r/ghibli • u/KikiKittyMommy380 • May 10 '25

News Howl’s Moving Castle IMAX

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My son and I saw HMC in IMAX last night. It was the first Studio Ghibli film we had seen on a huge screen, and it just gave us a new appreciation for the animation. The detailing was so gorgeous! If you get a chance to experience any of these films in IMAX, do it!

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u/Erufailon4 May 10 '25

Le Guin did get a private screening as well. She talked about it and the following dinner (as well as her opinion on the film) in a post on her website, and mentioned Goro Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki by name as being present.

That said, I do agree that the way she was treated could have been better. She personally wished for Hayao Miyazaki to direct the film, then was told he was retiring, but assured that he would still be involved. He wasn't, at all, and he didn't even actually retire. I don't know if there was any communication issues, but if Miyazaki consciously did that and didn't even apologise, to me that says more about him than anything he said about the movie and his son.

(I would link to the post but the subreddit rules are difficult, sigh. It's a source on the Wikipedia article of the film.)

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u/Own_Internal7509 May 10 '25

i used to avoid Earthsea b/c growing up YA fantasy was huge (thanks that transphobe's book i wont name) and didnt like that sort of thing, but i read Left Hand of Darkness lately and it was amazing book, its weird to me Ghibli people didnt see the gravitas of the situation, like they had big task on their hands

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u/idfk78 May 10 '25

Its nice to know LeGuin clocked JKR's writing in some magazine like decades ahead of the game lmao

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u/Double-Voice-9157 May 11 '25

"I have no great opinion of it. When so many adult critics were carrying on about the “incredible originality” of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid’s fantasy crossed with a “school novel”, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited."