ANIME/ANIMATION
ISLE OF DOGS PG13
ISLE OF DOGS tells the story of ATARI KOBAYASHI, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When, by Executive Decree, all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast garbage-dump called Trash Island, Atari sets off alone in a miniature Junior-Turbo Prop and flies across the river in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots. There, with the assistance of a pack of newly-found mongrel frihttps://thinkingfilms.edublogs.org/wp-admin/edit.phpends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture.
AKIRA R
Akira isn’t just a movie — it’s the genesis of a genre. Katsuhiro Otomo’s landmark, cyberpunk classic obliterated the boundaries of animated film and forced the world to look into the future. Akira’s arrival shattered traditional thinking, creating space for movies like the Matrix to be dreamed into reality. Without Kaneda and Tetsuo, without espers and psionic assassins, without that iconic motorcycle — our world would be a far less exciting place.
The manga became the movie and the movie became a phenomenon. The world took notice. Now Akira is everywhere. If you can’t see it in the streets — if you can’t feel it crawling around inside your brain — then you have yet to be initiated.
THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween — but alas, they can’t get it quite right.
CHICKEN RUN
Originally released in 1981, Killer of Sheep was re-released in the United States ona limited basis on March 30, 2007 and will be shown in the UK starting June 20, 2008.
Killer of Sheep was shot by Charles Burnett(his debut feature) in 16 mm black and white,as his thesis film when he was a graduate student at UCLA in the 1970’s.”Killer of Sheep” has been declared a national treasure by the Library of Congress,and one of the 100 essential films of all time by the National Society of Film Critics.
They are prisoners trapped behind barbed wire, fearing for their very lives and dreaming only of the outside world. Every escape attempt is thwarted, and the ringleader tossed into solitary to do hard time. But this is no ordinary prison…and these are no ordinary jailbirds. They’re the inmates at Tweedy’s Egg Farm, where any chicken who doesn’t put breakfast on the table can wind up as dinner. But Ginger and her fellow flock are determined to break out before they meet a “fowl” fate. Time is running out as the greedy owner of the farm, Mrs. Tweedy, finds a new way to feather her own nest turning chickens into chicken pies. Now, with the help of Rocky, “the lone free ranger,” the chickens hatch their most spectacular plan to fly the coop in our story of poultry in motion Chicken Run.
KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE
A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.