“Alfred Noble invented dynamite.”
Knowledge is hunger. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is a gaping maw. Knowledge is an unquenchable thirst. Knowledge is a void that we are free to throw our entire beings into. Knowledge is a parasitic figure, eager for more. Knowledge is a child asking “why?” again and again and again and again and again. Knowledge is that child, decades later, screaming “why?” again and again and again and again and again. Knowledge is the screams echoing through…
“I’m still copying you though.”
“I know. Now copy this.”
I am standing in a room and I am looking at my dad.
It is 1996 and he is 33 years old and he is journaling hour by hour the day that I am born. He is the first person to ever put my name to paper. It is 2008 and he is 45 years old and he is gripping my arms too tight and screaming at me, so close I…
Every time I rewatch, I’m bowled over again by just how vulnerable and empowering and critical Howl’s Moving Castle is about aging, love, and the evil of war (especially, in this film’s case, the United States’s warmongering). Such a massive film.
Joe and I FINALLY covered a Ghibli film for our House of Animations series and it is available NOW
This is probably one of the most devastating and tragic horror films out there? Mia Farrow plays Rosemary so well that you wind up with a very tangible sense of anguish over all that is happening to her.
“No wonder you reek of death.”
Miyazaki at his most fluid, visually and narratively. Each moment an event that is happening in three-fold: something our past selves dream of, something our present selves experience, and something our future selves look back on in fondness or in anguish. Time as a ripple, liquid in state. Something that bleeds into itself, slips through our fingers, takes the shape of what we place it in and then dissolves the moment whatever flimsy physical…
“And you will see. The beauty and the horror.”
Dread drenched in holiness. Fervor infused with poison. The earth and the heavens colliding to create a river of blood. He has ascended.
For House of Cinema, Joe, Sydney, and I went into the desert to discuss Dune: Part 2!
