Animation aficionados won't want to miss the NFB's latest greatest-hits compilation, Richard Condie's Family Album. It's got seven creations by the stylish master behind universal fave The Big Snit, about an unruly game of Scrabble just prior to a nasty nuclear assault. Condie's other film to win an Oscar nomination, La Salla, is also on this tape--an experiment in computer animation that's a wonder to behold. There are also the lesser-known entries that are just as much fun: take Oh Sure, his first film, about neighbours who can't quite get along. Condie's commentary runs in between each entry.

At the outset of Fantasia, I made a slight mistake in my review of The Acid House, the latest twisted cinematic exploration of the work of Irvine Welsh. I wrote that the fest screening "presents a rare opportunity to see this entirely original perspective before the film is relegated to small-screen obscurity at your local video outlet." In fact, those clever dudes over at the Cinéma du Parc managed to land a print of House, and will begin showing it this Friday, August 27. Here's your opportunity to see more choice Welsh, on the big screen where it's best experienced.

--Matthew Hays