#alice kurosawa

[miaqc1]

4 Alice Magical Autistic Girls, the visual novel

[victorianera]

Machida Keita truly is so handsome 🥰

[iamnotmereally]

drawing something and IK something is off but what is it😭

[webraciszekbastion]

Masterlist

Requests Opens !

Legend:

One Shot - Cup of Tea 🍵

Headcanons - Cup of Coffee ☕

My thoughts on games or characters - Bubble Tea 🧋(NO request)

Fluff - Chocolate Cookie 🍪| Hurt/Comfort - Dark Chocolate 🍫| Angst - Sour Lemon Cupcake 🧁| Suggestive - Angel Food Cake 🍰| Platonic - Piece of Pie 🥧

Master Detective Archives: Rain Code

Yuma Kokohead:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Shinigami:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Kurumi Wendy:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Yakou Furio:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

👻 Yakou Furio x Reader who is a Horror Fanatic 💀☕🍪

Vivia Twilight:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

📖 Vivia Twilght x Baker!Reader 🥐☕🍪

📖 Vivia Twilight x Artist!Male!Reader 🎨☕🍪

Halara Nightmare:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Fubuki Clockford:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Desuhiko Thunderbolt:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Zilch Alexander:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Pucci Lavmin:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Aphex Logan:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Melamie Goldmine:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Zange Eraser:

☔ Some Headcanons from Rain Code ☔☕

Yomie Hellsmile:

Martina Electro:

Seth Burroughs:

Guillaume Hall:

Makoto Kagutsuchi:

All Master Detectives:

All Peacekeepers:

All Characters:

Project Eden's Garden

Damon Maitsu:

📖 Fem s/o Ultimate Novelist who works non-stop, without taking breaks. 📖 ☕🍪

Cassidy Amber:

Desmond Hall:

Diana Venicia:

Eloise Taulner:

Eva Tsunaka:

Grace Madison:

Ingrid Grimwall:

Jean DeLamer:

Jett Dawson:

Kai Monteago:

Mark "Mayhem" Berskii:

Toshiko Kayura(Only Platonic):

Ulysses Wilhelm:

Wenona:

Wolfgang Akire:

All Characters:

Danganronpa Despair Time

Teruko Tawaki:

Xander Matthews:

Charles Cuevas:

Ace Markey:

Arei Nageishi:

Rose Lacroix:

Hu Jing:

Eden Tobisa:

Levi Fontana:

📖 Fem s/o Ultimate Novelist who works non-stop, without taking breaks. 📖 ☕🍪

Arturo Giles:

Min Jeung:

Veronika Grebenshchikova:

J Rosales:

Whit Young:

Nico Hakobyan:

All Characters:

Danganronpa F: Shattered Hope

Enigma:

Cancel:

Yaxi:

Grisp:

Cross:

Scarlet:

Moraiteru:

Pocket:

📖 Fem s/o Ultimate Novelist who works non-stop, without taking breaks. 📖 ☕🍪

Corza:

Rock:

Rox:

Twin:

Rissi:

Anon:

All Characters:

My suggestions for the real names of the characters 🧋

Super Danganronpa Another

Yuki Maeda/Utsuro:

Akane Taira:

Ayame Hatano:

Haruhiko Kobashikawa

Kakeru Yamaguchi:

Kanata Inori:

Kinji Uehara:

Kiyoka Maki:

Kizuna Tomori:

Mikako Kurokawa:

Mitsuhiro Higa:

Rei Mekaru:

Satsuki Iranami:

Teruya Otori:

Tsurugi Kinjo:

Yamato Kisaragi:

All Characters:

Super Danganronpa Another 2

Sora:

Emma Magorobi:

Hajime Makunouchi:

Hibiki Otonokoji:

Iroha Nijiue:

Kanade Otonokoji:

Kokoro Mitsube:

Mikado Sannoji:

Nikei Yomiuri:

Setsuka Chiebukuro:

Shinji Kasai:

Shobai Hashimoto:

Teruya Otori V2:

Yoruko Kabuya:

Yuki Maeda:

Yuri Kagarin:

All Characters:

Danganronpa (He)Artless Deceit

Akira Hayasaka:

Chiemi Hattori:

Chou Yoshida:

Hideyoshi Kurosawa:

Itsumi "Bani" Yoko:

Izanami Hoshimiya:

Katsuhiko Minamoto:

Kiyoshi Fujioka:

Kyouran Murashita:

Otome Hanayama:

Rei Fukuno:

Satoru Tachibana:

Shion Morita:

Takeshi Yamamoto:

Tomoya Morita:

Yumeo Arakawa:

Denshi Shigenobu:

All Characters:

Your Turn to Die

Sara Chidouin:

Joe Tazuna:

Keiji Shinogi:

Kanna Kizuchi(Only Platonic):

Q-taro Burgerberg:

Sou Hiyori:

Reko Yabusame:

Nao Egokoro:

Kai Satou:

Gin Ibushi(Only Platonic):

Kazumi Mishima:

Alice Yabusame:

Ranmaru Kageyama:

Hinako Mishuku(Only Platonic):

Naomichi Kurumada:

Mai Tsurugi:

Anzu Kinashi:

Shunsuke Hayasaka:

Sue Miley:

Tia Safalin:

Rio Ranger:

Gashu:

Midori:

Meister:

All Characters:

All Floor Masters:

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New To Me - 2023

All About Alice (1972, Ray Harrison)

Bambi (1942, David Hand)

Die, Mommie, Die! (2003, Mark Rucker)

Dreams (1990, Akira Kurosawa)

Elephant (1989, Alan Clarke)

Erin Brockovich (2000, Steven Soderbergh)

Glen or Glenda (1953, Edward D. Wood Jr.)

