Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY Screens Midnights This Weekend at The Tivoli (and Saturday at Noon)

“Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can’t remember.“

Hiyao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY screens this Friday and Saturday nights (August 11th and 12th) at midnight at the Tivoli Theater as part of their ‘Reel Late at the Tivoli’  Midnight series. The midnight screening will be Subtitled. There will also be a matinee at noon on Saturday August 12th that will be the dubbed version.

People call Hiyao Miyazaki the Japanese Disney and SPIRITED AWAY is considered one of his very best, if not his masterpiece. The film starts like a fairly typical take on Alice in Wonderland or Narnia. A girl is bought into a fantasy world and has to find her way back. But Miyazaki takes it even further. His heroine, ten year old Chihiro is a typically modern girl, upset about moving into a new home and afraid of new changes in her life. But after her parents take a detour into a strange tunnel she finds herself trapped and worst of all, her parents have been turned into pigs.

Miyazaki’s fantasy vision is quite simply jaw dropping. Strange creatures, some drawn from Japanese mythology, others just from Miyazaki’s mind, populate this world (and the bathhouse where Chihiro has to work.) There are images that stay in your mind long after the end credits have rolled: an endless landscape of water, the cherry blossom fields, a massive stink monster and an ocean-skimming ghost train.

Miyazaki’s films for Ghibli Studios have always found an audience in the U.S. and whenever one is shown at The Tivoli as part of their Reel Late at The Tivoli Midnight series, it draws enthusiastic crowds. This weekend you’ll have the chance to see SPIRITED AWAY when it returns to the big screen as part of The Tivoli’s Reel Late at The Tivoli midnight series.

The screenings are  Friday and Saturday nights (August 11th and 12th) at midnight.

A Facebook invite for the Saturday noon show can be found HERE

https://www.facebook.com/events/1668008416552380/

The Tivoli’s located at 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO. Admission is a mere $8!

Here’s the Reel Late at the Tivoli Line-up for the next few weeks:

Aug. 18-19           THE SHINING 

Aug. 25-26           THE ROOM  with Tommy Wiseau in person! –
Preceded by a trailer for Tommy’s upcoming film BEST F(R)IENDS
All tickets $15; no passes

We Are Movie Geeks will be announcing the midnight line-up for September and October soon!