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A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

A Collection of 2005 Academy Award Nominated Short FilmsDirectors: Anthony Lucas, Bill Plympton, John Canemaker, Martin McDonagh, Rob Pearlstein
Actors: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Stuart Goodwin, Michael Dixon, Michael Lambourne
Studio: Magnolia

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Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 162 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6

MPN: MAGD10027D
UPC: 876964000277
EAN: 0876964000277

Release Date: July 25, 2006
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Features:
  • 78th Annual Academy AwardsShort films and Feature Animation BranchAnimation Nominees1. The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation (28 mins) (US)Explores the difficult emotional terrain of father/son relationships as seen through the filmmaker s own turbulent relationship with his father. The Moon and the Son will be broadcast on HBO.2. 9 (11 mins) (US)In the shadow of urban desolation, a rag d

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The 2005 nominees for Best Animated and Live-Action Short Film Academy Awards are featured in this unforgettable collection. Along with Ireland's winning entry "Six Shooter," about a grieving widower's life-changing encounter with a stranger, and the American animated victor "The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation," you'll also see "Our Time Is Up," "Ausreisser (The Runaway)," "The Last Farm," "Cashback," "Badgered," and "The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello." 162 min. total. Standard/Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, Spanish; bonus shorts "The Fan and the Flower" (2005), "Imago" (2005).

A good idea here: to bundle those titles listed off at the Oscar ceremony in the short-films categories--most of which then disappear into the ether, never to be heard of again--and put them on a DVD. The 2005 Academy Award Short Films Collection gathers three animated and all five live-action and nominees together, thus providing over two and a half hours' worth of short-form cinema. The two winners are included, of course; the live-action winner is the 27-minute Six Shooter, and it is indeed the head-and-shoulders choice above the other entries. Watching it after the other films will demonstrate the difference between cleverness and vision. It's written and directed by the Irish playwright Martin McDonagh, whose dark plays have made him one of the most talked-about writers to emerge in the turn-of-the-century theater. A grieving husband (Brendan Gleeson) leaves his dead wife in the hospital, only to be confronted by a crazed youth (the excellent Ruaidhri Conroy, who was one of the kids in Into the West) on the train. What follows has its share of shockers, of which rabbit-cide and an exploding cow may be the least horrifying.

Other titles are Our Time Is Up, a cutesy thing with Kevin Pollack as a psychiatrist who radically changes his style; The Last Farm, a predictable Scandanavian tale of a man preparing for death in the countryside; Runaway, a German offering about a child and a man mysteriously drawn into each other's worlds; and Sean Ellis's Cashback, an 18-minute piece that earned the green light for feature expansion. Sean Biggerstaff stars as a daydreamer working the midnight shift at Sainsbury's supermarket, where he fantasizes about naked (and exclusively gorgeous) women. It's Guy Ritchie meets The Office, and a little too self-satisfied for its own good.

The winner for best animated short is the half-hour The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation, a very ambitious and emotionally raw work by John Canemaker, who recounts the difficult life of his Italian father. John Turturro and Eli Wallach provide the voices for son and father, as drawings illustrate the text. In another world is the Australian Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, a Jules Verne-ish half-hour fantasy about a Victorian who takes to an airship, searching for a plague cure. The characters are rendered as silhouettes, but there is rich detail--if not always sure-footed storytelling--elsewhere. Badgered is a standard cartoon with the appeal of brevity. Two nominated cartoons are not included: 9 and Pixar's One Man Band, but two bonus shorts, Imago and The Fan and the Flower, are on the disc. --Robert Horton

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