Strange how I've been inadvertently avoiding this film all my life. It was very good! Idk what to say even, I mean it was kind of faultless, fun to watch, cool animation, sick soundtrack, the premise could have gotten boring but it constantly kept me on my toes, and yay it had a happy ending :')

Bram Stoker's was cooler and funner and more colorful and sexier.

Ok I was feeling very low and depressed when I went to see this movie and so I could barely pay attention and realized right away that the last thing I needed was to sit still in a dark room and ponder frustrated, repressed, exploited, sad people, even if some of them are in love. I almost fell asleep. It's probably a very good movie and there were moments I really enjoyed and I am still confounded by the interaction with the drowning man at the very end, which felt profound and magical, and I did like the very last scene, too, but yeah I wasn't at my best as a viewer when I saw this, woops.

Lovely. Love the animation, the colors, Suzume's cute hair and outfits. She was a v good character. The chair was cracking me up. You know I love a time loop AND an inner child healing moment so I was absolutely smitten with the ending, felt like it was made for me.

This shit was depressing and kinda boring and it pissed me off and made me sad!!!! I am too vulnerable in my artistic career right now for this kind of thing! Gtfo!

Despite every single thing that happened in this movie it made me really want to go to Iceland lol. I hated that priest once he shaved his beard. He shouldn't have done that. It was shot so beautifully. I want to read about the two shots (the horse and the priest) where the weather changes for seasons and seasons and seasons. How'd they do that?

So cute and fun. Rosanna Arquette reminded me of Hannah hehe. Love that the women's friendship was based on their mutually intense artistic and creative dreams, and that David Bowie encouraged Rosanna's dreams of being a great escape artist. Also v relatable that Rosanna was like no I can't be with a man I will become obsessed and lose my entire life. The last time I had a man for any length of time I had so many overdue library books they took my card away. It is about maintaining your sense of self and your ikigai, and possibly even strengthening these through love! And successful robbery! Except for David Bowie, he was the only one who wasn't an artist, he just loved gambling.

The acting was not very good and things often felt heavy handed, emotionally. Beans was kind of an annoying character. But I rly liked learning about this history that I didn't know about, and the use of historical news clips was great. Kind of a didactic movie that hit a lot of familiar coming of age notes. I was still v moved a lot of the time, somehow.

Cute, but boring. Based on The Borrowers which I never read but it has that classic kids' novel situation where everything could probably just be solved if people asked the right questions and communicated, so the plot feels thin and doesn't rly make sense lol. Seeing all the teeny things was nice, and the flowers and botanical details.

Well, it was more than based on some Alice Munro stories. I think these were all from The Beggar Maid but now I'm not totally certain which book? Either way I've read them and half forgotten and this made me remember, which was nice. It was basically just Monro tales with an Almodóvar twist, meaning everything was red and Spanish lol. But a really interesting weekend pairing with The Shadlowless Tower. One, a story about a missing and guilty father, another a story about a daughter who's removed herself from her mother's life. Parental absence, absence toward/against parents, the pull or lack thereof of familial connection, all v relevant to me in this moment (and all moments). The daughter's behavior not so totally dissimilar from my own, but also somehow more extreme. Gives me license to do what I need, I think. Or I'm looking for license, and here could be some.

Weirdly, this was probably the closest story to my own story with my dad that I've ever seen in like... any media. Not the same, of course, but an adult son estranged from his father, with a narrative of his father having done something very bad when they were young, which sent him to prison, now trying to figure out whether/how to connect with him for the first time. This guy has maybe more problems than I do, and also has a kid, and is worried about becoming his father maybe more than I am, though I worry about that too, and also my mother, but yeah. The ending felt extremely not hopeful as it literally panned away from him and panned back and he'd become his dad sitting alone in the snow lmao. Fuck. Anyway, on a cinematic level this felt very intimate toward Beijing, like the movie loved the city. Also a lot of emphasis on different areas and dialects of China, which went over my head. The young woman character was pretty manic pixie etc etc. Not a perfect movie, but worth a watch for me personally.

This was so fun. Jennifer Jason Leigh and Tim Robbins were amazing, but particular Jen with her insanely fast talking and bizarre trans atlantic new york accent. She embodied that character! I had no idea what she was saying half the time and I could have watched her for 2 more hours! I loved when it got magical toward the end, with the giant clock and the angel coming down. V fun, somehow fit the tone perfectly. Absurdist and strange!