Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2001 – Japan – Cert. PG – 125m ****1/2 (A shorter version of this review was originally published in Third Way for UK release date 12/09/2002. At which point, hardly anyone in the UK outside of anime fandom knew who Miyazaki was.) In director Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, a ten-year-old […]
Director – Ava DuVernay – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 135m *** A US journalist researches a book reinterpreting US racist attitudes to black people through both the Nazi’s segregation of Jews and the Indian caste system’s treatment of Dalits – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 8th This is based on […]
Director – Hayao Miyazaki – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 124m ***** During WorldWar Two, a boy bereaved of his mother moves to the countryside with his businessman father where a heron lures him into another dimension to rescue his vanished stepmother – out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 26th Directors, eh? […]
Director – Erick Oh – 2020 – South Korea – 9m ***** Compelling, Oscar-nominated schematic of a self-contained society’s infrastructure behaviour and movement of groups of people within it over a day and a night – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Short Films In Competition section – Official 4 This feels like […]