#war is over! inspired by the music of john & yoko

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Oscars 2024 winners:

Best Picture – Oppenheimer

Best Actress in a Leading Role – Emma Stone, Poor Things

Best Directing – Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Actor in a Leading Role – Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer

Best Original Song – “What Was I Made For?” by Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell, Barbie

Best Original Score – Ludwig Göransson, Oppenheimer

Best Sound – Tarn Willers and Johnnie Burn, The Zone of Interest

Best Live Action Short Film – The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Best Cinematography – Hoyte van Hoytema, Oppenheimer

Best Documentary Feature Film – 20 Days in Mariupol

Best Documentary Short Film – The Last Repair Shop

Best Film Editing – Jennifer Lame, Oppenheimer

Best Visual Effects – Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima, Godzilla Minus One

Best Actor in a Supporting Role  – Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer

Best International Feature Film – The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Best Costume Design – Holly Waddington, Poor Things

Best Production Design – Production Design: James Price and Shona Heath; Set Decoration: Zsuzsa Mihalek, Poor Things

Best Makeup and Hairstyling – Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston, Poor Things

Best Adapted Screenplay – Cord Jefferson, American Fiction

Best Original Screenplay – Justine Triet and Arthur Harari, Anatomy of a Fall

Best Animated Feature – The Boy and the Heron

Best Animated Short Film  – War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers

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Best Animated Short Film Nominees for the 96th Academy Awards (2024, listed in order of appearance in the shorts package)

This blog, since 2013, has been the site of my write-ups to the Oscar-nominated short film packages – a personal tradition for myself and for this blog. This omnibus write-up goes with my thanks to the Regency South Coast Village in Santa Ana, California for providing all three Oscar-nominated short film packages.

If you are an American or Canadian resident interested in supporting the short film filmmakers in theaters (and you should, as very few of those who work in short films are as affluent as your big-name directors and actors), check your local participating theaters here.

Without further ado, here are the nominees for the Best Animated Short Film at this year’s Academy Awards. The write-ups for the Documentary Short and Live Action Short nominees are complete. Films predominantly in a language other than English are listed with their nation(s) of origin.

Yet again, this completes this year’s omnibus write-ups for the Oscar-nominated short films for the upcoming Academy Awards:

Our Uniform (2023, Iran)

Director Yegane Moghaddam used to be a primary school teacher in Iran and often “observed the students… struggling with their uniforms and headscarves all day.” These observations informed her film and narration in Our Uniform, which won Best First Film at Annecy (the largest animation-only film festival, in the French Alpine resort town of the same name) in 2023. Only the fourth ever non-Western/European and non-Japanese nominee in this 92-year-old category – following 2014’s Bear Story (Chile; that year's winner), 2020’s Opera (South Korea) and 2021’s Bestia (Chile) – Our Uniform adopts a unique style never before seen in this category. Instead of traditional cel animation with ink and paper or computers, Moghaddam nearly single-handedly painted images directly on clothing fabrics (pants, jackets, shirts, scarves – all from her personal wardrobe) to illustrate the memories her narration shares. These memories, of attending public school in Iran, invariably intersect with Iran’s theocratic politics. There are references, never pedantic, about government propaganda as part of the school curriculum, and the segregation between boys’ and girls’ education. Most vividly, Moghaddam remarks on the restricting school uniform and compulsory hijabs for girls at school, issues which enflamed protests against such laws beginning in 2017 (and spiking after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022).

Moghaddam, who cites graphic novelist/director Marjane Satrapi (2007’s Persepolis, 2011’s Chicken with Plums; the former I consider among the finest animated films of this young century) as her primary artistic inspiration, curiously does not contain as much messaging in her film as one might expect. As an Iranian citizen who currently has no plans to officially distribute the film within her home nation due to fear of retribution, how could she? But the film’s slightness cannot distract from its painstaking, loving artistry. Without relying on inventive camerawork, Moghaddam uses the natural pockets and folds of her clothes to suggest dimension and personality. To Moghaddam, all clothing has a personality and personal history to the wearer, even compulsory clothing, all of which she uses to wonderful effect. What originally began as a fun side project that Moghaddam had no expectations for gifts audiences a truly original viewing experience.

