Rumours of Japanimation’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated
Posted on January 9, 2010. Filed under: anime, appearances, events, films, Japan | Tags: Barbican, Japanimation, Mai Mai Miracle, Ponyo |
Is the Barbican’s Japanimation season under threat from redevelopment? The Guardian’s Film Blog thinks it might be…
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Free Tickets at London’s Barbican
Posted on December 21, 2009. Filed under: anime, Consuming, events, films | Tags: Barbican, free tickets, freebie, Japanimation |
Free tickets and memberships at the Barbican Centre if you’re 16-25.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Kamishibai at the Smithsonian
Posted on December 4, 2009. Filed under: appearances, events, kamishibai | Tags: Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Barbican, kamishibai, Kyoto International Manga Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Yassan |
If you’re in Washington DC this weekend, go and see one of the few remaining licensed kamishibai performers at the Smithsonian Institution’s Osamu Tezuka festival in the Freer and Sackler Galleries. Yassan usually works at the Kyoto International Manga Museum, where his mastery of this unique street art form entertains young and old alike. He [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Extra Ponyo screening at the Barbican
Posted on November 17, 2009. Filed under: anime, Consuming, films | Tags: Barbican, Hayao Miyazaki, Ponyo |
Demand for tickets to the London Children’s Film Festival screening on 21 November and the 26 November Japanimation screening has been so high that the Barbican Cinema team have added an extra screening on 29 November. Many thanks to Optimum Releasing for enabling this. Details and booking link here.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New Barbican Japanimation season update
Posted on October 7, 2009. Filed under: anime, Consuming, films | Tags: anime, Barbican, Hayao Miyazaki, Japanimation, Mai Mai Miracle, Ponyo, Studio Ghibli, Sunao Katabuchi |
The new season seems to be going well so far. You’ll be able to see some very exciting anime and talk to anime-makers – if you’ve already booked, that is. Tickets are still available for the October and November sessions but they’re selling fast. This month I’ll be talking to Masahiro Ando and Masahiko Minami [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mai Mai Miracle on the big screen in London
Posted on September 18, 2009. Filed under: anime, Consuming, films, Japan | Tags: Barbican, Hayao Miyazaki, Kiki's Delivery Service, Madhouse, Mai Mai Miracle, Ponyo, Sherlock Hound, Studio Ghibli, Sunao Katabuchi |
Two London screenings no Ghibli fan will want to miss!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Ponyo London screening
Posted on September 10, 2009. Filed under: anime, Consuming, films, Japan | Tags: anime, Barbican, Hayao Miyazaki, Japanimation, London Children's Film Festival, Ponyo |
Londoners don’t have to wait until 2010 for a big-screen view of Miyazaki senior’s latest movie.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Mushishi Multimedia: three versions of one vision
Posted on July 5, 2009. Filed under: anime, comics, Consuming, films, Japan, manga | Tags: 2007 Japan box office, Akihiko Shiota, Akira, Ally Kerr, anime, Artland, Barbican, Domu, Dororo, Hiroshi Nagahama, Joe Odagiri, Katsuhiro Otomo, manga, movie, Mushishi, Norobu Ishiguro, Osamu Tezuka, Peter Jackson Effect, Phoenix, Satoshi Kon, Sitges Film FEstival, Steam Boy, Takahide Shibanushi, Yuki Urushibara |
Mushishi is a magical manga which was turned into a magical animated series by the craftsman at Artland. When Katsuhiro Otomo re-made it as a live action movie, there was certainly no lack of magic. Logic, however, turned out to be a more important ingredient than might have been assumed.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Frankenstein Chambara: a new look at Osamu Tezuka’s Dororo
Posted on June 19, 2009. Filed under: comics, films, Japan, manga | Tags: Akihiko Shiota, anime, Anna Tsuchiya, Barbican, chambara, Colour TV, comics, Daimajin, Dororo, film, Frankenstein, Gisaburo Sugii, Gundam, Hayao Miyazaki, James Whale, Kamikaze Girls, manga, Osamu Tezuka, review, steampunk, Street Fighter II, Vertical Inc, yokai, Yoshiyuki Tomino, youkai |
Akihiko Shiota’s movie of Osamu Tezuka’s Dororo changes elements of the classic comic story but stays true to its dark yet ultimately hopeful heart. And it features Anna Tsuchiya!
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Science Fiction Double Feature
Posted on May 27, 2009. Filed under: anime, films | Tags: Adolescence of Utena, anime, Barbican, DeForest Kelley, gender issues, Gene Roddenberry, Harry Potter, High School Musical, J.J. Abrams, Karl Urban, Katsuhiro Otomo, Kunihiko Ikuhara, Mushishi, relationships, Simon Pegg, Spock, Star Trek, Utena, Zachary Quinto |
one was absolutely a boys’ movie and the other just as absolutely a girls’ movie, in terms of aims, methods and viewpoints, and yet both were enjoyable for the opposite gender…
Harriet Potter at the Chalet School, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in his little known Rococo Barbie period.
