Hmmm… I couldn’t find any other non-YouTube video of Janet’s tribute to Michael, sadly this one has an audio error at least for me… but it will have to do for the time being.
*re-post*
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It’s 35 films this year! Woohoo! Well, not much to celebrate since some of those were really REALLY bad, but they count for the movie countdown~~~
In the meantime, I’ve decided to put my list of Best 2001 films.
It was really difficult to choose some, as I seem to not have seen many 2001 films, so many of my nominees are the same as the Oscar, I feel. Remembering the films made me remember about the first time I actively waited for the Oscar. I mean, the event in itself was something I did, but that year was the year I said I’m gonna watch the Oscar to see who will win. American Beauty won that year, as did Kevin Spacey and The Matrix. 1999 Films, wow~~~ I was 13 going on 14.
Anyway~ without further ado~~~
I’m also preparing for 2009, though to be honest~~~ I’ve noticed that I don’t have many 2009 albums – so we’ll see how that goes. I’ve chosen Top15 Songs of 2008 excluding Soundtracks, except for my #1 for sentimental reasons.
No, really. Continue Reading…
I know, I know… I’m being lazy.
By the way, by the time of posting this, I’m probably away taking photos at a concert. This is a scheduled post because I wanted Maggie Cheung as the first post for a little longer… xD
I usually post one thing per post, but there’s too much Yu to post –
all via aoinohoho’s Yu-dedicated JP blog.
dozou~~~
First!
Rumors that NHK’s future 2011 (I know, I know… so far ahead) Taiga drama (a la Yoshitsune, Atsuhime) would be centered around three sisters… The Three Asai Sisters (?). They throw in some names like Masami Nagasawa and Aya Ueto, but seem positively (?) more thrilled to throw in Yu’s name xD – though you know, it IS a Google Translate.
Me on the other hand… I loved Atsuhime… a strong female who moved the pieces in this game of life. That may have had to do with the high ratings the show got alongside the writing, and production values. So the prospect of Yu on a Taiga drama thrills me. For one thing, I will be able to watch her once a week on my TV for a year. LOL – but then, that will mean a decrease on films… *eek!*
Second!
Apparently (this is old old news), FRaU Magazine had a list Yu’s 10 Best Films~
Some interesting choices there!
3 films in English made it to her list…
- White Oleander (2002)
- 2:37 (2006) [starring fellow Teresa Palmer of December Boys, Daniel Radcliffe fame]
- Almost Famous (2000)
A very international one… actually, a two-part film project titled Ten Minutes Older, divided into The Trumpet and The Cello. (2002)
And the rest are Asian… though I’ve only heard of Sway (with fellow Joe Odagiri), which I wanna watch.
- Like Asura (2003)
- Memories of Murder (2003)
- The Hidden Blade (2004)
- Yi Yi: A One and a Two (2000) [actually, I think I’ve heard of this before]
- Kaza-hana (2000) [hmm… no English title. with fellow Kyoko Koizumi]
and third!
aoinohoho uploaded this 9min video of… Yu talking about a book? Book reading?
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Oh yeah, and did I mention my mom loves Yu? She told me that tonight… again. LOL
We’re almost about to finish up with June – still haven’t reached 20 films listed on 2009 @ IMDb… and I’m still way short on my quota to be legible on my own awards.
I thought it’d be interesting to see how this works, so I grabbed the IMDb Power Search Tool and looked for all films listed on IMDb following this criteria:
- All films must have over 50 votes on the site (you know, just to make the list shorter)
- I must have voted it over 6.
So I made my list of the regular categories – All acting categories, best animated feature, best director and best picture – without caring about the language they’re in. Just a reminder~~~ this year’s awards should include all categories except for Documentaries and shorts~~~
Here are the ones of the would’ve beens of films released on 2000 – Oscar 2001 –
I just got really into Japanese film about a year ago (thank you, Internet) – a few of my friends are really into J-Pop and anime, but none of them are really interested in any J-films or directors. When I went abroad to study, I met a bunch of people who were into films (duh! it was film school, after all) and we went into films all the way.
