Friday, January 31, 2014

The Shorts Competition

From el Wrappo.

... In another tight and strong category, a Disney cartoon faces stiff competition from a variety of inventive short films. ... This is a very good group of films, with no clear frontrunner but abundant viewing pleasures to be had. Non-voters can get the chance to see them on Friday when Shorts HD and Magnolia will release them in Los Angeles, New York and more than 250 theaters around the country. ...

If you don’t count Walt Disney’s voiceover-from-the-grave on “Get a Horse!,” “Room on the Broom” has the category’s most high-profile voice talent. The British short has a cast that includes Gillian Anderson as a witch who keeps losing things and gaining passengers on her broomstick, and Simon Pegg as the narrator. ...

It's always hard to handicap the shorts category. The reflexive impulse isa thinking "Oh, Get a Horse wins," but often there isn't a front-runner, even with a conglomerate's muscle behind this cartoon or that. I wouldn't be amazed if Get a Horse! won, but I wouldn't be dumbfounded if it lost.

I'm on the road a lot today. We'll see how much posting gets squeezed in. ...

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