125 mins |
Rated
PG (for some scary moments)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Starring Mari Natsuki, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Miyu Irino, Yô Ôizumi, Rumi Hiiragi, Tatsuya Gashûin, Bunta Sugawara, Yumi Tamai
Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award®-winning masterpiece "Spirited Away" was the biggest box office hit of all time in Japan and helped redefine the possibilities of animation for American audiences and a generation of new filmmakers. Chichiro thinks she is on another boring trip with her parents. But when they stop at a village that is not all that it seems, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastic spirits, shape-shifting dragons and a witch who never wants to see her leave. She must call on the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world.
May 20th 2:30pm & May 27th 2:20pm
Rolling Stones Gather no Moss
Speaker: Karen Smith
And
Evan English (Karen's son) who has seen Spirited Away many times will join Karen as a speaker.
Bio: Karen Smith is a child clinical psychologist who worked for 20 years as a school counselor before retiring in 2020. She is a graduate of and also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychology at UGA.
Karen is a board member emeritus of Athens Film Arts Institute Inc.
WITH THANKS TO THE COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE AND THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION
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Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award®-winning masterpiece "Spirited Away" was the biggest box office hit of all time in Japan and helped redefine the possibilities of animation for American audiences and a generation of new filmmakers. Chichiro thinks she is on another boring trip with her parents. But when they stop at a village that is not all that it seems, her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, and Chihiro is whisked into a world of fantastic spirits, shape-shifting dragons and a witch who never wants to see her leave. She must call on the courage she never knew she had to free herself and return her family to the outside world.
May 20th 2:30pm & May 27th 2:20pm
Rolling Stones Gather no Moss
Speaker: Karen Smith
And
Evan English (Karen's son) who has seen Spirited Away many times will join Karen as a speaker.
Bio: Karen Smith is a child clinical psychologist who worked for 20 years as a school counselor before retiring in 2020. She is a graduate of and also an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Psychology at UGA.
Karen is a board member emeritus of Athens Film Arts Institute Inc.
WITH THANKS TO THE COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE AND THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION