Up next from Studio Ghibli, _The Wind Rises_

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have we done a poll on ghibli movies?

I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link

We should.

A shame I haven't seen The Wind Rises on more ten best lists.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 January 2015 13:20 (nine years ago) link

a November '13 release in NY/LA. Also, not that good.

Kaguya all the way.

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 January 2015 13:28 (nine years ago) link

haven't seen the wind rises, but morbs otm anyway. kaguya straight destroyed me. it's gorgeous and wholly unrepugnant, not a flange in sight.

deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Saturday, 24 January 2015 13:37 (nine years ago) link

Love them both.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 January 2015 13:46 (nine years ago) link

Has anybody seen 'When Marnie Was There"? The trailer / source story both bode well. There's an Innocents vibe to the aesthetic that I really dig.

Ghibli poll is fated to end up Totoro vs Spirited Away deathmatch, isn't it? Not that it's a bad thing, but there's hardly a bad film in the bunch. Well... I never could get *into* Porco Rosso or Nausicaa, but I still admire .

the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Saturday, 24 January 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link

Alfred otm. Both deserve more love. Fuck a Pixar.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 24 January 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link

Totoro vs Spirited Away deathmatch, isn't it?

probably, but i could see nausicaa sneaking in (that might be my choice)

although i have crazy love for kiki's delivery service, it's true

I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link

what we really need is a good poll of the best anime features that /aren't/ ghibli. i'd rep for night on the galactic railroad.

I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link

Kiki has the best American voices. Phil Hartman ftw. I really like the one based on The Borrowers.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link

the only ghibli films i've been really disappointed in are the "cat returns" (mostly b/c i had heard really good things about it, and it seemed kind of half-assed) and from up on poppy hill (which wasn't really outright /bad/, just kind of ... diffuse?)

I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:34 (nine years ago) link

the borrowers one is the secret world of arrietty -- great stuff. pom poko is the only one i'm not a big fan of.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:46 (nine years ago) link

I hated Ponyo.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link

ponyo is so supremely weird

the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link

ponyo is awesome, though not quite top-tier ghibli

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:08 (nine years ago) link

What's wrong with it?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:17 (nine years ago) link

I thought it was kinda dumb, to be honest. Too many shots of the fish just squirting water at people, not a terribly compelling scenario, etc.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:42 (nine years ago) link

My young cousins, who made me watch during a Disney trip four years ago, were fascinated by it.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:48 (nine years ago) link

Ponyo is amazing, scene after scene showcasing what Miyazaki is the greatest at. Goes crazy towards the end but then many of his films do.

abcfsk, Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:59 (nine years ago) link

I thought the girl running on the waves and her huge shiny mother was great.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link

Keep in mind, I have no prob with the animation, I just think the script and characters are poor.

Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link

Ham! Ham! Haaaaaaaaam!

the captain beefheart of personal hygiene (soda), Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link

I think the old lady who kept mistaking someone (who I cant remember) for evil was funny.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 24 January 2015 23:43 (nine years ago) link

ponyo is amazing, but even more than most miyazaki fims the plot seems to reinvent itself—or make up new rules—every reel, which was frustrating.

I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link

howl's moving castle has a little bit of the same problem, but i still think that's top-five miyazaki for me

I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link

"problem"

I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:22 (nine years ago) link

hmmm actually IMO my list might go something like

1. spirited away
2. nausicaa
3. kiki's delivery service
4. my neighbor totoro
5. princess mononoke
6. howl's moving castle
7. castle in the sky
8. porco rosso
9. the wind rises
10. ponyo
11.castle of cagliostro

btw i really like ALL of these

I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:25 (nine years ago) link

did i forget one?

I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link

Miyazaki films are the closet approximations to Pure Immersion in Cinema for me; the experience of watching Spirited Away, as it made itself up as it went along like a picaresque novel, was one of those moments. Noting his flaws (they're often the same, film after film) is a rote exercise.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link

you need to watch The Wind Rises!

