If you live in the Los Angeles area and haven’t had a chance to see all of this year’s Academy Award-nominated animated short films, head down to the historic Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. Running March 6-13, the American Cinematheque program screens nightly at 10 p.m. in the Spielberg Theatre.
In additon to the stop-motion statuette winner Peter and the Wolf from British director Suzie Templeton, the program offers fellow stop-mo achievement Madame Tutli-Putli from Canadian filmmakers Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski, the animated John Lennon interview I Met the Walrus from Canadian Josh Raskin, Meme Les Pigeons Vont Au Paradis (Even Pigeons Go to Heaven) by French filmmakers Samuel Tourneux and Simon Vanesse, and My Love, a period tale from Russian Alexander Petrov.
The American Cinematheque is also projecting the live-action nominees nightly at 7:30 p.m. in a separate program. A combo ticket costs $15 and gets you into both screenings. Also running this weekend at the Egyptain is a special 70mm presentation of director Stanley Kubric’s seminal 1968 sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. For more information on these and other film programs, go to www.americancinematheque.com.
