Artsies:
Oscar-nominated short films – animated – 2.5 stars
ANIMATED SHORT-FILM NOMINEES
The Bigger Picture
Directors: Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees
Synopsis: Tensions arise between two brothers as their elderly mother requires more care.
Country of origin: UK
TRT: 7:27
Language: English
The Dam Keeper
Directors: Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi
Synopsis: A lonely little pig in charge of maintaining the town dam is cruelly bullied by his classmates.
Country of origin: US
TRT: 18:00
Language: English
Feast
Director: Patrick Osborne, producer Kristina Reed
Synopsis: The story of the relationship between a young man and the stray puppy he takes in is told through the
food the dog receives.
Country of origin: US
TRT: 7:00
Language: English
Me and My Moulton
Director: Torill Kove
Synopsis: Three sisters growing up in an unconventional Norwegian family ask their parents for a bicycle.
Country of origin: Canada
TRT: 13:08
Language: English
A Single Life
Director: Joris Oprins
Synopsis: A mysterious vinyl single gives a young woman the power to move back and forth through the years of
her life.
Country of origin: Netherlands
TRT: 2:18
Language: English
Oscar-nominated short films – live-action – 3 stars
LIVE-ACTION SHORT-FILM NOMINEES
Aya
Directors: Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis
Synopsis: A young woman waiting at an airport has an unexpected encounter with an arriving passenger.
Countries of origin: France, Israel
TRT: 39:50
Language: Hebrew, English
Boogaloo and Graham
Directors: Michael Lennox and Ronan Blaney
Synopsis: Jamesy and Malachy are presented with two baby chicks to raise by their soft-hearted father.
Country of origin: UK
TRT: 14:00
Language: English
Butter Lamp (La Lampe au Beurre de Yak)
Directors: Hu Wei and Julien Féret
Synopsis: A photographer and his assistant photograph the inhabitants of a remote Tibetan village.
Countries of origin: France, China
TRT: 15:54
Language: Tibetan
Parvaneh
Directors: Talkhon Hamzavi and Stefan Eichenberger
Synopsis: An Afghan teenager living in a refugee center in Switzerland encounters difficulties wiring money to
her family and asks a young Swiss woman for help.
Country of origin: Switzerland
TRT: 24:26
Language: German
The Phone Call
Directors: Mat Kirkby and James Lucas
Synopsis: A woman working for a crisis center phone line receives a call from a suicidal older man.
Country of origin: UK
TRT: 20:56
Language: English
Two Days, One Night (PG-13) – 3.5 stars, 95 mins
Sandra, a young Belgian mother, discovers that her workmates have opted for a significant pay bonus, in exchange for her dismissal. She has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Actors: Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée
Fartsies:
Romance in the Outfield (PG) – not screened, 101 mins
http://youtu.be/Gdxn9cJN1zg
Heather an attractive, competitive, softball player, sweet and sassy-who is used to winning…but with guys she tends to strike out once they find out she’s not their type. He’s a competitive baseball player, charming, and saintly, who hasn’t kissed…
So what happens when Heather tries to get his first kiss, and Tyler tries to win her heart to help launch his baseball career? It results in a head-on competition igniting a series of of light-hearted ploys of cat-and-mouse chase that will keep interested to the end. To top it off falling in love wasn’t a part of their plan…so now Tyler must choose between his dream, and Heather. And she must choose between love, and loneliness.
Directors: Randolph and Rebecca Sternberg
Actors: Lauryn Kent, Derek Boone, Shawn Carter, Christie Langendorf, Dannor Gerald
Seventh Son (PG-13) – ?, 102 mins
Young Thomas is apprenticed to the local Spook to learn to fight evil spirits. His first great challenge comes when the powerful Mother Malkin escapes her confinement while the Spook is away.
Director: Sergey Bodrov
Actors: Ben Barnes, Julianne Moore, Jeff Bridges
Jupiter Ascending (PG-13) – 2 stars, 127 mins
In a bright and colorful future, a young destitute caretaker gets targeted by a ruthless son of a powerful family that live on a planet in need of a new heir, so she travels with a genetically engineered warrior to the planet in order to stop his tyrant reign.
Director: The Wachowskis
Actors: Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (PG) – 3 stars, 93 mins
SpongeBob goes on a quest to discover a stolen recipe that takes him to our dimension, our world, where he tangles with a pirate.
Director: Paul Tibbett
Actors: Tom Kenny, Antonio Banderas, Bill Fagerbakke
Next Week:
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- Kingsman: The Secret Service
- Mommy
- Oscar-nominated short films – documentary
- Song of the Sea
- Still Alice
Best Bet for This Week:
- “A Most Violent Year” still playing.
