[In the running for the Best Animated Picture nomination is] $9.99, a stop motion toon for grown-ups, based on the very short stories of Israeli writer Etgar Keret (some of them no longer than a sneeze, but evocative enough to set your imagination running). That might seem like a shortage of material on which to base a feature, but consider that most blockbusters can be reduced to 25 words or less….”
—Variety’s Peter Debruge, on the very curious nature of this year’s Best Animated Picture selections
MaskedVigilante says:
David Mamet said, “A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.”