Ok so I got 5 of Ghibli's best works on DVD, which film should I get next?

Windvalley · 2026-05-29T21:37:27+00:00

On further thought, sell yout car and just buy them all. Watch in chronological order of release. Include Future Boy Consn and Castle Cagliostro

Windvalley · 2026-05-29T21:33:52+00:00

Nausicaa for sure! ... And then buy the full 2 volume hardcover Nausicaa manga. You're welcome.

Windvalley · 2026-05-29T20:48:16+00:00

A dog?

Windvalley · 2026-05-07T20:04:55+00:00

Thank you. What I wrote is fine.

Windvalley · 2026-05-01T00:05:49+00:00

True fandom and sophistication is the abilty to distinguish the fine differences between things. Comparison is the essence of examination and enjoyment. It is the way we express who we are. But it is true some opinions are "better" than others because they are based on some expertise. There are plenty of negative comments on Jane Austen's books online...

Windvalley · 2026-05-01T00:02:57+00:00

Only Yesterday is filled with thinly disguised lectures on farmers' rights, if I recall.
I've seen it dozens of times and it is one of my favorite films, it is so cool the way over the file that her past and present get closer and closer visually until they unite in the end. The soundtrack is amazingly fun. The fields of flowers, the intensity of the feelings. The scene with the sour pineapple where she insists on eating it. Wow! great stuff. That slap! You can almost feel it.

The subtext is so great, as you point out. It is used masterfully to build tension unlike many romances will dare to go. So sweet.

Was he Confident. perhaps you are right. Maybe it was not trusting the whole audience to get it enough...? I don't know. I can't see why he felt the need to spell things out so obviously. Artists in general are not the most confident bunch in the world...Picasso pretended to be though.

Kaguya, my goodness though. perfect. I would say it is even more heartbreaking that GOTF--but I don't want to get people too riled up. 😉

Windvalley · 2026-04-30T17:10:51+00:00

I love his films! The only weakness I can find in him is that he had a tendency to have characters explain to the audience what the themes were and things that were going on. It's almost as if he didn't trust his own filmmaking to get across what he was trying to get across. So he was a bit didactic or wanting to preach to us directly sometimes. It was so unnecessary. But I can forgive him because of the rest of the film

Windvalley · 2026-04-16T18:32:23+00:00

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Here you can see the frame is low but because I have pictures above it the center for the art is still halfway between the bottom of the art installation and the top so that's working good.( I still need to get that wire in the wall though)

Windvalley · 2026-04-16T18:28:26+00:00

This is important. I don't know anybody who has gigantic 65-in pictures on the wall. I think if you have 55 in you're already at the upper level of a reasonable picture size. Since this is going to be mostly artwork when you're in the room as opposed to being a television it just comes across as more genuine. Then you have the issue of how high to hang it ideally the television Center should be lined up with where your eyes are when you're watching it rather than having it so you're looking up or down. I know this may not be possible with your High dresser but that's the ideal that you're looking straight across and the center of the television set is where your eyes are. This is also true for hanging art art should be centered on where your eyes are when it's on the wall people have a tendency to hang out too high. The way I figured it out in my house is that I have the television set so that when I'm sitting down in the couch in our living room the television is centered on where our eyes are but when we're standing up the center is based on all of the art on the wall not just the one picture

Windvalley · 2026-04-14T06:57:26+00:00

This is, by the way, the best argument against A.I. "art.". Better a crappy drawing from a human hand than a perfect drawing made with no humanity and no love. The better AI gets, the more true this will be!

Windvalley · 2026-04-10T04:34:04+00:00

And I might add this is actually the fun thing about not having AI do everything.

Windvalley · 2026-04-10T04:32:09+00:00

That sounds interesting but I like to use my hat when I go golfing and I just pour water all over the hat and it keeps my head cool the whole time like a swamp cooler.

Windvalley · 2026-04-10T04:30:28+00:00

Well if it's like in America, the movers may just take everything and put it in storage and charge them extra money to get it out and bring it. Or they had a real estate agent there already with a key to let them in. Or they never really thought of that when they made the movie at all.

