Cinema Club: SPIRITED AWAY at the Michigan Theater

It is rare that I post a matinee Cinema Club, let alone Anime. This movie just came up as #9 on the Best movies of the 21st Century in the NYTimes (See article ) so I now I must see it. The Michigan theater plays a series of ANIME films every summer and I have never gone. This will be my first..

This is in the screening room. No assigned seating. Movie starts at 1;30pm.

SPIRITED AWAY

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Hayao Miyazaki’s hand-drawn fairy tale of adolescence is the “Alice in Wonderland” of our age. Unforgettable characters keep spilling out of an abandoned magical bathhouse — the boilerman and his soot sprites, the masked spirit No-Face, Haku the boy-dragon and, navigating it all, brave Chihiro, whose clueless parents have been turned into pigs by a witch. Beautifully uniting the master animator’s preoccupations — man’s corruption of nature, the loss of innocence, intimidating creatures who aren’t what they seem — “Spirited Away” is a spellbinding adventure with few peers in animation or elsewhere.

Film | Anime | PG | 2h 4m | Japanese | 2001
Part of our Summer of Studio Ghibli series

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