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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings

…Steadicam, so you had these wonderful dialogue scenes that were just slightly moving. You’ve never seen it? AV: I’ve never been able to get hold of it, but I’d love…

The Essential Bugs Bunny

…is a genuine 24-carrot classic, with Bugs outwitting the hairy orange monster Gossamer, it’s only just also been released as an extra on the individual Bugs Bunny’s Howl-Oween Special disc….

Whisper Of The Heart

…one was undoubtedly Whisper Of The Heart. While Howl’s Moving Castle was nominated for an Oscar, and My Neighbor Totoro had a previous successful home video release from Fox and…

2006: A Year In Review

…to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film for his amazing work on Spirited Away in 2003, and was nominated a second time earlier this year for Howl’s

Trailer for Ghibli’s The Borrower Arrietty

…the film has been scripted by Hayao Miyazaki and directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, who also served as a key animator on Miyazaki’s Princess Mononoke, Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away….

The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?

…transfers of those films, while the Howl’s Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro Blu-rays demonstrated their continued commitment to doing (just about) right by the Studio Ghibli films. Over at…

The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness

…all. He admits that he often doesn’t know how a story will end before going into film production (which explains Howl’s Moving Castle), or his disdain for explaining what happens…

Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)

…own right, with Susanne Blakeslee’s “Julie Andrews” trying to make the notion of a storybook castle enticing by repeating the word “castle” in a pawsh accent several times. It’s also…

Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition

…The whole Dreams Come True enterprise, effectively, falls down from the opening Disney logo. While the idea of the famous blue and white castle dissolving into the Prince’s lavish abode…

Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!

…long periods of time like the battles, I tended to break the sequence down into separate cues. Take the night raid on the castle which happens in real time. When…

My Neighbor Totoro

…and Castle In The Sky, Hayao Miyazaki set out to create a film set in Japan which could be enjoyed by all ages. He wrote My Neighbor Totoro himself, intending…

Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams

…notion of a storybook castle enticing by repeating the word “castle” in a pawsh accent several times. It’s also the longest menu set up I’ve come across in a long…

The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition

…must travel to King Haggard’s castle, not a close distance away. When they eventually approach the castle, the unicorn is chased by the Red Bull, leading Schmendrick to transform the…

Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers

…just after the events of the famous Dumas story, in 17th Century France, we find Mickey, Donald And Goofy working as janitors in Queen Minnie’s castle. Though they are way,…

Director Frank Nissen on Cinderella III: A Twist In Time

…a whole parallel universe within the castle, of what we called “castle mice.” We actually took that all the way to story reels. But we realized that it was taking…

Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions

…Toy Story was going gangbusters to present something new to audiences, from the newly three-dimensional Disney castle logo and, in particular, the different approach to the song sequences: instead of…

Interview with Ghibli Dub Director

GhibliWorld has an extensive interview with Gualtiero Cannarsi, the director behind the Italian versions of Studio Ghibli films such as Howl’s Moving Castle, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind,…

The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D

…didn’t garner much praise from within Disney’s own animation department at the time, it did lead to Burton’s leaving the unit and moving over to live-action when they declined to…

The Lion King: Diamond Edition

…signed off on the film before moving on to what they truly perceived to be their jewel in the crown: Pocahontas. Then, suddenly, something happened. Audiences flocked to the film….

Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)

…A Night For A Knight and A Clue For Scooby-Doo. Over the next few shows, the Mystery Inc. gang face up against the phantom of an abandoned castle, an old…

Peter Pan: Platinum Edition

…as if they are merely floating? Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske, Peter Pan answers this dilemma expertly, continually moving the characters throughout the air and even…

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons

…locales include a spooky circus, a spooky ship, a spooky theater, a spooky castle… well, you get the idea. By the way, the villain does not really always say “And…

Pinocchio: Platinum Edition

…to show the moving examples they described. Although the special, hosted by Hayley Mills, was jointly created to help promote the Studio’s then current release The Fox And The Hound…

When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio

…content, the story of Pinocchio offers a much wider range of possibilities than Snow White. Confined almost exclusively in two places – the castle and the cottage – the whole…

The Jungle Book

…full effect, with an amazing cel-animated, Multiplane-enhanced (and apparently Technicolor-shot) Studio logo that brings a new dimension to the various Disney castle intros of old. Much as with the retro-feel…

The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

…from within Disney’s own animation department at the time, it lead to Burton’s leaving the unit and moving over to live-action when they declined to let him film his next…

The Puppetoon Movie

…shop. His dream of moving to the United States finally came within reach when he and his wife were granted a visa by the U.S., leading to Pal guest lecturing…

Cinderella III: A Twist In Time

…every bit as flat and bland on DVD as it did when I saw it in a movie theater last summer. Ho hum. Moving into the film, it was cheese…

Tangled

…in particular to advance the look of CG, wanting to use its rendering capabilities to create moving, living paintings as its frames of animation. An early test revealed the inspired…

Mulan: Special Edition

…stuff), running three-and-a-half minutes. Moving onto the main menu proper, and the first extra to grab my attention was the collection of Deleted Scenes, and here we get a glimpse…