Last Updated on January 17, 2024, 11:56 AM | Published: January 17, 2024
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art sends this information as posted below:
Recipient of the 2024 Golden Globe for Best Animated Film, Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, opens this Friday in OKCMOA’s Noble Theater! Screening in both dubbed and subtitled versions, Miyazaki’s first new feature in over a decade is an epic, moving, exquisitely crafted adventure that deserves a place alongside his most beloved animated masterworks.
Set during WWII, Hayao Miyazaki’s profoundly personal and visually dazzling new animated masterpiece follows young Mahito, who moves to the countryside and encounters a fantastic realm inside an ancient tower.
Dubbed in English: Friday, January 19 at 5:30 pm; Saturday, January 20 at 2 pm; Sunday, January 21 at 12:30 pm; Friday, January 26 at 5:30 pm; Saturday, January 27 at 2 pm; Sunday, January 28 at 12:30 pm
In Japanese with English subtitles: Friday, January 19 at 8:15 pm; Saturday, January 20 at 5 pm & 8 pm; Sunday, January 21 at 3:15 pm; Friday, January 26 at 8:15 pm; Saturday January 27 at 8 pm; Sunday, January 28 at 3:15 pm
“The first film in a decade from Hayao Miyazaki is a ravishing, endlessly inventive fantasy that is destined to be ranked with the legendary animator’s finest, boldest works. While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy’s mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the “long-awaited one.” Indeed, an extraordinary and grand fate is in store for our young hero, who must journey to a subterranean alternate reality in the hopes of saving Natsuko—and perhaps himself. Uniting the countryside surreality of My Neighbor Totoro with the Alice in Wonderland–like dream logic of Spirited Away and the personal historical backdrop of The Wind Rises, yet fabricating something ingeniously original, The Boy and the Heron is a deeply felt work of eccentric beauty brimming with inspired images that lodge in the mind, from the adorable to the grotesque. Moving from earthbound serenity to a universe of boundless imagination, Miyazaki’s long-anticipated film seeks, once and for all, a world without malice.” -New York Film Festival
The English dubbed version features the voices of Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson and Florence Pugh.
About The Oklahoma City Museum of Art
The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is one of the leading arts institutions in the region. The Museum presents a dynamic range of exhibitions organized from prestigious museums and collections throughout the world. The Museum’s own diverse collection features highlights from North America, Europe, and Asia, with particular strengths in American art and postwar abstraction. The permanent collection also boasts one of the world’s largest public collections of Dale Chihuly glass, a major collection of photography by Brett Weston, and the definitive museum collection of works by the Washington Color painter Paul Reed. The Museum’s renowned Samuel Roberts Noble Theater screens the finest international, independent, documentary, and classic films. Museum amenities include the Museum Store and the Roof Terrace. The Oklahoma City Museum of Art is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and is a member of the Association of Art Museum Directors. The Museum serves over 125,000 visitors annually from all fifty states and thirty foreign countries.
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