Yup. It doesn't say otherwise.

It seemed a less creepy approach than, "You're obviously familiar with rape-revenge movies."

The Miramax catalogue seems to be under particularly poor management of late (see lousy DEAD MAN Blu-ray, etc.) but one can dream.

The dub is old-ish: I think Dakota was 9 when they did it.

There's a dual act of translation that goes on when watching subtitled films: Every you match a printed line with a a vocal performance, you're effectively re-acting the movie in your head. (If you quote a line from a subtitled film, you play back this mental soundtrack without even thinking about it.) You make…

It's a different kind of movie to begin with, but I was struck watching the dub of From Up on Poppy Hill (the only version I've yet seen) how naturalistic the vocal performances were. Disney declined to dub or even distribute Ghibli's domestically oriented features Ocean Waves and Only Yesterday, which I've seen with…

My 4-year-old daughter believes the older girl's name is Shotskee, so it's more or less fixed. There are a few instances in the Japanese when her name comes out as three syllables, like when her friend calls her "Satsuski-chan."

I was scared of the tree outside my window after only hearing about that scene. It was a long time before I worked up the nerve to actually watch the movie.

Yeah. I hadn't see it in almost 30 years, but I remembered that shot clear as day.

Hoping for Ethel the Aardvark Goes Quantity Surveying meself.

Hmmm… Changed some names, omitted entire characters… It's almost as if they wanted to suggest it wasn't a literal adaptation.

My bad. I'm actually not a huge fan of either, so I didn't mean to make it sound like a double awesome sundae.

Indeed: http://cinema-scope.com/cin…

@avclub-54d29188fe85ae6a66b5ffaa043f799f:disqus :Why would you not sort by "newest first"?

Also, @avclub-09dbda0ec297f8e1fb8fa397efd0f70a:disqus said what I'm after more eloquently below.

I'm not assuming that at all. You're free to bypass a creator's intentions, apparent or stated, but not to ignore them—i.e. you can read The Shining as a Holocaust allegory, however tenuously, but not to present it as what Kubrick clearly wanted all along. Even a text-based reading has to distinguish between…

What's perfect about Costello's "If I could have said it another way, I would have written another song" is that it's both utterly true and a seamless dodge. I don't know that a single piece of criticism can ever encapsulate the whole of great work of art, but then part of what a critic does is isolate certain…

In the movie biz, that's referred to as "showing the shark." Third-act reveals kill a lot of previously great horror movies for me, most recently Ti West's.

I hadn't seen Jason's piece, which I now recommend, but I do think we're after somewhat different ends. Or I knew and deliberately left it out, for reasons y'all may endlessly speculate upon. Who can say?

A great example, but while it didn't cross my mind writing this, I probably would have left it out anyway, since it would have turned the comment section into an endless "Tony's dead"/"No he's not" debate. It's also somewhat different since part of the reason for the debate is that, up to that point, The Sopranos…