[Mononoke] Ebert sees MH
RyoToyama@aol.com
Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:12:02 EDT
From: RyoToyama@aol.com
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 20:12:02 EDT
Subject: [Mononoke] Ebert sees MH
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Princess Mononoke was shown at the Telluride Film Festival, Colorado, and
Roger Ebert has written about it.
The following was first posted to the Miyazaki ML by Charlie Tangora.
Ebert's review is available on-line at
http://www.suntimes.com/output/answ-man/ebert061.html
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Imagine my joy when I woke up to a full-page article by Ebert on page 27 of
this morning's Chicago Sun-Times with a huge picture of San next to it. The
article covers four films Ebert saw at the Telluride Film Fest, but PM is
first. Ebert starts off by calling it "one of the most wondrous films I ever
hope to see... a symphony of action and images, a thrilling epic of warriors
and monsters, forest creatures and magical spells, with an underlying
allegory about the relationship of man and nature." He says it was
appropriate that the film was shown in the Chuck Jones Cinema, as "how much
[Jones] would have enjoyed the spellbinding opening scene..." Then he starts
defending the decision to animate the film, saying that things like the
Tatarigami "simply cannot be made with special effects; it would emerge too
complex and murky. It takes the clarity of drawing to bring it fully alive."
Then he makes the "Miyazaki drew 80,000 cels" mistake. ^_^ He ends with a
mention of MH's box-office success, Kiki and Totoro, although "This one
transcends everything else he has done... If the Motion Picture Academy truly
does seek out the five best features of the year then it is hard to see how
it could fail to nominate this one."
- Charlie Tangora