september's coming soon

I'm a book person and I'm a comic person and I'm a cartoon person, but the one thing I'm not is a film person. The films I'll enjoy fall within a fairly narrow criteria, and suffice it to say that the kind of film Book People are meant to like, are not my kinds of film. Having watched both "The Worst Person in the World" and "Compartment No 6" (Norway and Finland's respective Academy hopefuls last year), this is increasingly evident. Intellectually, I can recognise that these are Good Films. Particularly the former has some choice scenes that are stunning. But the stories just don't touch me; recognising the craftmanship of the narrative doesn't do much when I'm just waiting for something to bloody happen to characters I don't particularly care for.

The things I enjoy watching? Well,



Let it be said that "Another Round" is genuinely entertaining and you won't regret the time you spend watching THAT.

Anyway, for posterity: "Out Stealing Horses" is a nice book, but the only reason it'd merit a five star rating is because I guess male reviewers just sympathise more with manpain. The film is a great adaptation and it'll take up less of your life.

1. It's really pretty and regretably boring

2. And I mean regretably in the sense that it's gorgeously animated, that it's about a genre of music that is so very near and dear to my heart, that it's about women and women's friendship and oh my god that festival scene and don't lie, you KNOW that this would've had a fandom to rival Free! if they had been boys instead

3. I'm torn between celebrating the bari sax representation and feeling offended by it being played by a Japanese teenage girl using a neckstrap, not a harness

4. I mean, this IS pretty much just the girl equivalent to Free! with Makoto as the MC and Rin and Haru merged into one character

5. Nagisa/Midori OTP y/y?

6. If you ever wondered if fandom really loved women as much as it claims it does, look no further than to the fact that this has like five pages of fic on AO3

7. Not that I expect you to care, but Nagisa somehow became the "always opposite sexuality as all the other boys" to me so either he's the gay one or he's the straight one, and I really need that Nagisa/Midori fic okay