http://www.metafilter.com/tags/TalesfromEarthsea Posts tagged with 'TalesfromEarthsea' at MetaFilter. Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:46:06 -0800 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:46:06 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/95246/Roger%2DEbert%2Don%2DAnime%2Dwith%2Da%2Dfocus%2Don%2DHayao%2DMiyazaki%2Dand%2DStudio%2DGhibli "In Japan, animation is not seen as the exclusive realm of children's and family films, but is often used for adult, science fiction and action stories, where it allows a kind of freedom impossible in real life. Some Hollywood films strain so desperately against the constraints of the possible that you wish they'd just caved in and gone with animation." -- <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040130/REVIEWS/401300306/1023">Roger Ebert on anime</a>, with this excerpt being related to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Godfathers">Tokyo Godfathers</a>. Ebert has been a fan of anime for a while, especially the works of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayao_Miyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a>. Ebert has reviewed 6 of the 18 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Ghibli">Studio Ghibli</a> films released to date, and <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991024/PEOPLE/10010351/1023">even interviewed Miyazaki</a> with a bit of fanboy glee. <small>More reviews and videos inside.</small> <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/1999-05-29/siskel-and-ebert-animation-special-to-feature-anime">Roger Ebert could be considered something of a closet "otaku"</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku">Japanese for "fan" or "fanatic"</a>, though the term is often applied to anime fans in the US), and he even added a small comment on <a href="http://www.usaanime.us/References/Sub-Dub.htm">the dub vs subtitle otaku war</a> ("<a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/08/finding_my_own_voice.html#comment-749019">I know. The best is subtitled DVDs.</a>"). Ebert has reviewed anime movies since they first were screened on US theaters at large, with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%28film%29">Ghost in the Shell</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/">1995</a>) being <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2l3hEEtdk">positively reviewed by Siskel &amp; Ebert</a> (YT) and <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960412/REVIEWS/604120302/1023">in print by Ebert</a> in 1996. The year before, <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19950512/REVIEWS/505120307/1023">Ebert reviewed</a> another anime movie, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wings_of_Honneamise">The Wings Of Honneamise</a>, which got <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19951231/COMMENTARY/40308018/1023">an honorable mention in Ebert's top 10 for 1995</a>, though <a href="http://www.obkb.com/dcljr/serevtxt.html">it wasn't reviewed by Siskel &amp; Ebert</a>. In 1996 <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/disney/">the Walt Disney Corporation and Tokuma Publishing first formed a deal</a> in which Disney was granted the rights to distribute many of Tokuma's works, including most of the Studio Ghibli films, throughout much of the world. The <a href="http://www.ultimatedisney.com/kikisdeliveryservice.html">first Studio Ghibli film to get "the Disney treatment"</a> under the new arrangement was Kiki's Delivery Service, which was released in the US on September 1, 1998, eight years after the Japanese release. Ebert has since reviewed all major Ghibli releases, both in print and as part of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Movies_%28U.S._TV_series%29">At The Movies</a>, even covering some of the earlier Ghibli-related titles. <b><u>Feature-length Studio Ghibli films</u></b> + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica%C3%A4_of_the_Valley_of_the_Wind_%28film%29">Nausica&#0228; of the Valley of the Wind</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nausicaa/">1984</a>, Miyazaki) - reviewed by <a href="http://blogs.suntimes.com/foreignc/2010/08/from-the-valley-of-the-wind.html"> Michael Mirasol</a>, <a href="http://michaelmirasol.com/flipcritic/">the Flipcritic</a>, as part of <a href="">the Foreign Correspondents feature</a> that is edited by Roger Ebert. The movie, based on <a href="http://www.mangafox.com/manga/nausica_of_the_valley_of_the_wind/">the manga by Miyazaki</a>, was produced before Studio Ghibli but is often considered the starting point for the studio. First released as a heavily edited and awkwardly re-dubbed work entitled <a href="http://5x5media.com/eye/film/wotw.php">Warriors of the Wind</a> (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJUDNaGUe48">YT trailer</a>), <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/nausicaa/faq.html#dub">later re-dubbed by Disney</a> and kept true to the original form. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUHWqa9O19Q">English subtitled Japanese trailer collection</a> (YT), <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8704790173215648057#">full English dubbed movie</a> (Google video) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky">Laputa: Castle in the Sky</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/laputa/">1986</a>, Miyazaki) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090527/REVIEWS/905279997/1023">refered to as a point of comparison</a> for some design features in Pixar's <em>Up</em>, but not reviewed by Ebert. