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...wizard's bedroom in Howl's Moving Castle to the dishes eaten by Chihiro's parents in Spirited Away (the fateful meal causes them to turn into pigs). But neophytes can get just as much satisfaction from the dynamic quality of the drawings. The opening sequence of 1984's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (a Miyazaki-Takahata film that predated the foundation of Studio Ghibli) is there as a lush forest drawn from high above, with blocks of clouds marked A to D - an instruction to the assembly line to animate them in that sequence...
Mostly, the cast is one that Homer might have approved. In her revealing classical finery, Silvana Mangano is as provocative and enticing as a Tanagra figurine. Rossana Podesta plays the abandoned Nausicaä with all the sad airs and graces of a bereft princess. In the role of Penelope's leading suitor, Anthony Quinn shows a wily nobility, and young Franco Interlenghi as Ulysses' son gives real substance to his role of a stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach...
...Classical Conference. Addresses on "The Latin Epyllion," by Professor C. N. Jackson '98; "Ulysses and Nausica in the Work of the Greek Vase-Painters," (illustrated), by Mr. H. T. Fick '02; and "Recent Discoveries near Mahdia," (illustrated), by Professor G. H. Chase '96; in Harvard...
...Classical Conference. Addresses on "The Latin Epyllion," by Professor C. N. Jackson '98; "Ulysses and Nausica in the Work of the Greek Vase-Painters," (illustrated), by Mr. H. T. Fick '02; and "Recent Discoveries near Mahdia," (illustrated), by Professor G. H. Chase '96; in Harvard...
...Nausica, E. G. Knoblauch...