Might be a good idea to mention That the UK DVD of Laloux and Caza's Gandahar – an excellent transfer and encoding and the only so far with English subtitles – is out of print, so get it while you can. If it's unavailable or more expensive at the usual outlets, it may still be available direct from Eureka with free shipping worldwide. The disc is all regions (despite what the packaging and printing on it claims; I've checked) and the video is 576p "PAL" format. The 1985
short film La Prisonnière (The Prisoner), the disc's only extra, will however be included on the new UK Blu-ray Disc of La Planète sauvage, which is now slightly delayed to a 2 August 2010 street date.

Current music: Made in Ore's background songs… They're spot on but apparently one can only use it to make those hateful tapping-anywhere-on-the-screen-with-an-uncomfortably-undersized-stylus-that-digs-into-my-hands games and not actual video games controlled by actual buttons (stylus input is a god-send for complex menus and creative apps like this; not so for the fast-action games it is used to create).

Some July and August 2010 screenings

Of Azur et Asmar on Saturday, 24 July in London, Jim Henson's Labyrinth on Friday, 30 July, Švankmajer's Alice on Friday, 30 and Saturday, 31, Filmax Animation's Nocturna on Saturday, 31 and Prinzessin Lillifee on Saturday, 28 and Sunday, 29 August in Stirling and Brendan in Berwick-upon-Tweed on Wednesday, 11 August.

Leeds' Hyde Park Picture House are also showing the same Labyrinth sometime soon and Chomet's The Illusionist starting on it's UK release date of Friday, 20 August. Yes, that soon, courtesy of the British branch of Pathé. As ever, if you want to keep with these or any particular feature film I recommend subscribing for cinema alerts for them at Find Any Film; here's their page for The Illusionist.

Current music: Alexander Mossolov – The Iron Foundry
The steam-punkiest music ever.

It's just been bought to my attention by HEEZA's newsletter that two DVD-Videos of African animated films with English, French and Spanish subtitles have been recently been released in France by annoyingly Web site-less éditeur P.O.M. films: one of films by various creators and another which is a focus on those of director Moustapha ALASSANE, with one mid-length live action film and three somewhat OKAMOTO Tadanari-looking short animated ones. The formerly mentioned disc includes the La Fabrique production La Princesse Yennega, which I've been interested to see for some time.

Two other discs already exists in the collection, of the work of directors Moustapha DAO and Issiaka KONATE, with the same selection of subtitles; I'm supposing from that Doriane films' site gives genre classifications to all the films on these that they aren't animated.

Current music: trippi's (?) – "PINKY LOVE"
Though I imagine most people would find it simply vacuous, and it gets so after multiple listens, when I haven't heard it for a while it comes back to strike me as one of the most exciting examples of this kind of pop – which I consider it to be though I don't think I could argue why in words – since 008, even if some, or much, of that power of juxtaposition comes from the film it accompanies. Whatever the writers and performers are it seems to be a temporary arrangement just for the film, so any info on whom they are and what else they've done would be appreciated.