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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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Blu-Ray Review: “The Wind Rises”
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+
In recent days, one of the worst possible stories for fans of animation in general floated over the summer...
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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 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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Birthday Wishes: The Virtuosic Hayao Miyazaki Is 73
The recently maybe perhaps un-retired Hayao Miyazaki turns 73 today. Whether or not the legendary Japanese animator and director makes another film, his filmography speaks for itself as one of the strongest in world cinema. As the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, ...
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A Familiar Story: Hayao Miyazaki May Not Be Retiring
Correction: upon further examination of the radio interview with Miyazaki, it would appear that his remarks are more suggestive than declarative. At this time we can't accurately or confidently claim that he's not retiring.
A funny thing happened on New Ye...
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The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘The Wind Rises’
Hayao Miyazaki's supposedly final film isn't great, but it's a fitting end to an astonishing career.
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