Yesterday was a three movie day with much mooching in town in the afternoon.
First up I saw Travellers and Magicians (which is where the title of the entry comes from). Much recommended. I suspect it'll show at Rialto or something since it's got Weta digital stuff in it and is also really good. It was about a guy leaving his little village in Bhutan to go to America but he misses the bus to the city. On the road waiting for a lift he meets a bunch of people, one of them a buddhist monk.
The monk starts telling a story about a man who has an incredible experience with magic and love. Both stories happen in paralell with the story being interupted by the real world. I am aware that I've been using the world beautiful a lot, but this film was. It was lush and gorgeous and lovely.
I mooched around town for all afternoon and I had dumplings for lunch and I bought two books. One is Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card because I wanted to read it again and the other is Teen Idol by Meg Cabot because I like her writing and this one is new.
Then I met my sister and we saw Rhythm is it! and it was another very well made and entertaining documentary. This one was about teached German kids to dance and getting an orchestra to work together. Thankfully it was more about the kids because the orchestra was really just the conductor being a bit insane and the orchestra doing what he said.
Then Lee met me and we saw the Last Life in the Universe which was much more melancholy than your average romcom and I am choosin to believe had a happy ending. Although really it didn't. I really enjoyed it in a kind of dark, mean, Lost in Translation but in Thailand and with a Japanese guy kind of way.
But yeah, fooling myself so it had a happy ending.
Posted by jenni at July 22, 2004 09:38 AM