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Happy 10th Anniversary - Lost In Translation!

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2013 12:18 am
by Bob_san
USA release date Sept. 12, 2003.
Other countries following in late 2003 and early 2004!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/releaseinfo


Happy 10 years of enjoying and appreciating this wonderful film (which I watched again for nth time a few nights ago!). :D

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:50 pm
by SunsetOdds
I think I might have a Lost In Translation themed day for the 10th reunion.
Enthusiastically eat my sushi breakfast.
Go to a photo shoot and make jokes about Joy Bishop.
See a guy reading Japanese manga on the bus.
Go for an all fish lunch and switch to Biru (They all look the same!!)
Go get my Toe looked at, and chat in the waiting line.
Go swimming, then agree to go out for the evening.
Have no idea what the rad hip-hop guy across from me is saying,
Actually go out for evening.
Sing karaoke badly,
Listen to 'Sometimes' on the cab home,
sing the spy who loved me.
Almost go to sleep.
Watch La Dolce Vita.
Chat about family.
Feel all warm and Fuzzy.

Yes, it will be a good day.

Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:04 pm
by samwright8380
10 years? Scary! And 11 if you count production the previous year!

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 2:54 am
by onesmokin3g
Wow...happy 10th! It's about time for another viewing. Although I'm sad to say I missed doing it on the anniversary, I will say I always preferred watching it around the last week of September/ 1st week of October as to coincide with the actual filming dates. I think I know what I'll be up to next weekend...I have a date with my bottle of Suntory Hibiki and Charlotte![/img]

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 2:58 am
by Kaptain Kundalini
10 years ? feels like a long time. Clearly remembering watching it a few years ago and pestering everyone I knew to watch it, but then realised that not everyone understood the essence of it.

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 3:04 am
by onesmokin3g
Oh meh gerd! I just realized I have it on BluRay! My ex got me a copy almost a year or so ago, and I don't actually think I've watched it in HD yet! Sweet!

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 5:14 am
by LatPack
10 years! That's unbelievable.

This is also my first time on this forum since 2007!

I guess I should watch the film tonight.

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 7:02 am
by stansimpson
This is my first time back since probably around that time too. So much has changed in 10 years... yet also so little.

Yknow, I'd like to blame my recent desire to rewatch the movie due to the anniversary, but really, that happens to me all the time. ;)

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:44 am
by hitori
Wow....I recall visiting my favorite video store (remember those?) and Laura, the owner, as always, recommended a movie. Bill Murray in a serious role? Dreamy unconventional romantic film set in Japan you say?
I must have rented it a dozen times before finally buying it.
This movie will most likely never be tipped from my number one slot...years later, four children, now some teenagers - who like to ask 'dad, WHY is that movie still number one to you?'. It has everything I love...that melancholy sensation of being lost...Japan...romantic tragedy..lots of night...and of course those moments of reality that we all must face (Lydia calling Bob...my wife and I like to often mimic that moment "tell her I said...EAT!" lol)

Anyway, enough carrying on...but my love for this movie will carry on always. I'd like to share my desktop, which hasn't changed in appearance in..well, probably going on 10 years! Have a great day all!!!

http://s22.postimg.org/m46g4ftu9/LIT_desktop.jpg

Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:06 am
by Watching Music Transform
:D

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 4:02 am
by Surfaced
SunsetOdds wrote:I think I might have a Lost In Translation themed day for the 10th reunion.
Enthusiastically eat my sushi breakfast.
Go to a photo shoot and make jokes about Joy Bishop.
See a guy reading Japanese manga on the bus.
Go for an all fish lunch and switch to Biru (They all look the same!!)
Go get my Toe looked at, and chat in the waiting line.
Go swimming, then agree to go out for the evening.
Have no idea what the rad hip-hop guy across from me is saying,
Actually go out for evening.
Sing karaoke badly,
Listen to 'Sometimes' on the cab home,
sing the spy who loved me.
Almost go to sleep.
Watch La Dolce Vita.
Chat about family.
Feel all warm and Fuzzy.

Yes, it will be a good day.
Wouldn't mind a day like that. :)

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:48 am
by turn to camera
This is my first posting, I want to write about my love of this film in a more appropriate thread and will try to make something coherent and hopefully worth reading soon.

My wife and I are planning our second trip to Japan right now, we are going in April next year and yes, we are staying for three nights at the Park Hyatt, I have always wanted to gaze out of the windows of that place and look down on the bright lights of Shinjuku and now imma get that chance.

Like a lot of people who have posted here, LiT is kinda central to my love of Japan and Tokyo, it captures a stranger's spatial relationship with the place incredibly well.

The first time we visited Japan -in Sept 2011- we stayed at another elevated Hotel, also called the Park (in Shiodome, close to the harbour and looking over Odiaba, also quite a bit cheaper) We had a room on the 29th floor, which was great, except for that one aftershock I experienced *shudders*

However, even then I just knew it wouldn't quite compare to the Park Hyatt and so, I have to go there and feel it out.

On the flight to Narita, LiT was in the 'classics' section of British Airways' in-flight entertainment, it was almost too perfect, I watched it on the way over there feeling excited and again on the way back feeling elated but a little broken-hearted knowing that we wouldn't have the money to return to Japan for at least a couple of years.

Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 4:49 pm
by lemoncupcake
I can't believe it's been ten years!
I'm so glad the board is still here.

Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:46 am
by Kayin Kincaide
Just freaking amazing, thank you Bob_San for keeping this alive.

I can't explain enough how this film has changed my life.

Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:21 pm
by You Make it Easy
Thanks again Bob for keeping this site up and running. Every time I watch LIT I visit this site and remember :)

Sofia Coppola discusses Lost in Translation

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:44 am
by Luigi
I don't know if this was posted already. If it was, apologies.
Sofia Coppola Discusses ‘Lost in Translation’ on Its 10th Anniversary

On Sept. 12, 2003, the Tokyo-set love story, starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, opened in theaters. A decade on, the movie’s Oscar-winning filmmaker, Sofia Coppola, talks to Marlow Stern about making the film.

Continue reading here: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... rsary.html