Don't Miss Anime Mind-Blower Paprika Midnight This Weekend at Belcourt

The late Satoshi Kon's 2006 anime fantasy Paprika — a mind-blower on a Videodrome/2001 scale of sensory and intellectual bombardment — exemplifies more than any digital-animation feature in years the freedom of working in a medium with no physical restraints. Following a sleep-troubled film-noir cop who prowls the subconscious of a near-future Tokyo, Kon explores the relationship of dream logic to the visual grammar of movies while playing eye-boggling tricks with perspective, distending bodies and boundaries and looping his nightmare scenarios. And yet at the movie's heart is a wistful, romantic affirmation of the need for inviolate space where our inner selves can soar.

It's this weekend's midnight movie at The Belcourt; you'll find the dazzling trailer after the jump. Click here for more information.