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link

oh you did -- never mind. It's contenderizer.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link

Ponyo is amazing, scene after scene showcasing what Miyazaki is the greatest at. Goes crazy towards the end but then many of his films do.

― abcfsk, Saturday, January 24, 2015 2:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought the girl running on the waves and her huge shiny mother was great.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:16 PM (Yesterday)

otm. gets a lot of flak for childishness, incoherence, w/e, but i think it's among ghibli's very best. funny, trippy, moving, nicely observed (the boat ride after the flood), breathtaking and, in the end, entirely satisfying.

deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link

ponyo is amazing, but even more than most miyazaki fims the plot seems to reinvent itself—or make up new rules—every reel, which was frustrating.

― I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, January 25, 2015 3:21 PM (22 minutes ago)

we're supposed to demand that our fantasy worlds be "internally consistent", bound at every moment by whatever logic they've established prior. ponyo's cheerful "lol whatever" treatment of this convention is one of its most endearing qualities, imo.

deliberately clunky, needlessly arty, (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link

porco rosso might be most underappreciated miyazaki

I dunno. (amateurist), Sunday, 25 January 2015 23:47 (nine years ago) link

Miyazaki films are the closet approximations to Pure Immersion in Cinema for me; the experience of watching Spirited Away, as it made itself up as it went along like a picaresque novel, was one of those moments. Noting his flaws (they're often the same, film after film) is a rote exercise.

yeah, this. i find almost all of these films completely absorbing, even the ones that just sort of drift around. i find it hard to get any critical distance from them because i can enjoy sitting through any of them, even the ones i'm less fond of.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 26 January 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link

seeing these films in a cinema is pretty crucial

I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link

i mean for them to cast their spell IMO

I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link

porco rosso/wind rises go well together

where's POM POKO on that list amateurist!?

Nhex, Monday, 26 January 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link

is a miyazaki list, not ghibli in general?

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Monday, 26 January 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link

Porco Rosso was a clear ancestor to The Wind Rises.

fields of salmon, Monday, 26 January 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link

xp oh, forgot that one was Takahata

Nhex, Monday, 26 January 2015 01:58 (nine years ago) link

Fuck a Pixar.

Perfectly possible to love both Pixar and Ghibli you know.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 26 January 2015 12:22 (nine years ago) link

they admire one another, for sure.

i don't think it's hard to notice that the last few pixar movies have not been up to their earlier standard, though

I dunno. (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link

Ghibli too unfortunately, although I haven't seen Takahata's new one yet.

めんどくさかった (Matt #2), Monday, 26 January 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link

Watched Ponyo the other night for the first time. Was bowled over, really. Just an eyepopping, crazy and sweet film. Really sublime - in many places - in the original sense of the word.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 26 January 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link

I guess I was too harsh on Pixar.

Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 26 January 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link

how about we have a distinct Ghibli thread (i've seen three)

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 January 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link

by the time we start another, they'll have officially closed anyway

Nhex, Monday, 26 January 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link

one year passes...

Studio Ponoc is a new studio set up by producer Nishimura (When Marnie Was There, Princess Kaguya) and director Yonebayashi (Arietty, When Marnie Was There).
Their first film is out next year, based on Mary Stewart's book The Little Broomstick
Trailer looks hella Ghibli as you would expect/hope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrN9QZLmJ0E

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 15 December 2016 09:07 (seven years ago) link

Kaguya was absolutely magnificent. Marnie was very slight in comparison.

jamiesummerz, Thursday, 15 December 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link

they're just making a short for the next round of "Star Wars Visions" i think

ciderpress, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link

If anyone can bring an end to all the star wars, it's Miyazaki.

jmm, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link

spirited to a galaxy far, far away

Roz, Thursday, 10 November 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link

this is essentially a screensaver btw

Yeah, my son who has loved Star Wars and been a recent convert to Studio Ghibli was extremely disappointed in the brevity.

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 14 November 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link


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