Way back all the way in July, you might recall, I made the idiotic choice to have an open poll for the director who'd get a retrospective next. Things got unscientific awfully fast, with supporters for both Alan Pakula and Miyazaki Hayao unabashedly cheating to inflate the numbers for their candidate (seven months later, and I still can't understand where the Pakula fanbase came from). Anyway, my Solomonic wisdom drove me to announce Pakula the winner (he was in the lead when the really heavy-duty ballot-stuffing kicked in), and that I'd launch into a Miyazaki retrospective just as soon as I had some free time. And that time has now finally come.
Therefore: Antagony & Ecstasy is proud to announce our fourth Director Retrospective, dedicated to the work of one of the most beloved animation auteurs in world history. Following the lead of a friend, I toyed with the idea of calling it Hiyo, Miyazaki! A Look Back at the Master of Anime, but I'm not sure if I'm quite that terrible.
The fun starts tomorrow, with a consideration of the 1978 series Future Boy Conan.
25 February 2010
3 comments:
Just a few rules so that everybody can have fun: ad hominem attacks on the blogger are fair; ad hominem attacks on other commenters will be deleted. And I will absolutely not stand for anything that is, in my judgment, demeaning, insulting or hateful to any gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religion. And though I won't insist on keeping politics out, let's think long and hard before we say anything particularly inflammatory.
Also, sorry about the whole "must be a registered user" thing, but I do deeply hate to get spam, and I refuse to take on the totalitarian mantle of moderating comments, and I am much too lazy to try to migrate over to a better comments system than the one that comes pre-loaded with Blogger.
What fun!
ReplyDelete"THE JAPANESE WALT DISNEY" Miyazaki does not like being called that. He isn't exactly found of Disney.
ReplyDeleteStill, I am looking forward to this retrospective.
I'd have called it "The Japanese Walt Disney Who Isn't A Corporate Figurehead a la Walt Disney", the difference being that there was a 'Little Mermaid' Happy Meal but there sure as hell ain't no 'Ponyo' Happy Meal.
ReplyDeleteIt's the little things that make a difference.