When he’s not acting as pure imagemaker, Mamoru Oshii is, before anything else, a worldbuilder. One of Japan’s premier multimedia genre auteurs, his “worldview...
For over four decades, Mamoru Oshii has stood as one of the pioneering auteurs of Japanese anime and science fiction cinema, with his cerebral, meditative styl...
In order to best explain Mamoru Oshii’s Angel’s Egg––a stoic, ethereal vision quest of a film notorious among anime and cult enthusiasts for resisting explanat...
In its original iteration, the Zucker brothers’ Naked Gun wasn’t just carried by Leslie Nielsen’s performance––nearly every aspect of the first two David Zucke...
Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
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Latvian animator Gints Zilbalodis’ new wordless animation Flow looks to provide an alternative this holiday season (and awards season) to audiences seeking fam...
Adapted by director Yoshiyuki Momose (a former animator at Studio Ghibli) and screenwriter Yoshiaki Nishimura (a former producer at Studio Ghibli) from a popul...
Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
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One of the less public-facing key talents at the most publicly scrutinized animation studio in the world, cinematographer Atsushi Okui joined Studio Ghibli in ...
