Studio Ghibli's beloved tale of a young girl who wanders into a spirit world after her parents are transformed into pigs gets a big-screen showing, presented in its original Japanese with English subtitles. Hayao Miyazaki's animation holds up beautifully on a theater screen, from the shimmering bathhouse filled with strange gods and spirits to the quiet, melancholy beauty of Chihiro's journey home. Joe Hisaishi's score fills the room in a way that's easy to miss on a home television.
The Beverly Theater's intimate main space, with its focus on sound and sightlines, makes for a fitting home for this kind of animated storytelling. Whether you've watched it a dozen times or are coming to it fresh, catching Spirited Away with subtitles and a crowd of other Ghibli fans has a different feel than watching it alone on a couch.