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Given the vast forest of layouts that Studio Ghibli has produced since its establishment in 1985, it is a wonder that anyone was able to select the mere 1,300 on show until Sept. 28 at Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art, www.mot-art-museum.jp. But select they have, and like the Japanese animé house's best work the exhibition is thoughtful, multilayered and deliciously whimsical...
...Even if you haven't heard of Studio Ghibli or its fabled animator Hayao Miyazaki, chances are you'll recognize the work when you see it. Studio Ghibli's better-known films - feature-length charmers like My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Princess Mononoke (1997) or Spirited Away (2001) - share a hand-drawn naturalism, grace of motion and attention to detail that have become exquisitely rare in a world where virtually all animation is digital...
...While computers are sometimes used - digital paint was employed in Princess Mononoke, for example - the essence if not the entirety of a Studio Ghibli film still consists of Miyazaki personally putting pen to paper. His latest fairytale, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, which grossed over $91 million in the first month of its Japan release, was done entirely by hand. The power of this as a means of differentiating Studio Ghibli's work from other animation houses cannot be overstated. Characters and story lines, too, are seemingly inimitable. "The Ghibli working style is possible because of Miyazaki," says...
...Risky Moves At a rehearsal studio above Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, Winsor - who also played the lead in Edward Scissorhands - is running through a series of macabre duets with his partners and victims. The music, by British composer Terry Davies, a long-time Bourne collaborator, is contemporary club scene with a sinister edge. "The show's very fast-paced," says Winsor, who prepared for the role by watching films like Peeping Tom, Matador and American Psycho. "We're making him much more psychopathic than in the book. He spirals completely out of control...
...been performing almost all of his life, but the past year has taken his street-recognition factor to a new level. Hutz's renown stems mostly from his front-man role in the New York City-based multiethnic band Gogol Bordello. They have toured continuously since their acclaimed fourth studio album Super Taranta was released in July last year. Rolling Stone hailed it as "an explosive album by a band whose shows wow orgiasts from Seattle to Kiev." That raucous live show - something akin to a traveling circus, with Hutz as the ringmaster - is packing in bigger and bigger venues...