We drove into the city yesterday, and while Deirdre was engaged in a meeting, I went to the Angelika to see Paprika , the new film from Satoshi Kon, the director of Perfect Blue , the extraordinary and moving Millennium Actress , and Tokyo Godfathers , which is now on my must-see list. The title character Paprika is a psychotherapist of sorts who uses a device called the DC-Mini to share dreams with her patients. At the beginning of the film she is participating in the dreams of a police detective who is trying to solve a murder. Paprika is also the alter-ego of sorts of Dr. Chiba, the co-developer of the DC-Mini. Dr. Chiba soon discovers that several of the devices have been stolen, and that the "terrorists" who have stolen them are now projecting themselves into other people's dreams, and that the detritus of these dreams has been assembled into a grotesque parade of furniture, appliances, and dolls of all sorts. I am probably making the plot sound more linear and rational than it actually Read More...