From its opening shot — a close-up of the nautilus-like curl of a human ear — Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s “Earwig” sets out to unsettle, slowly burrowing its way into our brains by any orifice it can. Not ...

Lucile Hadzihalilovic * ’s Earwig is, in broad outline, synopsizable with the same sentence as her first two features, Innocence and Evolution: a child (or group of children) grows up in deliberate ...

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The release of Studio Ghibli Inc.’s “Earwig and the Witch” has been full of surprises. It marked the first time the renowned anime house has made a fully computer-generated feature film, and Japan ...

Animation director Goro Miyazaki's latest feature is the 3DCG "Earwig and the Witch." (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) “Earwig and the Witch” is about a young orphaned girl who is not afraid to ...

In her third tough-to-classify feature, Lucile Hadzihalilovic presents an original but patience-testing puzzle about a girl with frozen teeth and the gaunt man tasked with raising her. From its ...

First time in their 35 year history, Studio Ghibli has produced 3DCG animation Earwig and The Witch. SBS Japanese spoke to the director of the movie, Goro Miyazaki. Japan's animation powerhouse Studio ...

Studio Ghibli will soon release Earwig and the Witch, a new venture into 3D CG animation, that will make its debut on Japanese television. While Miyazaki Hayao works on what is likely to be his last ...