In his landmark study The Hero with a Thousand Faces, American mythologist Joseph Campbell defined what he believed to be the “monomyth.” He summarized it as such: “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region…
David’s Movie Review: The Wind Rises
Rating: 9.5 out of 10 I had been eagerly awaiting the new film, The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) from the Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, since its trailer hit the internet last fall. I have always been a fan of Miyazaki’s brilliant…
Top 10 Things We Can Learn from Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki
By: Luke Amargo Writers? Animators? Filmmakers? Human beings? It’s hard not to be envious of Hayao Miyazaki’s legacy (and he’s not even close to being dead). Through and through, he is an icon to nearly every facet of creative medium;…