Fill out this form to email this article to a friend
Film
Noted shorts screening at Tampa Theatre
Here are some indie flicks to check out.
By STEVE PERSALL
Published March 23, 2006
Oscar Shorts (Not rated, probably PG-13 with comical nudity) - Why, oh why, can't we get the chance to see Academy Award-nominated short films before the statuettes are handed out? That might improve a lot of folks' averages picking Oscar winners. Magnolia Films bundled the animated and live-action nominees into a double feature. Tampa Theatre will present both halves for one price with a 15-minute intermission for a program running nearly three hours. The winner among animated shorts, John Canemaker's The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, created loud buzz at last year's Telluride Film Festival, essaying the filmmaker's difficult emotional relationship with his father. I missed it but saw another nominee twice: Shane Acker's 9 is a delightful story of a rag doll battling a soul-stealing monster. Another nominee, Pixar's One Man Band, features one of the cutest kids, live or animated, you'll hope to see. The short film lineup also includes Badgered, about a grumpy critter needing a nap, and The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, a pilot fleeing a plague on his homeland. The Oscar for live-action short film went to Six Shooter, in which a widower meets an odd boy during a train ride. Others in the lineup include Kevin Pollak as a psychiatrist enduring a midlife crisis in Our Time Is Up; the German drama Ausreisser (The Runaway); Iceland's The Last Farm; and Cashback, a sexy Irish comedy about the graveyard shift at a convenience store. - STEVE PERSALL, Times film critic
[Last modified March 22, 2006, 12:45:48]
Share your thoughts on this story
|
News
Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
Print
Email story
Comment
Email editor
