ANIMATED SHORT NOMINEES (from best to worst) Garden Party (Florian Babikian, Vincent Bayoux, Victor Caire, Théophile Dufresne, Gabriel Grapperon and Lucas Navarro; France) LOU (Dave Mullins; USA) While the animated short field looks relatively strong this year, these are the two class acts of the category. LOU is the requisite Pixar entry (it […]
ANIMATED SHORT NOMINEES (arranged from best to worst) 1. Piper (Alan Barillaro; USA) 2. Pear Cider and Cigarettes (Robert Valley; Canada) These are the only two films in either program that rise above the squishy middle, and they couldn’t be more different. Pixar’s wordless, 6-minute Piper is a […]
ANIMATED SHORT NOMINEES (from best to worst) World of Tomorrow (Don Herzfeldt; USA) We Can’t Live Without Cosmos (Konstantin Bronzit; Russia) I already raved about both of these films last October in my review of the 17th Annual Animation Show of Shows, so it’s no surprise that they’re […]
