Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind update feed
"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★½ NOTES: A recently-discovered 35mm print likely to have been produced in the early 2000’s, opening Prince Charles’ year-long Studio Ghibli Forever season for 2020. The changeovers noticeably cut off one second of footage and audio, but overall a gorgeous-looking print. DATE: January 4th 2020 CINEMA: The Prince Charles Cinema LOCATION: West End"
"Set in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, centuries after the decline of industrial civilization, Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is one of the Japanese master’s most rousing adventure films, shrewdly balancing its environmentalist and anti-war convictions by presenting them as different sides of the same coin. In a world overrun by giant insects and exotic, poisonous plants, humanity is its own worst enemy, caught up in an eternal cycle of endless wars that only further acce"
" What was it about? Warrior/pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet. My two cents: Even though this movie has quite an impressive reputation, to be honest, I always had a hard time to connect with the damned thing. I mean, as usual with Studio Ghibli, the animation was really neat and this story dealing with a post-apocalyptic world had a nice dark edge but it was still missing something. In my o"
" I'm in the minority of disliking it, which is fine. I understand that there is something about it that I don't get, that everyone else seems to understand. It's the only Studio Ghibli film that I actively dislike. I just found it so boring. There was nothing that pulled me into its world. I felt like an outsider looking at a pretty picture that only got less and less prettier for every second I had to see it."
" NAUSICAÄ of the VALLEY of the WIND Argus. Total Score: 1 point. "
“Hayao Miyazaki's environmentalist streak is apparent again in this post-apocaplyptic action adventure. The young Princess Nausicaä searches for the c”