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Irish films for Venice, Montreal
Blind Man's Eye, an animated Irish short from Matthew Talbot-Kelly, has been selected for the upcoming Venice Film Festival. Talbot-Kelly, who has worked as a senior compositor and digital supervisor on a number of big-budget productions, was delighted by the news.
Surf's Up
Having endured a plague of talking pigs, ferrets, cows, giraffes and - most conspicuously - penguins over the past decade or so, even the most undiscerning fan of computer-animated features will applaud the makers of Surf's Up for trying something a little different.
Transylvania
This characteristically baggy film from Tony Gatlif (which, despite its title, has nothing to do with the undead) begins with one Zingarina, played by the reliably uninhibited Asia Argento, running her ex-lover to ground in a rural part of Romania.
Licence to Wed
Most sensible people realised some time ago that sitting through a Robin Williams comedy was about as much fun as drilling into your own skull and then spooning raw globs of brain matter into your mouth.
The Walker
A key early scene in the latest film from Paul Schrader nods ostentatiously towards an earlier, more agitated picture by this most distinguished of directors.
You talkin' to me?
As the writer of Taxi Driver , Paul Schrader bashed out some of the best-known lines in cinema and created a character he has revisited many times: the tortured male antihero. He tells Donald Clarke about his latest film as a director, The Walker , and the demons that have always been on hand to help with his film-making
