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ok, they were all short films, but still.
a random movie distributor has collected all the oscar short films (animation, documentary, and live-action fiction) into three feature-length movies. i saw the animation and live-action collections at an art-house theater in philly; for reasons even they didn't understand, they don't have -- and won't be getting -- the short documentaries.
since they are short films, it's hard to say much about them without spoiling them, but i think some of my readers will appreciate the steampunk-inspired "mr. hublot" and the theme of "possessions" (both animation). in fact, i think all the animation is worth watching in the theater if you can find it.
to bring the animation collection up to about two hours, the distributor tacked on three films which aren't oscar bait: a la française, a poultry parody of the court at versailles; a movie i missed most of cause i had to run to the little film critic's room, though it was narrated by george takei; and the blue umbrella, an impressive pixar techno-demo of photo-realistic computer animation. that's a hell of a finish; while that few minutes of movie doubtless made pixar's huge compute cluster sweat blood for a few hours, i expect that sort of animation will eventually become cheap enough that even the likes of us can do it. as it is, it's a warning shot about what's gonna be possible for faking news. :P but still very impressive.
most of the live-action shorts aren't worth seeing. they're too deadly serious... it really looks like most of the directors want to eventually shoot the movie equivalent of the Great American Novel, and they're proving that they're Serious Directors by making the equivalent of Very Literary short stories. no thanks.
however, since the collection is available from a few online sources, you can fast-forward thru helium, just before losing everything, and that wasn't me to watch the voorman problem, with martin freeman playing a pshrink trying to cure a man who thinks he's god; and do i have to take care of everything, a finnish comedy of errors about a family trying to attend a wedding. (it's possible the three Oh So Serious movies are to your taste. helium did win an oscar after all. they're well-acted, and there's nothing wrong with the cinematography, but they just seem to be trying too hard to be Serious Movies.)
a random movie distributor has collected all the oscar short films (animation, documentary, and live-action fiction) into three feature-length movies. i saw the animation and live-action collections at an art-house theater in philly; for reasons even they didn't understand, they don't have -- and won't be getting -- the short documentaries.
since they are short films, it's hard to say much about them without spoiling them, but i think some of my readers will appreciate the steampunk-inspired "mr. hublot" and the theme of "possessions" (both animation). in fact, i think all the animation is worth watching in the theater if you can find it.
to bring the animation collection up to about two hours, the distributor tacked on three films which aren't oscar bait: a la française, a poultry parody of the court at versailles; a movie i missed most of cause i had to run to the little film critic's room, though it was narrated by george takei; and the blue umbrella, an impressive pixar techno-demo of photo-realistic computer animation. that's a hell of a finish; while that few minutes of movie doubtless made pixar's huge compute cluster sweat blood for a few hours, i expect that sort of animation will eventually become cheap enough that even the likes of us can do it. as it is, it's a warning shot about what's gonna be possible for faking news. :P but still very impressive.
most of the live-action shorts aren't worth seeing. they're too deadly serious... it really looks like most of the directors want to eventually shoot the movie equivalent of the Great American Novel, and they're proving that they're Serious Directors by making the equivalent of Very Literary short stories. no thanks.
however, since the collection is available from a few online sources, you can fast-forward thru helium, just before losing everything, and that wasn't me to watch the voorman problem, with martin freeman playing a pshrink trying to cure a man who thinks he's god; and do i have to take care of everything, a finnish comedy of errors about a family trying to attend a wedding. (it's possible the three Oh So Serious movies are to your taste. helium did win an oscar after all. they're well-acted, and there's nothing wrong with the cinematography, but they just seem to be trying too hard to be Serious Movies.)