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2008/2009 Oscar Nominees for Short Film (Animation)
The 2008 Oscar Nominees for Short Film (Animation) comprise a very good, if not spectacular, collection.
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Oscar Nominees: Short Film Live Action for 2008
This year’s Oscar nominees for Short Film Live Action are way below the level we are used to.
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I.O.U.S.A.
Informative but ultimately dry-as-sand documentary about America’s fiscal woes.
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Silent Light (Stellet licht)
Amazingly awful non-story of Mennonite adultery. Dung posing as art is still dung.
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Good
Maybe by giving it the title of “Good” they thought that we might be fooled into thinking it actually was.
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At the Death House Door
The guys who brought us “Hoop Dreams” now bring us a tale of injustice and corruption and the filmmakers have knowingly contributed to this miscarriage of justice.
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2009 Tribeca/ESPN Trailer Competition
The Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival announces a competition to find the official trailer for the 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival. Show them what you got.
High Fives
David’s Top Ten Films of 2008
Before I get to the list I have to mention the films that didn’t crack the top ten that were very worth seeing: · Milk · Flash of Genius · Miracle at St. Anna · Frozen River · Vicky Cristina Barcelona · Encounters at the End of the World · Constantine’s Sword · Anamorph · […]
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Doubt
Screen giants Streep and Hoffman go head-to-head in this otherwise ordinary tale of seaminess at a Catholic school in the 1960s.
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Yonkers Joe
Lame and extremely forced con artist yarn evokes neither emotion nor excitement.
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