Music! and Movies! (Mainly Movies!) in the Month of January, 2017

My movie and music collection from January, 2017

Hitchcock/Truffaut, a documentary

David Bowie Is, an exhibition

Marcus Miller @ Blue Note Tokyo

Misconduct

The Entertainer, The Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company Plays at the Garrick

The Fencer

Miles Ahead

The Interrogation

The Lady in the Van

Dirty Grandpa

Eye in the Sky

La passion d’Augustine

The Clay Bird

The Net

Chant d’hiver

Maggie’s Plan

Tecchan’s memorial party @ Blues Alley

Bobby Caldwell @ Billboard Live Tokyo

Un homme ideal

The best movie.  Hands down.

Music! and Movies! in the Month of December, 2016

A little early but here I go with music and movies I went to see this month all mixed together in a chronological order.

My favorite was a Polish film, Warsaw 44, shown as part of the Poland Film Festival, about the Warsaw uprising during the World War II.

The Attorney

The Girl on the Train

The Final Lesson

Every Thing Will be Fine

David Sanborn @ Blue Note Tokyo

Two films, Rose and Warsaw 44, at the Poland Film Festival 2016

The Steve Gadd Band @ Blue Note Tokyo

Florence Foster Jenkins

L’Aura @ Roppongi Birdland

Born to Be Blue

Tamaki Kawakubo and Kzuma Miura @ their wedding

The High Sun

Louder Than Bombs

The Glenn Miller Orchestra @ the Orchard Hall

Fossa Magna @ Sunny Side

Nicky’s Family

Ants on a Shrimp

The Stylistics @ Billboard Live Tokyo

Jaco

John Daversa Small Band featuring Renee Olstead

Land of Mine

Knight of Cups

Smoke

Movies! and Music! in the Month of October 2016

Before I go talking about Yangon, Myanmar, here is what was happening in my world of music and film last month.

Mu:Con in Seoul, Korea

Loud Park 16 @ Saitama Super Arena

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

Zardonic @ Space Odd

Hysteric Panic @ Liquid Room

Janis: Little Girl Blue

Candy Dulfer @ Blue Note Tokyo

Peter Barakan’s Live Magic! @ Ebisu Garden Hall

Tim Burton & Danny Elfman Halloween Concert @ Tokyo International Forum

TIMM opening reception @ Womb

TIMM showcase @ Tsutaya O-East

Tsukiji Wonderland

Un + Une

Jason Bourne

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

El Clan

By the Sea

Janis: Little Girl Blue

Corn Island

Genius

A War

Hungry Hearts

Un Homme et Une Femme

Our Kind of Traitor

Seymour: an Introduction

Tangerines

Jane Got a Gun

And here is one movie I did not get to see due to a work commitment despite having won tickets to a special screening at the Tokyo International Film Festival.  What’s more Hugh Grant (my ultimate favorite actor) and Meryl Streep were going to appear in person.

I did manage to get to the pre-viewing greeting session but it was just Meryl that came on the stage.  Hugh had another movie to shoot (good news) and sent a pre-recorded video message.  Sigh.

I have yet to see the film which opens on December 1 in Japan.

Music! and Movies! in the Month of September, 2016

Music!

And movies!!

Race

Miraculum

The Measure of a Man

Macadam Stories

Hip Hop Eration

Now You See Me 2

Colonia

The Treasure

Microbe & Gasoline

The Idol

Sully

God Willing

Cannot say which one was my favorite but this one was surprisingly funny.  And I don’t even like unrealistic plots but this was OK.

Music! and Movies! in the Month of August, 2016

Hadn’t put my musical and movie events from August together yet due to writing about Iceland and Singapore.  Here I go first with music!

Dope – a film

Shakatak @ Billboard Live Tokyo

Tegan & Sara @ Daikanyama Unit

Na Leo @ Billboard Live Tokyo

The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead? – a documentary

Akinori Nakagawa @ Suntory Hall

The Violin Teacher – film

Summer Sonic 2016

Summer Sonic 2016

Alexandra Stan @ O-East

Song of Lahore – a documentary

Maia Hirasawa @ Billboard Live Tokyo

And the films.

Dope

The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead

Once in a Lifetime

Looking for Her

A Walk in the Woods

While We’re Young

The Violin Teacher

High-Rise

Song of Lahore

Standing Tall

11 Minutes

Paths of the Soul

Truth

And my favorite film of the month.