Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Ponyo on a Cliff

Hayao Miyazaki, whom I thought had retired two films ago, has a new one coming next year, called Ponyo on a Cliff. It's about a goldfish princess who wants to be human.

Hey, he made a frigging spirit-world bath-house and a walking castle work, he can make this one work, too.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You should see Matthew Barney's "Drawing Restraint 9." It's friggin' weird, man, and there's some weird fish shit in it, too. (It's not animated...or abridged, unfortunately.)

nathan said...

I don't know, Ross – two hours of Bjork-scored surrealism...

The thing is, I haven't really done 'shrooms since having kids.

The Death of Mr Lazarescu is more my speed - two hours of an old man dying while getting fucked around by hospitals. Loved it. Seriously.

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