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...years later, short films have managed to stay inside the Kodak Theater, and even win over some front-row types. Some 30 abbreviated offerings by such Palme d'Or winners as Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier and Wong Kar Wai will premiere at Cannes this year. Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have ordered up several minimovies to play between their gory double-feature Grindhouse, due in April. And Steven Spielberg is executive-producing On the Lot, a Fox show in which aspiring filmmakers will produce a short film from a particular genre each week to compete for a development...
...From the lack of paparazzi to the crowds of rowdy Ph.D.s at the best tables to the fact that the women in attendance ate carbohydrates, almost nothing about the SciTech Oscars resembles its glitzier counterpart held later this month at the Kodak Theater. No one asked the guy who designed the mysterious-sounding Brugmatic MPST Densitometer who he is wearing. No one speculated if the woman who helped the film industry convert from silver-based to cyan dye analog soundtracks is finally over her ex. No one thanked his agent - although the computer science department at MIT did get name...
...Oscar night, Feb. 25, three gentlemen will be seated in the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, each hoping to win an Academy Award or two. Just as fervently, they'll be rooting for one another, for they are compadres from Mexico City. It simplifies matters that they are not in direct competition. Alejandro González Iñárritu, who made Babel, is up for Best Picture and Best Director. Guillermo del Toro, writer-director of Pan's Labyrinth, has been nominated in the Foreign Film and Original Screenplay categories. Alfonso Cuarón, the director of Children of Men, could be onstage...
...generations ago, George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak, gave Rochester a movie house. Better than that, he commissioned a brilliant young painter to create posters of the films on view. Alas, many of those celluloid epics have long since been turned into banjo picks, but the artwork survives in Movie Posters: The Paintings of Batiste Madalena (Abrams; 64 pages; $14.95). Here the famous and the forgotten are captured in the forceful style of art deco. Once upon a screen, these vamps, clowns and pirates romanced in a world of black and white. But outside the theater, Madalena made them leap...
...award for Water, which she made despite sabotage and death threats from Indian fundamentalists. And I'm pleased that The Lives of Others was cited: partly because it's a smartly pensive spy thriller, partly because this means that some Generation Why cutie will have to stand on the Kodak Theatre stage and try to enunciate the director's name: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. (Paging Gov. Schwarzenegger?) But I chose Pan's Labyrinth as my film of the year, so I have to go with that...