In Brief
The films vying for Academy Awards this year include the Swedish art world satire The Square, a hand-painted animated film about Vincent van Gogh, and an irreverent documentary by Agnès Varda and JR.
Opinion
It’s time for us to ask why the industries with some of the loftiest ideals and the most vocal commitments to progressivism still far so far short of reasonable expectations.
Art
The youngest of the three Oscar shorts categories, documentary shorts are both the vigorous upstarts and the weary middle-agers, questioning themselves and their creative vision in a productive midlife crisis.
Art
In our first review of the 2015 Oscar-nominated short films, the imaginative animated shorts led things off. With less than a week to go until the awards themselves, it’s time to get cozy with their often stonier cousins, the live-action shorts.
Art
Often lost amid the Oscar season hype parade, the Academy Award–nominated short films are the lagniappe of the affair, a little extra dose of movie popcorn to munch on and enjoy, even if you skip out on the actual award show.
News
The nominees for the 2015 Academy Awards are out today, and from Mr. Turner to Finding Vivian Maier, there's a fair chance of some visual art films taking home gold-plated statuettes and adding Oscar medallions to their DVD cases.
Interview
Jehane Noujaim's The Square is a cinéma vérité-style documentary offering an electrifyingly intimate, character-driven perspective on Egypt's political uprising and ensuing turmoil.
Art
The Oscars are coming up this Sunday, which can only mean one thing ... Best Animated Short Film! OK, fine, I do care about Best Picture, and whether Ellen will pull off her hosting duties, but Best Animated Short Film is one of those off-the-radar categories that seems less predictable and thus mor
Art
In 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences sparked a flurry of debate when it was announced that the Best Picture category for the Oscar would be expanded from five to ten nominees. According to then-academy president Sid Ganis, the increased number would “allow Academy voters to recogni
Art
"When I paint, I feel happy, so it's a good way to start my mornings, to just paint on something, and what better place than my face?" says Inocente Izucar in the Oscar-nominated documentary short Inocente, which follows the life of the 15-year-old artist. Each day she coils curls of vibrant colors
Opinion
The LA Times reports that chances look good for Banksy's film Exit Through the Gift Shop to receive a nomination for an Oscar, completely destroying any ideas that Banksy is some kind of anti-establishment bandit. I'm just surprised that Banksy could pull off going even more mainstream than he alrea