Just got back from first few screenings at NZ Film festival & my first film was a treat: A Ghibli Studios film by Hayao Miyazaki called Ponyo – thankfully it was subtitled & not dubbed into english/american… Such fun to see such a great animated movie on 35mm film at a very good theatre – Ponyo is screening again on Sunday afternoon at the Embassy theatre, so if you live in Wellington… heres the trailer:
An hour or so later I also caught another film at same theatre called Soul Power about Zaire ’74, a concert staged in Africa – trailer here (it was fantastic to see/hear James Brown live, and hear those rhythm sections!
No films tomorrow, but the rescheduled gamelan workshop is on… then two Korean films Sunday…. wahooo!
On the dubbing thing I know that the newest DVD version of Castle in the Sky has added background dialogue and some changes to the mix, particularly where in the original there would have been isolated score. Great thing about DVD though, you can watch the original version as well.
Should probably have been in my top 5 films when I think about it……
Haha! Its been a while since I’ve seen these kind of Japanese films! Growing up in Spain, that was pretty much ALL we had as far as children’s programmes! Obviously, those were badly dubbed to Spanish so that was a bit of a bummer but didn’t matter at that age :p
I used to love Oliver & Benji! That was the main programme us children would watch those days! Those neverending football fields and amazing sky high flips and dives! Unforgettable, I should go back to these cartoons and watch them in their original versions though!