Michael Leader

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Films, etc. | Critic, curator | Podcasts, books + screenings as Ghibliotheque

Cover of a hardback picture book. Little People, Big Dreams: Hayao Miyazaki.
Pic of a page of the Metro newspaper with an article covering the BFI national archive's preservation of the animated work Badgers, with the headline: "old black and white film is saved for posterity"
Photo of a book with a pinkish cover with the capitalised yellow title THE MANGA BIBLE, with author credit HELEN McCARTHY
Poster for the animated film Little Amelie
Screengrab of the Douban page for Robot Dreams
Screengrab from Instagram account of the Prince Charles Cinema, showing a post of a screenshot of a post from Ghibliotheque, reading "A nice nod to My Neighbour Totoro in Mamoru Hosoda's Mirai"
Screengrab of text, reading: "Several American filmmakers have also borrowed liberally from Kon’s boldly surreal visual language, including Darren Aronofsky, whose Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan mimic Perfect Blue to a concerning degree. Other homages to Kon’s body of work are subtler, such as Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which draws from the DNA of Kon’s Paprika but is distinct enough to forge its own identity."
Edited image of Bob Dylan wearing a Santa hat.
A still from the film When the Wind Blows, showing Jim and Hilda Bloggs in front of a mushroom cloud, with the overlay text 'Ghibliotheque: When the Wind Blows: Briggsonometry".
Picture of an article in the TV Times, with the headline "How ET lost his ice-cold friend"