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Post by MagdaFR on Feb 16, 2024 16:22:55 GMT
I received an email from TIFF saying that they would be screening the Oscar-nominated Short Films, starting today. So I checked out other theatres, and Cineplex isn’t showing it, but the artsy theatre in town is! The Live Action Shorts, including Harry Sugar, will be showing this Sunday and Monday. I’m very tempted to go . . . They show the 5 shorts together?
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Post by mllemass on Feb 16, 2024 16:28:48 GMT
They’re showing the 5 Short Live Action nominations together, yes. They’re doing the same thing with the Short Animated movies, and the Short Documentaries.
Here is TIFF’s tweet about it:
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Post by roverpup on Feb 16, 2024 16:50:53 GMT
If you are able to swing it you should DEFINITELY go!
That way I can live vicariously through you to be there myself!!
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 16, 2024 23:33:53 GMT
The NYT published a similar piece but clearly the author isn’t a Wes Anderson fan. She claimed it was (“like all his work”) beautiful made but “exhausting” The typical silly attack against him. She still had more hard words for Oyelowo film which apparently already won an award over “Henry Sugar”!
She claimed the best one was the only political one, an flick about the abortion laws in red states. So yeah, she clearly comes from a different world than Wes Anderson’s: he isn’t about political IMPORTANT themes or “realism”. The Academy kinda is but I hope that’s not the case in this category this year! lol I mean, obviously, red states laws are bad but didactic movies are, you know, exhausting!) 😉I haven’t watched it so I am actually not being serious here!
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 16, 2024 23:41:55 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Feb 17, 2024 2:54:56 GMT
From indiewire, end of January.
Nominees are listed below in order of likelihood they will win.
Contenders: “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” “The After” “Red, White, and Blue” “Knight of Fortune” “Invincible”
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Post by MagdaFR on Feb 17, 2024 3:05:34 GMT
Variety, from yesterday “The After” (Netflix) Misan Harriman and Nicky Bentham “Invincible” (H264 Distribution) Vincent René-Lortie and Samuel Caron “Knight of Fortune” (Jalabert Production) Lasse Lyskjær Noer and Christian Norlyk “Red, White and Blue” (Distributor to be added) Nazrin Choudhury and Sara McFarlane “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” (Netflix) *** Winner Wes Anderson and Steven Rales variety.com/lists/2024-oscar-predictions/live-action-short-3/
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 17, 2024 10:20:57 GMT
Yep. It seems to me that Netflix is pushing The After a lot. I even think they are promoting it much more than Wes Anderson shorts but probably it’s just the algorithm thinking I would enjoy that short more than anything by Wes Anderson! lol I don’t know!
That’s why it’s surprising that a lot of people doesn’t think it’s that good. At least based on the comments by the NYT and LA Times.
I guess at least Red, White and Blue is supposedly very good according to both newspapers!
Again the NYT critic is clearly not a fan of Wes Anderson while the LA Times one is sure Henry Sugar is easily the best short but both agreed that Red, White and Blue is good.
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Post by mllemass on Feb 19, 2024 0:26:02 GMT
The sun came out for a few minutes today and managed to melt the unexpected snowfall we got overnight, so I ended up going to see the movies after all!
I have to agree with IndieWire’s list. All five were excellent, but Henry Sugar was the best, and Invincible the worst- which is unfortunate because it’s Canadian. The problem I have with The After is that it feels like part of a longer movie and not a movie in itself. David Oyelowo is terrific. But it felt like walking into the last 40 minutes of a movie.
They showed Henry Sugar last, which made sense because you could leave the theatre with a smile, feeling hopeful! The others were very serious, sad and quite upsetting. Red, White and Blue seemed like someone had a little idea that they dragged out into a 40-minute film. Whereas Henry Sugar felt like a big idea squeezed into a 40-minute film.
This was at the theatre where I got the Power of the Dog poster, so I thought that if they had a poster for the Oscar shorts, I would ask about getting it. They did have a poster up, but the little illustrations on it were not from this year’s movies. I’m pretty sure it was last year’s poster, with “2024” printed on it. So I didn’t ask about it.
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Post by sgev1977 on Feb 22, 2024 0:26:04 GMT
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