My rating: 7.5/10

Letter to a Pig (2022, Israel/France)

Qualifying for the Academy Awards after winning the Grand Prize for Best International Short Film at Anima, the Brussels Animation Film Festival, in early 2023, Nal Kantor’s Letter to a Pig sees a Holocaust survivor retelling a story of survival to a group of largely disinterested and scornful teenagers. As the elderly man recounts how he wrote a letter to a pig that inadvertently saved his life, a handful of students start insensitively snorting. Quietly, Letter to a Pig adopts the standpoint of one of the girls in class, half-listening at first. Here, Kantor seamlessly switches between the man’s memories and the reality of the classroom, through heavy rotoscoping to outline her figures, mixing it with live-action footage for the limbs or eyes, but only using a few ink scribbles to outline facial features and hair. Generally, the more movement either the schoolgirl or Holocaust survivor show, the more scribbles and live-action footage that appear. For all other figures, they remain mostly abstract.

As a young man, the Holocaust survivor recalls how filled with rage he was, long after his near-death encounter. Now, physically unable to exact retribution on those who harmed him, he tells the students “you are my revenge” – passing along his trauma to those not realizing what they have just received. The schoolgirl’s vision in the surrealistic final minutes is her absorption of the Holocaust survivor’s story. This masterfully drawn finale is the emotional apex of Letter to a Pig, fully justifying its black-and-white palette (with one exception: pink for the pigs, considered an impure animal in Judaism) in service for its profound sense of dread. Symbolizing memory, the pig appears throughout the film as a savior, a monster, or something worthy of mockery, depending on who is on screen. It is in these final moments Letter to a Pig leaves the audience with pressing questions. Can one impart painful memories without the trauma that gives such memories form? Most urgently, can we choose not to act on the trauma we inherit? May it be possible not only in dreams.

My rating: 8.5/10

Pachyderme (2022, France)

Stéphanie Clement’s Pachyderme, like Letter to a Pig, is an unsettling short film that delves deeply into the mind of a troubled character. In this film, a young woman named Louise (Christa Théret) recalls her days visiting her grandparents in Provence (southeastern France) during her childhood. The sun-bathed rural landscape is picturesque, the grandparents’ house gorgeously stylized. Beyond this, some of Louise’s recollections feel incomplete, with no apparent structure or chronology. That might read as a criticism, but Clement and screenwriter Marc Rius fully intend for Pachyderme to seem fragmented. The film strongly implies – and some viewers will pick this up earlier or later than others – that the grandfather sexually abused Louise. In reaction, Louise, while recounting her memories for the audience, has repressed her memories and is showing signs, in her narration and in her visual recollections, of disassociation. I do not recall ever seeing disassociation, a common symptom of those who have been sexually abused, portrayed as cinematically as seen in Pachyderme. It is best exemplified, metaphorically, in the scene where our protagonist disappears into the wallpaper (this scene was originally the first bit of test footage made for the film).

But perhaps there is no better visualization of all Pachyderme has to say than the moment where Louise’s grandfather notices her index finger bleeding. He grasps her hand, and his hands dwarf hers. The simultaneity of Pachyderme’s picture book visuals and its horrifying implications show the viewer a woman who has not fully processed what has happened to her. It is not helped by the defensiveness of Louise’s grandmother following the grandfather’s death. Family denial, too, is playing a role in how Louise is choosing, consciously and subconsciously, to remember the past. In its eleven minutes, Pachyderme passes in a dreamlike haze, its illusory moments enabling the viewer to more closely connect to Louise’s (both the young adult narrating the film and the child on-screen) feelings. Unlike many nominees in Best Live Action Short Film down the years that addressed childhood trauma (it's a long-running trend for that category), Pachyderme prioritizes healing in as cinematic a way as possible.

