I sent this out to everyone I had an email address for that I thought might be interested (so for many of you, this is a repeat) and then it occurred to me that I could post it to lJ for those that I don’t have email addresses for and who might not want their inbox stuffed.
Renwench sent me a link to an incredible opportunity. CAL Berkeley’s Film Archive has a fabulous program that is showing many of Studio Ghibili’s films in June. This is the Studio responsible for Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke and Totoro. Many of their pictures have been the top grossing films in Japan (beating out Star Wars and Titanic) and Disney is distributing them in the US. This is an opportunity to see movies you have either never had a chance to see, only seen on video, never heard of, etc. It includes the new Miyazaki Howl’s Floating Castle (there showings the day before the official Disney release) as well as some classics like Grave of the Fireflies. Feel free to pass this on to anyone else that might be interested.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa_programs/ghibli/index.html
Studio Ghibili
I’ve got to see The Cat Returns. You know my life will not be complete until I’ve seen this film. Swashbuckling cat fights, romantic court cat–waltzes! (squeee!)
Howl’s Moving Castle looks very cool. I also want to catch Only Yesterday and possibly My Neighbors the Yamadas. Oooh, seeing Totoro on something a tad larger than my TV set is very appealing.
Join Kevin and I next TH for Castle?
Re: Studio Ghibili
I am going to try to make it for Cat Returns. As is a few others that have spoken with me. I am out of town for Castle unfortuanetly.
Thanks for the heads up. Maybe I’ll make it to one or two.
Howl’s Moving Castle
As of 4:15 pm on 6/3, the only tickets left for this are for the 3 pm showing on TH 6/9.
Call the PFA soon if you want tickets for this show. Lord only knows where/if it will be playing if it goes into wide release.