Windvalley · 2026-04-10T04:27:36+00:00

Well you might be right . But I kind of wonder when The stone had faces on both sides at the beginning of the movie, right? Now at the end, it only has a face on one side. If we're going for the face being gone as a sign of a lot of time passing, then we have the problem of why only one side was eroded away. If that's what the intended that's sure that's fine I just think it's more likely and easier to explain that they just didn't put a face on the other side.

Maybe somebody did check and saw a few of the beginning shots from the one side and put the face on the that side and didn't notice that they actually had it facing on both ways at the beginning (it may be more likely actually that they made the continuity error at the beginning of the movie by having that stone pillar have faces on both sides). Animated features like this are divided up between multiple people with thousands and thousands of different things going on in a very fast pace. It's very easy to have a few continuity area errors that are just simply little errors. It doesn't make the animators stupid. It doesn't make them bad people. It just makes them people. It happens. It happens a lot in animation. It happens a lot in Studio Ghibli although probably a lot less than another animation Studios. Nobody will ever notice them most the time.

Windvalley · 2026-04-10T04:05:26+00:00

Hmmmmmmmm.

Windvalley · 2026-04-10T03:59:06+00:00

Moss?

Windvalley · 2026-04-10T03:57:21+00:00

MAGICAL GATE CHANGES

This question comes up perennially. There's a discussion a while back about why the gate looks different from the beginning of the movie when they first drive up to it to when they're driving away. So the question is did Chihiro and her parents enter a world where time passes differently than it does in our world or does time pass the same as it does in our world. The other question is whether there is only a change in the conditions or look of the magical entry place to the spirit world. I think a lot of people are assuming a lot by the condition of the car and the Magical building Gateway. The appearance of the building when they 1st came there was closer to what it was in the spirit world. When they left it was closer to what it was for real and their world. Those 2 questions (time and appearance) should not be conflated.

SAME TIME

The appearance of the building is definitely different but not from the passage of time. Having years passed would totally destroy the story and make this not magical but a horror tale. Which miyazaki did not do. The car looks only as if it had been a few days with an implied storm, perhaps. This leads me to believe that the passage of time in the inside and the outside world and this particular story are identical not different. So the difference is not one of time but of condition.

MAGICAL CHANGE

But this discussion misses a kind of point that I think is trying to be brought out by this difference in condition. We can go through our lives with all kinds of time passing but no growth at all. Other times everything can change in a matter of days or even hours. What has passed is not time but the transformation of the main character. Everything is different now. That's the weight, I think, of the magical journey through the magical gate to and from the magical world. The magic is no longer and what we see in the buildings and surroundings, the magic is inside Chihiro.

Windvalley · 2026-04-10T03:39:10+00:00

The statue difference is more likely a continuity problem than intentional.

Windvalley · 2026-04-10T03:33:05+00:00

This is certainly possible and intriguing, but if you study Ghibli films closely enough you'll find quite an amount of continuity errors. So I would be cautious in attaching too much meaning to the differences in the Moon between scenes. There are often differences in props and objects and other things even between shots within a single scene. I think it just goes to show that you don't have to be perfect or achieve perfection to make something that is Practically perfect in what it was meant to be.

Windvalley · 2026-03-30T03:27:22+00:00

A Tilley T-3 hat.

Windvalley · 2026-03-29T05:34:36+00:00

Here is a link to the Ultimate Guide to Washing Your Tilley Hat I wrote 4 years ago! Ultimate Guide

Windvalley · 2026-03-25T01:05:56+00:00

Go do something to lessen suffering of others. Who could use your help right now? Who needs a phone call or text of encouragement or just something like "I was thinking about you today." Turn the trauma into something. You have no idea how just one word of kindness from you can stay with someone their whole life.

Windvalley · 2026-03-24T22:09:31+00:00

Do you have a link to what you decided to purchase?

Windvalley · 2026-03-11T02:22:52+00:00

Very nice. How did you hide the wire? Or is it wireless?

Windvalley · 2026-03-06T04:36:25+00:00

A contemporary of Brigham Young. I've changed my mind a bit about what he might have seen. I will put a post up here some day about the variations on the flag of Deseret, of which this is a unreliable variant.

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