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The Secret World of Arrietty
Sat, Apr 16 | 11am | TMT
Debuting director Hiromasa Yonebayashi ( When Marnie Was There ) and Studio Ghibli teamed up for this film version of Mary Norton’s 1952 children’s classic The Borrowers , full of gorgeous imagery of the natural world. Arrietty is the daughter of a family of “Borrowers,” miniature people who secretly live in a house with a full-size family unaware of their existence, who risks their home when she befriends a human boy.
DIRECTOR: Hiromasa Yonebayashi.
WRITTEN BY: Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa. CAST: Bridgit Mendler, David Henrie, Amy Poehler, Carol Burnett. 2010. 94 min. Japan. Color. English (dubbed). DCP.
From Up on Poppy Hill
Sat, Apr 23 | 11am | TMT
The second animated feature from director Goro Miyazaki is a charming comedy-drama inspired by a popular manga serial, its water- color imagery warmly evoking the Yokohama of 1963. Umi Matuszaki is a high school student who teams up with a fellow pupil to try to save their school’s clubhouse.
DIRECTOR: Goro Miyazaki.
WRITTEN BY: Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa. CAST: Sarah Bolger, Anton Yelchin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gillian Anderson. 2011. 91 min. Japan. Color. English (dubbed). DCP.
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