Millie DiCerico
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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Oh, I know. And a lot of times it's like, and this is the way I do it, but other people do it this way too. It's like the funniest observation about a movie.
And I actually had one go sort of vi-vi, I got to say. Wow. My review for A Complete Unknown, where I talked about, I don't know if you've seen it yet. I won't spoil it. Haven't seen it. Wow. There's a moment of that movie that happens, which is a non-spoiler. Sure. But it was like the weirdest thing to me. That was like the one thing I couldn't stop thinking about.
And then I wrote it and then all of a sudden it's like ping, ping, ping. Everyone's like, we love it. We love the review. So that's what I like about Letterboxd is that it's kind of like, again, I think it's a high-low scenario where you can either be really like deliberate and professional about it or you can be a fucking goon like me.
That's right. I mean, if Letterboxd wants to give us a check, we'll take it. But I'm just saying, this is what we're going to be using. Let's go into this film diary. Fabulous. So in the past week, I've gone down this kind of strange rabbit hole. So I discovered this Japanese director recently, and I don't actually know how I discovered him.
I feel like I'm following some kind of Instagram account that's like an Asian film archive. I think it's actually what it's called. And they posted a trailer or something about this movie. And the movie is called Haru. H-A-R-U. Okay. It was directed by this Japanese director. His name is Yoshimitsu Morita.
This movie's from 1996, and for some reason, when I saw the trailer, I was like, this seems so charming. Like, I think his filmography, if I'm not mistaken, I'm not, like, a scholar on him yet, but he was making movies in... Like, most of his movies came out in, like, the 80s and 90s, which is a real, for me, kind of, like, a gap.
I don't... I have... You know, I started thinking, like, have I watched a lot of Japanese movies from the 80s and 90s? Like...
And then as the more I kind of was reading about him and sort of that era, I think actually, and like I said, I don't want to say that this is the general attitude, but I've read that, you know, people kind of actually perceive that Japanese filmmaking in the 80s wasn't very good. Like they weren't making good movies generally in the 80s.
And so I came into it going, okay, so this is supposed to be like an era of like bad Japanese filmmaking, yet I walked into this movie and was like completely charmed by it. It's essentially a movie. I mean, this movie is probably like as close to this film podcast as we can get. It's essentially a woman who is a cinephile.
She's a single woman, a school teacher living in Japan. And she's a cinephile. And then she gets on like a movie message board. And this is 96. So this is early internet days.
I know.
Yeah, and it basically, it's like, a lot of the movie is there kind of like literally on screen, like sending messages on the message board. It's like her and this other person.
And the other person at first is, you know, kind of presents as a woman, but then it's actually a man, you know, because back in the day you could really fool people about being, you know, like, I mean, I guess you could still catfish people now.
Yeah, thriving. But back in, like, 96, man, you could literally be anybody. And so they kind of developed this, you know, I don't know, this online sort of epistolary relationship. And they're kind of like, he's in a bad marriage, or he's in a kind of weird spot in his life, and they just kind of bond together. And it's this kind of, like, you got mail in Japan in the 90s over the internet.
And I'm like... Oh, it was lovely.
Yeah, and then I actually watched another one because I liked Haru so much. So there's this movie that he made in 1984 called Main Theme. And I got to tell you, I don't think it's online anywhere. I had to go through, you know, the dark web. The dark web.
Always. Yeah, I mean, actually, I get my groceries from the dark web.
You know, it's, you know. I just use it for everything now. Why not? Yeah. But this movie main theme, oh my God, that movie was also incredible. It was also kind of a romance, but it had this like super whimsical, it was kind of like an Umbrellas of Schoenberg feel. Yeah, yeah. And it was, the colors were amazing.
I don't know, just the setups, the camera work, the colors, the costumes, everything. I was like, who the hell is this director and why have I just figured him out?
So what about you? Now you've got to tell me.
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