Liz and the Blue Bird
- Sat, May 10
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Naoko Yamada Run Time: 91 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2018 Language: Japanese
Starring: Atsumi Tanezaki, Ayaka Asai, Chika Anzai, Nao Toyama, Tomoyo Kurosawa
In their last year of high school, two girls in the brass band club perform a song inspired by a fairy tale that parallels their friendship.
Naoko Yamada is the foremost working auteur in anime right now. Her films uniquely synthesize the unique sensitivities of the teenage experience, unspoken bonds between friends expertly rendered through quiet gestures: a brushing of hair, or the fidgeting of an ankle.
LIZ is her finest work; ostensibly a spinoff of a popular anime series, the film functions absolutely as a standalone title. Yamada is a rare woman director working in the genre of “cute girls doing cute things”, providing a subversive and much needed feminine voice to the categorization. -EASTERN PROMISES
Doors Open 30 Minutes Before Showtime.