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25 January 2010
Texhnolyze [テクノライズ] – (2003) – Rogue 01 “Stranger”
An anime by Hirotsugu Hamazaki, with characters by Yoshitoshi ABe. I used to watch more anime than I do now, the last two series being the truly funny Abenobashii Magical Shopping Arcade and the really beautiful Heibane-Renmei. There’s something about the characters that Yoshitoshi ABe creates that have really appealed to some inner artistic urge [...]
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22 January 2010
Please Vote For Me (2007)
Please Vote For Me is a relatively unpretentious documentary by Weijun Chen about a school class in China holding a democratic election to appoint a new student to the class monitor position. The film’s narrative structure is of particular interest in how it withholds the notion (or perhaps I missed it) that Luo Lei, one [...]
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12 January 2010
The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2008)
A couple of things strike me: I hadn’t updated my blog in half a year, and I have been working on Bartlett The Bear for over a year now. It started as a short story, but seems to have exploded underneath my feet. Bartlett comes to mind, of course, because of the adorable clay puppets [...]
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10 January 2010
The Dead (1987)
Speaking of The Dead, that’s a pretty apropos post to begin the ‘new year,’ given my continual failure to remain committed to the purpose of this: I consume a lot of media, I like to write, so why not write about the media? Lionsgate finally got around to releasing the DVD, but it appears as [...]
