When OpenAI launched its AI image generator last week, fans of living legend Hayao Miyazaki overloaded the system creating memes that aped the style of his Studio Ghibli pictures – a lousy way to pay tribute to a true artist. A better option? Checking out the brand-new 4K restoration of his 1997 eco fable, Princess Mononoke. Boasting a cursed prince, a corrupted boar, a godly Forest Spirit, a feminist captain of industry, a human girl raised by wolves, and a million tiny kodama spirits clattering like bones, Princess Mononoke is a stunner: complex, thrilling, mournful, and illustrative of humans at their very best and worst. Also screening in IMAX Tuesday and Wednesday at select theatres. – Kimberley Jones
April 4 - 10
