Mamoru Hosoda, director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006), Summer Wars (2010), and the first two Digimon movie shorts (1999-2000), appeared at the New York International Children’s Film Festival on March 9, 2013 to present his newest animated feature, Wolf Children , and …Read more »
In case you haven't heard yet, Funimation recently teamed up with NYC-based distributor GKIDS to submit Summer Wars for consideration by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Yep, that means Mamoru Hosoda's film is going to be trying for some Oscar magic in …Read more »
Another con, another lot of scintillating acquisition announcements from reigning champeen Funimation. Seriously, there are some really good ones in this batch, as detailed below. Let's get what I would consider the "major whammies" out of the way first. As was expected but never quite …Read more »
The 2010 New York International Children’s Film Festival offered U.S. premieres of three Japanese animated features from 2009— Summer Wars , Oblivion Island , and Mai Mai Miracle —all shown in subtitled 35mm prints to sold-out houses of parents and enthusiastic children of all ages. …Read more »
Normally my goal is to avoid theaters that are explicitly loaded with children at all costs, but I may have to make an exception for some of the showings at this year's New York International Children's Film Festival. In association with New York-Tokyo, NYICFF is …Read more »
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