Favourite Miyazaki film

Yeah looks like total shit compared to their usual work. Is that a proper trailer or an animatic type thing or...

https://www.awn.com/news/fans-already-disgruntled-studio-ghiblis-earwig-and-witch

I have a lot of time for his work on Ronja the Robber's Daughter (think Gillian Anderson tested out her Thatch impression on it!) but Goro M is shaping up to be a terrible custodian of Ghibli.

Supported completely by his father, Goro states, “I was the only one among the people at Ghibli who knows that method of creation… I made the anime with a young staff and didn’t consult with the old guys at all.”

This is super cursed and also the funniest goddamn thing I’ve seen all week pic.twitter.com/OOAblOwomM

— JR (@USofJR) February 24, 2021

I need to be careful who I share that with, but it *is* incredible

Howl's Moving Castle would be vastly improved by a special edition that replaces Billy Crystal with anyone else

no argument

is the Jar Jar Binks guy available

We've tried to get through the new one 3x I think? Longest we've lasted is 10 mins.

What new one?

is the Jar Jar Binks guy available

― so tonight that I might ramona quimby (f. hazel)

Donald Trump doesn't have much on.

What new one?

― chap, Sunday, March 21, 2021 6:52 AM (two hours ago)

scroll up to December 18th posts^^^

Finally watched Porco Rosso, one of the few I hadn't seen. Great, odd movie, Porco is a fascinating protagonist.

scroll up to December 18th posts^^^

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli)

Oh yeah I'd suppressed that trailer.

London folks - https://www.timeout.com/london/theatre/my-neighbour-totoro

i see your totoro and raise you kabuki nausicaa

https://gizmodo.com/studio-ghibli-nausicaa-stage-adaptation-returns-hayao-m-1848844119

(looking at that little clip, an ohmu nightlight would be good)

(finally watching cagliostro)

tintin, ape-ninjas, little 60s cars, flared orange 70s suits and haircuts, bond in marienbad, unexpected soundtrack

maybe absurd to say this about anything Miyazaki, but I think that one is underrated. I spent a while looking at gifs from it the other day, it's such a great classic cartoon

the girl seems a bit feeble (i'm only half way thru)

oic there's also an amazonian non-feeble girl

Cagliostro is of a piece with earlier Lupin III cartoons, if somewhat elevated

also the animation is crazy awesome

(in a ghibli movie? no way? lol)

but i really do love the like... kineticism of the animation in cagliostro, which feels like it's allowed to be that way for longer stretches of time than the films that came out afterward (i could be INCREDIBLY wrong about this)

The opening car chase in Cagliostro justifies cinema in itself.

yes kineticism is exactly what I meant by "classic cartoon," there's so much good physical action in it

I haven't seen anything else Lupin, is there stuff as good as this in it?

https://64.media.tumblr.com/43fccdd08d353354393473f8e74bbee2/tumblr_mlco9qWYma1qzqnxxo1_500.gif

that gif is the essence of lupin yes

I think some comparisons could be made between Cagliostro and the second Urusei Yatsura movie, Beautiful Dreamer; both examples of an auteur anime director (Oshii in the latter case) taking an established anime franchise and using it to, basically, do their thing. And thus they have fans among people who otherwise don't care much about those franchises, but get a much more mixed reaction from the fans (definitely more for BD, based on my experience).

lol i was LITERALLY about to bring up beautiful dreamer

i love learning that Beautiful Dreamer has a substantial non-UY fanbase!! i adored that movie in my teen peak anime fan days, but always figured it might be fairly impenetrable to the uninitiated.

in both those cases the director was very involved with the parent TV series though so like, the established thing that the movie is diverging from is also theirs

That's true, and from what I gather Oshii did get experimental with a few UY episodes before Dreamer came out. He did keep the characters true to themselves, and put them in a really surreal and bizarre story; in contrast, I have come across some complaints that Lupin and co don't actually act very much in character in Cagliostro. I can't really comment on that as I've seen very little Lupin media in general, except for a few episodes of that recent-ish Fujiko Mine series which looked cool, but which I couldn't really get into.

oshii’s patlabor 2 is another good example of this (worked on the series, took the movies in another direction but stayed true to the characters)

patlabor 2 also has this amazing meta-layer where it's like interrogating the original ova as a text

i gotta say i watched a lot of lupin when it was on adult swim and the characterizations in cagliostro never seemed that different to me

watching ponyo again, sorry to the the losers and the haters

ponyo loves ham iirc

thats right

ponyo might be my favourite one

also right

sing the ponyo song a lot in my house

princess mononoke is all vibe

i've heard the emperor has promised an entire hill of gold to anyone who can help him live forever

thats right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M2ha-AVyTg

thought about getting tickets for that but they weren't cheap and one of our kids isn't old enough and we don't live nearby any more so didn't bother.

opens the day after autechre play there

New Miyazaki film out next July!

The new feature film from director Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli has been announced! HOW DO YOU LIVE (tentative title) opens in theaters in Japan on July 14, 2023. https://t.co/fHnLM6epTS

— Studio Ghibli (@GhibliUSA) December 13, 2022