Millennium Actress is a Japanese animated movie that stretches the movie-analogy machine to breaking point. With most movies, you can say something like “it’s like Seven Samurai in space” or “it’s like King Kong but with a robot”. With Millennium Actress, I can make no analogies because I have seen nothing else like it.
The movie tells the story of a Japanese actress through three parallel…
In 1985, we piled into my mother’s car and went to watch Follow That Bird. My sister, her friends and me. I loved that movie; it was a road movie, before I knew road movies. It was a classic Muppet movie that wasn’t really a Muppet™ movie, before I really knew Muppet movies. This was the 6-year olds equivalent of an SNL sketch that turns into a movie. A full length Sesame Street movie.
(occasionally) to journal things. For a while now, I’ve wanted have my Letterboxd entries show up in my DayOne journal. I figured other people may want to do the same thing, so here’s how I did it:
Cute first date idea: Watch the entire existing Star Wars series without breaks, then promptly discuss the differences between Luke and anakin’s heroes journeys as well as the largest differences between the prequal and original trilogies for about 2 hours afterwards. Taking notes is advised.
I did wait for 2 years before subjecting my then girlfriend, now wife, to this :).
