Tagged: year: 2009
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo
Had I written a script today, Map of the Sounds of Tokyo would had been my end result. The kind of script that is amateurish, trying too hard to build this intriguing atmosophere with a mysterious character that is complex and abnormal.
Crowd Lu – Seven Days
After the success of his debut album 100 Ways for Living, which earned Lu the Golden Melody Awards for Best Newcomer and Best Composer, he’s back with Seven Days, delivering happy music with melancholic lyrics.
No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti
No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti is a Taiwanese film about a man and the strong bond between him and his small daughter. When he decides to enroll his daughter in the local school system, the government decides that she’d be better off with another family.
Mary and Max
Mary and Max is a little Australian animated film that tells the story of a little 8-year-old Australian girl who strikes up a very unusual friendship with a 44-year-old Jewish American man living in New York, a relationship that spans 20 years.
Sasameki Koto
Sasameki Koto is the anime version of the Yuri manga of the same name. It follows Sumika Murasame, secretly in love with her best friend Ushio Kazama, who in turn also likes girls, but never notices Murasame because she’s not her type.
BackStreet Boys – Stockholm, Sweden 2009 – This Is Us
I was never a huge fan of BSB, but there is no doubt that their music inflicted much of my childhood and early teenage years. Although I refused to be recognized as a BSB fan, I was easily up on my feet when they started to sing many of their old well-known songs.
Thirst (Korean Film)
Thirst is the film by Park Chan-wook, starring famous Korean actor Song Kang-ho as a Catholic priest who becomes a vampire and must fight the urge to give in his animalistic instinct.
Family Outing
People often say, “You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family.” So what do you get when you put a bunch of celebrities together, and make them act as if they were family? You get Family Outing, a Korean variety program.
Stockholm Film Festival 2009
This year was the festival’s 20th anniversary, so it was supposed to be a good one. Looking at the movie list, I must say that they didn’t disappoint. There was a great mix of movies from all over the world, although Africa was underrepresented and Asia got a bigger representation.