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A lovingly crafted fantasy on an epic scale, “Mary and the Witch’s Flower” is a film about transformation made by filmmakers in transition. Directed by Studio Ghibli veteran Hiromasa Yonebayashi (2015 ...

ANNOYINGLY I was unable to include this in last week’s column – my demands for five pages of space are still falling on deaf ears. But this anime from Ghibli legends Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki ...

There are very few filmmakers who could reasonably claim to know more about the relationship between melancholy and fantasy than Hiromasa Yonebayashi. His first two films as a director - The Secret ...

The production house was founded by former Studio Ghibli staffers. There’s a whole world beyond Ghibli. The newly founded Studio Ponoc is hoping to prove just that with “Mary and the Witch’s Flower,” ...

Mary and The Witch’s Flower is a colorful and visually stunning spectacle, a film that packs plenty of detail within its frames. And while it doesn’t always capture the magic it attempts to display, ...

Magic flows freely if not infinitely in “Mary and the Witch’s Flower,” an effortless animated charmer from the gifted Japanese director and Studio Ghibli veteran Hiromasa Yonebayashi. Adapted by ...

In 2013, shortly after the release of The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki called it a day on making feature films after a career spent redefining what animation could do via such towering classics as My ...

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After the legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki’s retirement a few years ago (luckily, it didn’t seem to take; he announced plans for a new film in 2017), many wondered who would pick up the ...

Even if you don’t happen to know the story behind Mary And The Witch’s Flower’s production, there may be something strangely familiar about the company logo that fades up at the start: a simple line ...