A Happening in Central Park (1968, Robert Scheerer)

In Vanda’s Room (2000, Pedro Costa)

LA Plays Itself (1972, Fred Halsted)

The Ladies Man (1961, Jerry Lewis)

Morvern Callar (2002, Lynne Ramsay)

News from Home (1976, Chantal Akerman)

A Self-Induced Hallucination (2018, Jane Schoenbrun)

Series 7: The Contenders (2001, Daniel Minahan)

Single White Female (1992, Barbet Schroeder)

Terminal USA (1993, Jon Moritsugu)

What Really Happened to Baby Jane (1963, Ray Harrison)

The Wiz (1978, Sidney Lumet)

Zero Day (2002, Ben Coccio)

+++

2LDK (2003, Yukihiko Tsutsumi)

AM1200 (2008, David Prior)

Another Gay Movie (2006, Todd Stephens)

Black Book (2006, Paul Verhoeven)

Bloodbath at the House of Death (1984, Ray Cameron)

Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995, Shinichi Fukazawa)

Caniba (2017, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel)

Charade (1963, Stanley Donen)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg)

The Color Purple (1985, Steven Spielberg)

Crimes of Passion (1984, Ken Russell)

Death to Smoochy (2002, Danny DeVito)

The Faculty (1998, Robert Rodriguez)

Foxfur (2012, Damon Packard)

The Fluffer (2001, Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)

Freeway (1996, Matthew Bright)

Girls Will Be Girls (2003, Richard Day)

Hotel (2004, Jessica Hausner)

The Idiots (1998, Lars von Trier)

The Inheritance (2020, Ephraim Asili)

Lady Gaga and the Muppets Holiday Spectacular (2013, Gregg Gelfand)

Mod Fuck Explosion (1994, Jon Moritsugu)

Ned Rifle (2014, Hal Hartley)

Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special (1988, Paul Reubens & Wayne Orr)

R100 (2013, Hitoshi Matsumoto)

The Salt Mines [1990] & The Transformation [1996] (Susana Aikin & Carlos Aparicio)

Seconds (1966, John Frankenheimer)

Sextool (1975, Fred Halsted)

Sibyl (2019, Justine Triet)

Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)

Star 80 (1983, Bob Fosse)

Strange Days (1995, Kathryn Bigelow)

Teknolust (2002, Lynn Hershman-Leeson)

Theorem (1968, Pier Paolo Pasolini)

[bibimbinge]

10 BL boys I want carnally <3

Much much love to @ayansbff for tagging me!! I hope you know what you’re in for cause tagging me in a post to simp?? ok! I have a reason to SCREAM about these men who made me question my asexuality.

Mantrisanu - Jeng (Step by Step)

nobody but my acemate (@mooniyuta) knows just how obsessed I was with Mantrisanu during the Step by Step era. When I tell ya I forgot I was ace as soon as I saw his giant 1.90m ass on screen.. I forgot I was even a person. I am a squirrel needing to climb a tree. WOW! just WOW!! Step by Step? No! Step On Me.

Jam Rachata - Tinn/Jiu (Laws Of Attaction/To Sir With Love)

just Jam Rachata in general. He’s just a few years older than me but I will call him Daddy. When I saw him in Laws of Attraction I was intrigued then I stayed for the plot then I got hooked with their chemistry. Lucky for me I’ve never watched To Sir With Love before, so I did… and I can hear the wedding bells ringing as soon as I saw how his hunky meaty goodness handle that rusted half scissors turned murder weapon.

First Kanaphan - Alan/Sand (Moonlight Chicken/Only Friends)

I’ve been salivating for this man since Not Me. I suffered through The Shipper for this man. It’s not just his beautiful handsome gorgeous self that does it for me, its also his charm. Like he’s so charming and has this aura about him that’s just warm and homey. His smile is like the most beautiful smile I’ve ever seen. His eyes are just so sparkly and beautiful, if I ever meet him irl I’d probably trip over myself getting lost in them. I understand Khaotung not wanting to share him with anyone because I would do the same.

Bright - Yai (I Feel You Linger In The Air)

He’s so handsome I can cry. This man is like Jam x2. Like he has such a perfect face for male lead in romance genre. Where has he been all my life?? Maybe its Yai the character that feeds my deluluism, but when General Yai popped up in ifylita with a freakin porn stache and I wasn’t immidiately appalled, I knew I was a goner.

Neo - Boston (Only Friends)

Neo has always been cute to me. Catches my eye in every series he’s in but then Only Friends happened AND I WAS FLOORED!!! It was like ya know when you enter your teen years and that cute person you’ve grown up with had a growth spurt and you’re like daaaang when did you get hot 👀 Yeah that’s me with Neo.

Ohm Pawat - Pat (Bad Buddy)

specifically Ohm as Pat cause he was chunky and meaty and oof his arms were distracting as fuck. Anytime he showed up with that damn tank top I was like pls may I bite. He’s just so *feral animalistic growling* I personally love a man whos chunky meaty mucles and looks like they can lift me. AND HIS SMILE??? HIS TWINKLING EYED SMILE?!?!?!?! I’m gone. what a baaaabe!!!

