Kow wrote:

Long way up from Peep Show.

Peep Show is better than the Oscars.

But, yeah... Fair play to her. She's really acted her way to the top, rather than starting off in Hollywood.

Watched the Oscar nominated animated shorts and live action shorts on Saturday. Missed the documentaries this year but I love that they're in theaters for about a month.

Funny that in the live action category the worst one won. I had Detainment as a favourite (but that apparently didn't go down so well as a nomination in the UK, only read about it afterwards), B thought Fauve was the best one, but we both agreed that Skin (the only USA short) was the worst. From the 3 shorts with kids as actors he definitely did the worst job, and the whole thing was just a bit silly.
Madre and Marguerite were both good but didn't wrap up that well (music that kicked in in Madre's last scene felt very out of place, and the last scene in Marguerite felt a bit awkward).

Bao to get the win for animated short was to be expected, it was really good (and Pixar). The other that could have won must have been One Small Step, that was some incredible animation work there.
Animal Behavior was my favourite, not animated incredibly well or anything, but the timing and script was just good. It's really funny, and everyone (which doesn't mean that much as it wasn't that busy) seemed to laugh at least a couple times during that short.
I liked the style of Weekends but it was a bit off a mess in places, and Late Afternoon was just what you expect from a hand drawn animation and therefore fairly boring. Something like you've seen plenty of times before.

Well worth it to look them up (or some of them), I enjoyed almost all of them. Need to make more of an effort last year to catch all the categories (animation, live action and documentaries) but can't say they advertise it well.

They were gonna show animated trousers but given the weather...

Trying to think of some film atm where someone (probably a guy) ends up going back in time so someone else (probably a woman) never meets him and falls in love, because falling in love with him causes xyz problems. Not eternal sunshine.

Any ideas?

Time Travelers wife?

Is it Outrun?

winkyface

Just watched Shoplifters, Oscar nommed Japanese film. 
It's been a while since I watched a Japanese film and I forgot how, when I am in the mid, they are lovely low key movies. Anyways, I really enjoyed it and it's a bit of a sad one.

Rewatched Whiplash tonight. What a great film that is.

Whiplash is pretty ace, really shows how quite unlikeable characters can make a great film. The audio commentary track with the director and JK Simmons is interesting and pretty funny, well worth checking out if it's available to you.

Nina wrote:

Bao to get the win for animated short was to be expected, it was really good (and Pixar). The other that could have won must have been One Small Step, that was some incredible animation work there.
Animal Behavior was my favourite, not animated incredibly well or anything, but the timing and script was just good. It's really funny, and everyone (which doesn't mean that much as it wasn't that busy) seemed to laugh at least a couple times during that short.
I liked the style of Weekends but it was a bit off a mess in places, and Late Afternoon was just what you expect from a hand drawn animation and therefore fairly boring. Something like you've seen plenty of times before.

Just come out of this and had pretty much the exact opposite reaction to you. I thought Late Afternoon was the best of these. Not the best animation, but the most interesting idea behind it and one that could only really have been told through animation.

Weekends had the best style and was the favourite of the two animators I was with, despite the slightly ropy animation.

I enjoyed Animal Behaviour a lot, but felt that the story just kind of stopped without a satisfying ending.

I agree that One Small Step looked incredible, but the fact of it being cel-shaded graphics did somewhat dull my appreciation of the quality of animation, plus I thought the story was pretty cheesy.

Bao was tediously efficient Pixar being Pixar which left me cold.

Watched and enjoyed Score with the sound cranked up.

Can someone tell me if Mandy is demonic or just a bunch of nutters? Mrs won’t watch anything demonic.

There is some

Watched Prometheus for the first time since it first came out - have to say I quite enjoyed it. Its utter bobbins of course but looks great while it fails to make sense.