Category: Films

  • Annie Awards 2010 Nominations?

    Say what?

    I’m really pissed right now.

    The Annie Awards (that’s the best animation awards) just announced their nominees, included for Best Animated Feature are, of course:

    • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
    • Coraline
    • Fantastic Mr. Fox
    • The Princess and the Frog
    • The Secret of Kells
    • Up

    Yup. That’s it. Say WHAT? Where’s Mary and Max?

    You mean to tell me that THE best animated film of the year doesn’t get recognition from its own medium? Yeah, whatever. These are the awards that declared Kung Fu Panda better than WALL-E, so maybe we should be talking about actual technical animation than actual film.

    The whole list of nominees is here.

  • 2010 Independent Spirit Awards Nominations!

    I totally messed up the date on my calendar xD
    I thought it was gonna be tomorrow.

    Anyway, some surprise, and some not so surprise.
    You might have seen a few already~~~

    Spirit Awards will be handed out on March 5th, 2010 at 8pm. PST.

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  • Amy’s Experiment Awards *Update 2*

    Here’s the main idea post.

    And yes, I made it passed the 48 films. I’m nearly on my film #70, I think.

    Since it’s nearly December here, and it’s December already in several places. It’s time for a reminder because I haven’t heard from many of you, and I promised to remind everyone.

    • You’ve got all this month to watch films to complete your 48 film-count.
    • Your nomination list should be sent by January 7th 2010.
    • Nominations categories are the same as the Academy Awards, except;
      • no Best Foreign Film category.
      • no shorts (documentaries, animated or live-action)
      • no Documentary Features either.
    • Nominations are announced on January 10th 2010
    • Voting for a winner ends on January 28th 2010
    • Winners are announced January 31st 2010.

    So grab and Academy Award nomination list, fill in the blanks except for the categories specified above, and send them my way. ;P

  • Family-Outing-Styled Hyori~

    Hahaha, it’s hard to resist Family Outing Hyori.
    So irresistibly a-dork-able Hyori. xD
    And man, that fake Afro. Totally kills me.

    And yes, I’m sad Jaesuk is leaving. No more FO. U.u

    – edit –

    Since the video was deleted from YouTube, I wonder if this new version can load. If not, you can try to check it out at Soha.vn


    Yeah, yeah. Didn’t post anything substantial today. I know.

    Watched Precious last night. *sighs* It was sad.
    Like, “want to hug you” sadness.

    — EDIT —

    Seems the video is gone from the net. :(

    Here’s something to get you by.

    — EDIT 2 —

    Lo and behold!

  • Prepare for Award Season 2009~

    I received my Independent Spirit Awards agreement over the weekend, which allows me to get screeners (of some) of the films that will get nominated for the next Indie Spirits, which I just got my notification on Google calendar. xD That means it’s nearly award season, which will bring a LOT of Nomination and Winners posts until the first week of March when the Oscars happen.

    In the meantime, here are some Academy Awards posts to keep you busy and updated.

    Hope that keeps you busy. xD

  • Must See Movies by We Are Seventeen

    We Are Seventeen has created a pretty cool motion piece with some Must See Movies.

    must-see-movies-casablanca

    Check out the video here. [needs Quicktime]

  • Tim Burton MOMA Spazz~~~

    tim-burton-moma-2009

    OMG. A couple more shots, including one of Jack Skellington, over at Otto-Otto.

    Maca, why didn’t you go! You missed Johnny! xD

  • Otouto – Younger Brother Trailer

    This does not compute.
    Yu Aoi as a bride? LOL

    Actually, film looks interesting (even without subs), though… random question~

    Is Ryo Kase Koharu’s (Yu Aoi) friend or husband-to-be? I couldn’t make it out on the scene. And I know Nippon Cinema says it’s her friend, but their scene seemed too close to be just friends. Over-reading! You can tell I’m starving for a new film.

    [iframe width=”480″ height=”360″ src=”https://www.nipponcinema.com/v2/play.swf?config=https://www.nipponcinema.com/cfg/ototo-trailer]

    Also, aoinohoho has a video of the Otouto press conference.

  • More Academy Awards 2009-2010 Updates

    89 documentary films have been reduced to 15 films. On the race? The Don’t-Kill-the-Dolphins documentary The Cove, which created a fuzz when the Tokyo Film Festival didn’t let them open the event.

    But you know, dolphins are cute this is why it deserves a documentary (and it will probably win an Oscar for it if the cuteness continues).

    I really want to be wrong on this one.

    Food, Inc. is also on the race. I learned something from this one, must admit.

    Check out the 15 titles here.

  • Yu Aoi Film Discussion – Tokyo! – Shaking Tokyo

    Woah, long time~ Has it been two months already? Well, I thought since One Million Yen has come out (finally!) with English subtitles on an “official” release, that I’d give this a push. I know most of you would have seen Tokyo!, Hyakuman-en and Honokaa Boy by now, but we’re trying to space them out because there hasn’t been any new project announcement since Otouto, which opens this coming January.

    In the meantime, you’ll have to enjoy these things.

    Here we go~~~

    Something about the film:
    Tokyo! Is the short film anthology by Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-ho, in which they tell three different stories related to the city.

    Genre: Drama
    Starring: Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Ayumi Ito, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Denis Lavant, Julie Dreyfus, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yu Aoi, Naoto Takenaka
    Segments: Interior Design (Gondry), Merde (Carax), Shaking Tokyo (Bong)
    Duration: Nearly 2hr

    Below, overall film and Shaking Tokyo minor spoilers~

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