Boston area: "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" playing the weekend ofAug 22.

For people on this newsgroup in the Boston area, the film "The Girl Who
Leapt Through Time" ("Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo") is playing Friday August 22
through Monday August 25 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA:

[url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/calendar.html[/url]
-> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/movie_detail/080822.html[/url]

For some reason Bandai hasn't bothered to list the showing on the official
R1 web site

[url]http://timeleap.bandai-ent.com/[/url]

so people might not have noticed.

It's a really sweet movie, totally opposite in atmosphere from, say, a
typical Mamoru Oshii feature; if you're in the area, go see it.

-dbm

D B Malmquist <d.b.malmquist@com.swap-com-and-rcn.rcn> wrote:[color=blue]
> For people on this newsgroup in the Boston area, the film "The Girl Who
> Leapt Through Time" ("Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo") is playing Friday August 22
> through Monday August 25 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA:
>
> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/calendar.html[/url]
> -> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/movie_detail/080822.html[/url]
>
> if you're in the area, go see it.[/color]


Yes, this film is definitely worth seeing. Less showy than Paprika, but
unlike Paprika it has a heart: the characters are very engaging so that you
really care about them, which really adds an edge to this beautiful film,
which starts out hilariously funny but ends with a great sense of pathos.

Wasabi wrote:
[color=blue]
> D B Malmquist <d.b.malmquist@com.swap-com-and-rcn.rcn> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>For people on this newsgroup in the Boston area, the film "The Girl Who
>>Leapt Through Time" ("Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo") is playing Friday August 22
>>through Monday August 25 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA:
>>
>> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/calendar.html[/url]
>> -> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/movie_detail/080822.html[/url]
>>
>>if you're in the area, go see it.[/color]
>
> Yes, this film is definitely worth seeing. Less showy than Paprika,[/color]

(Wow, MORE realistic and down-to-earth than Paprika? ;)
When this is our qualifying yardstick, we are officially in trouble.)
[color=blue]
> but
> unlike Paprika it has a heart: the characters are very engaging so that you
> really care about them, which really adds an edge to this beautiful film,
> which starts out hilariously funny but ends with a great sense of pathos.[/color]

I'll give it my highest rating, and say that it's an animated feature
that ISN'T depressing, that moves at normal speeds of movement, and has
a coherent A-B plot.

Which, unfortunately, also puts it on the level of a better-than-average
looking shoujo OVA, but until it's on disk, a theater viewing won't hurt.

Derek Janssen (yes--We're praising a theatrical anime feature by saying
it ISN'T painful...Such is the genre. -_- )
[email]ejanss1@verizon.net[/email]

On Aug 18, 2:45*pm, Derek Janssen <ejan...@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> Wasabi wrote:[color=green]
> > D B Malmquist <d.b.malmqu...@com.swap-com-and-rcn.rcn> wrote:[/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>For people on this newsgroup in the Boston area, the film "The Girl Who
> >>Leapt Through Time" ("Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo") is playing Friday August 22
> >>through Monday August 25 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA:[/color][/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>[url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/calendar.html[/url]
> >> ->[url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/movie_detail/080822.html[/url][/color][/color]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
> >>if you're in the area, go see it.[/color][/color]
>[color=green]
> > Yes, this film is definitely worth seeing. Less showy than Paprika,[/color]
>
> (Wow, MORE realistic and down-to-earth than Paprika? *;)
> When this is our qualifying yardstick, we are officially in trouble.)
>[color=green]
> > but
> > unlike Paprika it has a heart: the characters are very engaging so thatyou
> > really care about them, which really adds an edge to this beautiful film,
> > which starts out hilariously funny but ends with a great sense of pathos.[/color]
>
> I'll give it my highest rating, and say that it's an animated feature
> that ISN'T depressing, that moves at normal speeds of movement, and has
> a coherent A-B plot.
>
> Which, unfortunately, also puts it on the level of a better-than-average
> looking shoujo OVA, but until it's on disk, a theater viewing won't hurt.
>
> Derek Janssen (yes--We're praising a theatrical anime feature by saying
> it ISN'T painful...Such is the genre. *-_- )
> ejan...@verizon.net[/color]

Derek, if you don't like anime anymore (if you ever did in the first
place), then why don't you just do yourself and us a big, big favour
and take your smug cunt self out of rec.arts.anime.misc?

