See a previous post for two trailers to the Animé title, The Place Promised in Our Early Days.
Here are two scenes from the movie that I’ve spliced together. Note: the bit rate is pushed up to 700 Kbps. We’re giving this one ★★★★★ (OK, who sees five red stars here and who sees something else?). Thanks go again to honorable son Eric for putting it on the Netflix queue!
Click the thumbnail picture to see how the video in the previous post appears in my local media player when I click the “Player problem” link. I’d love to get playlists to appear in the embedded videos as they do in the standalone player, but so far no luck.
Here is Eric’s pick for this week’s Animé from Netflix…
At the end of the 8th grade, a school friend of my son Eric recommended the 24-part Animé series Last Exile. Eric urged me and his mother to watch it with him, and we got hooked right away.
It became our “Last Exile Summer,” with Eric getting two of his cousins wrapped up in the show, as well. My wife and I particularly enjoyed the often humorous little teasers at the end of each episode. Here is one of them.
You can learn a lot from reading old comic-books.
The original National Lampoon magazine had some good writing and cartooning, up to the release of Animal House, when the emphasis switched to movies. Cartoonist Gahan Wilson, known for his macabre humor, had a regular feature in NatLamp called “Nuts.” The installment I remember best is perhaps the least macabre. I felt exactly this way after making a drawing board for myself when I was 11 years old.
