Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Customer Reviews:

Please Don't Eat the Daisies.......2007-08-28

I received my product within a resonable amount of time and it was in excellent shape.

PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES.......2007-06-12

THIS IS A GREAT FILM IF YOU ARE A DORIS DAY FAN. I HAVE ALWAYS LIKE EVEN WHEN I SAY IT AT THE VARSIETY THEATRE IN LINCOLN, NE WHERE UNFORTUNATELY WELLS FARGO BANK STANDS. A GREAT THEATRE GONE. THE PICTURE QUALITY IS GREAT AND ALSO SOUND. A GREAT DVD FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.

Blasts from the past!!!.......2007-04-11

A wonderful movie, so glad to always have it on DVD, and an excellent addition to my growing collection.
The picture and sound are better than I ever thought and it comes as always a great trans. thru amazon!!!!
A comedy with a deeper story of climbing the success ladder, and deciding what really is more important to bring happiness!! David Niven is so divine, and together he and Doris D, tell a great story of marriage, money, and what popular really means!!

The Snake Has All the Lines.......2007-02-05

Compared to ghastly films like Prudence and the Pill, David Niven must look back on this film as one of his better efforts. It's a good enough entry in the Doris Day canon, and there is unmistakable chemistry between Day and Niven. That said, it falls short of Jean Kerr's bestseller on which it is based by missing the tone. The later TV show to my mind more captures the sense of the book, although usually movies come closer with the follow up TV shows a pale imitation of the original book.

My title comes from the book Kerr wrote after Please Don't Eat the Daisies, both books being unaccountably out of print. Both books also, in my opinion, being well worth tracking down. With this film out on DVD, the TV series, and maybe even the revival of Kerr's books, may not be far behind.

Please Don't Eat the Daisyies.......2007-01-12

An old classic that I got for my wife. Always fun to watch.

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I never thought I, of all people, would call a movie too impressionist...
The Experience of Being a Poet
Dud
A beautiful, poignant anime
Incoherent

Spring & Chaos
Starring: Shirô Sano , Mariko Kouda , Chikao Ôtsuka , Heather Smith (VI) , and Victor Chin
Director: Stuart J. Levy , and Shôji Kawamori
Manufacturer: Tokyopop Pictures
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000056VYZ
Release Date: 2001-05-29

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Although known in the West only as the author of The Night on the Galactic Railroad, Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933) ranks as Japan's best-loved 20th-century poet and children's author. For this evocative biography, writer-director Shoji Kawamori (Macross) uses animal characters in place of humans, as Miyazawa did in his fairy tales. The poet's difficult life--Miyazawa achieved fame only posthumously--suggests a combination of Dead Poets Society and Amadeus. Kawamori employs a spectrum of visual styles to suggest the breadth of Miyazawa's inspiration; the moment when the Galactic Railroad appears in his imagination ranks among the most effective uses of computer animation in recent anime. The result is a warm, humane introduction to a major figure in Japanese culture. Unrated; suitable for ages 10 and up: complex themes, occasional grotesque images. --Charles Solomon

Description

Directed by acclaimed anime creator Shouji Kawamori (Macross), this is the animated biography of Kenji Miyazawa, a poet and writer who lived between 1896-1933 in Iwate, Japan. With the use of cats as characters in the story, expressive editing, and computer graphics, the animation captures the fantastic and surrealistic world of Kenji Miyazawa, whose works are often known to be allegorical and abstract.

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I never thought I, of all people, would call a movie too impressionist..........2007-07-05

Spring and Chaos (Shoji Kawamori, 1996)

Just as the first definitive edition of Kenji Miyazawa's poetry appears in the United States (from University of California Press), Spring and Chaos hits the bargain bins at movie stores and Targets all across the nation. This could actually be a good thing; Miyazawa is a name pretty much unknown to anyone outside the poetry fanatic, and who better than Shoji Kawamori, the mind behind the mega-popular Macross, to bring his message to the masses?

This short, impressionist Miyazawa biopic (with all the characters anthropomorphized as cats, in case you're into that sort of thing) can in no way be said to be unbiased, complete, or anything other than Shoji Kawamori's vision. We get small pieces of Miyazawa (voice of Shiro Sano, recently of Godzilla 2000)'s life, all framed by his time as a schoolteacher, a position he resigns in order to go to the fields and be a farmer (whether this is something he finds inspirational, or whether it's because he empathizes more with the poverty-stricken farmers of his province--or both--is left to debate). There are frequent flashbacks to earlier times in his life, and hallucinatory sequences meant to illustrate the creative process, but the main story centers on Miyazawa's relationship with one of his students/former students, Tekichi (voice of Jonathan Funk in the English dubbing; the Japanese voice actor is uncredited on my DVD), a petty criminal whom Miyazawa attempts to redeem.

Obviously, not the comprehensive work (or illusion of same) we've come to expect from the biopic, so Spring and Chaos is perhaps better considered as simply an interesting experiment in animation; from this angle, I believe it succeeds quite nicely. Kawamori lives up to his lofty reputation, never letting the viewer get comfortable within the subject matter; he's always going to throw some sort of visual curve ball your way (just as Miyazawa is constantly doing to his students; it might be productive for the American contemplating picking this up to think of it as Goodbye, Mr. Chips with talking cats set in the dust bowl during the Depression) to keep you interested. Still, I do wish there had been a stronger link to Miyazawa's life. ***

The Experience of Being a Poet.......2005-01-31

The unwritten rule in animation is that you should only animate what can't be put to film with actors. On the surface, Spring and Chaos seems to defy that rule, presenting the biographical story of Japan's most celebrated poet, Kenji Miyazawa. However, to take us out of the harsh reality of Miyazawa's life, director Shoji Kawamori uses animation to bring us into his soul. Trees sparkle and shudder when inspiration strikes. Mountains glisten by night. The dead swim through wintry fields, hoping to take Miyazawa back down with them. It's a film filled with metaphoric beauty - definitely one of the most unique animated films I've ever seen. Highly recommended!

Dud.......2004-12-09

I got this expecting a fascinating insight into the life of the man who wrote the mythical Night on the Galactic Railroad. I expected to see crazy stories and hijinks of an eccentric man and to discover his inspirations for such bizarre material. Boy was I wrong.

Spring and Chaos is mostly boring with only sporadic moments of innovative animation. It's certainly nothing to write home about and nowhere near as good as NOTGR which is something that I suggest you watch instead. Leave this bore alone.

A beautiful, poignant anime.......2002-02-18

This is a beautiful anime about one of Japan's greatest poets. The animation is spectacular, and I really don't think this could've been done better. The only problem with this DVD is the fact that the subtitles aren't in sync with the Japanese dialogue. But the movie itself and all of the other extras make up for the subtitling issue.

Incoherent.......2002-01-22

I agree with the other reviewers about the rich imagination and well written script - something rarely seen in anime. What bothered me with this movie was the excessive use of computer graphics. The CG were completely out of place and unnatural, which almost completely ruined this movie for me. The hand-drawn parts are fine, though. This movie is supposed to be an animated movie, and it doesn't deliver the animation part in a believable way - hence the three stars. You have been warned.

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