Studio Ghibli Retrospective: MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO

Here is a children's film made for the world we should live in, rather than the one we occupy. A film with no villains. No fight scenes. No evil adults. No fighting between the two kids. No scary monsters. No darkness before the dawn. A world that is benign. A world where if you meet a strange towering creature in the forest, you curl up on its tummy and have a nap.

''My Neighbor Totoro'' has become one of the most beloved of all family films without ever having been much promoted or advertised. It's a perennial best seller on video. On the Internet Movie Database, it's voted the fifth best family film of all time, right behind ''Toy Story 2'' and ahead of ''Shrek.'' The new Anime Encyclopedia calls it the best Japanese animated film ever made. Whenever I watch it, I smile, and smile, and smile. (Roger Ebert)

The Alamo Drafthouse is proud to present a retrospective series of select Studio Ghibli titles starting this February. See newly struck 35mm subtitled prints of such classics as PRINCESS MONONOKE, SPIRITED AWAY, MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO and more. This series has taken audiences by storm in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston and Toronto and now we’re bringing it to you.

SPIRITED AWAY: 2/10-2/16
CASTLE IN THE SKY: 2/17-2/23
MY NEGHBOR TOTORO: 2/24-3/1
NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND: 3/2-3/8