Try imagining? alrighty if you say so 😚

Keita Machida - Kurosawa (Cherry Magic)

I remember watching cherry magic for the first time in 2020 and I was in awe. He is so dreamy and handsome. I hate to say it again guys but.. his smile!! Like I’m obsessed with him!! Both me and bestie screamed when we saw him in Alice In Borderland (overgrown blondie with roots showing and he is messy and he smokes and I was barely breathing) and then scream cried when his head EXPLODED!?!?!?!) Anyway, I’d marry this guy. like legit.

Earth Pirapat - Jim (Moonlight Chicken)

I am not done with the young dilfs. I have no other words other than !! HIM !! like I would need to make a seperate Earth appreciation post to start talking about him. This post is getting too long anyway so I’m gonna not say much here but.. just know I would drop everything for him.

Papang - Gumpa (Not Me)

my need for Papang to suffocate me in his tiddies arms is like my human need to eat to keep myself sustained. He just looks like the best recharging station. That doesn’t make sense but it makes sense.

Even going through the gif list to choose a Papang gif gave my tummy flips

Bosston Suphadach - Pruk (Between Us)

THERE’S A NEWBIE ON MY LIST WOO!!! I feel like because he hasnt been here long and has only played sub-minor parts, people forgot about him .. BUT I. DID. NOT. <3 Did you see him in between us alongside Sammy?? Yes. I too would be purposefully tripping in front of him so that he can hold me in his big strong arms. Also him and the doctor in Be My Favourite?? SIIIIICKKK!!!! Let’s just say I’m excited to watch their spinoff next year ✨

I’ve got a few more but these men are mainly the ones that I need to have. In conclusion, Big Guy, Big Arms, Big Smiles. Love them, Love Him.

thank you lovely gif makers @zhivchik @mushiemadarame @rayandgay @wanderlust-in-my-soul @kiyosuku @warmday @sunsetandthemoon @bunnakit @daikunart and lovely moots @dramalets @drama-nonsense @mooniyuta @mooninagust @these-emo-thoughts @sparklyeyedhimbo @khaotungsfirst @blue-grama @absolutebl @troubled-mind who enable this obsession.

[ecargmura]

Metallic Rouge Episode 13 Review + Final Thoughts - Their Free World

Well, that was disappointing. What do you mean the anime ends like that? I finally managed to understand what the heck is going on now and it ends. It kind of sucks when one of the animes you were anticipating to watch soon becomes a train wreck.

To no one’s surprise, Roy Yunghart was the Puppetmaster, but the twist goes even deeper as the Roy in front of them isn’t the real one; the real one died and the one in front of them is a Nean copy. It turns out that he likes to body jump and Cyan is his third body essentially as he jumps to her body once Sylvia stabs him. The fact that he was the one who ordained everything feels like bullcrap. I know it fits with the freedom and will themes but at this point, I don’t care anymore.

The final battle between possessed Cyan and Rouge was pretty cool, though. Naomi deciding to sacrifice her vessel and permanently be fused into Rouge’s body was something I didn’t expect. The fusion form between them was cool; it sort of looks like a Digimon with the pupils and wings. Maybe it’s just me, but it reminds me of a robotic/mecha Digimon.

The surprise twist that Opera was a Usurper and is still out and about feels like a cop out. I feel like this anime was intentionally made to be two cours, but given that it’s an original anime project and those normally don’t get two cours means that everything has to be bunched up and thrown in as much as possible. The fact that the ending of Metallic Rouge ends with Rouge facing off against Opera shows this.

I’m glad the Neans became free, but the ending doesn’t show what happens to them or what happens to the other characters. What happened with Jean? Ash? Noir? Aes/Alice? Is Giallon even alive? What happened with everyone else? 

Final Thoughts

Metallic Rouge’s concept and premise was cool. Watching the trailer legit got me inserting this show into my already long watch list for Winter 2024 but as weeks went by, it started dropping in terms of story quality. I feel like Bones had high ambitions for this project, but couldn’t really execute them properly due to time constraints. It’s unfortunate that an anniversary project ends up becoming mediocre since I do like BONES’s works—The Case Study of Vanitas is my favorite anime and they animated that beautifully—but this one was a miss.

I enjoyed the first five episodes but then after episode 6, the episode quality starts dropping. So many unexpected and unnecessary reveals; so many characters were introduced; a sudden liberation plot came into play. It’s really hard to keep up with the story when too many elements spoil the soup.

It also makes it hard to enjoy some of the characters. I did enjoy the characters, but it’s kind of hard to get attached to anyone not named Rouge or Naomi; though, I did like Ash and Noid—I kind of wished they were built up a bit more. For example, Grauphon was an Immortal 9 member but I knew nothing about him to care. The best character and the most underutilized was the drifter granny from Episode 2. She needed to be in the show more.

Though, the writing choices did make it hard to enjoy some characters. Like, why did Naomi have to betray Rouge and then reveal that she’s a Nean created by the Visitors. Like, why is everyone not named Ash a Nean? Jean is half-Nean and we’re not even sure how Neans can reproduce if they’re mass-produced like smart phones.

I did enjoy the animation and music. The dramatic music reminded me of sci-fantasy RPGs like Xenoblade and I feel like some songs here could fit in Xenoblade or Star Ocean given the similar settings. The animation was fluid, especially with the mecha fights. The fights were what made the show shine. I really liked the opening song, though. It felt like listening to 90’s anime openings.

