Sophie Wasn’t Growing Old—She Was Losing Herself: Rewatching Howl’s Moving Castle In 2003, Hayao Miyazaki did not attend the Oscars. He was set to receive the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for Spirited Away, yet he never showed up to the ceremony. The reason was simple. The United States was bombing Iraq that year, … Continue reading Howl’s Moving Castle: A Mirror of Its Time