This weekend we’ll be showing Spriggan, a movie exhibiting all of the skill and none of the experimental tendencies of the much-beloved Studio 4°C and showing the involvement of part of the team involved in the making of Akira (though there is only one child with powerful psychic abilities here). This is an unrelenting stream of stylish action that’ll keep your leg bouncing.
A plot summary:
Arcam is a secret, worldwide organization investigating artifacts from a lost civilization. When three of their investigators go to Mt. Ararat, in Turkey, they discover what they believe is the wreck of Noah`s Ark. Their joy is short-lived, and so are they-the relic projects a powerful, destructive energy which wipes out not only the team but three Pentagon satellites as well. Quickly, Arcam and the US military are battling for the Ark`s secret. Arcam`s trump card is their super-powered warrior agents, called Spriggans. One Spriggan, a high school student named Yu Ominae is dragged into the fray. He makes his way to Turkey to confront the Pentagon`s platoons. Of course, the Americans have super-soldiers of their own, including the human tank Fat-Man and the vicious Little Boy. The bullets are soon flying en masse, in what has become a holy war for the future of the human species.
Saturday 7PM, Barus & Holley 190.
Does Brown always have showings on Saturday at 7? That’s the same time as the RISD anime club, but I’d like to go to both!
Left by Anonymous on February 1st, 2008
That’s our usual time; I could check and see how Sundays work for people, though I’d like to have a better idea of how things are at RISD. Does the club there have a public page or somewhere where I can find what they’re screening?
Left by Paul McCann on February 2nd, 2008