An image from director Michael Dudok de Wit's animated fable 'The Red Turtle,' one of five films nominated for the Oscar for best animated feature in 2017. (Sony Pictures Classics) Though it is among ...
The new trailer for Studio Ghibli's film The Red Turtle has come out of its shell and it looks like it's going to be another tearjerker from the Japanese animation production company. In the trailer, ...
From My Neighbor Totoro to Spirited Away, Studio Ghibli has shaped generations with films full of warmth, wonder, and environmental themes. Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and their teams became known ...
We’re born; life washes us up on various shores; we build our sand castles and navigate the years; we die. From this four-part miniseries we call human existence, the Dutch animator Michael Dudok de ...
Who can resist a good old "stranded on a desert island" tale, the standard allegory for our existential predicament? Nearly a decade in the making, Dutch director Michael Dudok de Wit has teamed up ...
You don’t need words to create poetry. Without spoken dialogue, the Oscar-nominated “The Red Turtle,” a richly imagined French-Belgian animated drama created with the skillful assistance of Japan’s ...
It’s no wonder that animated films have come to symbolize the commercial excesses of 21st-century Hollywood. Budgets for animated blockbusters routinely exceed $200 million and take years and an army ...
The Academy Awards are a celebration of film-making, awarding the best films in several categories for their excellence. From ...