700: A Dark Totoro

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

We reconvene Miyazaki Club to discuss the master animator’s latest final movie, “The Boy and the Heron.” We went in wondering, will this be lyrical and nostalgic magical realism, or will it be a barrage of super-weird fantastical imagery? The voluminous bird poop and the suit of frogs point the way....

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 700, January 2024.
0:15.5	Welcome back, everybody, to The Incomparable.
0:17.5	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:18.7	In this episode, we are revisiting Miyazaki Club, which we thought was over.
0:23.9	But, oh, Haya Miyazaki, the man who would not retire, or man who keeps retiring and then keeps not retiring.
0:31.2	He's back with another film.
0:34.6	It is the boy and the heron.
0:37.2	We saw it. We're going to talk about it. So an unexpl- well, no,
0:42.2	it's actually expected. We knew this was going to happen when we recorded the end of Miyazaki
0:45.3	club. A return to the weird world of Haya Miyazaki. Joining me to talk about the boy and the heron.
0:56.3	How do you live?
0:57.7	Are these three wonderful people?
0:59.8	Moises Chuyon joins me, hello.
1:03.0	Souls are made of marshmallow fluff.
1:05.5	Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
1:08.3	John Syracusa is here, as always for the Miyazaki Club.
1:11.4	Hello.
1:12.6	Nothing is over unless he decides it is.
1:15.8	And also, as usual, for the Miyazaki Club, Steve Lutz.
1:19.5	Hi, Steve.
1:20.6	Hi, Jason.
1:21.2	I could not be happier to be here for this deep dive into the world of bird poop.
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