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Ten years after ‘The Wind Rises,’ the world’s greatest living animator returns with a hauntingly personal story of grief, loss and perseverance.
Awards
In a tribute, director Guillermo del Toro says of the animation master’s films, “They are paradoxical because he understands that beauty cannot exist without horror, and delicacy cannot exist without brutality.”
The sixth annual Animation Is Film Festival will present Hayao Miyazaki in Imax, an Aardman animation workshop and an array of international and American releases.
The Academy Museum’s “Hayao Miyazaki” exhibition, the first North American museum retrospective on the acclaimed filmmaker, opens April 30, 2021.
Television
In Screen Gab no. 149, we catch up with ‘Challengers,’ now streaming on Prime Video, speak with the man behind Colin Farrell’s prosthetics in ‘The Penguin’ and more.
Hollywood Inc.
Gone are the days where prospective moviegoers would roll up to the theaters and gawk at the board for their next watch. Theaters are trying to make up that business in other ways.
Opinion
The Democrats are getting mileage with a new line of attack against the Republican ticket. But what does “weird” really mean?
World & Nation
Tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, where the quake was centered, in the southwestern island of Kyushu, as well as nearby Kochi.
The two firms have already worked together to release films in the U.S., with GKids handling last year’s Oscar-winning Studio Ghibli feature “The Boy and the Heron.” Financial terms were not disclosed.
Sony Animation’s “Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse” bested Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron” to win best feature at this year’s Annie Awards.