Azur et Asmar is screening at the Kino Digital in Kent this weekend (26 and 27 June).

In the less immediate future there are also screenings of Brendan and the Secret of Kells coming up in Northumberland on Wednesday, 10 August and the Family Friendly Film Festival starting at the end of this month in Manchester, which, along with new international features and shorts, both older and new Disney and Ghibli features, rather surprisingly, P&P's The Red Shoes, Keaton's The General and Henson's Labyrinth and The Storyteller, both of which I definitely do not recommend for ages 4 and up (10+ would be where I'd put it if I had to generalise).

Current music: Rasputina – "Holocaust of Giants"
So catchy that it driving me insane has encouraged me to buy the new album in the hope that it will contain other songs of such catchiness that they will counteract one another and prevent any one from completely overcoming me.

After being unavailable on home video for several years, a collection of Caroline Leaf's films has finally been released on DVD-Video, in a bilingual French and English edition by Les Films du paradoxe. Nab it from Amazon.fr or Fnac.com; news comes via Catsuka.

Current music: John Adams, or access, depending on whom asks me and excited for Seaming tonight.

Fuzzules to René Laloux films, Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, Urusei Yatsura, ITÔ Junji, Kaze no Tani no Nausicaä, Faith and Emily Hubley and countless French comics (and I'm not even mentioning the several-generation descends of them that are Selick's Coraline and Cameron's Avatar, except that I just have). Nothing, and least of all TV documentaries shot on HD video, narrated by David Attenborough and accompanied by Samuel-Barber's-Adagio-for-Strings-like music, can compare when it comes to the alien to seeing Jean Painlevé's films, with Pierre Conté's music, from film.

Current music: Samuel Barber – Knoxville: Summer of 1915, which perhaps thanks to having words has thankfully not been substituted to over-familiarity and which I remember actually rather enjoying.

                                    Sucks to you, piggy boy!
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Current music: Harrison Birtwistle – Duets for Storab