Hayao Miyazaki

...the case here. Little Fluffy Gigolo Pelu features enough dire absurdity that it'll force you to laugh. This past summer, did Hayao Miyazaki say anything worth remembering during this North American appearances? I can't think of anything.

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...developments encroaching on their territory. It's not a stop-motion film, but was directed by Isao Takahata under the umbrella of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli. We also love the great works of Aardman Studios, the people responsible for...

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...Fox, the CG-enhanced genius of Up, the wonder of 3-D technology, and, indeed, the unique, hand-drawn Japanese artistry of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo as the year's deepest, most affecting, and most inventive movies. Still, for the greenest or...

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...interviews with Tim Burton and Mike Judge and Stephen Hillenburg and Robert Smigel, roundtables with John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki, to time with minds behind "Wall-E" and "Up" and "Monsters vs. Aliens" and "Ice Age" and "Frog and...

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...and on the bayou. Some of the animated sequences are downright trippy - Disney influenced by the wild imagination of such masters as Hayao Miyazaki, whose U.S. releases the studio handles. Like the jerky stop-motion animation of "Fantastic...

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...less." Producer and Academy for Creative Media founder Chris Lee said it "brings to mind a sort of demented collaboration between Hayao Miyazaki and Tim Burton." In December, Kerekes will release it online for the first time, an effort he...

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...ears and a tail. Beast and Colossus, drawn in the U.S. comics as rather imposing figures, look more like characters from whimsical Hayao Miyazaki or Osamu Tezuka productions here. What emerges from all this is an odd hybrid that raises the...

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...touches. With storytelling perfection, "Amelie" celebrates the purity of the human heart and the delights of being one of a kind. Hayao Miyazaki is a professional overwhelmer. His 2001 film "Spirited Away" left young audiences manic and...

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...chance to be nominated. "Ponyo" too. Judges usually like to throw in art-house options, especially by Japanese anime icon Hayao Miyazaki, whose "Howl's Moving Castle" was nominated in 2004 and whose "Spirited Away" won in 2001. Miyazaki's...

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...has only been one year where five films have been nominated for the award. In 2003, 17 films qualified and Japanese film-maker Hayao Miyazaki's fantasy Spirited Away claimed the Oscar. Films submitted in the animated feature film category...

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