I will gladlyĪgree that Poppy Hill is much better than Earthsea (a very low standard Working their hardest to help him grow into the director’s role.īut it always comes back to that simple fact – Goro Miyazaki has noĮxperience as a filmmaker, a storyteller, or an animator. He’s being groomed to inherit the familyīusiness from his father, and despite his lack of experience, they’re Goro Miyazaki, after all, is the presumptive I just wasn’t in the best mood, and like you, I feel a great desire to Viewing at the Uptown Theater was a frustrating disappointment. I completely understand and agree with your sentiments. It becomes cliché when it should have torn at our hearts. Shouldn’t have expected from a sophomore director without the properĮxperience to play out that very complex relationship between him and Maybe that’s why I felt I was so negative. Yet not even a hint of any of these in Poppy Hill.
There are so many other Ghibli moments for me, I could keep going. In the movies – standing at the bus stop with Totoro in the rain waiting for the bus to arrive. The forest, dressed like a deer stands watching him from across the
I think of Princess Mononoke when the god of Name” to the dark foreign and silent land of Yubaba, Zeniba’s twin (so many moments) where Chihiro rides on that ghost train with “No Matter how many times I’ve seen the film it always does it. My heart – my entire body lifted in exuberance with that scene. I think of Ponyo riding those waves of the Tsunami. It will certainly spark discussions and debates among your movie-loving friends.Īnimator and writer Michael Sporn is feeling slightly conflicted about his critical review of From Up on Poppy Hill. I'd like to find a way for both mediums to exist peacefully.Īnyway, find the time to see this movie. I only hope we don't discard that analog magic in the process. Digital technology and the internet open doors of opportunity that we could barely imaging. This is an exciting time for music, photography and the movies. Pressing the Play button isn't quite the same experience. There's a ritual to the mechanics of placing a record on a platter, and moving a tonearm into position. I do appreciate the many conveniences of modern digital technology, but analog has a special way of capturing reality, either images or music, that is warmer, more romantic. On the analog vs digital debate, I tend to side with analog, at least when it comes to music. It is produced and narrated by Keanu Reeves and features discussions and insights by scores of filmmakers, including Martin Scorcese, David Lynch, James Cameron, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez, and many more. Currently playing on Netflix is this excellent 2012 documentary on the history of film, and our crossroads between photo-chemical film and digital technology.
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