Watson
Who likes the movie a lot, thank you very much.

Including Derek's reply, cuz, well, posterity requires the archival of
him PRAISING an animated film :-)

Derek Janssen wrote:[color=blue]
> Wasabi wrote:
>[color=green]
> > D B Malmquist <d.b.malmquist@com.swap-com-and-rcn.rcn> wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> >>For people on this newsgroup in the Boston area, the film "The Girl Who
> >>Leapt Through Time" ("Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo") is playing Friday August 22
> >>through Monday August 25 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA:
> >>
> >> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/calendar.html[/url]
> >> -> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/movie_detail/080822.html[/url]
> >>
> >>if you're in the area, go see it.[/color][/color][/color]

It's coming to Seattle on August 29, according the the web site
mentioned later in the post. don't see DC though. I hear that DC
Anime Club is arranging a screening in The Nation's Capital. Cross
your fingers and sacrifice those rats.
[color=blue][color=green]
> > Yes, this film is definitely worth seeing. Less showy than Paprika,[/color]
>
> (Wow, MORE realistic and down-to-earth than Paprika? ;)
> When this is our qualifying yardstick, we are officially in trouble.)
>[color=green]
> > but
> > unlike Paprika it has a heart: the characters are very engaging so that you
> > really care about them, which really adds an edge to this beautiful film,
> > which starts out hilariously funny but ends with a great sense of pathos.[/color]
>
> I'll give it my highest rating, and say that it's an animated feature
> that ISN'T depressing, that moves at normal speeds of movement, and has
> a coherent A-B plot.[/color]

QFOMG-ness (Quoted For OMG-ness)
[color=blue]
> Which, unfortunately, also puts it on the level of a better-than-average
> looking shoujo OVA, but until it's on disk, a theater viewing won't hurt.
>
> Derek Janssen (yes--We're praising a theatrical anime feature by saying
> it ISN'T painful...Such is the genre. -_- )[/color]

Heh. But theatrical anime features are a commercial distribution
model, not a genre, Mr. Chihiro-Saved-Us-All ^_^
[color=blue]
> [email]ejanss1@verizon.net[/email][/color]

Terrence Briggs, caught Tim Sito's and Tom Minton's names on the Click
& Clack animated series. How much to get them off?

This is a great film, one not to miss.
"D B Malmquist" <d.b.malmquist@com.swap-com-and-rcn.rcn> wrote in message
news:48A91E86.7E0D4F10@com.swap-com-and-rcn.rcn...[color=blue]
>
> For people on this newsgroup in the Boston area, the film "The Girl Who
> Leapt Through Time" ("Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo") is playing Friday August 22
> through Monday August 25 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA:
>
> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/calendar.html[/url]
> -> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/movie_detail/080822.html[/url]
>
> For some reason Bandai hasn't bothered to list the showing on the official
> R1 web site
>
> [url]http://timeleap.bandai-ent.com/[/url]
>
> so people might not have noticed.
>
> It's a really sweet movie, totally opposite in atmosphere from, say, a
> typical Mamoru Oshii feature; if you're in the area, go see it.
>
> -dbm[/color]

