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Happy new year! Hope you spent a merry Kwanzaa eggnogging yourself into oblivion. 2010 marks Screen Machine’s second year in operation and what better way for a website to celebrate such an occasion than with a list! Here are the Top 20 Films of 2009 as chosen by the Screen Machine staff. Chosen from films that were released in Melbourne cinemas in 2009 or were given a festival screening here, we’ve tried to create a list that is more intriguing…
Miyazaki is more than he appears. Because his films are generally so positive, charming and cute I feel like he gets written off as a lightweight. Indeed some have written about Miyazaki’s latest film Ponyo as just for kids, pointing out the film narrative’s seeming disregard for cause and effect. But to watch Ponyo and insist on cold adult logic is to really miss the complexity of Miyazaki’s vision.
Take the theme of ecology which you find comes up a lot…
