Saturday, 6/7/08: Oscars
I had a picture all taken for our 'Favorites' theme, but decided to go with this one, instead. Gen's cousin was in a film nominated for a Student Academy Award, so we went to the ceremony. It was very neat! There were four categories: Alternative, Animated, Documentary, and Narrative, and then a Foreign winner. We saw clips from all the films, and then the winning films were screened in their entirety at the end.
There was one documentary, If a Body Meet a Body, that I very much want to see. It was all about the Los Angeles Coroner's Office, and it just looked so interesting! I have no idea if there's any possibility of finding it somewhere, but I'm on the lookout.
All the films were very good. There wasn't one that I didn't want to see the rest of after the clip! The amusing thing was that, of the four films screened at the end, three had subtitles (we had German, Rwandan, and Spanish), and the least comprehensible one (to me, anyway) didn't actually have dialogue, but was narrated in English. It was the Alternative winner, and similar to a lot of modern art, it was pleasing, but made me think there was something very deep and meaningful that I was missing. And maybe there was!
Caleb Deschanel, Todd Holland, and Jason Reitman presented the awards, which was the other kind of fun bit of the evening. Jason Reitman was by far my favorite, as he was quite entertaining.
Anyway. It was something different to do on a Saturday evening!
There was one documentary, If a Body Meet a Body, that I very much want to see. It was all about the Los Angeles Coroner's Office, and it just looked so interesting! I have no idea if there's any possibility of finding it somewhere, but I'm on the lookout.
All the films were very good. There wasn't one that I didn't want to see the rest of after the clip! The amusing thing was that, of the four films screened at the end, three had subtitles (we had German, Rwandan, and Spanish), and the least comprehensible one (to me, anyway) didn't actually have dialogue, but was narrated in English. It was the Alternative winner, and similar to a lot of modern art, it was pleasing, but made me think there was something very deep and meaningful that I was missing. And maybe there was!
Caleb Deschanel, Todd Holland, and Jason Reitman presented the awards, which was the other kind of fun bit of the evening. Jason Reitman was by far my favorite, as he was quite entertaining.
Anyway. It was something different to do on a Saturday evening!