Oscar CliffsNotes - Live Action Shorts

Written by NChick Saturday, 25 February 2012 03:06

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Comments (23)

02.25.2012 - 03:33 | ErynCerise

Thanks for the tips! Was just contemplating buying the live action and animated shorts collections for this year on iTunes, and this video just cements that decision. Looking forward to Raju and Time Freak!

02.25.2012 - 03:57 | Furrama

I didn't even know short films were still things in my old USofA.

02.25.2012 - 04:12 | FunkyM

ooh, Live action Shorts! See, I reckon there needs to be a TV channel for Short films. Live action, Animated, Hell, get the Comic book people to make "one-shots".

Though, my heart will always belong to Cartoons. :)

02.25.2012 - 04:56 | YouAskedForIt

Thank you so much for reminding me of the Oscars. I saw your video on the main page, and thought I might have missed them, since I haven't heard anything about them for a week. Me excited, and I'll watch your video before I watch the expressionism awards.

02.25.2012 - 12:06 | littlelili

If you have IFC then, check their listings for this week. Normally they will chunk all the short films that were nominated after the Oscars or right before them. It was how I got to see The West Bank Story the year that that one won.

02.25.2012 - 09:26 | Creature SH

Well, that was quite informative. I will shamelessly act as if I had acquired all this knowledge on my own.

Also, I guess we are to assume that this video was all Linday Ellis and not Nostalgia Chick, given the hair.

02.25.2012 - 12:01 | Guild Navigator

I've only two of the Animated Shorts: "La Luna" (the one I'm hoping it'll win) and A Morning Stroll,which is pretty good.

02.25.2012 - 13:30 | baticus_moronicus

I like seagulls. :(

Great video though. It's interesting to see what short films are out there on the forefront, especially as I'm a fan of short films in general.

02.25.2012 - 14:02 | Firedragon20

Thanks now I will have an idea of what they will be talking about tommrow.
Btw I like your use 'the artist' music.

02.25.2012 - 15:21 | sister_water_spirit - wow

wow nostalgia chick looks way better with her hair down

02.25.2012 - 16:03 | FieldMarshalPatton^3

also don't care for the oscars. They are rigged

02.25.2012 - 19:43 | The Movie Explorer

Thanks for these, these are very helpful. Unfortunately, short films in general tend to get overlooked. You don't normally even see them unless you tend to go out to a lot of film festivals. Don't these usually only come out on DVD AFTER the Oscars?

02.25.2012 - 21:12 | Icy12 - Where to find?

How does one living in cornfield suburbia come across these films?

02.26.2012 - 01:16 | dougbutcher - The Shore and Tuba Atlantic

I enjoyed The Shore more than you. Of course, I really enjoyed Waking Ned Devine and that film where Craig Ferguson and Brenda Blethyn deal pot, so maybe I am more inclined to like that kind of film. However, in my opinion, the best one of these was clearly Tuba Atlantic. Black comedy tends to work best in short films.

And as for finding them in cornfield suburbia. I live in Kansas City and I found the program at the best of the art houses. The Tivoli does an excellent job.

02.26.2012 - 01:38 | erinnthered

Thanks so much for this!

I miss when Showtime Network had a short film showcase. There were a few years that a couple of friends and I had favorites for both nominations and winners in this category. At least they're showing the nominated films on IFC. *shrug*

02.26.2012 - 14:48 | navvyshanekar

God the live action/animated short, the only guaranteed Irish nominations each year (cept that one year the horribly overrated Secret Of Kells was up for best animated feature (though I think that was cus there was a minimum of 3 nominations & there was nothing else out that year)). I know one is Northern Irish, but our dipshit media will take credit for them both. Well the actually Irish one looks like condescending film board shit made my D4/Trinners gowlbags about "de cuntry peepol" and all their foibles.

Wow, that was more negative than I intended. The inherent rubbishness of contemporary Irish culture (Arts & Popular) just gets to me.

03.10.2012 - 09:15 | Ericho - Funny

This was an episode about shorts and it was a short itself. I am sad to say I don't think I've seen any of these.

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