Studio Tour

Rotten Tomatoes has just posted a Photo Tour of the Walt Disney Animation Studios, which I must say has some highly flattering photos of the building and grounds. I wish they'd posted photos of the Frog pod, but that wasn't really what they were covering ... I guess we'll have to wait till next year. The best tour is still on the Emperor's New Groove special edition DVD but that, apparently, is hard to find.

Motion Picture Mania!

Just saw Frost/Nixon.

Y HLO THAR, MOIST VON LIPWIG

In other news, it was fantastic.* Wonderfully written, very well shot, and the production design made me cringe with all the vigour that only the 1970s can induce. The fact that I like it so much speaks wonders for it,** as it's a topic I know little about, have little interest in, and involved such a scungy time period and crowd (I mean, politicians and media types? Bleh!). I was surprised at both how suspenseful and funny it was, even at the same time. But mostly I was just watching Michael Sheen's perfect facial acting and million-watt smile. Heee.
*Possibly because of Moist, but I spotted at least two objectively movie-making things that were completely non-Moist related
**Unless of course it's all down to Moist

I also saw all the Oscar-nomtinated shorts today – I'm sticking with 'La maison en petits cubes' to win because 'Lavatory Lovestory,' while arguably uglier, was too cute and simple to rake in the art points. 'This Side Up' was a very pleasant surprise, though I may be biased by the dark humour and wackiness and also the BBC production credit at the beginning ... it was like Edward Gorey meets Warner Bros. Neverthless, I still have a shred of hope, because 'The Danish Poet' did manage to win its year so someone out there knows entertainment...

By the way, this is my ONE THOUSANDTH POST! Ring in the new millennium with some craaaazy wallpaper action!