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The Cookie Carnival
Director: Ben Sharpsteen Release Date: May 25, 1935 Rating: ★★½ Review: Of all Silly Symphonies this one is particularly silly. The very idea of a cookie land is as original as it is looney. Yet, the...
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Music Land
Director: Wilfred Jackson Release Date: October 5, 1935 Rating: ★★★★★ ♕ Review: In ‘Music Land’ a young violin falls in love with a young saxophone, much to the disapproval of their parents, the queen...
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千と千尋の神隠し (Spirited Away)
Director: Hayao MiyazakiRelease Date: July 20, 2001Rating: ★★★★★ ♕Review: After several very fine films, like ‘My Neighbor Totoro‘ (1988) and ‘Princess Mononoke’ (1997), Miyazaki tops himself with his...
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1940 is arguably a turning year in the history of animation. This year marked the end of Disney's domination, as the studio's innovative Silly Symphonies series had stopped, while Disney's ambitious,...
View ArticleBakemono no Ko (The Boy and the Beast)
For quite a time only three Japanese author directors of animated films were known in the West: Osamu Tezuka, Katsuhiro Otomo and Hayao Miyazaki (well, and perhaps Miyazaki's friend and...
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