Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lemmon, a two-time Oscar winner who is mostfamous for his roles in movies such as "Some LikeIt Hot," admitted it was difficult going fromHarvard to New York after graduating...
...Serguei Kotov, the central figure of Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov's film, which won this year's Best Foreign Film Oscar, is an aging hero of the Bolshevik revolution now living quietly on a country dacha with his beautiful young wife and adoring child. Into an almost unbearably beautiful day suffused with golden sun comes Dimitri, former lover of Kotov's wife and now member of the secret police. What Kotov doesn't learn until it's too late is that Dimitri has come not to steal his wife, but to conduct him to prison, humiliation and death. The genius...
Despite the aesthetic pleasure (and sick glee) to be enjoyed from the above short's the best films of the bunch are also the funniest. "The Janitor," an Oscar nominee by Canadian Vanessa Schwartz, uses mellow vernacular and quirky sketches of a naked old man's body to bring a janitor of the universe to life. Lines describing the moon as a "sure" nub dustcatcher" don't hurt either...
...funniest shorts of all belong to the English. Both "The Wrong Trousers" (a one-time Oscar winner) and "Bob's Birthday" (this year's winner) owe much of their irresistability to their particular brand of British humor. These two films are well-known among those in The animated know and for good reason...
...Story" (another Oscar nominee) takes on the astoundingly eccentric task of portraying multiple Kirk Douglasses in multiple roles with multiple jutting chins. For two minutes (its entire length) the short is a welcome piece of absurdity. "Triangle" is a sexy piece of modern dance done in water-color and finger paint. Lithe bodies swirl across the screen in a semi-psychedelic fantasy which looks a lot like love-making done to the fierce beat of drums...