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The 81st Annual Academy Award-Nominated Short Films
(Friday, Feb. 6, 2009)
Two hours and 46 minutes of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button be damned. Pixar’s Presto (starring a magician and his rabbit; pictured above) earned an Oscar nod, too — with a running time of just five minutes. Presto, which first screened in theaters prior to Wall-E, hits a few select theaters today, lumped together with the rest of the Oscar-nominated shorts (live-action and animated). The mini-films hail from the U.S., of course, plus Russia (Lavatory Lovestory), Japan (House of Small Cubes), France (Oktapodi; Manon on the Asphalt), the U.K. (This Way Up), Switzerland (On the Line), Germany (Toyland), Denmark (The Pig) and Ireland, contributing New Boy, an 11-minute telling of what’s it like to be a nine-year-old African kid in a new school — in Ireland. So, would you rather: Watch a whopping total of 10 Oscar-caliber films … or wonder why, an hour later, Brad Pitt still looks old.
YESTERDAY’S DO-IT: Liz Lemon’s steamy makeout with Don Draper!
