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Ghost in the Shell Screenings on September 27
posted on by Andrew Osmond
Picturehouse Cinemas will screen Mamoru Oshii's 1995 film Ghost in the Shell on Saturday September 27, at the following venues (tickets available at the link).
The screenings are at 9 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.
Clapham Picturehouse
Greenwich Picturehouse
Hackney Picturehouse
Ritzy Picturehouse
Stratford East Picturehouse
The Little Theatre Cinema, Bath (1 p.m.)
Duke's at Komedia, Brighton (11 p.m.)
Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge (10 p.m.)
Cameo Picturehouse, Edinburgh (10 p.m.)
Exeter Picturehouse
Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool
Cinema City, Norwich (1 p.m.)
Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford
Harbour Lights Picturehouse, Southampton
City Screen Picturehouse, York
All the screenings can be booked at the above link.
From the Picturehouse site:
First there was Akira, then there was Ghost In The Shell! See this anime classic how it was intended to be viewed – on the big screen in glorious HD! 2029 – A female cybernetic government agent, Major Motoko Kusanagi, and the Internal Bureau of Investigations are hot on the trail of “The Puppet Master”, a mysterious and threatening computer virus capable of infiltrating human hosts.Together, with her fellow agents from Section 9, they embark on a high-tech race against time to capture the omnipresent entity.
GHOST IN THE SHELL took the world by storm, exhibiting a new dimension of anime with unprecedented, mesmerising cinematic expression.
Seamlessly merging traditional cel animation with the latest computer graphic imagery, this stunning sci-fi spectacle challenged the boundaries of mainstream animation with detailed artistic expression and a uniquely intelligent story line.
Veteran director Mamoru Oshii skilfully creates the ultimate anime experience in this futuristic masterpiece based on the ground-breaking comic book by Masamune Shirow.
A movie that questions human existence in the fast-paced world of the information age, this award-winning, cyber-tech thriller has established itself as one of the best-selling Japanese animation films of all time.
