Going into a dark space to watch moving images on the wall seems like a recent thing, but humans have been doing it for tens of thousands of years. In this first episode of the Moon Rabbit Podcast, I sat down with independent cinema expert Flick Beckett to discuss the mythological elements of the cinema-going […]
The Ritual Origins of Cinema – Moon Rabbit Podcast #001
Welcome to the Moon Rabbit podcast! (intro episode #000)
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If you wanna pop down to the underworld, today’s the day
Something caught my eye yesterday as I passed by my favourite taco place in Brighton (Casa Azul – you must go, the things they do with mushrooms!) The owner, Gabriel, had repurposed one of the tables as a makeshift altar, lovingly arranged with candles, sweetbread, bottles of tequila and black-and-white photos hanging above on a piece of string. I’ve […]
The Moon Rabbit Hotline is ready to take your call
Welcome to the Moon Rabbit Hotline! As you might already know, I’m starting a new podcast using a mixture of storytelling research and insider film industry experience to dig deep into what makes the kind of transformative film storytelling that changes people’s lives. And now, with a few clicks and a microphone-enabled device, you can […]
Howl’s Moving Castle Explained: Character Analysis and Main Themes
In Howl’s Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki flips his own script and instead of making a coming-of-age film, he makes a film-where-people-should-have-come-of-age-but-didn’t, shaping his story around how to grow up if you’re already an adult. Howl’s Moving Castle is unique in the sense that it’s like a setup for a sitcom: it takes characters that have […]
Spirited Away is really about growing up in modern Japan
As his career progresses, Hayao Miyazaki just keeps piling on the complexity of his films, and trying to see how many characters, plotlines and themes he can put in there and get himself out of it – and every time he manages to pull it off so effortlessly, he creates another masterpiece. Like with Totoro, […]