Alex here. The new episode of the GSSFT Podcast can be downloaded here. This time my special guest David Stark and I discuss the first film to come out of what would become Studio Ghibli – Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
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Lauren Bacall Tribute Podcast – “Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)”
On a very special podcast, David Stark and I discuss what is, to my knowledge, Lauren Bacall‘s only venture into SF and Fantasy film – the Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 animated film Howl’s Moving Castle, and its English Dub, featuring Lauren Bacall as The Witch of the Waste. Download the podcast here.
Note: One point I forgot to mention on the podcast – the film was originally slated to be directed by Mamoru Hosoda, who has directed two SF films which we’ll be discussing later on the GSSFT Podcasts – Summer Wars, and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, before Hosada was removed from the project and Miyazaki took over.
Manga Review – Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind: Volume 2
Time to get back to Hayao Miyazaki’s only manga series, with Nausicaa Volume 2. Continue reading →
Manga Review – Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind Vol. 1
This week I’m taking a look at the first volume of Hayao Miyazaki’s first (and thus far, only) manga – which Studio Ghibli’s first film was based on – Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.
Evangelion 1.0 Isn’t Elgible For Oscar But Ponyo Is
Anime News Network is reporting that Neon Genesis Evangelion 1.0: You Are (not) Alone, the first film of Gainax’s Eva reset film trilogy is, unfortunately, not eligible for the Academy award for Best Animated Feature. According to the Acadamy’s rules, a foreign film is eligible for nomination for this year’s awards if it first opened outside the US after January 1st, 2008. However, Eva 1.0 opened on September 1st, 2007, and Funimation licensed the film around December. Ponyo, however, is elgible, meeting the requirements for US and Domestic release dates. Continue reading →
Weekend Review – Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
This week our review is of one of Hayao Miyazaki’s films that, well, the lack of a review of thsi film has been a bit of an oversight – one which is now rectified. The DVD has been out for a while, and the hype behind it is enormous, but the question is – how is it in comparsion with Miyazaki’s more recent stuff.