The anime got a great cast of voice actors, but not having a great story or plot sort of ruins it. I liked Tomoyo Kurosawa as Naomi and Yui Ogura and Jill/Sylvia but why did they have to be in this rather mediocre show? They all rocked in terms of performances, but this anime is one of the cases where the voice acting, animation and music are great, but everything else isn’t.

I feel like I’m ranting, which I deserve to after enduring 13 weeks of this show. I heard that there will be a manga adaptation for this show, so I hope that it expands the lore more because the anime fumbled hard with consistency. Would I recommend this show to anyone? Nope. There are better sci-fi/mecha shows out there and with better story, so don’t waste your time with this one.

[heeeyooon]

March

Bye bye March! Here's what I was up to last month:

Movies:

I loved seeing some parallels in the movies I saw this month. I put them side by side for fun. In the order I saw them, oldest to newest

Gyeongju - Zhang Lu Microhabitat (♥) - Jeon Go-Woon The Favourite - Yorgos Lanthimos Sibyl - Justine Triet Priscilla - Sofia Coppola Oppenheimer - Christopher Nolan Wonka - Paul King Before We Vanish - Kiyoshi Kurosawa Tampopo (♥) - Juzo Itami Castle in the Sky (♥) - Kayao Miyazaki Sexy Beast - Jonathan Glazer Perfect Days (♥) - Wim Wenders Good Morning (♥) - Yasujiro Ozu (watched this twice this month!!) Brokeback Mountain (♥) - Ang Lee Where Is the Friend's House (♥) - Abbas Kiarostami Dune: Part Two (♥) - Denis Villeneuve Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - Ryusuke Hamaguchi Sleeping Man - Kohei Oguri Yi Yi (♥) - Edward Yang Hana and Alice - Shunji Iwai The Delinquent Season - Mark O'Rowe True Mothers - Naomi Kawase The Table - Kim Jong-Kawn Little Fish - Chad Hartigan Dreams (♥) - Akira Kurosawa It Comes at Night - Trey Edward Shults Opening Night (♥) - John Cassavetes Influenza - Bong Joon Ho The Iron Claw (♥) - Sean Durkin The Fall - Jonathan Glazer Creepy - Kiyoshi Kurosawa My Brilliant Career (♥) - Gillian Armstrong

Knitting:

I took a break from knitting sweaters and made some other fun things instead. I knit two pairs of socks and a chicken! Surprisingly, these patterns were harder and more tedious than making a sweater.

Music:

I heard this on song on WXPN and loved it so much. I know there's many versions of this song but I think Joao Gilberto did it the best.

Other news:

Buzz and I made another music video with our friend Mike (Hour). It was extremely fun to make this video. Hope you'll give it a watch. The new Hour album comes out April 12th, 2024!

<3 Heeyoon

[rockhyrax]

Spectacle Radio ep.113 :: 03.14.24 :: You know, you’re a lot smarter than the average dope

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Remembrance of the Past (Last and First Men) Savannah Vold - Red Sea (Moss Beach) Kyle Brier - Moss Beach theme It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World Jun Kurosawa - Neko Mimi Ennio Morricone - Voca Seconda (The Fifth Cord) Non Machina - Naci Chicharra (Tesoros) Chris Pickolick - The Tetris Masters intro (The Ecstasy of Order) William Kersten - Disembodied Theme (2016) Tetris theme Non Machina - Reciclaje / Basura (Tesoros) …
 Sun Ra - Interplanetary Music (The Last Angel of History) Alice Donut - Testosterone Gone Wild (Acne) Pierre Desprats - Murir trop vite (Conann) Fred Frith - Evolution (Step Across the Border) John Zorn - The Golden Boat The Dead Kennedys - Moon Over Marin (Acne) Angry Samoans - Death of Beewak (Hellbent) Fields of Nephilim - Power (Demons 2) Sorcery - I’m Back (Rocktober Blood) Exit 13 - Ecotopian Visions (Death Metal Zombies) Merzbow - Beyond Ultraviolence Seven Shells (Tokyo Elegy) The Rolling Stones - Sister Morphine (Rocker) Cramps cover (Acne) Sun Ra - Watusa (The Last Angel of History) … Non Machina - Hello Kitty (Tresoros) Jóhann Jóhannsson - Bangkok norousins (Dis)

Shojotai - Forever (It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World) A Guy Called Gerald feat. Finley Quaye - Finley's Rainbow (Slow Motion Mix) (The Last Angel of History) Revelation - Masochist Trip (Wasted) Mona Davis - Waltz Dance (Rave Macbeth) William Kersten - Disembodied Theme (1998) Laurie Anderson - 0 + 1 and Sharkey’s Day (Home of the Brave) Jun Kurosawa - Neko-Mimi

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Favourite art of 2023 (mostly older works that I discovered this year) — taking @motifcollector 's baton 🏃‍♂️ & adding a videogame category:

Fiction:

The castle of crossed destinies by Italo Calvino

The besieged city by Clarice Lispector

The savage detectives by Roberto Bolaño (how did I not read it sooner!! life changing)

Nonfiction:

A portrait of M by Matei Călinescu

The years by Annie Ernaux

Mourning diary by Roland Barthes

A girl's story by Annie Ernaux

On photography by Susan Sontag

Countersexual manifesto by Paul B. Preciado (life saver)

Ararat by Louise Glück (should make a poetry section instead but I haven't read enough poetry books to do that)

Music (2023 releases specifically):

