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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 10:46 pm
by You Make it Easy
Posting again because I am currently watching LIT just at the end of year. I love this movie so much.

Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 9:41 pm
by SunsetOdds
Watched it this evening ( UK GMT) I watched the blu ray and turned the brightness and contrast right down to see how much detail i could achieve. Some scenes previously ignored became enormously beautiful and hypnotic.

I've only watched this film twice this year... and it's not nearly enough!

Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2014 10:09 pm
by Emma
The last time I watched Lost in Translation was at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. It played in the theater in conjunction with a photography exhibit focused on Tokyo. It was only my second time seeing it on a "big screen," so my anticipation was high. Not surprisingly, anticipation was met with absolute awe. It was magical.

While I am hesitant about watching it with others, I did invite my Best Friend along. Out of everybody I know, he is the only one who appreciates Sofia's work as much as I do. (Most are too impatient with the film's gentle pace and ambiguity.) We both enjoyed the film very much. (I may or may not have mirrored Charlotte's head falling to Bob's shoulder as it happened onscreen.) It was a wonderful day. :)

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 8:42 am
by SunsetOdds
That sounds amazing! What I would give to see it on the big screen, sadly when it came out I wasn't open enough to new film :( . But if it shows in the UK on the big screen, Im there.

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:26 am
by Shavedice210
The first time i saw this movie was in 2007. I was going through a tough time and my best friend invited me to his house to watch it on DVD. The only thing i can vividly remember was smiling for the first time in a while back then. I seemed to have forgotten about LiT until catching the last 20 minutes on a prime channel. Something about the scene when Bob and Charlotte are in the bar after the fire alarm and Mark Willms is playing So Into You.

Tried to find the movie version of that song online and that's when i stumbled upon a thread on this forum. Just re-watched LiT after hearing the ultimate soundtrack that Fox compiled. I like watching at night when it is most quiet. It allows me to absorb it all in.

Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 8:31 am
by Kaspar
I saw LiT when it first came out, but as I was very young then, its themes and tone did not resonate with me at all. I do remember enjoying the scene where Bob's stuck on the elliptical.

During the last years of high school, however, it clicked in a big way for me. And I kept coming back to it over years when I was in university. The scene with Charlotte staring at the ceiling, telling Bob that she's "stuck"... I think every 20-something can empathize with that.

I'm finally graduating in a few weeks, can't think of a more fitting time to watch this yet again. :)

Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2015 5:16 am
by samwright8380
I'm glad it's grown on you, I think it is a film that has an appeal at different stages of your life.

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 2:17 am
by Suntory
I watched it again after not for maybe a year or two. I didn't have time to watch it all at once so I watched it
in 15 to 20 min snippets at night. Each day I looked forward to which part I was going to be seeing at night.
The film is really a great journey in a short time and still a great journey to go on with them!

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:13 pm
by You Make it Easy
Middle of the night for me basically, watching again to feel that feeling.

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 4:51 am
by onesmokin3g
Just finished watching it yet again, and not much has changed for me since my first post in this forum 11 years ago (back on page 3) :shock: . Wow. It’s nice to know this place is still up and running; thanks Bob San! 15 years in, and I hope more and more people begin to view this movie as a timeless classic (as most of us recognized years ago, if not immediately...myself excluded from the latter bunch actually). Either way, thanks for the masterpiece Sofia.

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:54 pm
by samwright8380
I think maybe it's been a couple of years now since I've watched this film. It's a reminder of a different time in my life when I travelled to new places, often by myself for the adventure. I'm sure when I watch it again it'll bring memories back. I never got to watch this in the cinema - I was at the cinema with a friend but 21 grams was showing instead. I think I'd like to see it on the big screen at least once, but I'll have to look out for screenings for some time.

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:55 pm
by redleader74
....who's going to Tokyo this year???

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Posted: Sun Apr 14, 2019 5:16 am
by TokyoGirl
redleader74 wrote:
Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:55 pm
....who's going to Tokyo this year???
I wish! Maybe next year :D

Just watched on the plane back from the US.

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:40 pm
by Emma
redleader74 wrote:
Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:55 pm
....who's going to Tokyo this year???
Not this year, but a dear friend and I have talked about visiting in 2023 ... For me, the twentieth anniversary of Lost in Translation! For him, finally visiting Tokyo Disneyland and Universal Studios Japan! (Okay, that's for me, too! :wink: )

If anybody out there visits this year (or next!), please share your experiences and adventures with us!

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2019 8:19 pm
by samwright8380
Emma wrote:
Wed Dec 25, 2019 9:40 pm
redleader74 wrote:
Wed Apr 10, 2019 4:55 pm
....who's going to Tokyo this year???
Not this year, but a dear friend and I have talked about visiting in 2023 ... For me, the twentieth anniversary of Lost in Translation! For him, finally visiting Tokyo Disneyland and Universal Studios Japan! (Okay, that's for me, too! :wink: )

If anybody out there visits this year (or next!), please share your experiences and adventures with us!
That sounds great! Time really does go fast, with you mentioning that it will be the 20th anniversary of the film. It would be nice to see some sort of re-release or retrospective from Sofia - who knows!

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2019 1:46 pm
by redleader74
...I have another thread on here some where about how my wife and I had a baby last year and thus throwing a wrench into many travels. However, we plan to go next year (2020)! It's a long shot but I'm preparing for it anyway. We like to travel in the fall as it is best weather in most parts of the world. By then our daughter will be 2. If it does happen you can be sure I'll be sharing it all here with my fellow LIT fans!

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:02 pm
by SunsetOdds
Well, crikey I've logged this film on Letterboxd (great film website by the way) only 7 times but got to be getting closer to thirty or forty watches in reality. Hope all lit fans are doing well in Virus quarantine. Watched it with a close friend and she really enjoyed it. Roll on 20th anniversary of the films release!

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Tue May 26, 2020 1:47 am
by redleader74
SunsetOdds wrote:
Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:02 pm
Well, crikey I've logged this film on Letterboxd (great film website by the way) only 7 times but got to be getting closer to thirty or forty watches in reality. Hope all lit fans are doing well in Virus quarantine. Watched it with a close friend and she really enjoyed it. Roll on 20th anniversary of the films release!
Hmmm....thanks for the reminder. Actually the escapist themes and feel of this film make it the perfect match for the sheltering place.

Great, great, GREAT screen name by the way! Ha ha ha ha!!

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 8:25 pm
by Emma
redleader74 wrote:
Tue May 26, 2020 1:47 am
SunsetOdds wrote:
Thu Apr 30, 2020 7:02 pm
Well, crikey I've logged this film on Letterboxd (great film website by the way) only 7 times but got to be getting closer to thirty or forty watches in reality. Hope all lit fans are doing well in Virus quarantine. Watched it with a close friend and she really enjoyed it. Roll on 20th anniversary of the films release!
Hmmm....thanks for the reminder. Actually the escapist themes and feel of this film make it the perfect match for the sheltering place.

Great, great, GREAT screen name by the way! Ha ha ha ha!!
I agree! The soundtracks to Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides feel deeply appropriate for this time we're living in!

And speaking of The Virgin Suicides, apparently a twentieth anniversary (virtual) reunion happened to celebrate the film ... I hope we are so lucky for Lost in Translation!

Re: Play It Again Sam...er um...I mean Charlotte!!!

Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:26 am
by Luigi
Hello, folks. Oldtimer here. How's it going?

So I watched LiT again yesterday after many, many years. I stumbled upon it on Netflix and thought to myself, why not? Let's go. It was a great experience all over again, like it was 2003/2004. What an amazing film.