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Let us play the “Name Game”, shall we? Since we all are part of the experience here at the entertainment website known as Sound on Sight maybe we should pay homage to our online destination by celebrating it in an unconventional manner? Specifically, we can recognize Sound on Sight by acknowledging movie names that contain the words “sound” and “sight” in their titles.

However you may perceive this experimentation as being rather gimmicky and silly please realize that this movie column is also a means to recognize a few movie titles that are unfamiliar or perhaps a first-time discovery to some of you out there that never heard some of these cinematic selections. There may be a couple of well-known films in the bunch but collectively the features being mentioned in Sound on Sight: Top 10 Random “Sound” and “Sight” Movie Titles are aptly presented based on the theme at hand.

SYDNEY -- Independent distributor Palace Films has secured Australian and New Zealand rights for two of the films screened at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Turtles Can Fly, the first film out of Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, is the latest feature from Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses) and was recently awarded the Golden Shell at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Touch the Sound is a documentary about the pioneering solo percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Melbourne-based Palace also confirmed that Benjamin Zeccola will be managing acquisitions for the company after Tait Brady's recent departure to become a feature film evaluation manager with the Film Finance Corporation Australia.