Japanese Title: Umi ga kikoeru Directed By: Tomomi Mochizuki Produced By: Isao Takahata Originally Released: May 5, 1993 You might have noticed last week that I said that this week we’d be talking about Pom Poko. Well, it turns out that I made a mistake and […]
Japanese Title: Omoide Poro Poro Directed By: Isao Takahata Produced By: Toshio Suzuki Originally Released: July 20, 1991 I’ve come to think of Studio Ghibli as the masters of making boring stories about nothing happening feel absolutely captivating. Only Yesterday is a prime example of this […]
Japanese Title: Majo no takkyubin Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki Produced By: Hayao Miyazaki Originally Released: July 29, 1989 If My Neighbor Totoro is a story of the last days of childhood, then Kiki’s Delivery Service is the spiritual sequel about the first day of adulthood. One thing that I […]
Japanese Title: Tonari no Totoro Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki Produced By: Toru Hara Originally Released: April 16, 1988 After watching Grave of the Fireflies, literally any film we watched next was going to feel like a friendly reprieve. Heck, we watched The Conjuring 2 this week and I thought […]
Japanese Title: Tenku no shiro Rapyuta Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki Produced By: Isao Takahata Originally Released: August 2, 1986 Using the funds from the wildly successful Nausicaa, Miyazaki and Takahata were able to open a newly formed studio which would produce work that didn’t have to […]
Japanese Title: Kaze no tani no Naushika Directed By: Hayao Miyazaki Produced By: Isao Takahata Originally Released: March 11, 1984 Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind WAS NOT made by Studio Ghibli. It’s important to get that out of the way. Many people consider […]
Original Release: August 12, 2016 Directed By: David Lowery After months of looking forward to the remake of Pete’s Dragon, I eagerly waited throughout the work day to make my way to our local theater and watch the story of a young boy, lost in the woods, who […]
There’s an old story about a man who lives in a cave and stares at a wall for his entire life, seeing only the shadows of those outside the cave. He thinks this is everything there is. Then, one day, he gets up and goes outside and sees […]
Watching every Pixar film in order is sort of like watching a conveyor belt of creative excellence. I often say that things come to us precisely when we need them, and Vault Pixar is very much that for me. Faced with the struggle of writing my next novel, […]
Original Release: June 21, 2103 Directed By: Dan Scanlon Screenplay By: Dan Gerson, Robert L. Baird and Dan Scanlon Starring: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and Helen Mirren If I could give an award to the most underrated Pixar film, I think I would easily give it to Monsters […]
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