The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
One of the best trailers of the year. I am confident the film will live up to the hype. Fascinating story, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. By the way, the cinematography looks incredible. One sad catch, it will be released around Christmas.
Easy Pickins
Home Alone but with a old lady instead of a kid. Sounds cliche, well it is. But thoroughly enjoyable.
Anthropology
If you missed it, here’s Victor Solomon’s series of five short movies based on Dan Rhodes‘ Anthropology. Non love stories…
Watch as: Quicktime - MPEG-4 - Flash Video
Indiana Jones And The Roswell Alien Coverup
New trailer for the Indiana Jones movie. I am concerned but I am not missing this when it comes out.
Watch the Oscar nominated Animated shorts online
Just like last year, I have been able to find most of the Oscar nominated Animated shorts online. I have been generally happy with the Oscar nominations this year. However, I think Atonement deserved a best picture nomination (update: it did get nominated, what was I smoking?) and I think Kate Blanchett did NOT deserve a nomination for Elizabeth. The animated Oscar shorts nominees are quite strong. Certainly, a lot stronger than last year.
Moya lyubov (My Love) Part one, two & three - A moving painting that captures love in all of its longing. And like some of the other nominees, the style of animation is so bloody unique. This short would be tremendous on the big screen with all of those moving pixels/ paint strokes. No English translation available but the visual imagery tells the story for the most part.
Meme Les Pigeons Vont au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven) - The only 3D animation in the bunch which comes as a surprise as it has become the dominant form. I think the slapstick story fits that style perfectly.
Peter & the Wolf (Part one, two & three) (divx version) - A cute story about a little boy with no fear. Again, the technique is tremendous. I am not sure it is all claymation. Some of the background and even some of the objects look 3D. It is especially hard to see the difference when watching it online.
Madame Tutli-Putli - The plot and scenes move along slowly, giving us enough time to invest attention on every detail of the frame. In my opinion, in terms of style, this short is heads above the rest. And that may well be the case with any animated film you compare it to. It is simply that good.
Trailer for I met the Walrus & Official site - Couldn’t find the film online. It looks like an elongated motion graphics experiment coupled with some choice quotes about war and peace.
Great selections, one from every animation sub-genre. I am having a harder time finding the live action shorts, any tips would be appreciated.
Henri’s Small Hands
Small hands, big heart. Something like that…
I don’t know if I should hope that this Vividas thing dies as soon as possible, or that it spreads (so that the Linux community will try to break the code and make a free implementation) however, the ad can only be seen in this closed, proprietary format, or in crappy low res.
Watch it with Vividas or in Flash Video.
P.S. Lots of black and white in my posting lately, uh?
Running on The Morning After
Spike Jonze’s post apocalyptic commercial from the Y2K scare era.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Home
Martin De Thurah shoot the most important (and sweetest) place in the world for Ikea.
Watch it. (Quicktime)
via antville
The Strokes - You Only Live Once
Inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey, the video is ambitious while remaining immediate. The graphics are simply awesome. One of the best music videos of the year.
A Lonely Sky
In 1947, a test pilot who will risk his life to break the sound barrier, is forced to question his reasons and abilities by a strange yet familiar man.
Even though the visual effects are perfectly crafted, they never stole the show from the real stars: the heroes of the skies, so brave and passionately devoted to their dreams.
A Lonely Sky is a short movie produced by Image Now Films in association with Zanita Films, and starring Keir Dullea (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Good Shepherd), Paudge Behan (Veronica Guerin) and Padraic Delaney (The Wind that Shakes the Barley).
Watch it. (MPEG-4)
WASTE
There is no other word to describe Mission Zero.
You pick up Uma Thurman directly from her Kill Bill role. You get Kathryn Bigelow to direct the flick. You let money flow in the budget like it’s raining… And all you can come up with is one of the lousiest scripted action movies ever? C’mon…
Also: somebody is not very familiar with the concept of viral video. What’s the sense of having the film avaiable only on Pirelli’s website?
Watch it. (Flash Video, Winmedia or Quicktime)
Spider
It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.
A short movie by Nash Edgerton about inopportune jokes and bad karma. Starring Nash Edgerton and Mirrah Foulkes.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
via nozap
Previously: Lucky, The IF Thing.
An analysis of The Shining
Watching a film being dissected is better than reading about it. Mostly because you have to rely less on your memory. This two-part analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is an excellent example of that. The drama of The Shining overwhelms many of its hidden clues.
Part one deals with how the film was constructed to be scary. The techniques employed by Kubrick.
Part two is more of what Kubrick was trying to say indirectly. The connection to America and its American Indian past is fascinating.
Also click “more” in the side window, there are some juicy tidbits and facts about the movie there.
Der Nazi Snowman
Der Schneemann (The Snowman) is an animated short created by the Nazi regime as propaganda material. They basically needed something to set up a counterpart to Disney.
Written by cartoonist Horst von Möllendorff and animated by Hans Fischerkoesen, the weight of the story is often carried by graphic brilliance and astonishing small detail.
Watch it. (Flash Video)
Aachi And Ssipak: Shootout Scene
“Nice camera moves, plenty of decapitations, explosions, b-boy headspins, and gunplay. All within the course of 6 minutes.”
A juicy excerpt taken from the Korean feature film Aachi and Ssipak, set in a future world where the only source of energy is… poop!
Watch it. (Flash Video)
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