See these films: Spirited Away + Howl's Moving Castle @ the Brattle

Howl's Moving Castle

Nobody negotiates the fine line between nightmare and enchantment like Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki. Two of his best films are featured on Sunday, September 9 as part of the Brattle's Masters of Studio Ghibli series. In Spirited Away (2002), a little girl wanders through a derelict carnival and finds herself in a magical world that rivals Alice's Wonderland for surreal, mind-boggling weirdness. It gets no less strange in Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle (2005), where the most down-to-earth image is of the title walking edifice. The Brattle Theatre is at 40 Brattle St, Cambridge | $9.75; $7.75 students; $6.75 seniors | 617.876.6837 or brattlefilm.org.