Apr. 20th, 2006

Mirrormask

Apr. 20th, 2006 12:24 am
marycrawford: 13 hour clock icon (Default)
We walked into the movie theater to see Mirrormask and ended up right behind Roger Corman, who was presented with a lifetime achievement award later on. (No, Corman didn't have anything to do with Mirrormask, which is a Dave McKean/Neil Gaiman production, but he was the Guest of Honor for the Amsterdam fantastic film festival.)

Interesting movie - entrancing, fantastical images, to which the story seemed to play second fiddle. Distinctly Gaiman, but it felt like a retread of images and ideas he used earlier and better in other stories, like Coraline and Neverwhere. Still, I'm glad to have seen it, and I wish I could see it again in a theatre where the sound isn't turned up to 11 - this one almost blew us out of our seats.

I've seen mentions of Mirrormask somehow being a sequel to Labyrinth, but I don't think that's really the case. It's a story of a magical world, growing up and taking responsibility, sure, but that's a very broad similarity. The only specific reference I saw was someone juggling four crystal balls in one hand, exactly as Jareth (or rather, Michael Moschen) did in Labyrinth. And the Valentine storyline resembles Hoggle's, but I'm not sure if that was intentional.

Off to bed now. *fwomp*
marycrawford: 13 hour clock icon (iolaus looking up)
Before seeing MirrorMask (and Roger Corman! And the world's first horror movie, made in 1910!) there was a little bookshopping. Oh, lovely Amsterdam and your lovely lovely bookshops.

Among others, I bought:

- "The Eyre Affair" by Jasper Fforde, which sounded so delightfully whacked when [livejournal.com profile] therienne told me about it that I had to try it
- a PG Wodehouse biography
- a Jeeves & Wooster book by Wodehouse that was completely new to me ("Aunts Aren't Gentlemen")
- His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (US paperback to give to my dad, who loves dragon fantasy and Patrick O'Brian)

and...

*drumroll*

- THE THRONE OF JADE by Naomi Novik. The second Temeraire paperback! Amazon won't ship this for another five days, people. WHEE!

*is unbearably smug*

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