[Excalibur] Anime4

[diane A2]

hello,
we are hoping that you can help us get the word out about Anime4,  
featuring ghost in the shell 2: innocence.
earlier today we sent an email with an image and a press release.  we 
know that sometimes emails with image attachments get stuck in 
cyberspace, so now, i'm just sending the press release.  please post 
it, forward it, and help us spread the word.  we appreciate your help, 
and hope to see you at anime4.
best,
diane and bob
413 587 1247 --- we'd love to hear from you


Academy Arts: the Northampton Arts Council Presents at the Academy of 
Music Theatre
240 Main Street, Northampton, MA 01060   413 587 1247   
academyarts at comcast.net

November 1, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Bob Cilman or Diane Porcella, Academy Arts 587-1247

RE: Anime4 Festival

We’re back! Academy Arts is pleased to announce Anime4, Japanese Anime 
on the big screen at the Academy of Music Theatre on November 13, 2004. 
The films, selected with the help of a group of local anime fans, will 
be shown throughout the day at the Academy, ending with the Western 
Mass premiere of Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, at 4PM. Nine years 
ago, writer/director Mamoru Oshii's widely influential Ghost in the 
Shell burst onto the international film scene, becoming one of the most 
successful anime films of all time. Now, Oshii returns with the 
long-awaited sequel Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence. Series tickets, 
for all four films are $18. Tickets for individual films are $6 per 
show, and $3 for people under 12. Film and Series tickets are available 
the day of the show from the Academy Box Office.

For more info, visit www.northamptonartscouncil.org   
www.academyofmusictheatre.com
Or call Academyarts at 413 587 1247    All proceeds will benefit 
Academyarts.
The Valley Advocate, ABC40, Impress Inc, Disney and Mirage sponsor 
Anime4.

And if you want more art from Japan…. Confronting Tradition: 
Contemporary Art from Kyoto is at Smith College Museum of Art until 
December 31, 2004. Five contemporary artists from Kyoto are featured: 
textile art by Agano Machiko, a full-scale reconstruction of a WWII 
Zero fighter plane by Nakahashi Katsushige, ceramic sculptures by 
Akiyama Yo, photographs from the Actress Series by Morimura Yasumasa, 
and paintings by Yasuki Masako.

Anime4 Festival  Saturday  November 13, 2004
The Academy of Music Theatre   274 Main Street Northampton
10 am  Ah! My Goddess The Movie  pg  subtitled
12 pm Millennium Actress  pg  subtitled
2 pm Escaflowne The Movie  pg 13 subtitled	
4 pm Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence  pg 13 subtitled
Tickets available on the day of the show at the Academy of Music 
Theatre Box Office.
$18 all 4 films  $  6 single film, $ 3 for under 12

Ah! My Goddess the Movie, at 10 AM. It is based on the series of the 
same name by Kosuke Fujishima. The series goes something like this: a 
young man unknowingly summons a goddess to Earth to help him, and the 
two fall in love. Of course, there are other goddesses to deal with, 
along with the sticky situations involved in dating someone that is not 
of this world. The story is much, much deeper than this and the movie 
features romance, action, and a little comedy, not to mention some of 
the best animation you'll ever see.

Starting at noon, Millennium Actress deftly weaves history, film and 
memory. The occasion for the trip down memory lane is a documentary on 
the life of legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who abruptly retired 
and went into seclusion 30 years earlier. As she describes her life to 
the interviewer and his young cameraman they become swept into her 
past, wandering through her flashbacks and her films as witnesses to a 
life that merges with the roles of her career. This film is a lovely 
meditation on memory, movies and the almost magical power of images to 
fire the imagination and keep the hope alive.

The ambitious and imaginative Escaflowne will impress fans of Japanese 
anime, at 2PM.  A good vs evil tale of romance, fantasy and science 
fiction set in two wildly different worlds, it has the stark, 
neo-gothic look of graphic novels, coupled with an intricate plot that 
draws on age-old themes of responsibility, identity and destiny. The 
film opens with an ordinary girl, Hitomi, despondent about the meaning 
of her life. She is catapulted from Earth to a fantastical land called 
Gaia, a supernatural-styled realm of sorcery and mysticism where Hitomi 
is thought to be the legendary winged goddess.

"Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence”, shows at 4PM. It’s 2032, and it's 
not easy to distinguish 100 percent carbon-based life forms from the 
androids and cyborgs that retain remnants -- ghosts -- of human 
selfhood in their systems. So the investigators sent to sort out the 
malfunctioning droids running amok are themselves hybrids: Batou is 
mostly cyborg, Togusa is mostly human. What's great about Batou is the 
more his software is updated, the more he stays the same, content to 
sit at home and play with his basset hound. The parts might be new, but 
the soul's really old.
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