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In adapting Mary Norton’s The Borrowers the talented hands of Studio Ghibli crafted a magnificent and moving film with Arrietty. Pleasingly the film was very well received and marked a fine debut for director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who was a key member of the animation department under Miyazaki’s old and young with early work on Princess [...]
While I now, of course, appreciate the full genius of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli – I’m only human – it wasn’t exactly love at first sight. Having caught Spirited Away as a teenager, complete with pig parents and a rather spiritless American voice-over, I was clearly ill-equipped to take it in – distracted as [...]
Studio Ghibli’s beautifully enchanting animation, Arrietty arrives in cinemas nationwide on 29th July 2011. Adapted from Mary Norton’s well-known, children’s favourite ‘The Borrowers’, and voiced by Saoirse Ronan (Lovely Bones), Tom Holland, Mark Strong, Olivia Colman, Pyhllida Law and Geraldine McEwan. Arrietty tells the story of 14 year old adventurous Arrietty, who despite being warned [...]
Those lucky enough to be up in Edinburgh for the International Film Festival have the chance to see the latest from Studio Ghibli, and there’s a new UK poster out in the wild tonight for Arrietty. Based on Mary Norton’s The Borrowers the animated film has had some excellent trailers over the past year and [...]
Marking the directorial debut of animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Arrietty – Studio Ghibli’s latest output – is a magical adaptation of Mary Norton’s much-loved British classic The Borrowers, and a personal project for esteemed Ghilbi co-founder and animator extraordinaire Hayao Miyazaki. The film centres on 14-year-old Arrietty and the rest of the Clock family who live [...]
With HeyUGuys recently posting the Top films of the Decade as voted by you the reader, I thought I would look back into noughties myself and do my own top 10 films of the last decade as I was a bit disappointed with a majority of the top 10 choices like Kill Bill, There will [...]
