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Contest: Win ‘Spirited Away’ Prize Pack Including Tickets For Ghibli Fest Screening

October 23, 2017 1:57 pm

If the real world is getting — well, too real — the films of Hayao Miyazaki are always a wonderful escape. And today we want to whisk some readers into the wonderful world of "Spirited Away" with a terrific pri...

BBC’s 100 Greatest Films Of The 21st Century List Includes ‘Tree Of Life,’ ‘Mulholland Drive,’ ‘The Dark Knight,’ More

Kevin Jagernauth

August 23, 2016 9:12 am

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Generally speaking, if you've seen one "greatest films of all time" list, you've seen them all, with the top choices usually containing some configuration of "Citizen Kane," "The Godfather," and "Vertigo." Hist...

The 50 Best Animated Films Of The 21st Century So Far

Oliver Lyttelton

July 5, 2016 1:37 pm

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It’s sort of remarkable, the ways that animation on the big screen has changed in the past two decades or so. In the early '90s, the game was pretty much entirely owned by Disney’s hand-drawn animated fairy tal...

The 20 Best Fantasy Films Of The 21st Century So Far

Nikola Grozdanovic and Russ Fischer

June 9, 2016 1:19 pm

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Aside from the brief craze in the 1980s when “Krull” and “Conan” and the like roamed theaters, fantasy had never been a particularly popular genre for filmmakers to tackle —principally because it was too expens...

From Worst To Best: Ranking The Films Of Hayao Miyazaki

Ranked: The Best Films Of Hayao Miyazaki

The Playlist Staff

February 20, 2014 7:26 am

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When it premiered at the Venice Film Festival back in August, "The Wind Rises," which hits theaters this week, was accompanied by the announcement that it would be the last feature film from director Hayao Miya...

The Best Animated Films Of The Decade

Rodrigo Perez

December 16, 2009 6:24 pm

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If ghettoizing was a concern with our Best Documentaries of the Decade list, you can be sure it's an even bigger one here. With the controversy surrounding the immensely patronizing Best Animated Feature catego...

Review: ‘Ponyo’; A Wonderous, Big Hearted Fantasy From Japanese Master Hayao Miyazaki

samcmac

September 18, 2009 3:50 pm

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"Ponyo" came out earlier this year and kind of came and went. We wanted to give it a second look.For anyone who says that traditional animation is dead, I point them to Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese master respo...

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