One of my first memories (maybe 2003?) of Japanese Cinema was Battle Royal. My! What an example, eh? I was blown away~~ I don’t have other memories of J-Film prior to that other than animated films like Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (Spirited Away) and Mononoke Hime (Princess Mononoke)… which brings me to my post of the day for the Blogathon~~~
The Top10 Japanese Films I Watch this Past Year
in the order in which I saw them from earliest to latest~
only between these past 365 days – some of my fave didn’t make it
- Kiraware Matsuko no Issho (Memories of Matsuko)
by Tetsuya Nakashima (loads of people with Miki Nakatani, and Eita) - Tekkonkinkreet
by Michael Arias (voice of Yu Aoi) - Love Letter
by Shunji Iwai - Cha no Aji (The Taste of Tea)
by Katsuhito Ishii - Sasame-yuki (The Makioka Sisters)
by Kon Ichikawa - Tenshi no Tamago (Angel’s Egg)
by Mamoru Oshii – sooooo weird xD - Wool 100%
by Mai Tominaga - Hyakuman-en to Nigamushi Onna (One Million Yen Girl)
by Yuki Tanada (starring Yu Aoi) - Tsumiki no Ie (La Maison en Petits Cubes)
by Kunio Kato *short film - Aruitemo, Aruitemo (Still Walking)
by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Almost made it, xD
- Hito no SEKKUSU o Warauna (Don’t Laugh at my Romance)
by Nami Iguchi (with Kenichi Matsuyama, Yu Aoi, Shugo Oshinari) - Gaichu (Harmful Insect)
by Akihiko Shiota (starring Aoi Miyazaki)
If you’re too lazy to read that, I said to be eligible to vote you’d have to at least watch 48 films a year. We are halfway May… almost halfway through 2009, and… according to IMDb’s, I’ve got only 14 films listed as 2009. And one of them is a straight-to-video and the other is a short film hahaha. So that leaves me with freaking 12 films in 2009!!! 12 films in half a year, WTF!!! At that rate *I* won’t even be legible for voting on my own awards hahahaha.
Anyway, besides from those films… I have 9 other films that I want to see, and have already (seems like) been released somewhere in the world. Starting with… Precious (aka, Push), The Soloist, Los Abrazos Rotos, Blood: The Last Vampire, Coco avant Chanel, Up, The Young Victoria, New York I Love You… and the soon to be Terminator Salvation.
That makes it… 21. Will I make it?
If you wanna know how well you’re doing, head over to IMDb’s Power Search,
- select the 2009 films,
- exclude tv series, tv movies, direct to video and episodes…
- with a minimun of 50 votes (well distribute films usually have over that number of votes),
- sort results based on my vote rating (if you have an IMDb account)
- search!
Other interesting films not-yet-released here.
Just for experiment purpose ONLY. Picking nominees during award season is a tough job, considering the people in charge have to sit through hundreds of films in a certain period of time to just pick them… then they probably have to see them once again to refresh their memories and pick a winner.
Even like that, there’s still people upset about not nominated and nominated films… right? You know who you are~~ Stop complaining and do something.
That’s why I wanted to do some experimenting… have our own awards. Well, no~ we don’t have the money to have famous people… or to have a proper ceremony, or to make our own awards to hand out physically. Actually, we have nothing but our will to watch films, comment and try to get others to watch those films, but that will be enough~~ I think.
These would be the rules for films:
- All films, regardless of language, are eligible
- Only movies listed on IMDb on the year of the award, or released between February January to December in any city of any country around the world are eligible.
- Films with a very limited release, and/or problems with distribution will likely have points for them and might be eligible for the next two years.
- Since all the nominated films could be foreign, there will be no “Best Foreign Film” award.
- Sorry. No documentaries or shorts at the moment.
Rules for the voters:
- To be able to nominate the films you watch throughout February to December, you must AT LEAST watch one movie a week. That means at least 48 movies that year. Of course you can watch all 48 films in December instead, but that’d be rushing it, no?
- Each voter must do their nomination (5 nominees per category) list by the first week of January (January 7th, duh).
- Official nominations will be announced three days later on January 10th.
- Voters will be able to choose their winners from January 11th to January 28th, allowing them to re-watch their nominations and/or watch the nominated films they couldn’t watch before.
- Winners will be announced by the end of the month on January 31st.
Hmm… I think I covered most of all. If I have forgotten to deal with something, let me know on a comment or an e-mail. Also, if you’re interested in becoming a voter, make sure you do the same… e-mail, comment… anything. The more, the better the experiment will run, right?
So… it’s only 2 weeks short of the new year, and yet another list of what was good this year~~ Though, I’m considering of not doing 2008 stuff, and just focus on things I found in 2008 instead.
I did a 2006 Best Songs List from the music I had been listening to on my iPod, Internet, or even CD… no radio for me. – so I thought I’d post this year’s also. In no particular order:
BEST 2007 SONGS
- Antigone – Funky Dancers
- Tegan and Sara – The Con
- Green Light Go – E Ha’i Ana Wau
- Shitdisco – OK
- Quad Riot – Johnny Negro
- Operator Please – Just a Song about Ping Pong
- Michael Buble – Everything
- Los Campesinos! – You! Me! Dancing!
- Justice – D.A.N.C.E
- Juanes Feat. Campinos – Bandera de Manos
- Christophe Mae – Spleen
- Backstreet Boys – Trouble Is
- Hanson – Been There Before
- Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankolov – Water
- Ayaka & Kobukuro – WINDING ROAD
Uber SPECIAL mention for Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova for the Soundtrack of the film Once. Including all the album in this list xD
BEST 2006 SONGS
- Dixie Chicks – Ready to Make Nice
- Corinne Bailey Rae – Put Your Record On
- KT Tunstall – Black Horse & the Cherry Tree
- The Raconteurs – Steady as She Goes
- Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Phenomena
- Keith Urban – Once in a Lifetime
- Rascal Flatts – What Hurts the Most
- CSS – Lets Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
- The Sounds – Night After Night
- Sunset Rubdown – They Took a Vote and Said No