D B Malmquist wrote:[color=blue]
> "%" wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
>>>
>>>It's a really sweet movie, totally opposite in atmosphere from, say, a
>>>typical Mamoru Oshii feature; if you're in the area, go see it.[/color][/color]
>
> [url]http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=12469[/url]
> What makes "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" such an unexpected treat is the
> contemplative pace and painterly visuals. White cumulus clouds pile up in the
> backgrounds of scenes, and the buzz of locusts drifts through the humid air,
> intertwining with sleepy Bach preludes on the soundtrack. Director Mamoru Hosoda
> roots the story in a specific neighborhood at a specific season before he
> starts uprooting his heroine's sense of time. Instead of the usual manic anime
> approach, the film is rich and observant in the manner of the great Hayao
> Miyazaki ("Spirited Away") and his Studio Ghibli colleagues Isao Takahata
> ("Only Yesterday") and Yoshifumi Kondou ("Whisper of the Heart").
>
> I'm not sure I agree with the Miyazaki parallel, but the review is spot on
> with the "Only Yesterday" and "Whisper of the Heart" comparisons.[/color]

Particularly in that original non-Miyazaki anime features (apart from
the TV upgrades) seem to have pretty well polarized into the Oshii/Kon
bludgeoning "Art is explosive" feature, and the Whisper/Yesterday
"Atmospheric slice of shoujo life" meander...

And of the two...this one's Whisper of the Heart. Not that there's
anything wrong with that, and like we said, it's the less painful of the
two genres.

Derek Janssen
[email]ejanss1@verizon.net[/email]

"%" wrote:[color=blue]
>
> This is a great film, one not to miss.
> "D B Malmquist" <d.b.malmquist@com.swap-com-and-rcn.rcn> wrote in message
> news:48A91E86.7E0D4F10@com.swap-com-and-rcn.rcn...[color=green]
> >
> > For people on this newsgroup in the Boston area, the film "The Girl Who
> > Leapt Through Time" ("Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo") is playing Friday August 22
> > through Monday August 25 at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA:
> >
> > [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/calendar.html[/url]
> > -> [url]http://www.brattlefilm.org/brattlefilm/movie_detail/080822.html[/url]
> >
> > For some reason Bandai hasn't bothered to list the showing on the official
> > R1 web site
> >
> > [url]http://timeleap.bandai-ent.com/[/url]
> >
> > so people might not have noticed.
> >
> > It's a really sweet movie, totally opposite in atmosphere from, say, a
> > typical Mamoru Oshii feature; if you're in the area, go see it.
> >
> > -dbm[/color][/color]

Review here:

[url]http://www.boston.com/movies/display?display=movie&id=12469[/url]

Excerpt:

What makes "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" such an unexpected treat is the
contemplative pace and painterly visuals. White cumulus clouds pile up in the
backgrounds of scenes, and the buzz of locusts drifts through the humid air,
intertwining with sleepy Bach preludes on the soundtrack. Director Mamoru Hosoda
roots the story in a specific neighborhood at a specific season before he
starts uprooting his heroine's sense of time. Instead of the usual manic anime
approach, the film is rich and observant in the manner of the great Hayao
Miyazaki ("Spirited Away") and his Studio Ghibli colleagues Isao Takahata
("Only Yesterday") and Yoshifumi Kondou ("Whisper of the Heart").

I'm not sure I agree with the Miyazaki parallel, but the review is spot on
with the "Only Yesterday" and "Whisper of the Heart" comparisons.

There's more than a touch of the 1998 German arthouse hit "Run, Lola, Run,"
too, in poor Makoto's races against a maddeningly playful clock. "

<blink> Gotta think about that one.

-dbm

Derek Janssen <ejanss1@nospam.verizon.net> wrote:[color=blue]
> Particularly in that original non-Miyazaki anime features (apart from
> the TV upgrades) seem to have pretty well polarized into the Oshii/Kon
> bludgeoning "Art is explosive" feature, and the Whisper/Yesterday
> "Atmospheric slice of shoujo life" meander...
>
> And of the two...this one's Whisper of the Heart. Not that there's
> anything wrong with that, and like we said, it's the less painful of the
> two genres.[/color]

Indeed, although it does get pretty dramatic towards the end. And I
still don't like the ending much. Did buy the DVD, though.

cu
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