Oops! Almost Missed This. Academy-Nominated Live Shorts and Other Upcoming Goodies

I know I said I would post about this last month, but it totally slipped my mind. Real Art Ways in Hartford is currently running the 2007 Academy Award Nominated Live Action Shorts until tomorrow. So you can check them out both tonight and tomorrow at 7:15 p.m.

The shorts include:
At Night (Om natten)
"Three young women share their problems while spending the holidays in a hospital cancer ward."

Academy-Award winner The Mozart of Pickpockets (Le Mozart des Picketpockets)
"A pair of unlucky thieves find their fortunes have changed when they take in a deaf homeless boy."

Tanghi Argentini
"A man who must learn to dance the tango in two weeks asks an office colleague for help."

The Substitute (Il Supplente)
"The arrival of an unusual newcomer galvanizes the students in a high school classroom."

The Tonto Woman
"A cattle rustler meets a woman who is living in isolation after being held prisoner for 11 years by the Mojave Indians."

Links go to the trailers at IMDb. Sorry for the lack of easily-accessible YouTube clips, but there just weren't any.

There's also two other movies of note that I've been interested and slightly interested in seeing. The first one is Once.

"The Irish romance Once may be a musical, but it is miles away from the traditional Hollywood idea of people bursting into song. Glen Hansard (frontman for indie rock band The Frames) plays the guy, a street musician who is playing for change when he meets the girl (Marketa Irglova), an immigrant from the Czech Republic. The pair immediately bond over their shared love of music (he is a guitarist, and she plays the piano), and the film chronicles their tentative relationship." - synopsis from Rotten Tomatoes, which by the way has the film at a 97% fresh rating.

I almost rented/bought this movie a few times. I've seen the trailer (above, obviously) a handful of times and it looks like a solid movie. Definitely one worth taking your significant other/date out to as it doesn't seem like an obvious chick flick, but it certainly looks to have some of those qualities. Once begins playing on Friday at 5:30 and 9:30 p.m. and runs until next Wednesday, March 19.

The second movie on Real Art Way's calendar that I know we've talked about here, probably on a podcast, is Teeth. I don't know if I actually want to see this movie or what. It's...scary, weird, etc.

Also from Rotten Tomatoes, "Writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein’s feature debut is a horror comedy combining elements of atom-age 1950s horror films with mythology and feminist theory. The result is a smart, sassy B-movie satire--funny, gross, and with a high squirm factor."

The movie is 80% fresh on the site, so it must have something going for it. The movie doesn't open up at Real Art Ways until March 28, but I figured I'd give you a heads up.