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[Meier]

VENICE — Director Hayao Miyazaki's animated film "Hauru no Ugoku Shiro" (Howl's Moving Castle) was warmly received Sunday at the Venice film festival. The audience who packed the 1,000-capacity hall exploded into applause and whistles for more than five minutes after the show.

'Howl's Moving Castle," based on a children's book of the same name by British author Diana Wynne Jones, is entered in the competition section. Set in a world of science and witchcraft, the story describes the romance between a sorcerer named Howl and an 18-year-old girl, Sophie, who is turned into a 90-year-old crone under a spell on the eve of war. (Kyodo News)

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=311176

Can't wait!

 

[Naked Snake]

Awesome!

Miyazaki +1

 

[Fifty]

I wish they were showing this at Toronto

 

[sprsk]

must have this movie.

 

[miyuru]

Damn it's done already?

 

[KingGondo]

Miyazaki>*

 

[MetatronM]

I'm shocked. SHOCKED!





Well, maybe not that shocked.





Yay for Miyazaki!

 

[enjoy bell woods]

On the subject of the Venice Film Festival, I'm really looking forward to hearing how Todd Solondz's new movie is received. Barely any information regarding that movie has been released.

 

[MetatronM]

I didn't know Solondz had a new movie coming out.

Interest in Venice Film Fest +1

 

[Fifty]

When does the Venice festival end? Palindromes (His new film) is playing on the 13th here, so obviously it must end a few days before then.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

http://members.aol.com/FearAndAnxiety/main.html

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Check that out. There are a couple of pictures and a little informational bit by Solondz on there. Sounds pretty ambitious for him.

It ends the 11th, and the film is being screened on Tuesday. Where do you live, Toronto?

 

[Fifty]

Yep

 

[enjoy bell woods]

http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2004/filmsschedules/description.asp?pageID=filmlist&id=221

Even better information. I asked if you were in Toronto because I actually wasn't sure if you guys were having a film festival. I just sort of had the idea in the back of my head.

 

[Meier]

Yeah, I was bummed when I found out Howl would not be at Toronto but it will feature the NA premiere of Steamboy which looks equally amazing. It is also playing at Venice but out of competition.

 

[Meier]

Btw, speaking of Solondz and Palindromes...

TELLURIDE, Colo. -- Three of the best films at this year's Telluride festival deal with unusual frankness with sex. Sally Potter's "Yes" stars Joan Allen as a scientist trapped in a loveless marriage, who begins a passionately physical affair with a Lebanese cook. Bill Condon's "Kinsey" stars Liam Neeson as Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, whose research revolutionized conventional ideas about human sexual behavior. And Todd Solondz's "Palindromes" is a story of messy, sad teenage sexual experiences.

The Solondz film has sharply divided audiences: Some hate it; some think it is the best work yet from the director of "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and "Happiness." No one seems indifferent. I thought it was brilliant and bold, especially in the way Solondz uses many different actresses to play his heroine, a young girl who in various versions of the story seeks sexual experience, wants to get pregnant, seeks or avoids abortion, runs away, and is involved in the murder of an abortion doctor.

Solondz uses actresses of different sizes, ages and races to play versions of the same character, in a device that makes the film not simply the story of one young woman's experiences, but a meditation on various possible scenarios and how the same personality might respond to them. His use of many actresses makes the material universal. There are no rapes in the film, although the men are singularly unskilled or uncaring; his heroine in all of her manifestations is naive and unprepared for the emotional anguish that sex causes for her.

-Roger Ebert

 

[SteveMeister]

Yeah, I was bummed when I found out Howl would not be at Toronto but it will feature the NA premiere of Steamboy which looks equally amazing. It is also playing at Venice but out of competition.

Man, I just found out about Steamboy yesterday. What an incredible looking movie. Can't wait for either!

 

[Jason]

Just bought my ticket to see Steamboy.

 

[Chrono]

Howl's Moving Castle just won the "Golden Osello" at the venice film festival.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/

 

[GG-Duo]

i didn't go get any Toronto Film Fest tickets
and then i later found out that Stephen Chow and "Kung Fu Hustle" are gonna be at TIFF

*cries*

 

[Kiriku]

Howl's Moving Castle just won the "Golden Osello" at the venice film festival.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/

The Golden Osello!! OMG WTF!!!

What's the Golden Osello, BTW?

 

[MetatronM]

I think the Golden Osello is for achievement in a certain discipline, i.e. acting, directing, etc.

From what I understand, Howl won the Golden Osello for technical achievement. At least, that's what I heard.