(12.18) Has Miyazaki really retired? How does this Academy Award-winning animator feel about C.G.I.? The new documentary ‘Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki,’ directed by Kaku Arakawa, answers those questions and more. From the New York Times review,
The master butts heads with some overenthusiastic computer animators whose ideas he thinks are repellent — “an insult to life,” Miyazaki pronounces them, in one of the movie’s most striking scenes.
That’s not terribly surprising. Archival footage shows the demands of hand-drawn animation under an exacting master.
Running time: 1 hour, 10 minutes.
Never-Ending Man, 7:30pm, Tuesday, December 18, Providence Place Cinema, (directions)