María José Llergo - VISIÓN Y REFLEJO

Caterina Barbieri - Math of You

Kelela - Raven

Bad Gyal - Chulo pt.2

Rebe - duelo de amor

Chico Blanco - Q NO

EDDI CIRCA - EN EL BOSQUE UN CLARO

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I want to turn into you

Judeline - Canijo

Sevdaliza - Who are you running from

Abhir Hathi - BROWN BOY BOUNCE

Film:

Anatomy of a fall, dir. Justine Triet

Documenteur, dir. Agnès Varda

Strange voyage, dir. Fernando Fernán Gómez

Foragers, dir. Jumana Manna

Down by law, dir. Jim Jarmusch

The white ribbon, dir. Michael Haneke

Crash, dir. David Cronenberg

Through the olive trees, dir. Abbas Kiarostami

One way or another, dir. Sara Gómez

Ran, dir. Akira Kurosawa

La chimera, dir. Alice Rohrwacher

Videogames:

Disco Elysium (another life changing work of art... can't believe it's only been in my life for a year)

Pentiment (Idem)

Superliminal (SO GOOD)

Inscryption (haven't beaten it yet but the first part ??? SICK. also the sound design!!! delish)

Return of the Obra Dinn (YES AHAHA YESSSSS. And so interesting learning about localizing games)

Everything (David O'Reilly please make more art)

I tag whoever feels like doing this! I enjoy reading these kinds of lists a lot

[miaqc1]

Try "Les Quatre Alices" out.

Les Quatre Alices (The Four Alice) is the very first version of Alice Lorange’s story and Mia’s first indie game.

A teenage girl meets a strange red-haired girl near a campfire. The red-haired girl tells her a story. A story way too weird and crazy to be true. And yet…

A visual novel with one true end and several bad endings.

While this visual novel doesn’t have explicit content, it does talk about mature topics, such as bullying and rape.

Languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Portuges Bazil, Norsk.

[maihan-dms4-journal]

Uncanny

The word uncanny could initially refer to the state of mystery, of what evokes unsettledness and fear. However, the mystery related to the uncanny is not only about the unknown but also about what was once familiar returning in an unfamiliar form or as Sigmund Freud (1919) defined 'a hidden, familiar thing that has undergone repression and then emerged from it'. It is the eerie feeling of recognition, yet throwing our consciousness into questions that evokes the uncanny. Accrued to the German word "unheimlich", which etymologically corresponds to "un-homely" (Freud 1919), the essence of uncanny is the unfamiliarity of the repressed memory.

Examples and Inspirations:

The Harems by Mike Kelley

Mike Kelley's exhibition The Uncanny issued the relationship between the familiar and the uncanny. From the Freudian theory of 'return of the repressed' - a familiarity returning in an unfamiliar form, the exhibition recuperated the traditional sculpture. Within the context of repressed memory, Mike Kelley added 'an exhibition within an exhibition' - The Harems, which evokes an unconscious sense to collect and organize. 

The Harems was a collection of objects from Mike's childhood, however, there were several missing pieces from each of the collection. The thread of incomplete memory created the impulse to 'fill in the blank' or find their meaning. Therefore, in my opinion, questioning our consciousness mechanic of the uncanny is closely related to incompleteness.

Alice by Jan Švankmajer

In the context of repressed memory, Jan's adaption of Alice evoked uncanny through blurring the line between the animate (life) and inanimate (lifeless). In Tim Burton's version of Alice, the inanimate also comes alive, however, it did not provoke a strong eerie feeling since the movie was exaggerated to the point of unrealistic. Yet with Jan Švankmajer's Alice, there was still a sense of recognition, a repressed memory of childhood-related objects (old dolls, puppets, etc.) that evoked uncanny. When I watched Mad Hatter's tea party scene, there was an increasingly unsettled feeling because of his repeated action and restrained perspective. Therefore, I think the emotional level of uncanny can depend on the repetition of an event and also the perspective limitation of it.

Dream by Akira Kurosawa

The feeling of recognition is undoubtedly both a personal and communal experience. In the case of Dream by Akira Kurosawa, the repressed memory was deeply related to cultural belief. The uncanny level of this depends on individual perception (cultural, religious, etc.) My experience regarding this movie was a mix between uncanny and sublime as it closely related to my cultural ideology about humans and nature (the contrasting scale between humans and nature). However, the communal aspect of this movie is questioning our consciousness about the line between normality and abnormality or life and death.

Throne of Blood by Akira Kurosawa

In Akira Kurosawa's works, there was a motif of questioning our consciousness or in this case our accepted ideas regarding the world. In Throne of Blood, Kurosawa also explored the relationship between humanity and nature is out of sync, and how human is a violent, alienated creature from the natural world. Therefore, in my opinion, there is a sense of uncanny when humans is being detached from their world, from their familiarity.

Blow-Up by Michelangelo Antonioni

Blow-Up by Michelangelo Antonioni immersed and urged the audience to go further and further to find out the truth about the murderer. The movie shifted from different perspectives, from the main protagonist, the audience's POV, and to the imitation of the photographer, capturing the main protagonist. Struggling to understand or find out the truth, the audience was forced to accept the unknown reality. In my opinion, the ambiguity unconsciously causes us to seek the answer that satisfy our perception and put us in the state of questioning our accepted ideas regarding the truth.

