Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Movies in 2026 240

 

Pigs and Battleships (Shohei Imamura, 1962)

And I'm way behind in my year-long capture of movies watched, not so much in movies recorded, but instead on movies watched. Just recently I started downloading movies from the Criterion Channel, in lieu of streaming (for the last month we've acted as wifi vampires at several local coffeeshops. The first movie I downloaded was Shohei Imamura's essential 1962 film Pigs and Battleships. It's a film I've watched many times, not only because I used it in my Japanese film noir class, but also because it is a wonderful film. Essential viewing.

Made It

 Well, that was a challenge, but we made it. Actually, we arrived here in Terrasini on 13 August, it just took a month to get wireless set up. But, much more on that later. It's enough right now to mark that we're here safe and sound. Many, many more stories to come.

I snapped this on one of our first mornings here, looking back over the harbor towards the mountains. Our apartment is in the midst of those white houses up on the hill. Again, much more later.