Oscar nominee predictions
It’s the time of year for Oscar predictions as the nominees will be announced on Thursday morning. I’ve made it a bit of a tradition to make predictions in nearly all categories (excepting short films, documentaries and foreign language films). Publicly I will only make predictions in the top 9 categories. Nominations in the more [...]
How to say I love you
How to say I love you, a (really) short film by Hayley Stuart and Francesca Sophia. (Via Matt.)
Seven Pounds and 118 minutes of incoherence
Scene: Ben Thomas (played with unending weepiness by Will Smith), despondent, in close-up makes a 911 call to report his own impending suicide.
Cut to: Ben swimming in the blue Pacific. His voiceover, in pressing sadness, informs us, “In seven days God created the world. And in seven seconds I shattered mine.” Yet I recall God [...]
Caroline nominated for an Annie!
Our friend Caroline Attia has been nominated for an Annie, the Oscar of animation, for her PSA video Sarah, a commercial for EndGunViolence.com. The video is extremely poignant, though it doesn’t even begin to showcase all of her talent. You can see her other videos at carolineattia.com or a reel of some of her corporate [...]
500 years of female portraits in Western art
Sorry to those of you who have already seen this. I just ran across it.
The artists and the paintings here.
High resolution version here.
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As with Anna Karina, we prefer to remember the U.S.A as she was in the 1960s.
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