2 very good movies - if you live in a city with access to art-house pictures: Spirited Away and Igby Goes Down
PostPosted:Sun Sep 22, 2002 5:10 am
<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Spirited away is the new animated film from Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro) and Studio Ghibli (the studio that animates Miyazaki's works and others including Grave of the Fireflies, an incredible animated movie about human cruelty and frailty that all of you should see as soon as you can).
It's about a young girl who's spirited away to a land of demons, and whose experiences to free her captive parents take her through a surreal otherworld and help her mature and grow.
It's really an amazing movie. This movie is beyond my capability to successfully describe it. Even calling it "surreal" binds it to something you've seen before, and it's not like anything you've seen before.
I dunno how wide a release it is. I know it was playing a limited release in a small theater in Palo Alto, but this is the geek capital of the world and is the place to release Miyazaki if there ever was one...so check it out if you can.
Igby Goes Down is also small and art-housey. It's the story of a young man (played by Kieran Culkin...who does a decent job) whose father is mentally ill and whose mother is heartless, conniving, and manipulative, the rotting-beneath-the-surface world he finds in the New York high-life he's being thrust into, and his adventures and relationships with two women he meets in his attempts to free himself of it. I didn't think Kieran was brilliant, but the other actors turn in strong performances and the writing is incredibly good, especially if, like me, your family's a little bit nuts.</div>
It's about a young girl who's spirited away to a land of demons, and whose experiences to free her captive parents take her through a surreal otherworld and help her mature and grow.
It's really an amazing movie. This movie is beyond my capability to successfully describe it. Even calling it "surreal" binds it to something you've seen before, and it's not like anything you've seen before.
I dunno how wide a release it is. I know it was playing a limited release in a small theater in Palo Alto, but this is the geek capital of the world and is the place to release Miyazaki if there ever was one...so check it out if you can.
Igby Goes Down is also small and art-housey. It's the story of a young man (played by Kieran Culkin...who does a decent job) whose father is mentally ill and whose mother is heartless, conniving, and manipulative, the rotting-beneath-the-surface world he finds in the New York high-life he's being thrust into, and his adventures and relationships with two women he meets in his attempts to free himself of it. I didn't think Kieran was brilliant, but the other actors turn in strong performances and the writing is incredibly good, especially if, like me, your family's a little bit nuts.</div>