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPZXdKtmaY0">subtitled Japanese trailer 1</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBc01PvLD0I">subbed Japanese trailer 2</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyrx3iI2uRc">English dub trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6158179660291495569#">full English dub</a> (Gv) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_of_the_Fireflies">Grave of the Fireflies</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/grave/">1988</a>, <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/takahata/">Isao Takahata</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRXg_ovaE94">review by Ebert</a> (YT clip, edited and extended by a fan) from the Ebert &amp; Roeper era, <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20000319/REVIEWS08/3190301/1023">in print</a>, where he said the film was "an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation," and included in <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=greatmovies_fulllist">Ebert's list of great movies</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSPwdBIbx_U">subbed Japanese trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55935750">full English dub</a> (MySpace video) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbour_Totoro">My Neighbor Totoro</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/totoro/">1988</a>, Miyazaki) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qBl46hC0U">reviewed by Siskel &amp; Ebert</a> (YT), <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20011223/REVIEWS08/112230301/1023">in print</a>, where Ebert said "Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy.... Whenever I watch it, I smile, and smile, and smile." Ebert also included it on his list of great movies. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp9PDj_zb1k">Japanese trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcMwpNidCYM">short clip of English voice actors on the movie</a>, <a href="http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/FEo8rXhaqno/">original Japanese movie unsubbed</a>, <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56162071">Fox Home Video/Troma dub</a> (MySpace vid / <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/totoro/article_presskit.txt">Troma presskit</a>) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki%27s_Delivery_Service">Kiki's Delivery Service</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/kiki/">1989</a>, Miyazaki) - <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/kiki/reviews.html#se913">transcript of Siskel and Ebert At The Movies review</a>, not reviewed in print by Ebert, but <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19981231/COMMENTARY/40308009/1023">included in his Best Movies of 1998</a> (when the US dub was released) in <b>The Chuck Jones Award</b> category for '<em>feature-length cartoons are breaking away from the "children and family" category and growing up into full-bodied entertainments.</em>' Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxKgOkcQFOQ">Japanese trailer 1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPbfQJZNZ9M">Japanese trailer 2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pow4NtGs4Q">Japanese trailer 3</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiyRWdx9WwQ">1998 Disney edition trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piIdiZ44zzU">updated Disney trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.56.com/u13/v_NTI4NDA4MzQ.html">Japanese video with Chinese subtitles</a> (56.com), <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7339060580080249868#">first 11 minutes of the English dub</a> (Gv), and <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55778063">the full US dub</a> (MSv) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only_Yesterday_%28film%29">Only Yesterday</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/opp/">1991</a>, Takahata) - not reviewed by Ebert, and is the only theatrical Studio Ghibli release not available in the US, though <a href="http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=114170&mainArticleId=114160">Turner Classic Movies aired it</a> in January 2006 as part of <a href="http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=114160">tribute to Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli</a>. "<a href="http://antagonie.blogspot.com/2010/05/studio-ghibli-only-yesterday-takahata.html">No matter what your preconceptions about anime might be, <em>Only Yesterday</em> probably confounds them.</a>" Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9WNAcPcIGY">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> (YT), <a href="http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTY2NDY1ODE2.html">Chinese dub</a> (Youku) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porco_Rosso">Porco Rosso</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/porco/">1992</a>, Miyazaki) - not reviewed by Ebert, this movie grew from what was intended to be an in-flight short, <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/porco/">"a movie which tired businessmen on international flights can enjoy even with their minds dulled due to lack of oxygen."</a> Miyazaki expanded the idea into <a href="http://www.danielthomas.org/pop/film_reviews/porco.htm">a story of a pig of a man, along with his friends and enemies, in the Adriatic in 1929</a>, during the early days of the Great Depression and the rise of Italian fascism. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQXYEYqo-0">Japanese trailer 1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zibFwVWgICc">Japanese trailer 2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMIDDkW_giU">Making of the English dub</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/anime/watch/v15414987s6aZetQh">Japanese version with English subs</a> (Veoh, req. Windows-only player plugin) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_Waves_%28film%29">Ocean Waves</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/umi/">1993</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=2270">Tomomi Mochizuki</a>) - also known as <em>I Can Hear the Sea</em> (literal translation), this was Studio Ghibli's first made-for-TV movie, and only one to date. It was also the first Ghibli movie directed by someone other than Miyazaki or Takahata, though Mochizuki had <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomomi_Mochizuki">directed other works before</a>. Videos: <a href="">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> (YT), <a href="http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTQ1NDg2NjEy.html">full movie with Chinese subs</a> (Youku) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom_Poko">Pom Poko</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110008/">1994</a>, Takahata</a>) - <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/pompoko/impressions.html#5">briefly discussed</a> in a <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=ANSWERMAN">Movie Answer Man</a> column, insofar that Ebert thought that a movie featuring mythical abilities of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki">tanuki</a>, or <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/77299/Anchors-Aweigh">racoon dog</a>, would not mesh with cultural and moral understandings elsewhere. In short, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-TizuYcE0A">their ability to transform their testicles into many forms</a> (YT, SFW <small>if your work is OK with animated expanding animal testicles</small>). Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOf-0pbSG1w">collection of Japanese trailers</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguqhItuPsk">Japanese trailer with English subs</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAfqTDoqX98">French trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56416425">full movie, US dub</a> (MSv), <a href="http://vodpod.com/watch/1580928-pom-poko-english-dub">full US dub</a> (Vodpod) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_of_the_Heart_%28film%29">Whisper of the Heart</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113824/">1995</a>, <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Yoshifumi_Kond%C5%8D">Yoshifumi Kondō</a>) - not reviewed by Ebert, roughly based on <a href="http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mimi_wo_sumaseba/">manga of the same name</a>, and the first appearance of <a href="http://www.absoluteanime.com/whisper_of_the_heart/baron.htm">the Baron character</a>. Kondō had worked with Miyazaki and Takahata before the formation of Studio Ghibli back <a href="http://samuraifrog.blogspot.com/2007/06/masters-of-animation-studio-ghibli.html">in the mid-1970s</a>, and <a href="http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=114169&mainArticleId=114160">seen as the natural successor to Miyazaki</a> and Takahata. Kondo passed away from an aneurysm at age 47, in January 1998. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYOqQpMM_ZI">long Japanese trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFw-sc0DdUY">short Japanese trailer with English subs</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ID3prUHbxE">"Behind the Microphone" English dub clip</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55991546">full US dub</a> (MSv) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke">Princess Mononoke</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/">1997</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GEs6m4zutU">discussed by guest reviewer Harry Knowles</a> (YT) of <a href="http://www.aintitcoolNEWS.com/">Ain't It Cool News</a>, <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991029/REVIEWS/910290303/1023">print review by Ebert</a>, in which he said: "Hayao Miyazaki is a great animator, and his 'Princess Mononoke' is a great film. Do not allow conventional thoughts about animation to prevent you from seeing it." The movie also ranked as <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19991231/COMMENTARY/40308007/1023">#6 on Ebert's top 10 films for 1999</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCiD8KLXPEk">Japanese trailer 1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5UTaVo0beY">Japanese trailer 2 with English subs</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkWWWKKA8jY">US trailer</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozKsmxNv8-o">Behind the Microphone</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55911145">Full US dub</a> (MSv) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbours_the_Yamadas">My Neighbors the Yamadas</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/yamada/">1999</a>, Takahata) - not reviewed by Ebert, this movie is the based on a <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/yamada/manga.html">serialized comic strip</a>, and is the first Studio Ghibli film completely made digitally, to achieve the appearance of being made with watercolors, instead of the cel-painted form of other Ghibli films. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H64k8EKuKU">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1UqLOD6TC0">Behind the Microphone</a> (YT), <a href="http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTMzNzY5NDg=.html">full Japanese movie with Chinese subs</a> (Youku) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirited_Away">Spirited Away</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/">2001</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c26gy8Jb-8c">reviewed by Ebert &amp; Roeper</a> (YT), <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020920/REVIEWS/209200306/1023">in print</a> ("I feel like I'm giving a pitch on an infomercial, but I make these points because I come bearing news: This is a wonderful film. Don't avoid it because of what you think you know about animation from Japan. And if you only go to Disney animation--well, this is being released by Disney."), and <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20021231/COMMENTARY/40305001/1023">#8 in Ebert's top 10 movies of 2002</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaBn9Emmlw">Japanese trailer with English subs</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jGXcSBcvQQ">US trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaL9Duhqdu4">Behind the Microphone</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtqbKETUzZg">making of Spirited Away (Japanese language with English subs) part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwp3W60YqxQ">part 2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKo6zknHAfE&">part 3</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkgJuT8Q81k">part 4</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ziyBeqvPpg">part 5</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mYfAVMySQo">part 6</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56216502">full US dub</a> (MSv) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_Returns">The Cat Returns</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/neko/">2002</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroyuki_Morita">Hiroyuki Morita</a>) - not reviewed by Ebert, the film features the return of some elements found in <em>Whisper of the Heart</em>, and is based on the manga <a href="http://www.mangafox.com/manga/baron_the_cat_returns/">Baron: The Cat Returns</a> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aoi_Hiiragi">Aoi Hiiragi</a>, who created the manga behind <em>Whisper</em>. She was commissioned to create the short manga by Studio Ghibli, who were asked to make a short film starring cats. The theme park canceled the project, but the manga was created, and the short film expanded into a movie. