Search: Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

The hand-drawn beauty of the images always connects to ideas, something grander that we have yet to find out about.

Anime at its very finest - lightning paced, visually stunning, feverishly creative and overrun by a logic all its own.

The film is a visual treat, boasting a well-realised steampunk aesthetic and inventive visual flourishes.

My Neighbour Totoro is a true family film, both about, and for, families and while it is wholly concerned with good, decent, likeable people (as well as endearing rustic entities), it somehow avoids saccharine sentiments or a pat resolution.

While one expects a strong environmental theme in a Miyazaki work, it has never before been so heavy handed and crude.

In this way, Miyazaki avoids any simplistic 'message', preferring to present a more complicated dialectic on the environmental difficulties that continue to 'curse' us to this day.

The power of invention is strong and the visual imagery matches the plot's unique vision, defining all logic of storytelling.

Miyazaki's films linger for a long time, they can't be pinned down, their meaning won't dissolve on the horizon.