CharlesTuckerTheThird Posted November 2, 2023 Share Posted November 2, 2023 Love this studio, When Marnie Was There is one of my all time favourite movies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members johnnyboy Posted November 3, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 3, 2023 I was already dead keen to see it, but Big Dave has me chomping at the bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members johnnyboy Posted November 3, 2023 Paid Members Share Posted November 3, 2023 (edited) Big Dave got me double-posting. Edited November 3, 2023 by johnnyboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted November 22, 2023 Members Share Posted November 22, 2023 More dates added for Spirited Away. https://londoncoliseum.org/whats-on/spirited-away/?action=book Managed to get two cheap tickets for June for me and the eldest. Lovely stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted January 8 Paid Members Share Posted January 8 having a particularly Ghibli-heavy couple of days - off to see the My Neighbour Totoro play for the second time around tonight, and yesterday we went to see The Boy And The Heron. I absolutely loved it. Can I shock you? It involves a traumatised child moving to a house in the country that turns out to hide a magical secret, and also it has planes in it. Despite ticking every single Miyazaki box, it also feels completely fresh and new; it would be a cliché to say that it's a "darker" or more mature take, because I think ultimately Miyazaki doesn't think in those terms, he just follows wherever the narrative takes him. Like most latter day Miyazaki, it's very fragmentary and the pacing is idiosyncratic to say the least, but it's gorgeous, inventive, and brilliant. I've joked about its use of Miyazaki tropes, but it feels like those are brought to the forefront more than ever; they're explicit rather than subtext. He won't let you turn away from the fact that this is a story rooted in war, that it's about grief and navigating the end of childhood, and also about creativity and the responsibilities shouldered by those who create. I think that this and The Wind Rises make pretty strong companion pieces as far as getting into the head of what makes Miyazaki tick. Spoilers on some meta-discussion from interviews with Toshio Suzuki, nothing huge for the plot: Spoiler Something Suzuki said in an interview was about how personal and autobiographical parts of this movie are for Miyazaki; the central character feels like a young Miyazaki as much as The Wind Rises' scenes of plane-building felt in part like a metaphor for the act of creativity in general. The father figure being a plane manufacturer during the war, and not really knowing how to relate to his son, feels ripped from life, as well as possibly having a bit of reflection from Hayao on his own failures as a father, while the backdrop of war and a hospitalised mother obviously recurs in Ghibli movies for good reason too. One thing Suzuki said, though, was that the "great grand-uncle" figure was a much bigger part of the story in the original plot, but that Miyazaki found it increasingly difficult to draw or write for him once the film started to be made, and Suzuki felt it was because the character was based on Isao Takahata, and that he found it too difficult to work with that character so closely after Takahata's death. That would make sense as something of an allegory for him mentoring the young Miyazaki, and teaching him the importance of creating worlds "without malice", and the responsibility of creative people to put heart and meaning into what they create, while other characters in the film seem to represent rampant consumerism at the expense of that creativity and imagination.  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted January 8 Paid Members Share Posted January 8 I said in the movies thread when I went to see it that it’s my favourite Ghibli film. After a few weeks of letting the dust settle it still is. Truly just a wonderfully beautiful film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted January 11 Author Paid Members Share Posted January 11 Saw The Boy and the Heron today and it's very good indeed. It plays the Miyazaki hits and is familiar and lovely without reaching his heights, but that's ok. He's in his eighties after all. Nice to have him back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted August 21 Members Share Posted August 21 Looks like Grave Of The Fireflies is coming to Netflix mid September. https://news.newonnetflix.info/news/90s-award-winning-anime-grave-of-the-fireflies-is-heading-to-netflix-next-month/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members johnnyboy Posted August 21 Paid Members Share Posted August 21 43 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: Looks like Grave Of The Fireflies is coming to Netflix mid September. Best of luck to anyone watching this for the first time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted August 21 Paid Members Share Posted August 21 56 minutes ago, SuperBacon said: Looks like Grave Of The Fireflies is coming to Netflix mid September. https://news.newonnetflix.info/news/90s-award-winning-anime-grave-of-the-fireflies-is-heading-to-netflix-next-month/ Oh no thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted August 21 Members Share Posted August 21 I really enjoy that when it first came out, it was often shown in a double bill with Totoro. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Carbomb Posted August 21 Paid Members Share Posted August 21 4 hours ago, SuperBacon said: I really enjoy that when it first came out, it was often shown in a double bill with Totoro. I hope Totoro was the second film. Don't want to end an evening with Fireflies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted August 21 Share Posted August 21 Yeah, defo need to go with Totoro second in that double bill. Dont get wrong, Grace of the Fireflies is an excellent film, but you’ll need something to bring you back up after it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted August 22 Paid Members Share Posted August 22 20 hours ago, Carbomb said: I hope Totoro was the second film. Don't want to end an evening with Fireflies. It varied depending on the screening; sometimes started light and then ruining your day, sometimes breaking you into pieces and then rebuilding you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SuperBacon Posted September 10 Members Share Posted September 10 The Boy and The Heron on Netflix October 7th. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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