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I watched a couple of new movies in the last two evenings (new as in I hadn't seen them before). Perhaps you'd like to hear about them, ja?
On Wednesday I finally saw Spirited Away (2001), and I can really see why people love it so much. Great storytelling, beautiful art and animation, incredibly likeable characters and a wonderful sense of serenity and humour and magic throughout the entire film. The idea of the "movie for all ages" gets attached to a lot of films, but I think it suits this one better than anything I've seen in a long time. And the three bouncing heads made me crack up everytime they appeared on screen.
Also, for some reason I came to the conclusion that the makers of Ico should make a computer game adaptation of the film. I could see that being something very special indeed.
Last night I saw Hud (1963), which is probably the nost noteworthy Paul Newman film I had yet to see. It was certainly a bleak, depressing little character study, without much of the usual salvation that comes at the end of many of those sorts of films, but I still found it to be thoroughly engrossing. Newman's performance as Hud Bannon was excellent as always (interesting to see him playing yet another conflicted bastard, and yet it never gets boring to watch), but the big revelation for me was Patricia Neal as Alma Brown, who effortlessly stole every scene in which she appeared.
And that's all I can be bothered writing.
On Wednesday I finally saw Spirited Away (2001), and I can really see why people love it so much. Great storytelling, beautiful art and animation, incredibly likeable characters and a wonderful sense of serenity and humour and magic throughout the entire film. The idea of the "movie for all ages" gets attached to a lot of films, but I think it suits this one better than anything I've seen in a long time. And the three bouncing heads made me crack up everytime they appeared on screen.
Also, for some reason I came to the conclusion that the makers of Ico should make a computer game adaptation of the film. I could see that being something very special indeed.
Last night I saw Hud (1963), which is probably the nost noteworthy Paul Newman film I had yet to see. It was certainly a bleak, depressing little character study, without much of the usual salvation that comes at the end of many of those sorts of films, but I still found it to be thoroughly engrossing. Newman's performance as Hud Bannon was excellent as always (interesting to see him playing yet another conflicted bastard, and yet it never gets boring to watch), but the big revelation for me was Patricia Neal as Alma Brown, who effortlessly stole every scene in which she appeared.
And that's all I can be bothered writing.