Blind Men and an Elephant

The tale of the blind men and the elephant gave me new insight into the idea of doubting the reality and consciousness of the uncanny. Blind Men and an Elephant was a tale about a group of blind men who have never known of an elephant, learn and imagine it by touching it (each one touches a certain part). They soon discover that each visualization of the elephant is entirely different, so they start to question others. This implies that with different experiences comes different 'truth', which people are protective of. This caused me to think that the act of veiling and unveiling the 'truth' arouse uneasiness and a desire to learn the truth.

Heidi by Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley

Based on Johanna Spyri’s Heidi, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley subverted the familiar tale and turned it into a horror film. From the showing of odd angles of the animals to the limitation of perspective, this version of Heidi evokes uncanny through the act of unveiling the 'truth' and veiling the unwanted reality. The use of odd colors and peculiar scale of objects in Heidi also added to the unsettling feeling.

The Face of Another by Hiroshi Teshigahara

The Face of Another's main characters include a burn victim who was given a life-like mask for his face, and developed a dark personality after, whereas, a scar-face lady tried to hide from society. The mask act as a barrier to show their devilish intention, which put the viewer questioning whether or not the mask helps bring out their true self. As Stanislavsky stated 'A characterisation is the mask which hides the actor individual. Protected by it, he can lay bare his soul to the last intimate detail' (Stanislavsky, cited in Richards). Within the context of veiling and unveiling, The Face of Another by Hiroshi Teshigahara reached the uncanny state by revealing through the act of unveiling and hiding through veiling. 

Ghost by Ron Mueck

Similar to Mike Kelley's exhibition The Uncanny, Ghost by Ron Mueck questions our consciousness by bringing back familiarity in unfamiliar forms. Ghost was a two meters tall sculpture of a teenage girl, standing in an awkward form with her downward gaze. A sense of unfamiliarity was displayed through scale and proportion. Within the context of hyper-realism, this work also evokes uncanny by blurring the line between the animate and inanimate.

Mirror house in circus

The experience of walking through the mirror house technically does not evoke a sense of uncanny, however, the mechanic of the mirror house and the uncanny is quite related. The mirror supposedly means to reflect the 'real' image of ourselves, now becomes oddly stretched or exaggerated. This creates confusion between real and illusion, between the version of ourselves in our head and reality. Standing in the mirror house or just standing in front of a mirror for long enough, people might start to notice the odd things about themselves and identify themselves with the reflection.

Shadow

Similar to the mirror house, it is not the shadow itself that evokes uncanny but rather the mechanic of it. Everything has a shadow, and shadow varies for different individuals and objects, different times of day, lighting, etc. Humans consciously make sense of the objects in the world through silhouettes or reflections. Therefore, an unclear silhouette or scaling shadow creates an eerie feeling of something is not quite right.

From these examples and inspirations, Uncanny from my perspective is not necessarily related to horror or terrifying, but rather an uncertain, unsettling feeling toward the unfamiliar familiarity.

[cosmic-navel-gazin]

7 and 20 for the movie ask?

7. Has a film ever given you nightmares?

Probably the one that has given me the most nightmares where I would legit wake up in a sweat and overall just kept me awake at night for several days was the Spanish horror film Rec (2007). It didn't help that I probably watched it way too young.

20. What movies do you have on your current to-watch list?

SOOOO MANY ARGHHHHHH, but here's some:

L'hypothèse du tableau volé / The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1978)

To Kill a Dragon 1988

Russian Ark 2002

Yo Ho Ho ( Йо-хо-хо) 1981

Iâhmès and the Great Devourer

Alice in the Cities

Decision to Leave

Betty tells her story 1972

Mad God

Oedipus Rex 1957

Rusalka 1996

Funeral Parade of Roses

Wild Strawberries

1001 Nights 1998

The Color of Pomegranates

Die Nibelungen

Viy (Вий)

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1962)

Peau d'âne 1970

Napoleon 1927

Tous les matins du monde

On the Silver Globe

The Saragossa Manuscript

The Duellists 1977

L'Avventura 1960

The Caiman 2006 (and films with Silvio Orlando in general cuz I fell in love with him in The Young Pope/The New Pope)

Häxan (1922)

The Birdcage 1996

Some Pedro Almodóvar Films I haven't seen yet like:

All About My Mother

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Tie me Up! Tie me Down!

A SHIT-TON OF BRITISH FILMS! I'VE BEEN WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY ON THE EVOLUTION OF BRITISH CINEMA FROM THE 60'S TIL THE 2000'S AND MY TO WATCH LIST IS GETTING OUTTA HAND, A COUPLE OF THEM I REMEMBER FROM THE LATEST EPISODES:

Wicker Man 1973

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Kes

Withnail and I

A Taste of Honey

If….

The Servant 1963

Also have some dvd boxsets of Andrei Tarkovsky and Akira Kurosawa I gotta finish...

so many films...

so little time...

