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

[avram]

Eh. Small, distrubution art cinemas show all sorts of things. Back when I made a habit of going to animation shows, they'd show at art cinemas. Still do. A lot of anime gets shown at art cinemas -- Steamboy and Howl's Moving Castle at that very same Landmark Cinema, Princess Mononoke at the Angelika -- and the fan overlap for anime and Gaiman/McKean is likely substantial.

[drcpunk.livejournal.com]

More to the point, as you said at Games Club, advertising films shown in other theaters is advertising for the competition.

There were no trailers for anime here. Those would have interested me more than most of the trailers we saw.