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Sofia Coppola “canned champagne.” Yes, it really is the best thing in a can. Go buy it at your nearest alcoholic beverages depot now. It’s a tiny pink can filled with bubbly sparkling wine and even has a tiny pink straw attached, picnic-ready. So obviously, I drank all 4 of my 4-pack while watching the Oscars this year.Sofia Coppola “canned champagne.” Yes, it really is the best thing in a... more
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Over the years, Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play, “Cyrano de Bergerac,” has had more than its share of reinventions. A favorite of recent years arrived in the form of the 2006 short film “Earano,” a charming and hilarious film starring and directed by the 2011 Academy Award winner Luke Matheny, in which our lead hero has not a giant proboscis, but rather two giant ears. He longs for a beautiful librarian, but she only has eyes for the hunky Ukrainian janitor. The style of the film is reminiscent of David Lynch, but this being Cyrano (or rather, in this case, Earano), it’s also quite romantic.
Ths piece includes a number of color photographs, as well as the comedic short film, “Earano.”
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/earano-oscar-winner-luke-matheny-turns-“cyrano-de-bergerac”-on-its-ear/Over the years, Edmond Rostand’s 1897 play, “Cyrano de Bergerac,”... more
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“God of Love” is a comical, quirky short film by the funny young writer-director Luke Matheny, which just won the 2011 Academy Award for Live-Action Short Film. Matheny is a New York University film student who also plays the lead in his film, which features several pop-jazz standards and a “Woody Allen-type” humor.
The film follows the amorous misadventures of Raymond Goodfellow, a lounge-singing championship dart player who is desperately in love with a fellow band-mate, but she only has eyes for his best friend. The crooner prays daily to God for a way for his beloved to fall in love with him. Finally, one evening his prayers are answered when he’s given a box of magical darts with supernatural Cupid-like, passion-inducing powers. Raymond decides to attempt using the darts to make his own love connection, which leads to a comic questioning of whether even the gods can force love to happen.
This piece presents a number of high-resolution black-and-white photographs, as well as the humorously absurd, Oscar-winning short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/god-of-love-the-amorous-misadventures-of-a-lounge-singing-darts-champion/“God of Love” is a comical, quirky short film by the funny young... more
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“The Lost Thing” is a widely acclaimed CG animated short film directed by Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann, which is based on a children’s picture book by Tan. The film won the Australian Film Industry Award, the Best Short Film Award at the Melbourne international Film Festival and the top Short Film Prize at the 2011 Annecy International Animation Festival. “The Lost Thing” won the 2011 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
The wonderful short film tells the story of a boy who finds a misshapen creature on a beach and tries to find a home for it, despite being faced with a world where everyone believes there are far more important things to pay attention to. The film provides an engaging, tender meditation about things that don’t quite “fit” in this world.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution colorful illustrations, as well as the wonderful, Academy Award winning animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-lost-thing-a-meditation-on-things-that-dont-quite-fit/“The Lost Thing” is a widely acclaimed CG animated short film directed by... more
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“Wish 143” is an acclaimed, quietly bittersweet short film directed by British filmmaker Ian Barnes, which is a 2011 Oscar Nominee for Best Live-Action Short Film. The film presents the touching emotional drama of a fifteen-year-old boy with only months to live, who is granted one final wish from the Dreamscape Charity. But David doesn’t want to go to Disneyland or meet Gary Neville; what he really wants is an hour alone with a naked woman. The air of impending mortality hangs over this gentle, wry tale, which in the end has little to do with sex and everything to do with the human need to find connection.
This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, as well as the emotionally touching short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/wish-143-a-final-encounter-with-the-wishman/“Wish 143” is an acclaimed, quietly bittersweet short film directed by... more
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“Madagascar: A Journey Diary” is an extraordinary animated short film by the French animator Bastien Dubois. The film is completing quite an impressive festival run, which has included playing at Sundance, winning at Ottawa and winning at Annecy. “Madagascar” has just been short-listed for the 2011 Academy Awards in the Animated Short Film category.
“Madagascar” unfolds in the form of a travel notebook, where the pages turn and drawings come to life for us to discover the extraordinary customs and rituals of the Red Island, in particular the cult of the reversal of the dead. The film is deeply appealing for the same reason travel documentaries succeed, our intrinsic captivation with other places and other people. Along the way, the style of the piece, the jumble of half-finished looking sketches and images across multiple styles, recreates that often overwhelming sense of being fully present and stimulated that one gets when placed in such a rich, yet foreign environment.
This piece includes a number of colorful high-resolution pictures, as well as the award-winning animated short film.
http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/madagascar-a-journey-diary/“Madagascar: A Journey Diary” is an extraordinary animated short film by... more
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