One day I will gather the three Studio Ghibli films I still do not have. I have been following Hayao Miyazaki and his studio partner Isao Takahata since the late 1980s. Miyazaki is to be admired first for his obsession with everything he does. He is a true film auteur who invents, draws, writes, storyboards and directs. Most of his stories are wholly original. If not they are from Books no one has ever heard of. I also love now each of his films pull the viewers in and that not one of them really has a true villain. Plus all of them suspend belief which makes them captivating. OK, that’s enough. Miyazaki has directed 11 films for Studio Ghibli and my four favorites are: Kiki’s Delivery Service for the design and the storyboards; Spirited Away for it’s terrific originality; Princess Mononoke for its myth and fable; and My Neighbor Totoro for the cat bus, the Totoro figures and the trees. Of the four films directed by Isao Takahata, my favorite is Grave of the Fireflies.
Although animated it is one of the very best war and anti-war films ever produced in my view. incidentally “ghibli” is an Italian word Italian pilots once used to describe winds blowing from the Sahara Desert.
One day I will gather the three Studio Ghibli films I still do not have. I have been following Hayao Miyazaki and his studio partner Isao Takahata since the late 1980s. Miyazaki is to be admired first for his obsession with everything he does. He is a true film auteur who invents, draws, writes, storyboards and directs. Most of his stories are wholly original. If not they are from Books no one has ever heard of. I also love now each of his films pull the viewers in and that not one of them really has a true villain. Plus all of them suspend belief which makes them captivating. OK, that’s enough. Miyazaki has directed 11 films for Studio Ghibli and my four favorites are: Kiki’s Delivery Service for the design and the storyboards; Spirited Away for it’s terrific originality; Princess Mononoke for its myth and fable; and My Neighbor Totoro for the cat bus, the Totoro figures and the trees. Of the four films directed by Isao Takahata, my favorite is Grave of the Fireflies.
Although animated it is one of the very best war and anti-war films ever produced in my view. incidentally “ghibli” is an Italian word Italian pilots once used to describe winds blowing from the Sahara Desert.
I have 21 Studio Ghibli films in my animation collection. Comments on Miyazaki to follow in a day or two.
The Ghibli Museum in Tokyo is fantastical 🤩
Here's my pick for a more seasoned romance - Drew and Ellie Holcomb "Feels Like Home"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDWpFq7okgo