Hiyao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY Midnights This Weekend (and Saturday Morning) at The Tivoli

By Tom Stockman | September 15, 2019

“Once you do something, you never forget. Even if you can’t remember.“

Hiyao Miyazaki’s SPIRITED AWAY screens this Friday and Saturday nights (September 20th and 21st) at midnight at the Tivoli Theater as part of their ‘Reel Late at the Tivoli’  Midnight series in Japanese with English subtitles. It will also plays at 11:30am Saturday (9/21) in English. . A facebook invite for this event can be found HERE.

People call Hiyao Miyazaki the Japanese Disney and SPIRITED AWAY is considered one of his very best, if not his masterpiece. The film starts like a fairly typical take on Alice in Wonderland or Narnia. A girl is bought into a fantasy world and has to find her way back. But Miyazaki takes it even further. His heroine, ten year old Chihiro is a typically modern girl, upset about moving into a new home and afraid of new changes in her life. But after her parents take a detour into a strange tunnel she finds herself trapped and worst of all, her parents have been turned into pigs.

Miyazaki’s fantasy vision is quite simply jaw dropping. Strange creatures, some drawn from Japanese mythology, others just from Miyazaki’s mind, populate this world (and the bathhouse where Chihiro has to work.) There are images that stay in your mind long after the end credits have rolled: an endless landscape of water, the cherry blossom fields, a massive stink monster and an ocean-skimming ghost train.

Miyazaki’s films for Ghibli Studios have always found an audience in the U.S. and whenever one is shown at The Tivoli as part of their Reel Late at The Tivoli Midnight series, it draws enthusiastic crowds. This weekend you’ll have the chance to see SPIRITED AWAY when it returns to the big screen as part of The Tivoli’s Reel Late at The Tivoli midnight series.

The screenings are  Friday and Saturday nights (September 20th and 21st) at midnight.

The Tivoli’s located at 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO. Admission is a mere $8!

The Tivoli’s website can be found HERE

Here’s the Reel Late at the Tivoli Line-up for now:

Sept 14-15: THE WITCH

Reel Late at the Tivoli takes place every Friday and Saturday night and We Are Movie Geeks own Tom Stockman (that’s me!) is there on Fridays with custom trivia questions about the films and always has DVDs, posters, and other cool stuff to give away. Ticket prices are $8. We hope to see everyone late at night in the coming weeks.

Here’s the upcoming line-up for Reel-late at The Tivoli:

Sept. 27-28        REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA 

Oct. 4-5               THE LOST BOYS  New 2K DCP remaster!

Oct. 11-12          HALLOWEEN (1978)

Oct. 18-19 and Oct. 25-26

                             THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with live shadow cast, Samurai Electricians!

Stay tuned here at We Are Movie Geeks for more updates on the Midnight series!