Well, it's that time of the year again. The tickets for the Helsinki International Movie Festival (or Rakkautta & Anarkiaa in Finnish) which is held from 17.9. to 27.9. came on sale today. I spent yesterday evening going through the festival catalogue trying to decide what movies I wanted to see and after that checking their airing times & dates ( Read more... )

I was too tired after all, and managed to watch only two more episodes of Kamisama, Mou Sukoshi Dake. But actually the end of episode 7 was a good point to stop, because the episode ended in a happy note for a change. This series is really, really wonderful!

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Kamisama, stop being so wonderful! I meant to watch just one episode of Kamisama, Mou Sukoshi Dake (or God, Please Give Me More Time) last night (hah, I should know already how well that decision usually holds) and ended up watching five episodes in a row, got to sleep way too late, and I have a strong suspicion I'll end up mainlining through the ( Read more... )

Films

Curse of the Golden Flower"Gold and jade on the outside, corruption and decay on the inside ( Read more... )

It was great fun meeting with Old Schoolfriend yesterday. As usual, we had yet another movie night. This time we watched two films I'd brought with me and one film of hers. My films were Perhaps Love and Bunty aur Babli and hers was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Perhaps Love is an extremely beautifully shot Chinese film by Peter Chan. The ( Read more... )

dangermousie's recent Takeshi Kaneshiro picspam inspired me to watch two Takeshi Kaneshiro movies that I got a little while ago.

Too Tired to Die was a very weird, artsy movie about a young man (TK) who is told by Death (Mira Sorvino) that he is going to die in 12 hours and most of his remaining time is spent aimlessly wondering around. Some of the visual ( Read more... )

Ok, so it wasn't light and fluffy, but it did the job. Fun, mindless action works just as well as lightness & fluff :):

Meaning, I watched the Japanese sf action movie Returner starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Anne Suzuki. In the story, a young girl travels back from the future in order to stop a war with an alien race and enlists the help of a ( Read more... )