Hayao Miyazaki

  • 21 of the Best Movies for Anyone Who Ever Wanted to Fly

    21 of the Best Movies for Anyone Who Ever Wanted to Fly

    You have to go pretty far back into movie history to reach a time before we were making movies about aeroplanes. The very earliest films saw us flying in a fantastical context (think of Georges Méliès and his Trip to the Moon), but it wasn’t long after the advent of the fixed-wing aircraft that movies…


  • 12 Movies That Will Make You Love Hand-Drawn Animation

    12 Movies That Will Make You Love Hand-Drawn Animation

    In the 20 years since the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduced the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, a hand-drawn movie has claimed the award only once — Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s 2001 masterpiece Spirited Away. From Shrek to Wall-e to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, every other winner save one — the stop-motion…