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...Hungarian animator with a 5-min. movie about a cuckoo clock ascends to the stage on Oscar night, you may be tempted to take that post--Jennifer Hudson, pre--Helen Mirren bathroom break. But if you do, you will miss something besides an ecstatic shout-out to Budapest--you'll miss seeing a real Hollywood comeback story, the return of the short film. Thanks to downloadable video and an embrace of the form by some Hollywood heavyweights, something very old-fashioned is happening: people are watching short movies. On cell phones, computers, TVs and--this is really retro--in theaters...
...last, oh, 40 Oscar nights before 2006, almost no one outside film-snob circles had the opportunity to see even one of the nominated short films. This month collections of the nominated live-action and animated short films are playing in more than 35 cities. On the live-action bill are brief, engaging yarns like West Bank Story, a musical about competing falafel stands in the Middle East, and The Saviour, a drama about a door-to-door Mormon evangelist in love with a married woman. On the animated bill are little gems like Lifted, a Pixar picture about...
This is the second year the Oscar-nominated shorts have been released theatrically; on opening weekend, they were the top grossers at 80% of the theaters in which they played last year. But thanks to YouTube, iTunes and AtomFilms, you don't have to go out to see them. At less than 20 minutes, they're eminently downloadable--and who can resist an Oscar-nominated movie...
...Great Train Robbery, made in 1903, was a 10-min. Western. But advances in technology and changes in viewing habits meant that by the '60s, shorts had become the currency of film schools and festivals, and by 2005 they had lost so much pop-culture clout that short-subject Oscar winners had to accept their awards in their seats, with their backs to much of the audience. "Next year they're gonna give out Oscars in the parking lot," joked host Chris Rock...
Mark Wahlberg is nominated for an Oscar for The Departed; HBO's Entourage, which Wahlberg produces, is loosely based on his life...