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnUl1NmIZ_o">Japanese teaser with English subs</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq7NQ0qs7N0">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56382926">full US dub</a> (MSv) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl%27s_Moving_Castle_%28film%29">Howl's Moving Castle</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347149/">2004</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X79Mm_7zs_Y">reviewed by Ebert &amp; Roeper</a> (YT), <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050609/REVIEWS/50601002">in print</a>, where Ebert said the movie was "a disappointment, compared to [Miyazaki's] recent work." Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfcfUxt4F0s">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> and <a href="">US trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8604596739848246425#">full US dub</a> (Gv), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=55832588">full US dub</a> (MSv) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Earthsea_%28film%29">Tales from Earthsea</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/">2006</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor%C5%8D_Miyazaki">Gorō Miyazaki</a>) - not reviewed by Ebert, this film was directed by Hayao Miyazaki's son, who had <a href="http://www.ghibliworld.com/gedosenkiatviff2006.html">initially not wanted to follow his father, yet returned to prove his capabilities</a>, though the resulting movie faced mixed review of an odd sort. The movie is loosely based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthsea">first four Earthsea books</a> by <a href="http://www.ursulakleguin.com/">Ursula K. Le Guin</a>. The younger Miyazaki turned from animation and instead <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/profile.html">became a construction consultant of parks and gardens</a>, but was invited to work on the <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/museum/">Studio Ghibli Museum</a>, and he was <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/faq.html#goro">the museum's director from 2001 to 2005</a>, when he turned his attention to directing his first film. Gorō <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/">wrote about the process</a>, how <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/prologue.html">his father was against his son directing "Tales from Earthsea"</a>, and <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/blog41.html">Gorō gave Hayao Miyazaki gets zero marks as a father, but full marks as a director of animated films</a> (though <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/blog68.html">another story slipped out</a> in a supplementary entry while the director was busy). Hayao Miyazaki attended the launch party without telling his son, and passed along a few positive words at the end -- "<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/earthsea/blog/blog112.html">It was made honestly, so it was good</a>," which greatly lifted Gorō's spirits. -- <a href="http://www.ursulakleguin.com/GedoSenkiResponse.html">review by Ursula K. Le Guin</a>, and <a href="http://www.suite101.com/content/miyazaki-family-feud-redux-a7387">drama reaches the English-speaking 'net</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05sCTxnEs9Y">Japanese trailer with English subs</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flkYyniVj8k">English trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=56385817">full US dub</a> (MSv) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponyo">Ponyo</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0876563/">2008</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-RluzKAFeM">reviewed by Lyons and Mankiewicz</a> (YT) in their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Movies_%28U.S._TV_series%29#Lyons_and_Mankiewicz_.282008.E2.80.932009.29">continuation of At the Movies</a>, <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090812/REVIEWS/908129989">print review by Ebert</a> ("This cannot help sounding like standard animated fare. But I have failed to evoke the wonder of Hayao Miyazaki’s artistry. This 68-year-old Japanese master continues to create animation drawn by hand, just as “Snow White” and “Pinocchio” were. There is a fluid, organic quality to his work that exposes the facile efficiency of CGI. And, my God! — his imagination!"). Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh4rqs62pL8">Japanese trailer with English YT pop-up subs</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soHf8jnmQNs">US trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/UVNXDylLdO8/">full Japanese movie with Chinese subs</a> (Tudou), <a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/anime/watch/v197864902GmwkHqJ">full English dub</a> (Veoh, plugin req.) + <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrower_Arrietty">The Borrower Arrietty</a> (<a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Arrietty_the_Borrower">2010</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiromasa_Yonebayashi">Hiromasa Yonebayashi</a>) - Released to theaters in Japan on July 17, 2010, this movie is based on the 1952 children's fantasy novel, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers">The Borrowers</a>. This is Yonebayashi's directorial debut, and <a href="http://www.nausicaa.net/wiki/Latest_News">Miyazaki sounds pleased with the results</a> <small>(time-sensitive link, pointing to GhibliWiki's Latest News, with translations of a YouTube clip that is already removed. A bit of translation, copied for posterity from GhibliWiki: Miyazaki says to Yonebayashi, "You did it really well. It was three times better than I thought. You had better take a rest for awhile. It is not a shameful work even if we show it to anyone. I felt a director appeared at last. I was relieved. It was really good. I cried." (laughs) )</small> Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzpjowGmY-A">Japanese teaser</a> and <a href="">Japanese trailer</a> (YT) <b><u>Other anime films reviewed by Ebert (and friends)</u></b> * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wings_of_Honneamise">Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honn&#0234;amise</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093207/">1987</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=1519">Hiroyuki Yamaga</a>) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19950512/REVIEWS/505120307/1023">reviewed in print only</a>, listed with <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19951231/COMMENTARY/40308018/1023">an honorable mention in Ebert's top 10 for 1995</a> when it was released in the US. Videos: <a href="">Japanese trailer</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fcvUrhFEpk">Manga Ent. US trailer</a> (YT). * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z">Roujin Z</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102812/">1991</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=5">Hiroyuki Kitakubo</a>) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960405/REVIEWS/604050303/1023">reviewed by Ebert in print</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH4K3OkRqL8">US trailer</a> (YT) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_%28film%29">Ghost in the Shell</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113568/">1995</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=52">Mamoru Oshii</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2l3hEEtdk">reviewed by Siskel &amp; Ebert</a> (YT) and <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19960412/REVIEWS/604120302/1023">in print by Ebert</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj-hU1xHpig">Japanese trailer</a> <small>(YT login required)</small>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP2Pt6m3yKU">US trailer</a> <small>(NSFW - animated nudity)</small>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1P2J7fXWkg">US dub in 6 parts</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/rnUmUo3nc8w/">full movie with original Japanese soundtrack and Chinese subtitles</a> (Tudou), and <a href="http://vimeo.com/10662248">Conan O'Brien &amp; Andy Richter dubbing the movie</a> (Vimeo). * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_%28anime%29">Metropolis</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293416/">2001</a>, <a href="http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=2617">Rintaro</a>) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnIS3DVc1f4">reviewed by Ebert &amp; Roeper</a> (YT), <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20020125/REVIEWS/201250304/1023">in print</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJLcOW4vzPY">Japanese trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaZfZwqeCrA">Japanese teaser</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdxJHPucC8I">US trailer</a> (YT), <a href="http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/lbSV57oQ1jc/">full Japanese movie with Chinese subs</a> (Tudou) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Godfathers">Tokyo Godfathers</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388473/">2003</a>, <a href="http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/satoshi_kon.shtml">Satoshi Kon</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/95096/Satoshi-Kon-director-of-Perfect-Blue-and-Millennium-Actress-dead-at-47">previous [obit]</a>) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040130/REVIEWS/401300306/1023">reviewed in print</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q6mcx2qF4Q">US trailer</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUJnhQ4wpFg">full Japanese movie with English subs</a> (YT) * <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboy">Steamboy</a> (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348121/">2004</a>, <a href="http://www.midnighteye.com/interviews/katsuhiro_otomo.shtml">Katsuhiro Otomo</a>) - <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050317/REVIEWS/50309001/1001">reviewed by Ebert in print</a>. Videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1haSQGb3xs">Japanese trailer</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eAk6oNBSMU">US trailer</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcsRUmb8hOs">US dub in 13 parts</a> (YT) tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.95246 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:46:06 -0800 animation anime AtTheMovies CastleintheSky Earthsea Ebert EbertAndRoeper Ghibli GhostintheShell GitS GoroMiyazaki GraveoftheFireflies HarryKnowles HayaoMiyazaki HiromasaYonebayashi HiroyukiKitakubo HiroyukiMorita HiroyukiYamaga Honneamise HowlsMovingCastle ICanHeartheSea IsaoTakahata Japan KatsuhiroOtomo KikisDeliveryService Kitakubo Knowles Kon Kondo Laputa LaputaCastleintheSky LyonsAndMankiewicz MamoruOshii MaryNorton Metropolis Miyazaki MononokeHime Morita moviereviews movies MyNeighborstheYamadas MyNeighborTotoro Nausicaa NausicaaoftheValleyoftheWind OceanWaves OnlyYesterday Oshii Otomo PomPoko Ponyo PorcoRosso PrincessMononoke ProdigalSon racoondog reviews Rintaro Roeper RogerEbert RoujinZ RoyalSpaceForceTheWingsofHonneamise SatoshiKon Siskel SiskelAndEbert SpiritedAway Steamboy StudioGhibli Takahata TalesfromEarthsea tanuki TheBorrowerArrietty TheBorrowers TheCatReturns TokyoGodfathers Totoro UrsulaKLeGuin ValleyoftheWind WhisperoftheHeart Yamadas Yamaga YoshifumiKondo filthy light thief