Everyone has their pick of their favorite Hayao Miyazaki movie. Polling my friend group in what was supposed to be an easy, select one (and only one) film question, resulted in multiple titles being brought up. From an assertion that…
The Film Canon: Princess Mononoke (1997)
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…
Top Ten: The Best of Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki is a genius filmmaker. He has continually created masterpieces, infusing the cinematic world of animation with a vigor and magical realism that it hadn’t seen before his touch. His animation is intricate and worked on with painstaking detail,…