Thursday, November 8, 2012
Film The company that should have bought LucasFilms
Posted by Gabe Wardell on Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:55 AM
- Courtesy of GKIDS/Studio Ghibli
- Anime I?
With so much talk and chatter the past two weeks focusing on the blockbuster deal between LucasFilms and the Walt Disney Company, what better time to ponder what the future of the franchise might look like in the hands of the world's greatest animation studio?
When The Walt Disney Company looks into the mirror on the wall to ask who's the fairest animation studio of them all, the answer, since 1985 invariably comes back: "Studio Ghibli." (This must be why Disney holds international rights to much of the Ghibli library.)
The brainchild of directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and the producer Toshio Suzuki, Studio Ghibli has produced seventeen feature films celebrated for their nuanced, textured, richly detailed landscapes; their vivid imagery; and their imaginative, fantastic, epic story lines. Ghibli films often feature child protagonists in allegorical stories that feature mythic figures from the spirit world interacting with the "real" world.
In addition to their status as critical darlings, Studio Ghibli's films claim eight slots on the chart of top fifteen highest-grossing anime films of all time, with Miyazaki's Spirited Away holding the top spot all films in Japan, topping James Cameron’s Titanic (1997) and Avatar (2010).
The series "The Studio Ghibli Collection" opens Friday November 9 for one week only at the Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, showcasing 14 features over the course of the next week all in 35mm prints, in the original Japanese with English subtitles, except where noted after the jump.
One can only imagine what future Star Wars films might look like in the hands of Miyazaki and the Ghibli team.
The complete line-up follows:
Fri, Nov 9: Howl's Moving Castle (2004) in English: 11:10am, 4:20 and 9:45pm
Fri, Nov 9: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) at 1:45, 7:00pm and 12:15am
Sat, Nov 10: Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) at 11:45am, 4:45 and 9:40pm
Sat, Nov 10: Spirited Away (2001) at 2:05, 7:00 and 11:45pm
Sun, Nov 11: My Neighbor Totoro (1988) at 12:15, 5:00 and 9:40pm
Sun, Nov 11: Castle in the Sky (1986) at 2:20 and 7:00pm
Mon, Nov 12: The Cat Returns (2002) in English: 10:15am, 2:45 and 7:00pm
Mon, Nov 12: Whisper of the Heart (1995) at 12:15, 4:35 and 8:50pm
Tue, Nov 13: My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999) at 11:50am, 4:40 and 9:40pm
Tue, Nov 13: Pom Poko (1994) at 2:10 and 7:00pm
Wed, Nov 14: Porco Rosso (1992) at 1:05, 5:15 and 9:25pm
Wed, Nov 14: Ponyo (2008) in English: 3:05 and 7:15pm
Thu, Nov 15: Princess Mononoke (1997) at 1:30 and 7:00pm
Thu, Nov 15: Only Yesterday (1991) at 4:25 and 9:50pm
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