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Blu-Ray Review: “Princess Mononoke”
Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Release Date: November 18, 2014
MSRP: $36.95
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Film: A / Video: A / Audio: A- / Extras: B-
What must it have been like to see Princess Mononoke in the fall of 1999 in American theaters? Even with a...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 130: “Howl’s Moving Castle”
As we quickly approach the American release of Hayao Miyazaki's latest film, The Wind Rises, it's time once more for Mousterpiece Cinema to wade into the past of Studio Ghibli. This week, Gabe and Josh focus their sights on Howl's Moving Castle, with two speci...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 133: “The Wind Rises”
This is what's called serendipitous timing, folks. If you're downloading this episode the day it drops on iTunes, then we're just one day away from the Academy Awards, and the film we're talking about on the new episode of Mousterpiece Cinema may very well wal...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “The Wind Rises”
"The wind is rising! ... We must try to live!"
~Paul Valéry
The Wind Rises may be classified as a "biopic," but it is less a document of a man than it is of a dream: beginning with its birth, progressing through its lifespan, and then finally waving a tearfu...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “From Up On Poppy Hill”
As we've already established, Goro Miyazaki's Tales From Earthsea was Studio Ghibli's first disaster. Despite making lots of money at the Japanese box office, it also had the much more affecting consequence of being their first critically reviled film. Having ...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “The Secret World of Arrietty”
It's strange how much of a difference an English dub can make. That's how I watched The Secret World of Arietty when I first saw it two years ago, and I found it to be one of the Studio's lesser entries. Having watched it a second time for this piece, in its o...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “Ponyo”
At this point in the retrospective, Studio Ghibli has been somewhat capitalizing on its international success by choosing distinctly western fictions to adapt, their last two films Howl's Moving Castle and Tales From Earthsea being adaptations of distinctly Br...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “Tales From Earthsea”
As has already been documented on the Retrospective, I wasn't as big a fan of Isao Takahata's Pom Poko or Hiroyuki Morita's The Cat Returns as many others were; but neither of them were explicitly "bad" movies. While I wasn't particularly amused by Pom Poko's ...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “Howl’s Moving Castle”
Throughout this retrospective, I've talked at length about Miyazaki's visual and thematic fascination with flight. But I haven't talked as much of another somewhat consistent image in the famed animators' work: castles. We certainly have obvious choices like t...
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“The Wind Rises”: A Gorgeous Film That Doesn’t Take Off
The following review has been republished from our AFI Film Festival coverage. It reviews the original Japanese dub, and not the newly released English dub.
If The Wind Rises is truly Hayao Miyazaki's last film (and remember, this is the seventh time that h...
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