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The Motion/Captured Review: Miyazaki's magical 'Ponyo'

29 June 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | From Hitfix.com | See recent Hitfix news

My introduction to the work of Hayao Miyazaki was a crash course right around the time Miramax was getting ready to release "Princess Mononoke" here in the Us.  One of the regular contributors to AICN, Paul Alvarado-Dykstra, was a raving Miyazaki lunatic, and he had spent months trying to talk Miramax into letting AICN have one of the one-on-one interview spots when Miyazaki came to La.  He finally talked them into it... and then couldn't make it to La for the interview. He was gutted, and I still feel bad about it.  He really should have been the one to sit...

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Trailer Park: Spreading, Bending and Breaking

27 June 2009 5:03 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

The Box

Richard Kelly didn't exactly set the world on fire with Southland Tales, but his previous film Donnie Darko is one of my favorite movies of all time and I'm hoping this new film is more along those lines. Based on a short story by Richard Matheson, The Box stars Cameron Diaz and James Marsden as a couple whose financial problems can be cleared up quite simply. If they press the button on a mysterious box then they will be given a million dollars but someone they don't know will die. Sounds like a classic Twilight Zone moral dilemma, and Matheson did pen a few episodes of the series. We can find out what's in the box on October 30.

Ponyo

I really like the look of this animated feature since it doesn't look like Disney's typical work (they're releasing it here in the States) and it looks kind of

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Matt Bradshaw

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Top Ten: Pixar

31 May 2009 2:50 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

tuesday thursday top ten: for the listmaker in me and the listlover in you

What follows is a reworking of a post originally published in 2007. It's two years later and you know what that means: Pixar has given us two more classics. Up brings their feature film count to ten. You know what Ten means: Top Ten Time!

Pixar by Preference

Cars (John Lasseter, 2006) 117 min.

Pixar's only dud. Chief among its problems: the anthropomorphics were forced. Let me get this straight: Cars as bugs on windshields of cars as cars who act like humans and they even sleep in hotels for cars -- What? What? It's not quite Shark Tale in the realm of painful "they're just like us!" pandering but it's not 'good' either. I would give it a second chance except it's also Pixar's longest feature... too long by about 23 minutes. Thankfully, they seem to have reversed their bloated running time trending.

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NATHANIEL R

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Images And Poster From Miyazaki's Ponyo

12 May 2009 3:29 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

You don't have to care about anime to be excited about a new Miyazaki movie. The Japanese director responsible for Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle has earned legions of fans all over the globe with his lyrical animation and touching stories, and now his latest film, Ponyo, will be distributed by Disney to hopefully find even larger American audiences. The poster for Ponyo has been floating around the Internet for a bit, but we've got it for you below in case you missed it, along with two brand-new stills from the movie. Ponyo, which comes out August 14 with a dubbed voice cast including Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Tina Fey and others, is about a goldfish named Ponyo, the five-year-old boy who discovers her on her journey to become human, and the journeys they have together from there. You know you're intrigued. Take a look at the images below.

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Disney Poster for Miyazaki’s Finding Ponyo… I Mean Ponyo

4 May 2009 9:17 AM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news

Hayao Miyazaki's newest animated film Ponyo on the Cliff is finally coming to North America this August courtesy of Disney, who handled the domestic release for most of his previous films (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, etc.). It has been retitled to be simply Ponyo here, and the clever marketing folks over at Disney just released the first U.S. poster for the film. Does it look familiar? Yeah, I thought so too. Obviously they're hoping that a subconscious association with Finding Nemo will help the film's chances for success, although the star-studded voice cast probably won't hurt either. Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, Tina Fey, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, Frankie Jonas and Noah Cyrus are just a few of the actors who contribute vocal talents for the English dub (which, based on previous Disney dubs, should actually be pretty decent). Anyway, a French trailer for Ponyo also recently hit the web.

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Sean

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Miyazaki's 'Ponyo' Gets U.S. Release Date

24 March 2009 2:05 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

My experience with animated film director Hayao Miyazaki was seriously limited until earlier this year when I made a point to watch Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and My Neighbor Totoro and to no surprise I was consistently impressed, especially with Spirited Away and Totoro. This made the anticipation for news regarding his upcoming feature Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea all the more electric and now according to Awn the wait won't be much longer. The site reports Walt Disney Pictures has announced an August 14 release date for the film that hit Japanese theaters all the way back on July 19, 2008. The film was inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Littler Mermaid" and is described as an animated adventure centered on a 5-year-old boy (Frankie Jonas) and his relationship with a goldfish princess named Ponyo (Noah Cyrus) who longs to become human. Making up the English language voice cast are Noah Cyrus,

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Brad Brevet

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How Many of Yahoo's '100 Movies To See Before You Die' Have You Seen?

23 March 2009 8:42 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

I recently made a point to see all of the films I had not seen on IMDb's Top 250 list and outside of the unavailable Safety Last! (Does anyone own this or know where I can buy it for less than $80?) I managed just that. In talking about taking on the list I discussed it with a fellow Seattle critic who said to me, "Yeah, but there are a lot of fanboy films on that list." I told them I understood that, but there are also plenty of great films on that list and also said it is always best to be sure you see all the films your potential readership has seen and also believes are great. On top of the IMDb list I have also created a spreadsheet that totals 495 films made up of the IMDb Top 250, the AFI Top 100, the complete list of Best Picture winners and Roger Ebert

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Brad Brevet

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