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IFN and the boy chooses to see the 2011 OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS - ANIMATED - at the Uptown Stage and Screen in Calgary.
OK. "Oscar Nominated", however, should be a big clue as to the independence of thought - not particularly great, and there's far better stuff coming up all the time on YouTube. But in the game of the Oscars real quality can count against you.....
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IFN with the boy at the Plaza. Again, the movie was an HD DVD disc played upon the big screen, trifles like this really annoy me. Otherwise, while some of the commercials are good, some are great, almost all are available online and most were viewed shortly after they were released, such is the internet. So I'll probably give a miss to future screenings of Cannes Best Commercials as I've seen most of them. That said, the one embedded below was new to us both and was remarkable not only for it's clever animation but as well for it's frank depiction of graffiti sex scenes....
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IFN and tonight's pick is "Inside Job", a documentary about how the banks orchestrated and profited from the economic collapse of 2008. Now to be fair, a movie about the corruption and greed within the banking industry and Wall Street probably isn't a 14 year old's cup of tea, but he sat through it and had some good questions afterwards. And the film itself was good in a nothing-I-didn't-know already but appreciated the bar charts and infographics sort of way. It was good. Well narrated, with a good soundtrack, some nice awkward moments interviewing the key people, and a proper sense of outrage as you see them all rewarded - in the hundreds of millions of dollars - and with key government positions - for a job truly terribly done. And worth it to see how corruption is spreading itself throughout the US Universities and educational systems. Not a happy film, but a necessary one. And sadly it probably won't change a thing. But we can't say we weren't warned.
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Movie tonight, becoming a bit of a Wednesday routine (the boy calls it IFN, for Independent Film Night). So we see Marwencol - The embedded trailer below. Shot on Super 8, it's a brilliant documentary tracing - in his own words - one man's recovery from a beating that left him brain damaged and unable to function normally. Shot on a Super 8, it probably cost less than $10, 000 to make, and offers easily a thousand times the value of a film that cost a thousand times as much to make. See it while it's still at the Uptown.
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