sometimes talks about them. Opinions? "Castle in the Sky is amazing. The castle has a crystal in it." Two weeks ago, the kids watched Kiki's Delivery Service, which I remember as a charming and calm film and had hoped we would watch together today. "I like Kiki's Delivery Service. But Kiki gets into too much trouble. I don't want to watch it." It turns out that getting into trouble is a strongly aversive stimulus for this little girl (gee, really, I wonder where that comes from, I hear my mother saying). Which adds to the ever-lengthening banned reading list, for instance, Olivia gets a band, since Olivia's mother shouts at her. We watched Howl's Moving Castle last weekend. It's a complicated story, but she watched it through, and is still asking me questions about it (for instance, this morning's: to save Howl, what did Sophie do? Exactly? Anyone?). It's one of my favourite-- the best of the creative machinery of Castle in the Sky with a 
better story and ghoulish shades of Spirited Away. So tonight we watched Totoro again. I still love it.
I saw one of my allotment of the SIFF films last night-- Bad Habits, a Mexican film about three females with eating issues. Very beautiful-- blacks, whites, glass, rain-- with a dense, rich storyline (does that sound like a cake? It should.).Blaise and I went out to an interesting film last week too: Jellyfish
(Medusot), a slightly magical story set in a Tel Aviv of relentless grimness. In two months it will be ten years since I left. This film brought back memories of unsightly interstices and painful interactions that, thankfully, are usually overridden by those of the spectacular beauties and joyous intensity of life there.
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