Mirrormask

[mneme]

If you have time today, do see this. It's very good -- a beautiful quasi-animated fantasy story combining modern drama and dream logic. And Dave McKean's art takes on entirely new and interesting qualities when animated, becoming more interestingly horrific and more beautiful.

But the theatres have -no- idea what they have. Based on the previews (only one of which was the least bit appropriate, that being Pride and Prejudice), they seem to think this is a teen romance or family drama, whereas in fact they have a Labrynth-like (but darker, and with art instead of song) fantasy movie in their hands. So just in case they completely mishandle it, see it in the big theatres before it's -gone-.

Comments

[kyrielle]

Due to the limited opening, that's a bit hard for some of us, yannow. I envy you being in an area they decided to grace with it this week.

Two weeks 'til I can see MirrorMask, at one of the most inconvenient theaters in the area but at least it's in my state.... :P I have a friend who wants to see it, and nowhere on the site do they at any time have it scheduled to play in her state.

Given the limited release, you might want to link people to the MirrorMask page itself which lists the theaters that are getting it, and when. Considering that finding it is ridiculously hard.

[mneme]

Good point.

My primary aim, fwiw, was to try to (in my small way) increase the population of Mirrormask at the tiny art theatres they have it in now -- because maybe if they get good numbers, they'll actually -give- it a real release, as it deserves, letting many more people see it.

[kyrielle]

*grins* Which I understood and is a good idea, it could just be frustrating to people if they look for it and can't find it. And they might not go next week or the week after if it does show up in their area, not realizing there's a resource to find out when (or if) Sony will deign to share it with them.

[bigbrotherinlaw.livejournal.com]

The only theater it's scheduled to be shown at in Hartford happens to be one of my favorite theaters. It should get four showings (one per night starting Wed 10/26).

[mneme]

Coolness.