Capital Celluloid 2014 - Day 2: Thu Jan 2

Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki, 1989): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.20pm


Chicago Reader review:
A distribution deal with Disney made this charming feature-length animation (1989) the first big U.S. success for Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli. The title character, a 13-year-old witch, must spend a year on her own to find herself, and her pilgrimage to a beautifully detailed northern European town brings new friends and challenges. The characters are gently and warmly rendered, and a climactic action sequence involving an unmoored dirigible hints at the stately grandiosity of Miyazaki's masterpiece Howl's Moving Castle (2004).
JR Jones

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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