I was really surprised by this. The animation is relatively basic for a Ghibli film but this is a really enjoyable, funny and surreal story that I enjoyed way beyond my expectations. And actually the animation is stunning in places.
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Princess Mononoke 1997
I've not watched this in full for a long time. I've seen the first half hour or so too many times due to aborted attempts. Once you've seen the whole thing the epic gravitas of it all becomes clearer. Particularly the poignancy (and more than ever relevance) of the theme of human destruction of nature--and of each other--and of the tragic waste and ugliness of war. Not sentimentalised, either, as Lady Yiboshi is shown to be compassionate to some, to…
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Mother 2009
LOVED how this ended. Need to rewatch now I know it ends so well. Must confess to being a little confused and detached up until the last twenty minutes. Kim Hye-Ja is fantastic in this, a face as morose and pitiful as Song Kang-ho's. Plenty of characteristically clever, tense surprising and wickedly funny sequences. And the characteristic tragic/melancholic undertow.
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Nosferatu 1922
This must have been quite something in 1922, and it's still quite something in 2025, but I have to be honest and say it didn't really grab me by the throat and drain my blood like I was hoping.
It made me want to rewatch Eggers version, which I didn't realise was so closely related to this one. (E.G. I'd assumed Eggers invented Knock.)
Special shout out to the unintentional humour of seeing Nosferatu load coffin's onto a cart and…
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