The third collaboration of writer-director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd (Aliens, the Terminator movies) is a big-budget action thriller about a group of underwater oil diggers who go looking for a lost nuclear submarine and wind up encountering extraterrestrials.
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The third collaboration of writer-director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd was a big-budget action thriller about a group of underwater oil diggers who go looking for a lost nuclear submarine and wind up encountering extraterrestrials.
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Five short animations: from France, Samuel Tourneux's Even Pigeons Go to Heaven, in which an old man journeys to heaven in a spacecraft; from Russia, Alexander Petrov's My Love, a 19th-century romance; from the UK and Poland, Suzie Templeton's Peter & the Wolf, adapted from the Prokofiev piece; and from Canada, Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski's Madame Tutli-Putli, the story of a nightmarish train ride, and Josh Raskin's I Met the Walrus, whose audio consists of a teenager's impromptu interview with John Lennon in 1969.
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Like a good short story, a good short film embraces the limitations of its form instead of struggling against them, which may explain why, of the four films I was able to preview on this program of Oscar nominees, the worst turned out to be the longest while the best was among the shortest.
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