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Anime Expo 2010: A guide to the action
The Hero ComplexSince its inception at the San Jose Red Lion Hotel in 1992, the Anime Expo has grown bigger each year. The celebration of Japanese anime and manga now claims the Los Angeles Convention Center as its home, and this year...... -
Movie review: Ponyo -- 4 out of 5 stars
Orlando Sentinel Movie CriticPonyo, the latest Japanese anime fantasy to gain American distribution, is the most broadly accessible movie of that genre to ever reach these shores. Charming, amusing and firmly anchored in a child's point of view, this movie from the master animator of...Tags: Cloris Leachman, Animation (genre), Lily Tomlin, Movies, Johnny Depp
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Weekend Movies: 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World,' 'Eat Pray Love' and 'The Expendables'
Brand XThere's something for everyone at the multiplex this weekend: lovelorn nerds, free-spirited women and bros who like explosions. Those are the target audiences, respectively, for comic book-turned-film "Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World," directed by Edgar... -
Pokemon champs worldwide will catch 'em all in Hawaii
The Hero ComplexFollowing up on the "monumental battles" of last year's Pokemon World Championships in San Diego, Jevon Phillips gives us this piece about the competitions taking place next weekend. Hawaii will soon be beset by Hitmonlees, Vaporeons and even Toxicroaks... -
'Up'
You know the most heartening thing about the new Disney-Pixar film "Up"? It may be wonderful, but it isn't perfect. It feels nervy and adventurous and a little messy, the result of formidable creators and genuine wits working on an enormous budget,...Tags: Dog (animal), Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, Movies, Up (movie)
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'Starting Point' gives a rare glimpse of acclaimed animator Hayao Miyazaki
![The only foreign director to win the Academy Award for best animated feature, Hayao Miyazaki, 68, is the most admired and influential filmmaker working in animation today. His latest film, "Ponyo," opened earlier this month in America in 927 theaters -- a record for a Japanese animated feature. ("Ponyo" was the No. 1 box office hit in Japan in 2008, earning more than 14.9 billion yen -- more than $155 million -- to become the eighth-highest-grossing film in Japanese history.)](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/48928543-28153551.gif "The only foreign director to win the Academy Award for best animated feature, Hayao Miyazaki, 68, is the most admired and influential filmmaker working in animation today. His latest film, "Ponyo,\" opened earlier this month in America in 927 theaters -- a record for a Japanese animated feature. (\"Ponyo\" was the No. 1 box office hit in Japan in 2008, earning more than 14.9 billion yen -- more than $155 million -- to become the eighth-highest-grossing film in Japanese history.)")
The only foreign director to win the Academy Award for best animated feature, Hayao Miyazaki, 68, is the most admired and influential filmmaker working in animation today. His latest film, "Ponyo," opened earlier this month in America in 927 theaters -- a...Tags: Nick Park, Ponyo (movie), Japan, Cinema Industry, Arts and Culture
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Andy Klein reviews 'The Secret of Kells'
Brand XIf you don't count its one-week, one-theater Oscar-qualifying run, "The Secret of Kells" is only now arriving, and it's a must-see for animation fans, particularly those who are wearying of the computer animation look. The Oscar for animated feature has... -
'Paprika'
![The girl of your dreams — and his dreams, and her dreams — the punkish heroine of Satoshi Kon's "Paprika" is a double-agent-provocateur in a shape-shifting movie of marvelous, baffling complexities. It's a long way from the more safely beautiful work of that Japanese Walt Disney, Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away"). And it is also anime decidely for adults: Among "Paprika's" thriller aspects, noirish angst and futuristic action, nothing is ever what it appears. Dreams intrude on dreams. Surfaces of reality fold over each other, like the petals on an origami chrysanthemum.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-05/30194408.jpg "The girl of your dreams — and his dreams, and her dreams — the punkish heroine of Satoshi Kon's "Paprika\" is a double-agent-provocateur in a shape-shifting movie of marvelous, baffling complexities. It's a long way from the more safely beautiful work of that Japanese Walt Disney, Hayao Miyazaki (\"Spirited Away\"). And it is also anime decidely for adults: Among \"Paprika's\" thriller aspects, noirish angst and futuristic action, nothing is ever what it appears. Dreams intrude on dreams. Surfaces of reality fold over each other, like the petals on an origami chrysanthemum.")
Special to The TimesThe girl of your dreams — and his dreams, and her dreams — the punkish heroine of Satoshi Kon's "Paprika" is a double-agent-provocateur in a shape-shifting movie of marvelous, baffling complexities. It's a long way from the more safely...Tags: John Anderson, Walt Disney, Crimes, Movies, Crime, Law and Justice
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Summer movies: Releases through August 2009
Sentinel movie criticPlease note! All dates subject to change without notice. "Limited" means limited release on that date. 5/01/09 Battle for Terra 3D (Roadside Attractions) This animated war movie is an ecological allegory about humans invading a peace-loving alien planet...Tags: Willem Dafoe, Marcia Gay Harden, Ed Asner, Tom Hanks, Rob Zombie
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'Howl's Moving Castle'
Times Staff WriterOscar winner Hayao Miyazaki creates a visually breathtaking fantasy world with 'Howl's Moving Castle.' We hear it before we see it, moving ponderously with heavy, thudding steps: Something big is coming our way. Clanging, banging, wheezing, it's something...Tags: Billy Crystal, Lauren Bacall, Moving, Japan, Jean Simmons
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Michael Wilmington's Top 10 of 2005
Tribune movie criticThere's an old cliche of movie history that really fits this year's movies: The films of 2005 -- especially the best ones -- kept shifting between the two great movie extremes of realism and fantasy. Sometimes, they plunged us into harsh truth, as with...Tags: Jean-Luc Godard, Wyoming, Tony Kushner, Arts and Culture, George Clooney
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Dakota Fanning Can Finally Vote ... For the Oscars
Zap2It.comWe'd say that Dakota Fanning is too young to be a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, but as long as she swears she wouldn't have voted for "Crash," it's all good. Fanning, the 12-year-old star of "War of the Worlds" and...Tags: Death, Rachel Weisz, Amy Adams, Joaquin Phoenix, David Strathairn
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