As a huge Almodóvar fan I’m dying to see Parallel Mothers, but there’s no telling so far when it’ll be available to rent. I managed to get Pain and Glory at a theater that plays a lot of the bigger arthouse stuff (it’s where you could go to see Portrait of a Lady on Fire for a week or so in February the year after it was released) but with Covid I think they’ve either been closed up or have had to resort to even bigger movies to try and stay afloat.
Kind of a funny coincidence that both your and Scott's lists here are seemingly identical to when you recorded the NPS top ten show, with the one exception in both cases being the addition of A Hero. Only makes me more excited to see that one, and Parallel Mothers too, though it looks like I'll have to wait for the VOD releases of both with cinemas closed here in Toronto for the next few weeks.
The one I'm most excited to see is Drive My Car. Haruki Murakami is my favorite author, and I fondly remember that short story and the rest of the collection that Hamaguchi apparently draws from. It just sounds lovely. Thankfully, it just got announced to play here in Portland starting in a couple weeks! I was afraid it wouldn't even come to theaters.
As a huge Almodóvar fan I’m dying to see Parallel Mothers, but there’s no telling so far when it’ll be available to rent. I managed to get Pain and Glory at a theater that plays a lot of the bigger arthouse stuff (it’s where you could go to see Portrait of a Lady on Fire for a week or so in February the year after it was released) but with Covid I think they’ve either been closed up or have had to resort to even bigger movies to try and stay afloat.
Kind of a funny coincidence that both your and Scott's lists here are seemingly identical to when you recorded the NPS top ten show, with the one exception in both cases being the addition of A Hero. Only makes me more excited to see that one, and Parallel Mothers too, though it looks like I'll have to wait for the VOD releases of both with cinemas closed here in Toronto for the next few weeks.
The one I'm most excited to see is Drive My Car. Haruki Murakami is my favorite author, and I fondly remember that short story and the rest of the collection that Hamaguchi apparently draws from. It just sounds lovely. Thankfully, it just got announced to play here in Portland starting in a couple weeks! I was afraid it wouldn't even come to theaters.