LITTLE ROCK — Considering the eccentric, almost psychedelic fantasy worlds created in Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s tales, a story of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a house ...

The new anime version of “The Borrowers,” titled “The Secret World of Arrietty” by screenwriter and “supervisor” Hayao Miyazaki, has the fascination with household “spirits,” the same lovely color ...

Have you noticed anything missing from your home lately? Perhaps a cube of sugar or a piece of tissue paper? If so, you might have Borrowers living under your floorboards! The Secret World of Arrietty ...

Kids — tykes, urchins, tots, moppets, bambinos, waifs, ragamuffins, cherubs and small fry — are fascinated by smallness. Consider their films: “Antz,” “A ...

Hand-drawn animation may not be the draw it once was (even live-action films can’t compete with the grosses of Pixar’s 3-D CG efforts), but good old-fashioned 2-D animation has seen a rebirth in ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. American audiences will first hear the music of French composer Cécile ...

Releases Based On The New The Film By Hayao Miyazaki’s Famed Animation Studio Include Film Comics, Art And Picture Books Arrietty isn’t your ordinary fourteen-year-old girl — she is small enough to ...

The film is by far the biggest stateside success for a Studio Ghibli animation. By Gavin J Blair The Secret World of Arrietty in Garden - H 2012 TOKYO – The $8.1 million opening weekend in the US for ...

If you love the Mary Norton books about “The Borrowers,” you’re better off with the swell live-action version from 1997 than the new animated “The Secret World of Arrietty.” Both films are based on ...

Considering the eccentric, almost psychedelic fantasy worlds created in Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki’s tales, a story of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a house seems almost ...

If the Studio Ghibli production "The Secret World of Arrietty" (opened February 17 in select theaters) had come out last year it would have cleaned up on awards because it is leaps and bounds better ...

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