Favourite Miyazaki film

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

As briefly noted here Thank the boiler man, you idiot, for this Studio Ghibli thread

HBO has the Japanese and western versions of these...I was switching back and forth watching Ponyo last night, and it's crazy that even the score is different, I'm pretty sure? In the English version it seemed much more overbearing and Copland-esque in many scenes.

This is the comfortably the best thing I have ever read about Miyazaki and Ghibli https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/07/13/loves-work-hayao-miyazaki/

Could someone c&p this for me? Thanks!

I think you can register for free for one article?

https://archive.is/1d9oU

Thanks Tracer!

That article is filled with the same kind of reductive nonsense that treats animation like a genre instead of a medium. It doesn’t offer any insights into Miyazaki or Ghibli; if you’re looking for those, read British film historian Helen McCarthy’s work

Have read McCarthy and she's doing something a bit different.

My goal right now is to avoid reading anything about the new film until it comes out in North America.

word of mouth seems to be strong, looking forward to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7EDFdA10pg?

Yeah, that's the stuff.

💯

this looks amazing

If this is really the final Miyazaki film (and I feel like he keeps saying that and then making another one), I'm glad it has weird gloopy creatures and odd old women in it.

Wow! This looks intriguing

Pretty rapturous first wave from TIFF

xp he's already unretired again, this is no longer the final one

A friend saw it last night, and told me that a. she bawled, b. it actually felt like Miyazaki’s final filmic statement

Spoiler alert: Both the boy AND the heron are pregnant.

... how do you live?

I feel like he keeps saying that and then making another one

I'm happy to have more, but yeah, hasn't he been saying this for years? Apparently he's already pitching new ideas:

Hayao Miyazaki might not be done making movies.

On a red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival for the director's latest film, The Boy and the Heron, Studio Ghibli executive Junichi Nishioka told CBC's Eli Glasner that the animation stalwart is still hard at work.

"Other people say that this might be his last film, but he doesn't feel that way at all," said Nishioka through a translator.

"He is currently working on ideas for a new film. He comes into his office every day and does that. This time, he's not going to announce his retirement at all. He's continuing working just as he has always done."

We should all be so lucky

Well, that was wonderful. I haven't teared up at a movie like that in a while.

Don't want to say much about it, but the animation is incredible.

just saw it! amazing. trying to settle on a favorite image to fall asleep thinking about.

#1 movie this weekend, maybe

Deservedly. A lovely watch, very slow burn in ways but that makes its success all the better. Was able to catch the subtitled version but heard good things about the dub, which has a lot of veterans of previous Ghibli dubs.

I've seen this twice now: once dubbed and once subbed. It's hard for me to articulate the way this movie hit me; I am just grateful to live in a world where it exists.

Very envious. I can't wait to see this!

It's wonderful.

beware the man-eating parakeets

I was surprised how much of this seemed to be drawn from Miyazaki's own life - it follows in that great storytelling tradition of children grappling with the horrors of the adult world through fantastical elements that reflect their turmoil.

Oh, it's out?!?!? I'm gonna go!!!