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The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Iconic Films<\/p>\n
This book offers a roadmap to\u00a0the fantastical universe of\u00a0Japanese animator and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki. Film writer Nicolas Rapold charts the filmmaker\u2019s inspirations, from Pippi Longstocking, reimagined as a swashbuckling pirate-grandma in Castle in the\u00a0Sky, to the Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama, seen on screen in\u00a0Spirited Away as the phantasmagorical bathhouse. Frances Lincoln<\/a>, \u00a325<\/p>\n David Lynch: His Work, His World In the wake of director David\u00a0Lynch\u2019s death at the\u00a0start of the year, author Tom Huddleston has written\u00a0a\u00a0chronology of his\u00a0creative output with insights into his\u00a0inner life, his\u00a0long-term practice of\u00a0transcendental meditation and the sheer\u00a0breadth of his output, from blues albums to\u00a0forays into furniture design. Frances\u00a0Lincoln<\/a>, \u00a335<\/p>\n Pedro Almod\u00f3var: The Last Dream Spanish director Pedro Almod\u00f3var switches medium\u00a0this month with\u00a0the\u00a0publication of 12\u00a0new\u00a0short stories. The book\u00a0is\u00a0a \u201cfragmentary autobiography\u201d, bringing together personal reflections, including the story about his mother\u2019s death\u00a0for which the\u00a0book is named, and\u00a0fictional vignettes.\u00a0Vintage<\/a>, \u00a39.99<\/p>\n Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s Unmade and Abandoned Projects French-Swiss filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once suggested that the ideas and\u00a0scraps of script found in\u00a0Hollywood screenwriters\u2019 rubbish bins would probably produce more interesting films than the ones that were actually made.\u00a0Accordingly, cinema historian Michael\u00a0Witt\u00a0has studied 380 incomplete projects from Godard\u2019s 70-year career, such\u00a0as a documentary short, Parenth\u00e8ses, developed weeks before his death. Bloomsbury Academic<\/a>, \u00a3170<\/p>\n A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agn\u00e8s Varda This biography spans the three careers of film director Agn\u00e8s Varda: her start as a portrait photographer in Paris, her ascent to genre-defining filmmaker of\u00a0the French New Wave, and\u00a0her last act as an installation artist who debuted at the Venice Biennale at the age of\u00a075. WW Norton & Company<\/a>, \u00a313.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-155336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Scenes](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net\/production\/63dc1664-0ddb-4180-82bf-8359bddda1cc.jpg\")
Scenes from Twin Peaks: The Return in David Lynch: His Work, His World <\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net\/production\/34666cf2-bfdf-437e-a51a-c2acef22b41e.png\")
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Jean-Luc Godard\u2019s Unmade and Abandoned Projects reveals the director\u2019s notes \u00a9 Michel Dixmier Collection<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/https:\/\/d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net\/production\/ff05d5d6-f10d-4c4e-b7d7-5bca870d95d7.png\")
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