Private WorldsLives spent lurking too long in the shadows...

Private Worlds

Lives spent lurking too long in the shadows of the virtual.

Roland Kelts | 19 Oct 2009 | 1 commentjapan[image error]

Mareen Fischinger

Late last year when Japan's master animation artist Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Totoro) addressed a room of mostly Western journalists in Tokyo, many of us were expecting him to talk about his latest fantastical feature film, Ponyo, which was just about to open worldwide. Instead, the 68-year-old director spent 15 minutes issuing a stern warning about the...