Tag: Astrid Lindgren

December 4, 2017 · 0 comments

Ronja the Robber’s Daughter

Ronja the Robber’s Daughter

By Andrew Osmond. Recently, I wrote a mildly provocative piece suggesting that Ghibli’s acclaimed, proudly old-fashioned filmmaking might be commercially outmoded by slicker crowd-pleasers like Your Name. In the piece, I touched on Ghibli’s roots in 1970s anime, and mentioned an institution called World Masterpiece Theatre (WMT for short). A new home release, Ronja the […]

April 30, 2017 · 3 comments

The Phantom Pippi Longstocking

The Phantom Pippi Longstocking

By Jonathan Clements. In Stockholm, Hayao Miyazaki had been awake since before dawn, watching the carpenters heading to their studios with their tin lunchboxes, and young mothers in the morning, strolling proudly with their babies. In Visby, he stared in mute amazement at the gingerbread houses and medieval stone walls, as if a fairy tale […]

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