I’m always a bit wayward after the Oscars. #Oscarwatch is a nice project from December on. Then final weeks a frantic search of where things are showing.
I’m taking a stab at #maw2026 on letterboxd. March around the world. Viewing international features.
“Sirāt”: a father and his son follow a caravan of ravers into the Moroccan desert in search of one last rave and, hopefully, the family’s lost daughter. The tension in the last half hour is palpable, and see this in a theater with good sound if you can. (50/50) 🏁 #oscarwatch
"Perfectly a Strangeness": three donkeys explore the grounds of the La Silla Observatory in the mountains of Chile. It's gorgeous to look at, and I liked the contrast between the natural surroundings and the workings of the automated telescope, but this seemed very slight to us. (49/50) #oscarwatch
And just like that, I’m at 80%.
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Oscar Saturday has traditionally been an all theater day for #Oscarwatch. Pre-streaming days, when I would go to a theater with a lot of screens and watch 3-4 back to back. Or hit 2 at an art house and 1-2 more at a mainstream theater. In those days I only saw 10 or so of the nominees. 🧵
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At 72% with a week to go. Not sure I’ll break my record of 88%, that would take 8 more films to tie, 9 to beat.
“If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”: the mother of a young daughter with a feeding condition has to confront crises on about 14 fronts at once - both personal and professional - with no support system. Rose Byrne is amazing in this but I don’t know that this is a film you “enjoy”. (48/50) #oscarwatch
"The Devil is Busy": a day in the life of the staff at an Atlanta-area women's health clinic, particularly through the eyes of the chief of security. (47/50) #oscarwatch
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#OscarWatch continues, sitting at 64% with 9 days to go.
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"Ṣawt Hind Rajab (The Voice of Hind Rajab)": workers at a Red Crescent office in the West Bank talk to a 6-year-old girl in Gaza trapped in a car after the other passengers were killed, and desperately try to get an ambulance to her. Her voice is taken from actual recordings. (46/50) #oscarwatch
"Children No More: 'Were and Are Gone'": a group of activists in Tel Aviv lead a weekly silent protest, holding up photos of Palestinian children killed in Israeli attacks. (By the end of the film, over 18,000 such children were known to be dead.) (45/50) #oscarwatch
Hit 60% on #oscarwatch. Of the remaining films that I can find a way to see will Avatar or the Diane Warren doc be my biggest hat watch?
At the end of tonight, I’ll have 21 days to see 21 films. #oscarwatch
"Jane Austen's Period Drama": after a proposal gets interrupted when he believes she's injured upon seeing period blood on her dress, the bride-to-be and her sisters secretly argue the merits of disclosing the ins and outs of the female reproductive cycle to the clueless suitor. (44/50) #oscarwatch
"Deux personnes échangeant de la salive (Two People Exchanging Saliva)": in a surreal world where kissing gets you shoved into a cardboard box and tossed off a cliff, and people pay for things by being slapped, a lonely housewife and a playful shopgirl feel a mutual attraction. (43/50) #oscarwatch
"Butcher's Stain": an Arab Israeli man working as a butcher in a grocery store is anonymously accused of pulling down a poster of Israeli hostages in the break room. (42/50) #oscarwatch
"A Friend of Dorothy": an elderly widow (Miriam Margolyes) and a young Black man have an unlikely friendship, as he provides her companionship (and opens her daily cans of prunes) and she encourages his interest in becoming an actor. Probably my fave of the live-action shorts. (41/50) #oscarwatch
"The Singers": the denizens of a rundown bar have an impromptu singing contest for $100 and a free beer. Loosely based on a novel by Ivan Turgenev. (40/50) #oscarwatch
Took a short movie break to finish a book.
Now I’ve skipped the vet office scene of The Lost Bus and am back at #oscarwatch.
26/50 so far.
Happiness is finding a source for a short film that was previously unavailable. 50% #Oscarwatch
"Retirement Plan": Domhnall Gleeson narrates an old man's list of things he'd like to do now that he's retired, ranging from the silly (gonna organize the computer desktop!), to the poignant, to the practical, to the sad. Probably my favorite of this year's animated shorts. (39/50) #oscarwatch
"Papillon (Butterfly)": a gorgeous remembrance of Olympic swimmer Alfred Nakache, a Jew from Algeria who competed for France, but was barred from competing in the 1936 Berlin games and eventually sent to Auschwitz (where the rest of his family died). Animated via oil painting! (38/50) #oscarwatch
Goal for the day is to pass 50% on #oscarwatch.
Watched 2 last night. Will probably get in 2-3 today. I’m going to run out of easy to watch stuff pretty soon.
“The Girl Who Cried Pearls”: a Parisian man tells his his granddaughter a tall tale about his hardscrabble youth in Montreal, when he lived next door to a pretty but sad girl whose tears turned into pearls. (37/50) #oscarwatch
“Forevergreen”: imagine “The Giving Tree”, but with a stop-motion bear instead of a boy. I could have done without the Bible verse at the end. (36/50) #oscarwatch
“The Three Sisters”: three sisters living alone on a small island vie for the attention of a burly sailor who rents one of their houses. (35/50) #oscarwatch
"国宝 (Kokuho)": the son of a yakuza boss goes to live and train with a master kabuki actor, and the film tracks the ups and downs of his career as he tries to become the greatest "onnagata" (male actor of female parts) in the world. "Kokuho" is Japanese for "national treasure". (34/50) #oscarwatch
#Oscarwatch in full force.
"All the Empty Rooms": CBS Sunday Morning newsman Steve Hartman got tired of trying to do feel-good pieces in the wake of school shootings, so he decided to work with a photographer to document the bedrooms of children killed that have been left as-is by their families. (33/50) #oscarwatch