[woundedgalaxy]

it’s...

amateur hour : krökta tankar och brända vanor yuta matsumura : red ribbon treasury of puppies : mitt stora nu straw man army : sos thomas bush : preludes cs + kreme : orange serwed : iii kitchen's floor : none of that long knife : curb stomp earth civilistjävel! : järnnätter

carla dal forno : come around earl sweatshirt : sick! nw/hr : nuclear winter/heavy rain oxhy : mercy sidha | alice song joe colley : deformation of tone the garbage & the flowers : cinnamon sea birthmark : lamentations valerio tricoli : say goodbye to the wind rrr band : rrr band ssabæ : azurescens the reds, pinks & purples : summer at land's end smirk : material moin : paste incipientium : inhuman malvern brume : body traffic va : thorn valley dip friso : crocodile or real? eyes of the amaryllis : sift the drin : down river in the distance läuten der seele : läuten der seele komare : grace to breathe that void mai mao : ricshari puppet wipes : the stones are watching & they can be a handful the sprigs : mole's uninvited guests string : last index of... dj trystero : null-a jon collin : bridge variations francis plagne : the refrain astrid ∅ster mortensen : skærsgårdslyd arv & miljö : vålnad av fornskog freundliche kriesel : freundliche kriesel organ of corti : auris warm currency : returns the lloyd pack : i bet you've got some good stories exek : advertise here tacita trjj : meeting on purpose mike cooper : oceans of milk and treacle

archival

hallelujahs : eat meat, swear an oath nein rodere : catch up with what party + gu-n : gu-n jan steele & janet sherbourne : distant saxophones born under a rhyming planet : diagonals stereolab : pulse of the early brain the strange girls : it's ok to be happy

film

crimes of the future d. david cronenberg russia 1985-1999: traumazone d. adam curtis modern love tokyo: for 13 days, i believed him d. kiyoshi kurosawa blonde d. andrew dominik the banshees of inisherin d. martin mcdonagh pinocchio d. guillermo del toro nope d. jordan peele

tv

atlanta the rehearsal andor reservation dogs

[tilbageidanmark]

Movies I watched this Week #129 (Year 3/Week 25):

A few months ago I discovered the early films of Alice Guy-Blaché, the first ever female filmmaker, and history's first director of narrative cinema. An enormously important figure, who was erased and forgotten until her recent resurgence.

The documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché shows how central she was to the development of all of cinema. A most fascinating and moving detective story laying open the amazing life of this pioneering heroine, who helped define its crafts and systems.

Narrated by (another prodigy) Jodie Foster. Like 'The Méliès Mystery' biography, these two are a must-see for any film lover.

Best film of the week! 10/10.

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The short film essay Celebration Sequences gives some excellent examples of “Storytelling's Most Useful Type of Scene”: Weddings, funerals, birthdays, parties, balls (and orgies). Celebrations give a story the chance to gather every important character and let them interact for a while under the auspice of important themes such as love and death.

Because of it, I watched Kurosawa's Hamlet-inspired The bad sleep well. Coppola listed The bad sleep well as one of his favorite films, citing the wedding ceremony of the first thirty minutes "as perfect as any film I've ever seen". He then used it as inspiration for the wedding sequence in The Godfather.

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The devil and Miss Jones [Not to be confused with the 1973 'The Devil IN Miss Jones...] was an unusual 1941 Capra'esque comedy, with a pro-labor bent. It dealt with some real labor, wealth inequality and capitalism issues. And, it did not paint them outright as 'communist' agenda!

The 'richest man in the world' goes underground in order to root out 'agitators' and union leaders, who cause trouble at one of his department stores. However, after working as a regular shoe salesman down in the weeds, he learns to sympathize with the cause of his new working class comrades (after falling in love with one of them, of course).

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3 by French director Nicolas Bedos:

🍿 Masquerade is a sleek caper, like Jim Thompson's 'The Grifters' but on the glitzy part of the French riviera. A young gigolo specializing in seducing rich, older woman falls for a beautiful young con-artist and together they devise a long-con to bilk high-maintenance diva Isabelle Adjani and wealthy real estate broker François Cluzet. Lots of erotic twists and thrilling turns. 6/10.

🍿 In his previous, genial comedy La Belle Époque, Daniel Auteuil is allowed to participate in an immersive reenactment of any historical period of his choice. After being kicked out by his wife, he decides to re-live a week in 1974 when he met her, the love of his life, at the La Belle Époque café in Lyon. A mix of Fincher's "The Game', with 'The Truman show' but with an imaginative heart. Better than Charlie Kaufman. 9/10.

🍿 OSS 117 was a French series about a fictional secret agent, a-la-James Bond, featured in 11 films and parodies. OSS 117: From Africa with Love is a stupid spoof of the EuroSpy genre of the 60's and 70's. and the third starring comedian Jean Dujardin (from ”The artist”). He plays a self-important idiot, politically-incorrect who can't get it up, more Peter Sellers than Sean Connery. Tintin was much deeper. 2/10.

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Because I don’t usually watch such low-brow low-budget trashy sub-genres, I enjoyed the crowd-funded Swiss exploitation Mad Heidi much more that I would under normal circumstances. The absurd story deals with a fascist cheese-based dictator, and a zaftig mountain girl who must escape Stalag-type prison in order to save the motherland and prevent a tainted cheese apocalypse.

As Joe Bob Briggs used to write in his early reviews "Cheese Nazis, cheese zombies, edelweiss throwing stars, and goat cheese hustlers. Mustard covered sausages inserted up the ass. About 10 exploding heads and torsos. Every Swiss cliché in the book, from 'Sounds of Music' and Toblerone to Alp horns, cuckoo clocks, cheese fondue, watches, and pocket knives - dialed up to 11. Women's prison-fu. Gladiator-Fu. Lesbo Fu. One Black Goat Peter. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Casper Van Dien as the megalomaniacal president of Switzerland. Check it out.” 4/10.

