Ghibliotheque - A Podcast About Animation and Studio Ghibli

Ole, ole, ole, ole... it's time for Early Man! Jake's doing his best Peter Crouch robot dance in the recording studio, but will Steph and Michael feel just as celebratory? Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at ghibliotheque@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast....

Back in 2020 we looked at a couple of documentaries about Studio Ghibli, including Kaku Arakawa's Never-Ending Man . Now, after the release of Arakawa's latest documentary Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron, made during the production and release of Miyazaki's most recent film, Michael and Jake take a look at this latest look into the interior world of Ghibli. Follow Ghibliotheque on Twitter: @ghiblioth...

Hold onto your buns, this week Michael, Jake and Steph are back in shorts territory with Nick Park's fifth Wallace & Gromit adventure, A Matter of Loaf and Death. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at ghibliotheque@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See...

Beware! Michael, Jake and Steph are about to explore the lore of the terrifying Were-Rabbit. Continue if you dare... Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at ghibliotheque@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"It's a podcast machine, you idiot. Podcasters go in, podcasts come out." This week, Michael, Jake and Steph discuss Aardman's feature debut, co-directed by Nick Park alongside studio co-founder Peter Lord, the farmyard break-out comedy-adventure, Chicken Run. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter &n...

Tragic romance! Sheep rustling! Dirty windows! Michael, Jake and Steph don their favourite woolly jumpers and settle in for a chat all about Nick Park’s third Wallace and Gromit adventure, A Close Shave . Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at ghibliot...

Is that a chicken, or a penguin? Steph, Michael and Jake are here to investigate, as they look into Nick Park's second Wallace and Gromit tale The Wrong Trousers . Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at ghibliotheque@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See aca...

This week, Nick Park's career takes off with the very first Wallace and Gromit adventure, A Grand Day Out. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at ghibliotheque@gmail.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Michael, Jake and Steph are back with a new miniseries charting the career of animation legend Nick Park and his work at the peerless plasticine-powered studio, Aardman Animations. To start, we look at his Oscar-winning first film, the chatty zoo-themed mockumentary Creature Comforts (1989), which was his first directorial credit for Aardman after contributing to projects such as the er...

To close out the Shinkaideology we've taken the chance to reshare the interview we had with Makoto Shinkai almost two years ago. Some may have already have heard this, but we've had lots of new listeners join the show, so wanted to take the chance to get his voice on the feed for the end of the mini-series. As his new blockbuster anime Suzume is released in UK cinemas, director Makoto Shinkai (You...

This week, Michael and Jake bring the Shinkai-deology up to date with Makoto Shinkai's latest release, and the third film in his loose trilogy of high-concept, disaster-themed features: Suzume. However, this time, Shinkai makes the connection with the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake more overt than ever, with a young girl and her chair boyfriend travelling the full length of Japan to close a series of myst...

How do you follow one of the biggest anime hits of all time? This week, Makoto Shinkai continues his run of high concept, big-feels blockbusters with the climate-crisis romance, Weathering With You. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at ghibliotheque@...

This week, Michael speaks with director Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon) about his new film, The Wild Robot, as well as the films that inspired him to get into animation, his formative years at CalArts, and how he was 'tricked' into being a storyboard artist. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Fol...

It's the big one! After several films as a rising star, Makoto Shinkai finally takes up the mantle of 'the Next Miyazaki' (at the box office at least) with the blockbuster body-swap drama, YOUR NAME. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at ghibliotheque...

The Shinkai-deology continues with Makoto Shinkai returning to shortform storytelling with the gorgeously-photographed, Tokyo-set drama, The Garden of Words. Michael and Jake also touch on Shinkai's commercial work, including the futuristic family sketch, Someone's Gaze, which was initially commissioned by the Nomura Real Estate Group, before premiering alongside The Garden of Words in Japanese ci...

Our miniseries on the work of Makoto Shinkai takes an unexpected turn this week, as the director dives head-first into Miyazaki-influenced fantasy-adventure territory with 2011's Children Who Chase Lost Voices. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at gh...

This week, our journey through the career of Makoto Shinkai comes to 5 Centimeters Per Second. Now a firm fan-favourite, this 60-odd minute anthology of three interconnected coming-of-age shorts was, for many, their first introduction to Shinkai's work, and it represents an important step in the director's growth as a filmmaker and storyteller. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free epis...

This week, our journey through the films of Makoto Shinkai reaches his first feature-length film, and his first full-scale production, 2004's alt-history sci-fi drama The Place Promised in Our Early Days. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or  Instagram , or drop us an email at ghibliot...

It's the start of a new miniseries! Michael and Jake are back to chart the rise of one of Japanese animation's blockbuster filmmakers, Makoto Shinkai, from his homemade beginnings with his very early works, She and Her Cat and Voices of a Distant Star. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for ad-free episodes and bonus conversations in our Library Cafe series. Follow us on  Twitter  or&n...

Comic book artist, animator and film director Dash Shaw joins Michael to speak about his new graphic novel, Blurry, and his two animated features, My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea (2016) and Cryptozoo (2021), as well as his salad days as a young anime fan, his love of independent and European animation, and looking to Miyazaki as an 'old man' mentor. Blurry is available now from the very...

Screenwriter, author and Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce joins Michael to speak about adapting Michael Morpurgo's novel Kensuke's Kingdom, as well as the art of adaptation, when adaptations go wrong, and his career as a writer of books for children. Kensuke's Kingdom is in UK cinemas now. Find a screening near you: https://www.kensukeskingdom.com/. Subscribe to our  Patreon  for...

With Coraline celebrating its 15th anniversary and returning to cinemas, Henry Selick joins us to talk about his life and career, from his days at Cal Arts to his work at the forefront of stop-motion feature animation. He talks about the process of developing Coraline, those early days during the formation of Laika Studios, and how technology has changed since his debut feature, The Nightmare Befo...

Author and poet A.F. Harrold joins Michael to speak about the experience of having his novel, The Imaginary, adapted into a feature film by Studio Ponoc, as well as his memories of writing the book, his love of libraries, and his approach to writing stories for children. You can find out more about A.F. and his work at his website, http://www.afharroldkids.com/ Subscribe to our  Patreon &nbsp...

Studio Ponoc founder Yoshiaki Nishimura (Mary and the Witch's Flower, Modest Heroes) speaks with Michael about Ponoc's new film, The Imaginary, as well as his love of children's fiction and live-action cinema, and his time at Studio Ghibli producing The Tale of the Princess Kaguya and When Marnie Was There. Thank you to Eyre Kurasawa for translating our conversation. If you want to hear the full c...

This special episode of the podcast dives into the stage adaptation of Spirited Away, which is currently running at the Coliseum theatre in London's West End. With Jake on parental leave, Michael enlists the help of co-host Steph Watts and friends of the show Adam Woodward (Little White Lies, TCOLondon) and Sam Clements ( 90 Minutes Or Less Film Fest ) to tackle this epic production that brings Ha...