http://www.metafilter.com/tags/landreth Posts tagged with 'landreth' at MetaFilter. Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:18:15 -0800 Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:18:15 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/40013/National%2DFilm%2DBoard%2Dof%2DCanadas%2DRyan <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/ryan/">Ryan,</a> the Best Animated Short for the 2005 Academy Awards, is <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/oscars2005/nfbpop2.html">fully viewable in 3 different video formats through the National Film Board of Canada</a> (along with a preview of the Best Documentary (Short Subject) of <a href="http://www.nfb.ca/hardwood/">Hardwood</a>). The 14 minute piece tackles the life of <a href="http://cmm.nfb.ca/E/titleinfo/index.epl?id=10985&sid=dc1962886b03ea53f6a4c0d47b9d2039&coll=onf">NFB animator</a> <a href="http://www.awn.com/mag/issue5.08/5.08pages/robinsonlarkin.php3">Ryan Larkin</a>, who himself was an Oscar nominee back in the 1960s for the classic <a href="http://cmm.onf.ca/E/titleinfo/index.epl?id=10985&expr=${walking}&sid=dc1962886b03ea53f6a4c0d47b9d2039&coll=onf&type=tout">Walking</a> until <a href="http://www.montrealmirror.com/2004/101404/cover_film.html">eventually becoming a panhandler</a>. (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/33474" title="props to disgruntled">prior discussion without full film</a>) [cont'd] tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.40013 Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:18:15 -0800 animation canada film landreth larkin nfb oscar myopicman