Kiki's

Suddenly, Kiki is being tarted up on stage Lolita-fashion, the grandmother with a stroke always an awkward presence during the first act becomes the target of Kiki's taunts and brutal sacrifices must be made to rescue the child.

Michael Giltz: NYMF #4: Jazz, Kiddies, Camp, Tap, Tut and Vamps Michael Giltz 2011

All their friends in tenement become part of Kiki's team -- the failed singer is her vocal coach, the cabbie drives Kiki around and so on.

Michael Giltz: NYMF #4: Jazz, Kiddies, Camp, Tap, Tut and Vamps Michael Giltz 2011

Kiki's Delivery Service depicts the magical adventure of an enterprising young girl who must follow tradition to become a full-fledged witch.

Sunday Cinema: Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) 2009

As much as I admire Blanchett, Fey, Neeson et. al, familiar actors sometimes creates a certain detachment. (for example hearing Phil Hartman's voice in Kiki's Delivery Service always weirds me out) I also worry when I see that Disney has used a Cyrus and a Jonas to fill lead roles.

Ponyo Roger Sutton 2009

Since we did Kiki's Delivery Service last week, let's keep the Hayao Miyazaki theme going with the 1984 post-apocalyptic film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind:

Sunday Cinema: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 2009

Instead, Kiki's contradictions emerge from the cartoons: her liberated sexual freedom is shadowed by a masochistic tendency to forgive abusive lovers; while her joyous embrace of the pleasures of life food, art, wine, song, sunshine is enmeshed with drug addiction and alcoholism.

Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller – review 2011

Kiki's career subsequently veered between cabaret and drug addiction, and by the time Man Ray returned to Paris in the spring of 1951 having left the city at the outbreak of the second world war, she was swollen with alcoholism and dropsy.

Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller – review 2011

Kiki's creativity was also apparent in the illustrations she sketched for her memoir, black and white drawings that shade between childlike innocence and something darker; and despite their surface naivety, her status as an artist, as well as a model, had already been consolidated with a sold-out exhibition of paintings in Paris in 1927.

Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller – review 2011

When Kiki's own memoirs were published in 1929 and promptly banned in the United States, her friend Ernest Hemingway wrote an introduction that acknowledged her capacity for self-invention.

Kiki de Montparnasse by Jose-Luis Bocquet and Catel Muller – review 2011

On the other side was a drawing of a pig, with “[Kiki's sister] is a pig” underneath.

Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009