Each week this column will highlight one winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, progressing chronologically until all winners have been discussed. There will be a brief discussion of the film itself followed by a mention of what we wish won from the nominees in the given year (though in many cases there were…
Kern: I know you’ve been watching a lot of Studio Ghibli films recently. Have you seen them all at this point? Henry: Not all of them, no, but most. I’ve seen all of Miyazaki’s feature films, Ghibli or otherwise, but as for the rest, I got a collection with 17 of them so I watched…
[Written by Robert Salusbury] Many people talk about their childhood experiences with the animated works of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata’s studio, of watching My Neighbour Totoro or Kiki’s Delivery Service for the first time and instantly falling in love with them but I’ll be honest, up until a few weeks ago, my knowledge of…
A year ago, I responded to a tweet (from @jamesd7004) asking what 5 movies I’d select if I could program my own film festival. I don’t recall if I was in a great or awful mood at the time, but for whatever reason, I chose to program “Kern’s Feel Good Fest”—a festival of curated films…
Kiki’s Delivery Service Kiki’s Delivery Service is the nicest film of all time. The plot follows a young, kind-hearted witch as she moves to a new town and navigates independent life, growing as a person thanks to her newfound profession delivering food. There is no villain, and the instances of conflict or hardship are minuscule:…
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