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Movies: Isao Takahata films, ‘Couture,’ ‘Maddie’s Secret,’ ‘Lucky Strike,’ Redwood City Movies on the Square
Japanese animation, and one of its master artists, is celebrated in a film series coming up at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Also this week: new indie releases.    Filmmaker and Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata (1935–2018), who took animated cinema to new places with his exquisite renderings of the natural and everyday worlds, is the subject of […] The post Movies: Isao Takahata films, ‘Couture,’ ‘Maddie’s Secret,’ ‘Lucky Strike,’ Redwood City Movies on the Square appeared first on Local News Matters .
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Japanese animation, and one of its master artists, is celebrated in a film series coming up at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Also this week: new indie releases.    Filmmaker and Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata (1935–2018), who took animated cinema to new places with his exquisite renderings of the natural and everyday worlds, is the subject of […] The post Movies: Isao Takahata films, ‘Couture,’ ‘Maddie’s Secret,’ ‘Lucky Strike,’ Redwood City Movies on the Square appeared first on Local News Matters .
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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Movies: Isao Takahata films, ‘Couture,’ ‘Maddie’s Secret,’ ‘Lucky Strike,’ Redwood City Movies on the Square, Japanese animation, and one of its master artists, is celebrated in a film series coming up at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Also this week: new indie releases. Filmmaker and Studio Ghibli cofounder Isao Takahata (1935–2018), who took animated cinema to new places with his exquisite renderings of the natural and everyday worlds, is the subject of […] The post Movies: Isao Takahata films, ‘Couture,’ ‘Maddie’s Secret,’ ‘Lucky Strike,’ Redwood City Movies on the Square appeared first on Local News Matters .
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