New 4K Restoration!
Saturday, June 28 & Sunday, June 29
Obayashi’s first groundbreaking pop idol picture is a dazzling mix of special effects and blue-screen artifice—a stylistic flair perfected in his debut feature HAUSU, now utilized to depict the onset of an alien invasion. Ordinary schoolgirl Yuka’s (Yakushimaru) new term comes to an odd start when she inexplicably stops an accident by using latent psychic powers. Troubled by her newfound abilities, Yuka also senses a strange force start to take hold of the school, with students turning into mind-controlled fascists, patrolling school halls, stifling dissent and mandating the re-education of freethinkers. A psychotronic fantasy forged into a young girl’s destiny to defend the planet, SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS is a cosmic overload of extraterrestrial tyrants, preternatural powers and Obayashi’s uniquely adroit filmmaking abilities, underlaid with an existential cry for free will. – adapted from notes for Japan Society NYC Brattle Debut
Double Feature with THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME
1981 • Dir Nobuhiko Obayashi w/Hiroko Yakushimaru, Kôichi Yamamoto, Makoto Tezuka, Masami Hasegawa, Ryôichi Takayanagi • 90 min • DCP • Japanese with English subtitles
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Repertory Series
Japan's Pop Art Renegade: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi x5
Fri, Jun 27 – Mon, Jun 30
Pioneering Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi is best known internationally for his 1977 horror-comedy HOUSE, which gained cult status following its 2007 re-release. In this series, we’ll screen HOUSE alongside a handful of Obayashi’s works from the early ‘80s, when he crafted surreal, emotionally rich films blending youthful nostalgia with the fantasy and experimental visuals of HOUSE. Join us June 27–30 for five films by Japan's Pop Art Renegade: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi.
brattlefilm.org/film-series/nobuhiko-obayashi/
Screening on 35mm!
HOUSE • Fri, Jun 27 at 7:00; Sat, Jun 28 at 12:00 • 35mm
New 4K Restorations!
THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME • Sat, Jun 28 at 2:15, 6:30; Sun, Jun 29 at 2:00 • DCP
SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS • Sat, Jun 28 at 4:30; Sun, Jun 29 at 12:00 • DCP
THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN • Sun, Jun 29 & Mon, Jun 30 at 4:15 • DCP
HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND • Sun, Jun 29 & Mon, Jun 30 at 6:30 • DCP
You may also like the following events from Brattle Theatre:
- This Sunday, 29th June, 02:00 pm, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time • New 4K Restoration in Cambridge
- This Sunday, 29th June, 04:15 pm, The Island Closest to Heaven • New 4K Restoration in Cambridge
- This Sunday, 29th June, 06:30 pm, His Motorbike, His Island • New 4K Restoration in Cambridge
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