Watch 'em now–they’ll only be up until midnight (EST) today!
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/02/25/shorts/index.html
To get access to Salon, you’ll have to watch a short ad. If it’s the “Be Cool” ad, click on “Be Cool,” and then when the ad is over, click on “Enter Salon.”
Thanks, ME! I’ve already seen the terrific 7:35 in the Morning, but I am glad Bill Plympton (Your Face, How to Kiss, One of Those Days) is nominated again for Guard Dog.
Too bad more nominees aren’t available.
And don’t forget to participate in the 3rd Annual SDMB Oscar Prediction Contest (w/real prizes!)
The links are crapping out on me. Don’t know what an “.asx” file is, but my computer doesn’t seem to have any interest reading it. Damn.
I just upgraded to Windows Media Player 10, and it works okay. Media Player is the only option they have, except for Ryan, which is on the Candian Film Board site at NFB at the Oscars® - Media Space : Media Space. You have the option of watching that in Media Player, Quicktime, or Realplayer.
Good luck–they’re worth watching!
ME
Thanks–finally found a minute (or, actually, an hour) to watch them all.
Ryan’s provocative and the Plympton is, predictably, funny & disturbing. But Gopher Broke is a bust–tedious CGI characters involved in a not-really-funny situation that goes on way too long. Unfortunately, this is the type of film that’s been winning recently.
Little Terrorist was fine but 7:35 is unpredictable, hilarious, and pretty warped as well. Here’s hoping they do a theatrical run of some of the other nominated works as well (they usually do every year, traveling to the larger cities over a period of months).
I’m glad they put these online. I’m not in a big city, so I usually don’t get to see things like this.
The dog was hilarious–sick and twisted, but maybe that’s what dogs really are thinking. I wasn’t paying attention to the ending the first time–I didn’t catch it until the second time around.
ME
Last year all the nominated shorts were released on DVD.
Too late.
Damn!
Sorry. Ryan should still be there–see the link in the 4th post.
ME