London’s Barbican hosts three anime screenings

London’s Barbican Centre have confirmed a new series of anime screenings that intends to explore “the relationship between Japanese animation and Western cinema”, hosted by Helen McCarthy, co-author of the biblically proportioned “Anime Encyclopedia”. The schedule is as follows, and you can book tickets on the official website.

• Satoshi Kon’Text + Perfect Blue (18)
  Revealing the influence of Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Fincher’s Se7en on Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue
  30 Jan 07 / 19:00 / Cinema 3

• The Art of Studio Ghibli + My Neighbour Totoro (U)
  Assessing Ghibli’s influence on the style of Western animation
  20 Feb 07 / 20:00 / Cinema 3

• Magnificent Seven? + Samurai 7 (12)
  Adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s classic Seven Samurai
  27 Mar 07 / 20:00 / Cinema 2