Updated February 8: Leading the Oscar nominees is the first stop-motion musical, “Robin Robin,” from the legendary Aardman (going for its fourth short win), partnered with Netflix, which tries for its second consecutive win. The other four in this eclectic, international field include “Affairs of the Art (Canada/U.K.), “Bestia” (Chile), “Boxballet” (Russia), and “The Windshield Wiper” (U.S./Spain).
“Robin Robin” is a 30-minute holiday short about how our differences make us stronger, created and directed by Dan Ojari and Mikey Please (BAFTA winner for “The Eagleman Stag”). It’s surely the favorite, as the Academy obviously adores Aardman. It’s about a charmingly awkward bird with an identity crisis, who is adopted into a loving family of burglar mice, which plans an ambitious heist to bag an entire sandwich.
“The Windshield Wiper,” directed by Alberto Mielgo, concerns a middle-aged man who sits in a cafe and ponders the meaning of love.
“Robin Robin” is a 30-minute holiday short about how our differences make us stronger, created and directed by Dan Ojari and Mikey Please (BAFTA winner for “The Eagleman Stag”). It’s surely the favorite, as the Academy obviously adores Aardman. It’s about a charmingly awkward bird with an identity crisis, who is adopted into a loving family of burglar mice, which plans an ambitious heist to bag an entire sandwich.
“The Windshield Wiper,” directed by Alberto Mielgo, concerns a middle-aged man who sits in a cafe and ponders the meaning of love.
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- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Bruno Ganz, who died last week at the age of 77, had 121 acting credits to his name, from his debut as a hotel page in the 1960 comedy The Man in the Black Derby to his final role as a judge in Terrence Malick’s yet to be released Radegund. His underworld guide in Lars von Trier’s The House that Jack Built would have been at the very least a fitting send-off, but since that film premiered in Cannes last year he has also played Sigmund Freud in The Tobacconist and starred in a Macedonian war crimes drama, I Witness. Born in Zurich, to Swiss and Italian parents, Ganz was a truly international star, working with Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog, and Volker Schlöndorff in Germany, but also Eric Rohmer, Jerzy Skolimowski, Alain Tanner, Gillian Armstrong, Jonathan Demme, Theo Angelopoulos, Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, Atom Egoyan, Barbet Schroeder, Bille August, Sally Potter,...
- 2/22/2019
- MUBI
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- by Rhonda Richford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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