michael lambe

Where the Wild Things Are is quite a good movie to watch right after you’ve had a row with someone. Makes you feel very very silly indeed. Quite unlike Maurice Sendak’s original picture book in tone, the movie explores the mood-swings of childhood; the high points of excitement (snowball fights) , the slumps into depression [...]

I rented this one at the weekend. I figured the subject matter and inevitably sad ending would make this movie heavy and depressing but ultimately the story of Harvey Milk is a positive and inspiring story of a life full of meaning and purpose. On his birthday in 1970 Harvey Milk says to his new [...]

I watched this on DVD last night. It appears to have won lots of awards. Well deserved. This is a gentle romantic fantasy from Ireland about two coma patients who have met only in their increasingly bizarre dreams… and then fall in love. I especially liked it when they suddenly began speaking in Japanese (funny [...]

My old friend and former colleague in the bookselling trade Dani Hall, has a new business entitled “The Literary Gift Company”. It sounds and looks marvellous!
The Literary Gift Company was born out of a family book-selling business. Dani, who created The Literary Gift Company, had been searching for ideas to make unwanted, unsellable and out-of-date [...]

Mewby introduced me to this movie last night. I was surprised to find that there was a Ghibli movie I hadn’t heard of: 紅の豚 or Porco Rosso. Set between the wars,  it’s the story of an Italian World War 1 fighter ace who, disillusioned by his wartime experiences or perhaps by the rise of Fascism [...]

Take a silly idea. See how far you can stretch it. And enjoy. I rented this from Tsutaya last night. Plenty of belly laughs and erm… super dream entertainment. Here’s the trailer:

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Last Tuesday, we went to see Benjamin Button. Apparently it’s front runner in the Oscars. I wonder why. I think the best review I’ve seen of this movie came in the form of this parody video. It is indeed similar to Forrest [...]

I liked what Neil Gaiman said in this recent interview about maintaining his enthusiasim for his work in defiance of what others may deem common sense:
I think you need to be mad. You need a certain amount of slightly focused madness that’s also belief in yourself in the face of all opposition. Without it, I [...]

What’s been happening? My job-hunting continues… Last night’s music event with Yamahara-san and Yoshida Koichi at Zac Baran was  a blast (a video will be posted later)… And it was nice to meet a couple of Deep Kyoto readers there, Xavier and Patrick… I finally watched the new James Bond Quantum of Solace a while [...]

I rented this on DVD last week. The Namesake is a lovely story about a Bengali couple from Calcutta who shortly after their  marriage, move to New York, to the “land of opportunity”. And then it’s a story about the family they raise there and the difficulties and the joys they face living between two [...]