Last movie you watched

[stam4o]

Wow, Get a horse seems really good. It's like if you added a bit of randomness to a complete and well-built structure already full of randomness.

[erilaz]

Breaking the Maya Code, a 2008 documentary on the decipherment of Mayan hieroglyphs. Very interesting stuff, especially where it shows that the modern-day Maya are now becoming reacquainted with their long forgotten history as a result. I had read Michael D. Coe's book back in the mid '90s, but it was nice to have this as a refresher course.

[rikkikow]

Foreign film:
Chak De! India
It’s Gatas Brilhantes, minus the Gatas and futsal, crossed with
Shaolin Soccer, minus kung fu and soccer.

A good "Girl Power" movie.

[erilaz]

^ Bend It Like Beckham minus Keira Knightley and soccer?

My latest: Shakes the Clown (1992) — I love Bobcat Goldthwait's dark, twisted sense of humor. It had been far too long since I'd last seen this.

And then… Yobi, the Five-Tailed Fox (천년여우 여우비, 2007) — A weird hodgepodge of characters, including a shape-shifting fox, kids at a camp for maladjusted schoolchildren, a mysterious, shadowy figure, angry, flying rabbit-spirits, and a group of shipwrecked extraterrestrials, come together in this beautifully animated fantasy from South Korea.

[erilaz]

Bad Milo! (2013) — Ken Marino plays Duncan, an office worker whose stress has manifested itself as a gremlin in his colon. The monster comes out of Duncan's butt, deals with the people who are stressing Duncan out (with lots of violence and bloodshed), and goes back inside. It's a charming, heartwarming tale.

[rikkikow]

^ note the glyphs @ 1:05
LOL, this reminded me of todays “GET FUZZY”

Breaking the Maya Code, a 2008 documentary on the decipherment of Mayan hieroglyphs. Very interesting stuff, especially where it shows that the modern-day Maya are now becoming reacquainted with their long forgotten history as a result. I had read Michael D. Coe's book back in the mid '90s, but it was nice to have this as a refresher course.

I guess I originally saw this documentary on the History Channel a few years back. But I have been watching it via Netflix rental. It is amazing, gives me hope on being able to read Japanese someday. Aren't Human Beings amazing? Yuri Knorosov, the Russian linguist, who realized that the Mayan language symbols were related to Mayan as it is spoken. David Stuart at age 10! Human Beings are awesome. There is also "Cracking The Maya Code". Maybe that's the one I saw of TV?

[erilaz]

Yeah, I laughed when I saw the glyphs in Bad Milo!

Another thing that I found very interesting in the documentary was how Ernst Förstemann made seminal contributions to the field, deciphering the numerals and calendrical glyphs in the Dresden Codex. I'm quite familiar with Förstemann's work in another area, having frequently used his Altdeutsches Namenbuch, a huge etymological catalog of names of people and places in the older Germanic languages.

[erilaz]

Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (he Girl Who Leapt Through Time) (2010)

At first I thought it was going to be like the 2006 animated version, and then I found out both of these versions are sequels of the original story. But anyway, I loved this movie. At first it seemed a little silly, but the ending was really good.

I really want to see the 1983 version.

I just saw the 1983 version. (You can find it on YouTube here; turn on the captions for English subs.) It turns out that it's by the director of House, Ōbayashi Nobuhiko. It's not as flat-out bizarre as House, but it has some similarly quirky visuals and effects.

[rikkikow]

Love and Honor (2006)
http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi ... _=tt_ov_vi
Actress Rei Dan reminded me of Eripon in this movie.

Ending theme.

[erilaz]

Like Father, Like Son (そして父になる) (2013) — Another excellent, emotional film with great child actors, directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu. A workaholic architect and his wife learn that their six-year-old son is not their biological child, having been switched with another newborn at the hospital, and they and the other parents must figure out what to do.




Impact (1949) — Film noir shot (and mostly set) right here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Philip Ahn as the old Chinese gentleman, Ah Sing, had what I thought was the best line in the movie:

POLICE LT. QUINCY: Are you Ah Sing? Understand? You savvy English?
AH SING (without a trace of a Chinese accent): Also French, Italian, and Hebrew.