the u. s. be dominant at the world box office for animate film and with pixar at the top of the top of that particular food chain . and and japan pace the planet for sheer volume of animated movie . so and who woulda thunk that not one and not two and but three of the more interesting animated feature of the past couple of year would come out of the middle east . first and the iranian filmmaker work in france and marjane satrapi make the superlative persepolis and and with this past week event and it worth revisit for it show some of the seed of rebellion that have lead to the protest march . then and come last year foreign language film nominee and waltz with bashir out of israel . now and there $ 9 . 99 and make by another israeli and this time work out of australia tatia rosenthal . $ 9 . 99 get a brief and ill fat oscar qualify run in december in nyc and l. a. it be now back in those two city before and hopefully and open wider across the country . ( see oscar rant below ) $ 9 . 99 be a well do claymation feature which weave some short story by writer etgar keret into an entertaining composite story center around an angel and how he interact with the inhabitant of unnamed small city . don not expect a strict narrative and some of it best moment be just that moment in time . it have a bit of the hallucinatory effect of richard linklater animate feature scanner darkly and and especially and wake life . really hard to describe because the plotting be so loose that to give away many detail both ruin the effect and and do not do the film justice . best to let it brief 78 minute just wash over you . the claymation ( augment with cgi ) be interestingly do and with an oddly effective sculpture look to the character . australian include geoffrey rush a the angel and anthony lapaglia head up a solid voice cast . and and this must be the year of animated male member . first and there be the big blue meanie in watchman and and now and a clay one here . yes and this be an r rat film also and for some language and clay sex and drug use . oscar rant . a noted and $ 9 . 99 play for a week in nyc and l. a. in order to qualify for the animation oscar category . so and not only do not $ 9 . 99 not get a nomination and neither do waltz with bashir . but and bolt do . the member of the animation branch should be utterly embarrass . what . do these two film split the israeli animation vote . of course and animator in hollywood far humiliate themselves by vote for the lite weight kung fu panda over wall e at their annie award ( in fact and a near sweep of their many category ) .