{"id":22837,"date":"2011-12-08T18:10:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T22:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=22837"},"modified":"2011-12-08T18:12:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T22:12:50","slug":"justins-japan-studio-ghibli-festival-mounts-monthlong-15-film-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/08\/justins-japan-studio-ghibli-festival-mounts-monthlong-15-film-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Studio Ghibli Festival Mounts Monthlong, 15-Film Retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hayao Miyazaki's Academy Award-winning 'Spirited Away' screens as part of the Studio Ghibli Festival, running Dec. 16 to Jan. 12 at New York's IFC Center. (GKIDS)<\/p><\/div>\n

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By<\/em> <\/strong>JQ<\/strong> magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> editor <\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/a> (CIR Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page <\/em>here<\/a> <\/em>for related stories.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The holidays have come early for Studio Ghibli<\/a> fans.<\/p>\n

From Dec. 16 to Jan. 12, GKIDS<\/a> will host a massive four-week film retrospective from Japan’s internationally acclaimed animation studio at the IFC Center<\/a> in Greenwich Village.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1985 and led by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, Ghibli<\/a> (based on the Arabic name for the sirocco<\/a>, or Mediterranean wind) is home of some of the greatest anime films of all time, including the Academy Award-winning Spirited Away<\/em> (also the highest grossing film in Japanese history), My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky, Princess Mononoke, Kiki’s Delivery Service<\/em> and more. The studio even has its own museum<\/a> in Tokyo, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary and showcased two of its short films<\/a> at Carnegie Hall in March in a rare a one-time-only exception to its screening policy.<\/p>\n

For this first-ever Studio Ghibli Festival<\/a>, all films will be shown on sparkling new 35mm prints, including the North American premieres of Takahata\u2019s Only Yesterday<\/em> and Tomomi Mochizuki\u2019s The Ocean Waves<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The retrospective should also whet fans\u2019 appetites for the next Ghibli film to be released in North America, The Secret World of Arrietty<\/a><\/em>. Co-written by Miyazaki and based on Mary Norton\u2019s award-winning novel series The Borrowers<\/em>, Arrietty<\/em> arrives in theaters Feb. 17.<\/p>\n

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  By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page here for related stories. The holidays have come early for Studio Ghibli fans. From Dec. 16 to Jan. 12, GKIDS will host a massive four-week film retrospective from Japan’s internationally acclaimed animation studio at the IFC Center in Greenwich Village. Founded in 1985 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,263,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-film","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t