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Pierrot le Fou, my 8th New Wave stream of consciousness improvised exploration by JL Godard. Without a screenplay, and Everything Goes attitude, it's one long Pop Art of random allusions, aphorism, literary riddles and intellectual bon mots. Actually, apart from his brilliant debut 'À bout de souffle' (Breathless), I was bored by most of his films.

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The Novice, another remarkable first feature by a young female director (Lauren Hadaway, who doesn't even have a Wikipedia page yet). An obsessive freshman joins her university's rowing team and is so driven to compete that she destroys everything in her path, especially herself.

Hadaway's frantic use of film language is thrilling. Also her blending of music by Brenda Lee and Patsy Klein.

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As a teenager I admired Knut Hamsun, read and collected all his books. My pride and joy, and the oldest book I owned was the rare Hebrew translation of 'Hunger', published in Poland in 1889. So I stopped everything to watch Jan Troell's lionizing drama Hamsun about his final and dying years.

Hamsun was a towering Norwegian hero who later turned Nazi-sympathizer traitor and supported Hitler & Germany even as it occupied Norway. Max von Sydow plays him as a venerable 'Great Man', complex, selfish, stubborn and conflicted, and Danish diva Ghita Nørby plays his wife, who was even more pro-German than him. 3/10

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Another re-watch, Edgar Wright final installment of his Cornetto trilogy, The World’s End. Immature alcoholic Simon Pegg brings his 4 childhood friends back together to recreate the greatest achievement of their youth, a legendary 12-station pub crawl. Massive drinking & mayhem mixed with an alien invasion by blue-blooded androids.

Like the new 'Demon 79' it culminates with an unexpected apocalyptic Götterdämmerung. Yeah, 'The world's end' is not only the name of the last drinking hole. Plus points for the beautiful Rosamund Pike.

With every re-watch of any Edgar Wright movie, I go back to 'Every frame a picture' showing his visual comedy style, or other essays explaining his unique editing techniques.

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Instead of watching Jason Reitman's 'Up in the air' for the 5th time, I picked up his Front Runner. A bland 2018 Political drama about the fall from grace of Senator Gary Hart, caught with his fly open aboard a yacht called 'Monkey Business' while running for president.

I saw Gary Hart at a political rah-rah at UCLA the first week I came to the US in 1984. But the film itself added no new wrinkle to the usual cliches of election campaigns, newspaper editorial rooms, media ethics or the hypocrisies of public figures. 3/10.

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(My complete movie list is here).

[mikunology]

Quick, songs you want to make episodes for but you don't know what their plots should be, go!

oh boy oh god

*takes out songlist* lessee here

(if you REALLY want an answer look under the cut. it's comically long and I'm not exaggerating)

1, 2 Fanclub by MikitoP, 1/6 -out of the gravity- by Vocaliod-P, 1925, Kunoichi Demo Koi ga Shitai! by MikitoP, Ageage Again by Mitchie M, Alice in NY by Hitoshizuku x Yama, Alien Alien by Nayutalien, Android Girl by DECO*27, ANIMAL by oQ, Aria On the Game Center by Kurosawa Madoka, Kami no Manimani by rerulili, Bad End Night by Hitoshizuku x Yama, Fukigen Waltz by OSTER Project, Ballerina Girl by MikitoP, Beaver by Three, Blooming the Idol by Mitchie M, Chaotic Love Revolution by Police Piccadilly, Chocolate Magic by OSTER Project, Chururira Chururira Daddadda! by Wada Takeaki, Clover Club by yuuyu, Kimiiro Marine Snow by Carlos Hakamada, Common World Domination by Pinocchio-P, Cynical Night Plan by Ayase, Mousou Sketch by 40meter-P, Delusion Tax by DECO*27, Doubleganger by KulfiQ, Dragon Rising by takamatt, Kodoku no Hate by Hikarisyuyo, erase or zero by CrystalP, Fragile by nuyuri, GETCHA! by KIRA and Giga, Ghost City Tokyo by Ayase, Ghost Rule by DECO*27, Happy Synthesizer by EasyPop, Hello Worker by KEI, Hoi by MikitoP, Honeymoon Un Deux Trois by DATEKEN, House of Songs by Mitchie M & OSTER Project, Infinitely Gray by Three, Junky Town Orchestra by Three, Kagamine MAD Kyoushintou by cosMo, Love x Love Whistle by PolyphonicBranch, Love-Colored Ward by OSTER Project, MIDI MASTER!! by Wonderful Opportunity, Monochrome Blue Sky by Noboru, Moonlight Stage by GYARI, Mr. Music by rerulili, One Room All That Jazz by DATEKEN, Princess Cowgirl Show by OSTER Project, Remote Control by Wonderful Opportunity, Reverse Rainbow by sunzriver, Rin-chan Now! by Owata-P & sezu, ROKI by MikitoP, Salamander by DECO*27, Shadow-Stepping Etranger by Substreet, Skeleton Orchestra and Lilia by Tohma, SNOBBISM by Neru, SPiCa by Toku-P, Stray Life by TOKOTOKO, Strobo Nights by kz, Shoujo Fuzei by MikitoP, Time Machine by 1640m-P, Buriki no Dance by Hinata Electric Works, TOKIO FUNKA by takamatt, TRASH and TRASH! by Wada Takeaki, Chigau!!! by Carlos Hakamada, Vocalocolosseum by DIVELA, and World's End Dancehall by wowaka.

...All these are the songs I would like to make in actual plots, mind you, not songs that I would like to include regardless. (Vocal Android would be a musical, don't you think?)