Studio Ghibli Retrospective: NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND

NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND is one of Miyazaki's earliest efforts; he started it as a long-running comic epic, but in 1984, he produced a two-hour animated version. All the Miyazaki hallmarks are in place: rapturous explorations of natural vistas, a fascination with flight and flying machines, and a spunky female lead out to change the world, or at least hold her corner of it together through sheer love. Nausicaä is the princess of a rural valley that lives at peace on the edge of a deadly fungal wasteland, until a ship carrying a weapon from a bygone industrial age crash-lands nearby. When warriors from a far country come to retrieve the artifact, their invasion draws Nausicaä and her people into a sprawling political conflict. (Tasha Robinson, AV Club)

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.

MY NEGHBOR TOTORO: 2/24-3/1
NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND: 3/2-3/8