I don't think I'm going to be a Miyazaki completist, because I doubt that I'll track down the earlier TV work. However, I've now seen all his feature films except for Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo.
Yes, that includes The Castle of Cagliostro (sure are a lot of castles in his titles!), which I saw at the Grand Illusion back in the '90s sometime. It was the first Miyazaki film I'd ever seen, and it didn't make much of an impression on me. I'd like to see it again now.
I watched Princess Mononoke last night and thought it had many of the same strengths and weaknesses as Nausicaa. The evil princess is probably more interesting and complicated in Mononoke, although it's odd that she loses an arm too. I still find the idea of Nature getting angry at humanity a bit too anthropomorphic. Nature doesn't get mad; it just gets even! (As in settling into a new balance.) But Miyazaki's reverence for nature creates some amazing settings, and the forest in Mononoke has a mystical beauty. It managed to make me think of the forests of the Pacific Northwest and Yap at the same time.
The thing I remember absolutely loving about Kiki was the flying. I watched it when I was sick, and it was like a flying dream, with that sense of surprising power. Well, I now have my very own copy, so I'll watch it again soon.
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Yes, that includes The Castle of Cagliostro (sure are a lot of castles in his titles!), which I saw at the Grand Illusion back in the '90s sometime. It was the first Miyazaki film I'd ever seen, and it didn't make much of an impression on me. I'd like to see it again now.
I watched Princess Mononoke last night and thought it had many of the same strengths and weaknesses as Nausicaa. The evil princess is probably more interesting and complicated in Mononoke, although it's odd that she loses an arm too. I still find the idea of Nature getting angry at humanity a bit too anthropomorphic. Nature doesn't get mad; it just gets even! (As in settling into a new balance.) But Miyazaki's reverence for nature creates some amazing settings, and the forest in Mononoke has a mystical beauty. It managed to make me think of the forests of the Pacific Northwest and Yap at the same time.
The thing I remember absolutely loving about Kiki was the flying. I watched it when I was sick, and it was like a flying dream, with that sense of surprising power. Well, I now have my very own copy, so I'll watch it again soon.