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Day: March 13, 2017

Towards a True Children’s Cinema: on ‘My Neighbor Totoro’

Lauren Wilford·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
My Neighbor Totoro is a children’s film for the world as it is, and for the world as it should be.
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The Things We Never Forget, Even When We Can’t Remember: Fear and Bravery in ‘Spirited Away’

Ethan Warren·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
In Spirited Away, I see a film that I can show my daughter to find herself in, and a model I can only hope to embody myself.
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A Body is a Heavy Thing

Kelsey Ford·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
The world of Howl’s Moving Castle, filled with mystery and magic, strips away the truth of a body’s danger.
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We Contain Multitudes

Kelcie Mattson·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
At different forked roads in my 27 years, I saw Miyazaki’s women and thought, I can? And each, in her distinct way, said Yes.
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The Nuclear Resonance of ‘Castle in the Sky’

Astrid Anne Rose·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
Nature in Castle in the Sky is much simpler; its purity is corrupted by human influence.
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Nothing to Fear

Sarah Welch-Larson·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is not, perhaps, Miyazaki’s best movie, but it is his most earnest and original; a declaration of ideals that his later movies will refine.
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Better Living Through Minimalism: On the Soul of ‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’

Tim Markatos·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
What all this lavish praise doesn’t explain is why, precisely, the hand-drawn aesthetic matters for the particular story being told.
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Everyone Has to Cooperate: Nationalism and Victimhood in ‘Grave of the Fireflies’

Bradley J. Dixon·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
The film is a warning that bullets and bombs are not the only deadly forces in wartime.
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We Can’t Rely on Men

Zosha Millman·
Issue 45: Studio Ghibli
It’s always felt like Ghibli movies understood what it meant to grow up as a girl, still unconvinced by the world that she has to fight for everything she has.
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