dont know the rest.
a very unneccesary movie. i'm sorry that i watched it. there is a father and a daughter who've apparantly been training in every martial art, weaponry, language since the girl was born. when the girl is 16 she says i'm ready and they click some button and some agents learn that they are alive and everything turns into a gun,kick,punch movie afterwards. the father dies, he is not the father afterall. he just brought her up. she is the last of the experimental super childs that were genetically played with to make perfect agents. and the agency wants to destroy her, especially one woman , who is obsessed. finally the girl kills the woman, we're content.
justin timberlake and mila kunis try to work out the friends with benefits deal, suprise, it doesn't work!
and the REST (not on the light side)
sin nombre: The greatest sin of all is risking nothing.
A father, brother, and a daughter travel from Honduras to Mexico. From Mexico they will try to make their way to the US. The father already has a new family in the US and also want to take her daughter. In mexico they meet Casper, who is running away from his gang. The gang leader killed his girlfriend, and he killed tha gang leader, the whole gang and also other gangs are after him, Sanya's father and uncle dies and they try to make it across the border with Casper...
Based on Marukimi's same titled novel. The movie tells the story of young, fragile and tragic love. The story is good, but i found the actors are unbelievable in their suffering- thus the scenes become a little pretentious.
an entomologist from tokyo is on a relaxed work trip in a remote village, where he is collecting insect specimens. he misses the last bus to the city and asks the locals for a bed to spend the night in. They take him to a bed and breakfast where the hostess is the only person in the house. All the houses in the village are in sand dunes and all depend on each other in their built structure. You go down to the houses by a ladder. We learn that the hostess's husband and child dies in a sand storm a couple of years ago. when the man wakes to leave for the bus, he finds the ladder taken away. he is trapped in a house with a woman he does not know. And to survive they need to fill out buckets of sand that blows in all thru the night and send those buckets up to the surface. The man dislikes the woman but thru their continuous physical activities , they start having sexual relations as well, this heightens the man's dislike. He plans on escaping all the time, one time he almost succeeds,. As time passes the man strangely finds himself serene during his days. his restlessness seems to disappear as time passes. he figures to distill water from moist sand and get fresh water, his discovery gives him extreme existential contentment. Then there comes a day the opportunity window is wide open for escape.
Mohammad goes to a school in Tahran for the blind, during the summer holidays his father comes to pick him up and take him to the village as always. His father is not very enthusiastic to take him home. he is planning to remarry and does not want a blind son to scare off his bride. His two sisters and grandmother is delighted to have him home though. But the father does not rest until he sends his boy away to a blind carpenter for apprenticeship. This move will trigger a set of tragic events that the father did not ask for
a ken loach movie. a young woman working for a recruitment agency gets sacked. She decides to run an agency herself. She has a son who is living with her parents for the time being. To make her life better, she starts turning in to a heartless business person. she forgets that it is people she is dealing not other material. She starts using cheaper and cheaper workers, immigrants with papers, immigrants with no papers. We wait to see that she realize her mistake (there are many opportunities some at gun point)
just a few days before American invasion of Iraq, the movie takes place on the turkish-iraqi border. There are many many children on the border, they try to make money by dismantling mines and selling them in markets. There are many children with arms and legs not quite right. When young Satellite falls for Agrin, he does everything in his power for her to like him. Agrine has an older brother with no arms and a younger brother. We learn that the young brother is actually a rape child of the iraqi soldires who also killed her parents. Agrin hates her son, while her brother really loves him. Agrin makes a few unsuccessful attempts to get rif f her son, one being leaving him at the middle the mines. Sattelite risks losing his leg and saves the little boy. Agrin has one last try left in her . Her crippled clairvoyant brother, who despises his clairvoyant capabilities because it never brings anything than grief, tries to stop her.
And Books
Buzz: The Science and Lore ofAlcohol and Caffeine
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the taste of tea
