Studio Ghibli’s first international c0-production The Red Turtle is making its way to Digital Download September 18th, DVD and DVD/Blu-ray double play September 25th and to celebrate we have two copies to giveaway on DVD.
From Oscar-winning director Michael Dudok de Wit, The Red Turtle recounts the milestones in the life of a human being through the story of a man shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by turtles, crabs and birds. With stunning visuals from Prima Linea’s animation team, helmed by Disney veteran Jean-Christophe Lie and a dialogue-less screenplay by award-winning French writer and director Pascale Ferran, The Red Turtle is a deeply moving and uplifting story about the power of the human spirit.
To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer this question:
Which Studio Ghibli film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature?
Your Answer Howl's Moving CastleSpirited AwayMy Neighbour Totoro
UK entries only.
From Oscar-winning director Michael Dudok de Wit, The Red Turtle recounts the milestones in the life of a human being through the story of a man shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by turtles, crabs and birds. With stunning visuals from Prima Linea’s animation team, helmed by Disney veteran Jean-Christophe Lie and a dialogue-less screenplay by award-winning French writer and director Pascale Ferran, The Red Turtle is a deeply moving and uplifting story about the power of the human spirit.
To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer this question:
Which Studio Ghibli film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature?
Your Answer Howl's Moving CastleSpirited AwayMy Neighbour Totoro
UK entries only.
- 9/1/2017
- by Roobla Team
- The Cultural Post
This wordless animated fable follows the fortunes of a shipwrecked man on an island – and it’s a masterpiece
In the wake of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s When Marnie Was There, there were reports that Japan’s celebrated Studio Ghibli had run its creative course. But at the Cannes film festival last year, a new pearl was unveiled proudly bearing the world’s most respected animation imprimatur.
Directed by UK-based Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit, who won an Oscar for his 2000 short, Father and Daughter, The Red Turtle is an ambitious east-meets-west endeavour that had been gestating for a decade; a Japanese-French-Belgian co-production (a first for Ghibli) made at Prima Linea studios in Paris and Angoulême, under the long-distance supervision of Ghibli mainstays Takahata and Toshio Suzuki.
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In the wake of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises, Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and Hiromasa Yonebayashi’s When Marnie Was There, there were reports that Japan’s celebrated Studio Ghibli had run its creative course. But at the Cannes film festival last year, a new pearl was unveiled proudly bearing the world’s most respected animation imprimatur.
Directed by UK-based Dutch animator Michaël Dudok de Wit, who won an Oscar for his 2000 short, Father and Daughter, The Red Turtle is an ambitious east-meets-west endeavour that had been gestating for a decade; a Japanese-French-Belgian co-production (a first for Ghibli) made at Prima Linea studios in Paris and Angoulême, under the long-distance supervision of Ghibli mainstays Takahata and Toshio Suzuki.
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- 5/28/2017
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Dudok de Wit’s Oscar-nominated “The Red Turtle” manages to avoid a lot of conflict in telling its animated 2D cycle of life story. However, the face-to face encounter with the eponymous creature represents an early dramatic high point.
Each time the castaway tries to leave the island in his raft, the turtle attacks it, until the third time they finally meet. “It’s not casually being annoying in attacking the raft — it’s clearly motivated, which is really interesting,” de Wit told IndieWire. “It has eye contact with the man. And then the turtle manages to destroy the raft, the man falls in the water, and he’s very uncomfortable being in the water with the turtle. But the turtle just looks intently at him and just swims away.”
Read More: ‘The Red Turtle’ Director Michael Dudok de Wit on Speaking a Timeless Language Without Words
He added,...
Each time the castaway tries to leave the island in his raft, the turtle attacks it, until the third time they finally meet. “It’s not casually being annoying in attacking the raft — it’s clearly motivated, which is really interesting,” de Wit told IndieWire. “It has eye contact with the man. And then the turtle manages to destroy the raft, the man falls in the water, and he’s very uncomfortable being in the water with the turtle. But the turtle just looks intently at him and just swims away.”
Read More: ‘The Red Turtle’ Director Michael Dudok de Wit on Speaking a Timeless Language Without Words
He added,...
- 2/21/2017
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
“The Red Turtle” represents the year’s best example of global animation. Director Michael Dudok de Wit is Dutch, it was co-produced by Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli and it was made by French animation studio Prima Linea. The result a sublime cycle of life Oscar contender, which “uses time to relate the absence of time, like music can enhance silence,” according to de Wit, Oscar winner for the “Father and Daughter” short.
Read More: How ‘The Red Turtle’ Became an Animated, Cycle of Life Oscar Contender
“It was a priority to find a beautiful balance between being sensitive, pure and simple and making an entertaining film,” de Wit told IndieWire. “I didn’t want it to be too artsy or mysterious. And I used Studio Ghibli films as a big inspiration. They have lots of characters and come from a very deep place and yet they are accessible to millions of spectators,...
Read More: How ‘The Red Turtle’ Became an Animated, Cycle of Life Oscar Contender
“It was a priority to find a beautiful balance between being sensitive, pure and simple and making an entertaining film,” de Wit told IndieWire. “I didn’t want it to be too artsy or mysterious. And I used Studio Ghibli films as a big inspiration. They have lots of characters and come from a very deep place and yet they are accessible to millions of spectators,...
- 12/6/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Cannes winner “The Red Turtle” (co-produced by Studio Ghibli) is arguably the most sublime animated Oscar contender. Michael Dudok de Wit, who directed the Academy Award-winning short, “Father and Daughter,” tells a 2D cycle of life story that “uses time to relate the absence of time, like music can enhance silence.”
A man shipwrecked on a lush tropical island inhabited by crabs, turtles and birds tries to escape by building and rebuilding a raft, continually wrecked by a mysterious red turtle, which transforms into a beautiful red-headed woman who becomes his companion and soul mate. Eventually, they have a son together.
Read More: ‘The Red Turtle’ Director Reveals How He Made Studio Ghibli’s New Film With No Dialogue
“The Red Turtle,” which opens its qualifying run November 18 and bears Studio Ghibli’s strong sense of color, philosophy and symbolism, was actually animated by Prima Linea in Paris and Angouleme.
A man shipwrecked on a lush tropical island inhabited by crabs, turtles and birds tries to escape by building and rebuilding a raft, continually wrecked by a mysterious red turtle, which transforms into a beautiful red-headed woman who becomes his companion and soul mate. Eventually, they have a son together.
Read More: ‘The Red Turtle’ Director Reveals How He Made Studio Ghibli’s New Film With No Dialogue
“The Red Turtle,” which opens its qualifying run November 18 and bears Studio Ghibli’s strong sense of color, philosophy and symbolism, was actually animated by Prima Linea in Paris and Angouleme.
- 11/8/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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