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Post by timbecile on Nov 26, 2021 15:24:25 GMT
I gotta look for those at the library, thanks. Also curious about "The Creative Gene" by Hideo Kojima, probably since I know even less about videogames than anime.
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Post by kevinh on Nov 26, 2021 16:22:10 GMT
This isn't a documentary, but have you guys read the book of Miyazaki's essays? The first one is called Starting Point, 1979-1996. I haven't read the second one, but I really recommend the first. Get a good look inside his head and how he sees his contemporaries. I'm also always on the hunt for anything concerning Isao Takahata, who to me is the Guts to the Miyazaki's Griffith (lol this comparison doesn't work... but could only think of Lennon and Mccartney as another option...) He comes off as way more chilled than Miyazaki and a proper mensch. Wish there was more of him in Kingdom and Nightmares. Yes, read that book years ago. I don't remember much and got rid of it in one of my moves. I have nothing substantial to say about it! I'm only now being a little more deliberate about my curiosity about HM and Ghibli (which is taking over this thread, sorry). I'm not very into being a completist fan or watching movies, esp. animation or anime, which I have very little interest in, in general, so I kind of like not knowing much and only going on my impressions of things, letting things remain weird and context-less, and have only recently realized for instance that Arriety is not a HM movie, haha. I started glancing at the Marnie movie the other day in the background, sound off no subtitles. I will also look into Takahata at some point. This whole thread is really only because I randomly picked Never Ending Man one day to have playing in the background, (which maybe is a waste of electricity I should stop, my flatscreen TV is only 24 inches though) and then kept repeating it over and over as I draw. On like the 10th watch I started getting interested. Next month it'll be something like a tropical bird mating ritual doc and I'll wonder about that, but that's a different message board.
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Post by kevinh on Nov 26, 2021 16:36:54 GMT
and oh I didn't realize that was you, Nick! Hello!
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Post by MilleniumDibber on Nov 28, 2021 3:58:34 GMT
Hello Kevin! Yeah I don't want to wreck the thread with too much Ghibli chat, but will just recommend Only Yesterday as one of the best Takahatas to start with. The Maurice Sendak doc is pretty perfect and I stick it on just to hear his speech near the end about how pleasurable drawing is for him still. I see you already mentioned Manben, but I'd say this specific one with Junji Ito was very eye-opening for me. You can watch it HEREHe uses a freaking mirror!! And builds drawings out of tiny pubey lines. He comes across as hyper-normal and that adds to the creepy charm.
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Post by thebeautifulpuffin on Jan 21, 2022 22:26:55 GMT
This counts as a documentary, yeah?
Certainly a document.
Read along at home, folks!
Druillet, Michel Jakar, Alain Pierre
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Post by andrewpilkington on Jan 21, 2022 22:57:05 GMT
More comics adjacent but I recently watched and enjoyed the Stanislaw Szukalski documentary.
Glenn Bray, Robert Williams, Jim Woodring and George DiCaprio all show up.
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Post by GHO on Feb 3, 2022 18:00:01 GMT
Seth's Dominion is a nice short one about seth (obv) you can probably find it for free somewhere. I wish they showed more of his house tbh
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Post by GHO on Feb 3, 2022 18:01:21 GMT
More comics adjacent but I recently watched and enjoyed the Stanislaw Szukalski documentary. Glenn Bray, Robert Williams, Jim Woodring and George DiCaprio all show up. Speaking of robert williams. his documentary is pretty good too. alot of high falootin intellectualism throughout.
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