The sensation called animation
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988). Dir. Isao Takahata.
Hotaru no Haka / La Tumba de Las LuciérnagasRoger Ebert: “Yes, it’s a cartoon, and the kids have eyes like saucers, but it belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made.’
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Studio Ghibli, Kiki’s Delivery Service, 1989
魔女の宅急便, Majo no Takkyūbin
Kiki: “We can fly with our spirit.”A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
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L'Illusionniste / The Illusionist
Film d'animation / Animation feature film
Sylvain Chomet (2010)
Written by Sylvain Chomet and Jacques Tati
Jacques Tati originally wrote the script for The Illusionist. It was a love letter from a father to his first daughter, but never got produced. Sylvain Chomet, director of The Triplets of Belleville / Les Triplettes de Belleville, adapted the script and once again used his own original animated style.
Official Selection: 2010 Berlin International Film Festival
Official Selection: 2010 Toronto International Film Festival
Opening Night: 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival
Academy Award. Animated Feature, nominated (last 3)
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My Neighbor Totoro (Japanese: となりのトトロ Hepburn: Tonari no Totoro?) is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film – which stars the voice actors Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, and Hitoshi Takagi – tells the story of the two young daughters (Satsuki and Mei) of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988.
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Heidi is a Swiss work of fiction, originally published in two parts as Heidi’s years of learning and travel / Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre and Heidi makes use of what she has learned /Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat.
It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather’s care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book “for children and those who love children” in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri.
About 20 film or television productions of the original story have been made. The Heidi films were popular far and wide, becoming a huge hit and an iconic animated series in several countries around the world. The only incarnation of the Japanese-produced animated TV series to reach the English language was a dubbed feature-length compilation movie using the most pivotal episodes of the television series, released on video in the United States in 1985. -
Heidi is a Swiss work of fiction, originally published in two parts as Heidi’s years of learning and travel / Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre and Heidi makes use of what she has learned /Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat.
It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather’s care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book “for children and those who love children” in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri.
About 20 film or television productions of the original story have been made. The Heidi films were popular far and wide, becoming a huge hit and an iconic animated series in several countries around the world. The only incarnation of the Japanese-produced animated TV series to reach the English language was a dubbed feature-length compilation movie using the most pivotal episodes of the television series, released on video in the United States in 1985. -
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Spirited Away, or Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (千と千尋の神隠し) is an anime film, first released in Japan in 2001, about a young girl who discovers a fantasy world where spirits live after her parents undergo a mysterious transformation.
Chihiro: “It’s just…a bad dream! Come on, wake up! Wake up…“ -
The cats of Studio Ghilbli
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Jiji in Kiki’s Delivery Service, 1989
魔女の宅急便, Majo no Takkyūbin
Kiki: “We can fly with our spirit.”
Did you know? Kirsten Dunst voiced Kiki in Disney’s 1997 English dub, released in 1998. -
Studio Ghibli, Kiki’s Delivery Service, 1989
魔女の宅急便, Majo no Takkyūbin
Kiki: “We can fly with our spirit.”A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
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Studio Ghibli, Kiki’s Delivery Service, 1989
魔女の宅急便, Majo no Takkyūbin
Kiki: “We can fly with our spirit.”A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
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Color Breakdowns Of Miyazaki’s FilmsHyo Taek Kim
