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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth joins with Lone Star Film Society's ArthouseFW in celebrating the art ofJapanese animation.
Screenings are held in the Modern Art Museum auditorium. Tickets are $9, $8 for Modern members, $6 for Lone Star members and Modern Reel People, and $5 for children under 12. Tickets go on sale Tuesday, July 7. Tickets may be purchased in advance at www.themodern.org. Tickets will also be available for sale in person at the Modern's admission desk .
Dr. Marc Hairston and Dr. Pamela Gossin counseled the Lone Star Film Society and the Modern in the selection of the films for this series, and one or both will introduce the films and be available for discussions following the screenings.
Dr. Marc Hairston is a scientist who researches space weather using the Coupled Ion Neutral Dynamic Investigation (CINDI), a project utilizing a satellite that studies how neutral gas motions and charge particle motions are related. Dr. Hairston is also interested in the scholarly study of anime and manga and is on the board of editors of Mechademia, the first English-language academic journal addressing these topics. Along with Dr. Pamela Gossin, Dr. Hairston teaches a lecture course at the University of Texas at Dallas titled "Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Anime Fantasy of Hayao Miyazaki."
Dr. Pamela Gossin studies the interdisciplinary relationships of literature, history, and science, especially astronomy and cosmology, from the ancient world through the Scientific Revolution to the present. Dr. Gossin is an active member of the advisory board of Mechademia, the world's first English-language academic journal devoted to the study of anime and manga. Along with Dr. Marc Hairston, Dr. Gossin teaches a lecture course at the University of Texas at Dallas titled "Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Anime Fantasy of Hayao Miyazaki."
SCHEDULE
Friday, August 7; 10 pm
PAPRIKA (Satoshi Kon, 2006)
When a machine that allows therapists to enter into people's dreams and explore their unconscious thoughts is stolen, the research facility is sent into an uproar and all hell breaks loose. In the wrong hands, the device could be devastating, allowing the user to completely annihilate a dreamer's personality while they are asleep. Only a young female doctor can stop it. Entering the dream world under her exotic alter-ego, code-named "Paprika," she attempts to discover who is behind the plot to undermine the new invention.
90 minutes; R; Japanese with English subtitles
Saturday, August 8; 11 am
PONYO (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008)
Perfect for audiences of all ages, Ponyo centers on the friendship between five-year-old Sosuke and a magical goldfish named Ponyo, the young daughter of a sorcerer father and a sea-goddess mother. After a chance encounter, Ponyo yearns to become a human so she can be with Sosuke. The film is awash in pure unbridled imagination and visual wonder - but it is the tender love, humor, and devotion exhibited by Ponyo and Sosuke that form the emotional heart of the film.
103 minutes; G; English
Saturday, August 8; 12:45 pm
Please join us for complimentary traditional Japanese refreshments in the Modern's Grand Lobby. Create an anime "selfie" in the Modern Shop against an anime backdrop and enter to win a Totoro tote bag full of goodies!
Saturday, August 8; 2 pm
THE WIND RISES (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013)
Inspired by the aesthetics of design and the freedom of flying, Jiro Horikoshi only dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927. Having dreamed of creating an elegant and flight worthy plane since childhood, Jiro's lifelong labor finally pays off in adulthood when he creates the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. What Jiro never imagined, however, was the fate that would befall his beloved creation - that his labor of love would eventually be used for something beyond his wildest expectation: war.
127 minutes; PG-13; Japanese with English subtitles
Saturday, August 15; 11 am
SUMMER WARS (MamoruHosoda, 2009)
Timid eleventh grader and math genius Kenji Koiso is asked by his secret crush Natsuki to come with her to her family's Nagano home for a summer job. Turns out, Kenji discovers, his "summer job" is to pretend to be Natsuki's fiancé for the celebration of her spunky grandmother's 90th birthday. While there, he receives a strange math problem on his cell phone, and, being a math genius, he can't resist solving it. However, his solution creates chaos within the virtual world of OZ, translating into anarchy in real life.
115minutes; PG; English
Saturday, August 15; 12:45 pm
Please join us for a gallery spotlight tour, led by a Modern docent. Admission is free for this tour with your film ticket.
Saturday, August 15; 2 pm
WOLF CHILDREN (Mamoru Hosoda, 2012)
Hana is a 19-year-old student who falls in "fairy-tale-like" love with a "wolf man." Over the course of the 13-year story, Hana gives birth to two children: older sister Yuki and younger brother Ame, or "Snow and Rain." At first the family quietly lives in the city trying to hide their wolf heritage, but when the werewolf father suddenly dies, Hana makes the decision to move to a rural town, far from their previous city life.
117 minutes; PG; English
Saturday, August 22; 11 am
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES (Isao Takahata, 1988)
A devastating meditation on the human cost of war, this animated tale follows Seita, a teenager charged with the care of his younger sister, Setsuko, after an American firebombing during World War II separates the two children from their parents. Their tale of survival is as heartbreaking as it is true to life. The siblings rely completely on each other and struggle against all odds to stay together and stay alive.
89 minutes; Unrated; Japanese with English subtitles
Saturday, August 22; 12:45 pm
Please join us for a gallery spotlight tour, led by a Modern docent. Admission is free for this tour with your film ticket.
Saturday, August 22; 2 pm
METROPOLIS (Rintaro, 2001)
Set in the far future, humans and robots live together - unfortunately not in harmony. Many robots are forced underground and are terminated for entering unauthorized areas, becoming servants to humankind. The plot starts to unfold when a boy and a robot named Tima get in all kinds of trouble. There is never a dull moment when you've got a robot by your side.
108 minutes; PG-13; Japanese with English subtitles
Saturday, August 29; 11 am
MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (Satoshi Kon, 2001)
In this animated feature, filmmaker Genya Tachibana begins work on a documentary about famed Japanese actress Chiyoko Fujiwara. Now well into old age, Chiyoko has become reclusive and shy about any publicity, but she eventually warms up to Genya and starts to relate her life story. As the decades pass, Chiyoko is transformed from a teen with big dreams into a full-blown celebrity, while her cinematic characters span various eras, from ancient Japan to the distant future.
87 minutes; PG; Japanese with English subtitles
Saturday, August 29; 12:45 pm
Please join us for complimentary traditional Japanese refreshments, and face painting in the Modern's Grand Lobby. Create an anime "selfie" in the Modern Shop against an anime backdrop!
Saturday, August 29; 2 pm
THE TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (Isao Takahata, 2013)
A tiny nymph found inside a bamboo stalk grows into a beautiful and desirable young woman who orders her suitors to prove their love by completing a series of near-impossible tasks.
138 minutes; PG; Japanese with English subtitles
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