This morning has been filled with reading: reading for research, reading for review, and reading for pleasure. Then I grabbed a dandelion and burdock soda and headed out to a screening of all the Oscar nominated animated short films. Get a Horse! was a Disney joint, and they went pleasingly old school with this one. Its a Mickey Mouse cartoon and it starts out in the style of the earliest Disney films before breaking the fourth wall into the contemporary world. Its clever and shows a great love for Disney history. Mr. Hublot is a joint Luxembourg/France production. Its the story of a man in a diesel punk reality (think Brazil) who takes in a stray robo-puppy. Feral is the most visually daring of the films and the dullest in terms of the rest of its content. A boy raised by wolves has difficulty fitting into human society. Possessions in Japanese folklore household goods and tools gain sentience after 100 years or so. If theyve been regularly used and well taken care of they are benevolent, if theyve fallen into neglect and disrepair they get . . . weird. This is the story of a traveling tinker who gets stranded in an abandoned shrine during a thunderstorm. Throughout the night he is tormented by the sentient tools and goods in the shrine, but the skills of his profession may be enough to save him. This is my favorite of the series. Room on the Broom This is the big crowd pleaser with lots of top notch vocal talent (Gillian Anderson, Simon Pegg, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, etc.). A genial witch and her cat familiar pick up a wide variety of hitch hikers as they tool around on her broom. The series was rounded out by a selection of animated shorts that received an honorable mention.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 22:21:31 +0000
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