Word: howlingly
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...Tumult In Toontown" [Feb. 20] noted that none of the three animated feature films nominated for Academy Awards (Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride and Howl's Moving Castle) used computer-generated imagery (CGI) and reasoned that resentment of animation veterans toward CGI could have played a part. That is simply not true. CGI films had been nominated every year since the Animation Feature category was created in 2001. The awards are not about box-office grosses or whether a film is CGI or not; the awards are about quality. Without question...
...HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE HAYAO MIYAZAKI This Oscar-nominated antiwar fable was an art film in North America (box office: $4.7 million) but a popular smash worldwide ($229.6 million). That was nothing new for Miyazaki. His hand-drawn animated fantasies (Porco Rosso, Spirited Away) have long appealed to kids and connoisseurs alike. Here he has transported his gift for alchemizing the mundane from Japan to Western Europe a century ago. A spell instantly ages the heroine, Sophie, from 18 to 90 and lands her as a housekeeper inside the walking wonder house owned by a dishy shape shifter. Following...
...HOWL HOWL GAFF GAFF Telling everyone you're a sucker for love without being extremely irritating is a tough trick, yet this emotional Stockholm band finds a way to pull it off. Singer Adam Olenius has a gift for melodies and an earnestness that recalls the Cure's Robert Smith, but he's also got enough self-respect to know when he's on the verge of bathos and is smart enough to avoid it, as on the soaring Very Loud: "I wanna build buildings high for you/ But the costs, my God, the costs I can't afford...
...redistribute its gains; the other looked to the market and the price mechanism to guarantee growth and allocate resources efficiently. But those days - when speakers at the Labour Party conference referred to their audience as "comrades," one of Brown's predecessors promised to squeeze the rich until they "howl with anguish," and François Mitterrand won the presidency of France on a manifesto red in tooth and claw - are long gone. As Osborne says: "We've all read Adam Smith now." With the triumph of the market revolution, European politics has been reduced to a choice between technocratic solutions...
...traditional-animation unit and spends $7.4 billion to buy CGI leader Pixar, the three nominees are defiantly old-fashioned and handcrafted: two delightful stop-motion movies--Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride--as well as a hand-drawn fantasy, Howl's Moving Castle, from Japanimator Hayao Miyazaki. Meanwhile, three big-studio CGI hits--DreamWorks' Madagascar, Disney's Chicken Little and Fox's Robots--got shut...