An international English-language trailer has dropped for Studio Ghibli's Arrietty, the directorial debut of animator Hiromasa Yonebayashi. The new spot features the UK voice cast, which includes Saoirse Ronan as Arrietty, Olivia Coleman, Tom Holland, and Mark Strong. Based on Mary Norton's classic children's series The Borrowers, the film revolves around a 14-year-old girl named…
Read More
All animation is essentially dubbed when you get right down to it, but there's still something valuable about seeing animated pictures with their original voice track intact -- the timing and tone of that original dialogue is important. But Studio Ghibli's films have earned a spot as some of the few animated pictures where I've…
Read More
Studio Ghibli, the wonderful animation studio that has produced many wonders directed by Hayao Miyazaki, is close to releasing a new film version of Mary Norton's fantasy novel The Borrowers. We've seen two brief teasers for the film, The Borrower Arrietty, and now there's a third. The quality here is far better than the previous…
Read MoreStudio Ghibi has released a trailer for The Borrower Arrietty, their Japanese anime adaptation of Mary Norton's fantasy novel The Borrowers. The movie tells the story of 14-year-old Arrietty, who lives in peaceful anonymity with the rest of the Clock family, as "they make their own home from items "borrowed" from the house's human inhabitants.…
Read More
Mary Norton's series of books about The Borrowers, a family of miniature people that live beneath the floorboards of a human family's house, have already inspired a number of adaptations. The only American versions I know of are a 1970s TV movie and a late 90's England-US co-production directed by the once undervalued, lately derailed English…
Read More