Even More Kirikou in the UK

Kirikou et la sorcière will be screened at the Pictureville Cinema in the National Media Museum on Saturday, 20 and Sunday, 21 June. Looks to be the English dub recorded in South Africa (with Antoinette Kellermann etc.) but is only £1.00 a seat for any age.

Even More Kirikou

Another two stories from the cancelled Kirikou magazine were published in book form in France last month: Kirikou et le pot à lait ensorcelé (Kirikou and the Ensorcelled Pot of Milk, or Kirikou and the Pot of Ensorcelled Milk – I'd need to have read the story to know which translation is correct) and Kirikou et l'oncle disparu (Kirikou and the Missing Uncle).

Current music: Aural Vampire – "Shônan Zoku -cannibal coast-…" But I want some Purcell and John Adams.

Two of My Favourite Tags

This, and this one.

Current music: The Mikado – "From ev'ry kind of man Obedience I expect"

Solar-Powered Sītā

Sītā Sings the Blues is being toured around the United Kingdom from May to July this year (and the Netherlands in August) by the Groovy Movie Picture House (by "house" they mean "big top tent").

Also, an English-booklet version of Brendan and the Secret of Kells' original soundtrack has been released in the Republic of Ireland under performers Kíla's own label.

Current music: Kíla – "Boy Racer," HK Gruber – "The Green-Haired Man"

René Laloux Screenings and More in London

Have just discovered via Electric Sheep's newsletter, and just have time to make a quick post about, the Barbican Centre's Animate the World season, which includes screenings of René Laloux's La Planète sauvage and Gandahar (both on Monday, 6 April), the first two episodes of GONZO's renowned Gankutsuô, directed by MAEDA Mahiro, Satrapi and Winshluss' Persepolis film, Peur[s] du noir, The Animal Book, Joe Tucker's For the Love of God and many others which I haven't raved about here before. And as if that wasn't enough, later on in the month, they'll also be showing the new Moomins feature compiled from the 1970s Polish-Austrian series, Mumintrollens farlig midsommar (Moomin and Midsummer Madness, 2008).

Current music: Radio 3… Not so much music as an interesting discussion of a Renaissance, water-powered, self-playing organ.