Steven Greydanus: “The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki”
Steven D. Greydanus (of Decent Films fame) has posted a wonderful overview of Hayao Miyazaki, his films, and their influence on American cinema. Miyazaki’s American proponents hoped Ponyo would be his breakout film stateside, but mainstream success in America continues to elude him. That is a shame, and our loss. Hayao Miyazaki is one of the most important living filmmakers many readers haven’t heard of. He can easily be called the world’s foremost living director of... Read More
Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom: Excerpt 5 – Miyazaki
From a 2005 interview with Xan Brooks for the Western release of Howl’s Moving Castle: Personally I am very pessimistic… But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can’t help but bless them for a good future. Because I can’t tell that child, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t have come into this life.’ And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should... Read More
The Next Miyazaki?
For many people, the name “Hayao Miyazaki” is synonymous with the word “anime”. And understandably so: Miyazaki has been responsible for some of the finest examples of the artform, both in terms of aesthetics and storytelling, in the last three decades. But considering the fact that Miyazaki is nearing his seventies, and that he’s “threatened” retirement on several occasions, folks are naturally wondering who will follow in the master’s... Read More
Miyazaki returns… in print.
Impatient for the release of Hayao Miyazaki’s new film Ponyo on the Cliff? Here’s another reason to be impatient. The great storyteller’s essays, which Twitch tells us have now been translated into English, will be available at bookstores on July 7. You can now pre-order Starting Point: 1979 – 1996: This is a collection of columns and essays by Miyazaki in which he covers his work in animation, his founding of studio Ghibli, the state of animation worldwide... Read More
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