Matt Mansfield
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cinema, mostly
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watched Jun Ichikawa's Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988) this afternoon, a lovely film about lost time and the sad anonymity of a decades-long corporate career coming to an end — and how, sometimes, the joy of starting a jazz band with the boys is enough to make up for everything else.
November 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
watched Jun Ichikawa's Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988) this afternoon, a lovely film about lost time and the sad anonymity of a decades-long corporate career coming to an end — and how, sometimes, the joy of starting a jazz band with the boys is enough to make up for everything else.
I spent a few days at the Viennale a couple of weeks ago and I've (finally) written about some of the films I saw — a good festival! thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/11/vien...
November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I spent a few days at the Viennale a couple of weeks ago and I've (finally) written about some of the films I saw — a good festival! thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/11/vien...
The Vanishing is such an evil movie
October 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The Vanishing is such an evil movie
wrote about the four films I managed to see at this year's London Film Festival (all of which are fascinating in very different ways) thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/10/lond...
October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
wrote about the four films I managed to see at this year's London Film Festival (all of which are fascinating in very different ways) thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/10/lond...
i've written some capsules on the three Sho Miyake films I've been able to track down and watch over the past week or so — an excellent filmmaker! thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/09/sho-...
September 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
i've written some capsules on the three Sho Miyake films I've been able to track down and watch over the past week or so — an excellent filmmaker! thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/09/sho-...
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, 1960)
August 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The Housemaid (Kim Ki-young, 1960)
having fun with lists again
June 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
having fun with lists again
i've been trying to write more this year + share it where it makes sense to do so, so here's a quick piece on Takeshi Kitano's three semi-autobiographical films from the late 2000s, each one fascinating in a different way thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/02/kita...
February 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
i've been trying to write more this year + share it where it makes sense to do so, so here's a quick piece on Takeshi Kitano's three semi-autobiographical films from the late 2000s, each one fascinating in a different way thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2025/02/kita...
will always pick up secondhand novels with covers like 80s movie posters
January 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
will always pick up secondhand novels with covers like 80s movie posters
It's Not Me is so so sad, and so so beautiful. A film haunted by the ghosts of one man's history, never out of sight but forever out of reach.
December 17, 2024 at 8:40 PM
It's Not Me is so so sad, and so so beautiful. A film haunted by the ghosts of one man's history, never out of sight but forever out of reach.
I'm deep into a melodramatic November + having a wonderful time, peaking this morning with Yasuzō Masumura's The Blue Sky Maiden, a breezy + vibrant + v beautiful movie about manifesting a better life for yourself by staying positive in a dark + loveless place (incredible ping-pong scene, too)
November 23, 2024 at 11:25 AM
I'm deep into a melodramatic November + having a wonderful time, peaking this morning with Yasuzō Masumura's The Blue Sky Maiden, a breezy + vibrant + v beautiful movie about manifesting a better life for yourself by staying positive in a dark + loveless place (incredible ping-pong scene, too)
The Village of Mist (Im Kwon-taek, 1983)
November 17, 2024 at 2:50 PM
The Village of Mist (Im Kwon-taek, 1983)
Bu Su (Jun Ichikawa, 1987), a wonderful film about trying to build towards a future without losing sight of the past and its traditions + values (for better or worse) — need to see more / read more about Jun Ichikawa ASAP. Big cinema!
November 16, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Bu Su (Jun Ichikawa, 1987), a wonderful film about trying to build towards a future without losing sight of the past and its traditions + values (for better or worse) — need to see more / read more about Jun Ichikawa ASAP. Big cinema!
watched Renoir's The Woman on the Beach this morning, what a precarious, slippery film.
November 10, 2024 at 12:37 PM
watched Renoir's The Woman on the Beach this morning, what a precarious, slippery film.
Bad Day At Black Rock (Sturges, 1955), a good movie about dusty men planning the next move in shirts and hats and boots
November 9, 2024 at 10:34 AM
Bad Day At Black Rock (Sturges, 1955), a good movie about dusty men planning the next move in shirts and hats and boots
great bookshop find for a rainy Saturday (also: two Hermann Hesse books, Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions, and Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge)
October 26, 2024 at 4:13 PM
great bookshop find for a rainy Saturday (also: two Hermann Hesse books, Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions, and Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge)
last week, I went to Ghent to walk around a bit + watch some movies at Film Fest Gent. I wrote about the experience here, featuring reviews of Steven Soderbergh's Presence, Kohei Igarashi's Super Happy Forever, and Tsai Ming-liang's Abiding Nowhere thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2024/10/film...
October 21, 2024 at 8:06 PM
last week, I went to Ghent to walk around a bit + watch some movies at Film Fest Gent. I wrote about the experience here, featuring reviews of Steven Soderbergh's Presence, Kohei Igarashi's Super Happy Forever, and Tsai Ming-liang's Abiding Nowhere thistheaterishaunted.blogspot.com/2024/10/film...
beat Pikmin (Switch version) this afternoon, such a fun little game that absolutely demolished me when I didn't know how to play it efficiently. A suuuuper rewarding RTS about curiosity and multitasking and keeping plants alive, keen to try the sequel!
September 1, 2024 at 5:11 PM
beat Pikmin (Switch version) this afternoon, such a fun little game that absolutely demolished me when I didn't know how to play it efficiently. A suuuuper rewarding RTS about curiosity and multitasking and keeping plants alive, keen to try the sequel!
picked up this slightly mouldy, dog-eared paperback copy of Dune from 1982 in a charity bookshop on my lunch break, which, if the past six months of searching is anything to go by, is something of a holy grail find (I only usually see the naff looking movie tie-in copies, if any)
August 14, 2024 at 5:05 PM
picked up this slightly mouldy, dog-eared paperback copy of Dune from 1982 in a charity bookshop on my lunch break, which, if the past six months of searching is anything to go by, is something of a holy grail find (I only usually see the naff looking movie tie-in copies, if any)