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Summer Family Animation Season at Watershed
OK, so spending an afternoon in the cinema may not be uppermost in your mind given the current heatwave. But the British summer being what it is, you may yet be glad of the Watershed’s Summer Animated Adventures season. Running from Friday July 17 – Thursday September 3, this globetrotting programme comprises six rather excellent films, many of them rarely seen on the big screen.
It kicks off with beautiful, Oscar-nominated Irish animation The Secret of Kells (July 17-23). Next is the new one from that film’s director Tomm Moore, Song of the Sea (July 24-Aug 6). This was also nominated for an Oscar. Shaun the Sheep the Movie (Aug 7- 13) makes a welcome return to the big screen to coincide with the Shaun arts trail across Bristol. The season concludes with a trio of great early films by Japanese master of animation Hayao Miyazaki, creator of Sprited Away. Kiki’s Delivery Service (Aug 14-20) charts the adventures of a trainee witch and her loquacious cat. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Aug 21-27) is an adaptation of Miyazaki’s own manga series set in a post-apocalyptic society where a young princess sets out to restore the bond between mankind and Earth. Finally, there’s the Gulliver’s Travels-inspired steampunk romp of Miyazaki’s very first film, Castle in the Sky (Aug 28-Sept 3).
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