This year’s five Oscar-nominated live action shorts are strong, disturbing and concise (the longest is 45 minutes). Among the issues they explore are law and order, immigration and interracial relations.
“Two Distant Strangers” examines police brutality and the African-American’s nightmarish anxiety that he will inevitably encounter it. “Feeling Through” explores the unlikely bond between a Black homeless teenager and a deaf and blind white man. “The Letter Room,” centers on the ambivalent experiences of a correctional officer whose duties in the prison’s mail room entail reading letters to and from death row inmates.
The other two films, “White Eye” and “The Present” were made by an Israeli and a Palestinian director, respectively, and they delve into complex moral issues that characterize a region awash in anguish and ambiguity.
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This year s awards are being held two months later than usual due to the pandemic (MEE) By Published date: 21 April 2021 10:19 UTC | Last update: 1 min 3 sec ago
The 93rd Academy Awards - better known as the Oscars - take place on 25 April, in another unusual year for cinema.
The ceremony in Hollywood is taking place two months later than planned due to the coronavirus pandemic, and comes as the industry continues to grapple with the closure of cinemas and disruption to filming brought on by global lockdowns.
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NEXT WEEK – APRIL 20th – TUESDAY SCREENINGS RETURN
Plus, tickets on sale now for next week s return of Premium Member Tuesday. Catch Michelle Pfeiffer s acclaimed turn in French Exit on 4/20. There will also be a special screening of Dazed and Confused also with a new post-film onscreen cast reunion (FYI: 4/20 is cannabis culture slang for marijuana and also refers to cannabis-oriented celebrations that take place annually on April 20.
The 18 Arclight and Pacific theaters represented about 200 screens as well as countless premieres, chance encounters, and the belief that they were too important to fail.
The 18 Arclight and Pacific Theaters represented about one percent of the North American box-office gross, but the April 13 announcement of their permanent closure by parent company Decurion inspired front-page stories and social-media outpourings of grief. What other industry would generate that response? Of course, these theaters meant much more than their receipt
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