My rating: 8.5/10

Ninety-Five Senses (2023)

If the names Jared and Jerusha Hess are familiar, that is because this husband-and-wife directorial team also made Napoleon Dynamite (2004) and Nacho Libre (2006). Some of those same comedic sensibilities carry over to Ninety-Five Senses, which qualified for the Academy Awards by winning Best Animated Short at the Florida Film Festival in 2023. The film features an old man named Coy (Tim Blake Nelson, a Coen Brothers regular whose voice fits the narrative here) reflecting back on life – a reverie that jumps, hops, and skips across time and place. At first, Ninety-Five Senses, with its wildly shifting style changes, does not seem to have much of a point or purpose. But the film gradually reveals itself: first through the subtle shading of what appear to be prison bars and, later, the mountain of discarded food cartons sitting on the table in front of Coy. We soon realize that Coy is in the final hours or minutes of being on death row, and he is describing to the audience his internal peace before he meets his fate.

Ninety-Five Senses is not here to make a point about capital punishment, incarceration, or the terrible actions that landed Coy in prison. Foremost, this is a film that attempts to capture the last gasp of humanity of an individual before their execution. In contrast with the drab grays whenever Coy is seen in his cell, his flashbacks are intense – a fount of color, with both crude and elegant character designs, hand-drawn and computer-generated (sometimes appearing side-by-side). Not every vignette – of which there are five, one for each human sense – showcases as much aesthetic excellence as the others, such as an early instance where Coy recounts his childhood. That vignette does not evoke the respective human sense it covers as well as it thinks it does; the art style of that vignette also recalls hand-drawn television animation, but flows too smoothly to exactly replicate it. In any case, this is a promising first foray into animated film for the Hesses.

My rating: 8/10

War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko (2022)

War Is Over! (you cannot make me write or say the full title ever again) has the basics of a promising animated short film. Yet its simplistic take on humanity and warfare and close association with John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Happy Xmas (War Is Over)” condemns the film as pure hogwash. On second thought, I retract “hogwash”. That is an insult to Letter to a Pig and to porcine animals. This is self-congratulatory treacle from director Dave Mullins and co-writer Sean Ono Lennon (the son of John and Yoko). In a supposedly alternate World War I reality, a pigeon delivers messages between an Allied and a Central Power soldier on opposite sides of No Man’s Land. The messages contain chess notation, as they, somehow, began a game of chess with each other without ever meeting. One day, at presumably Christmas, the two armies inexplicably charge toward each other and, amid gunfire and a mass mêlée that should leave many more soldiers dead than shown, our two soldiers encounter each other on the battlefield in combat shorn of its gruesomeness.

Despite the film using the Unreal Engine for its animation, I admire the film’s lighting effects, character movements, pigeon animation, sound effects, and art direction for the otherwise sanitized trenches. That may be all the positives I can offer.

The contrived scenario sinks even further when our two chess-playing soldiers discover a critical message from their pigeon messenger. Cue the second-most embarrassing needle drop among this year’s fifteen short film nominees (somehow, the closing moments of The After are worse than this). Unlike The After, War Is Over! feels as if constructed around its respective song. Is this now a glorified music video? In an instant, the film reduces the tragedy of the Great War to something akin to a soft drink commercial or that “Imagine” video (could we stop disrespecting John Lennon and his fellow Beatles?). The sanitized depiction of war and farfetched resolving actions undercut the film’s message, embarrassing itself as it lurches through its excruciating final minutes. That the first credit in the end credits read “music and message by John and Yoko” rather than director Dave Mullins leaves an even more sour taste. At the heart of War Is Over!, Mullins and Sean Ono Lennon want us to know that war is bad. I never could have guessed!

My rating: 4/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found in the “Ratings system” page on my blog. Half-points are always rounded down.

From previous years:  85th Academy Awards (2013) 87th (2015) 88th (2016) 89th (2017) 90th (2018) 91st (2019) 92nd (2020) 93rd (2021) 94th (2022) 95th (2023)

Two other films played in this package as honorable mentions: Wild Summon (2023, dir. Karni Arieli and Saul Freed; 6/10) and I'm Hip (2023, dir. John Musker; 6/10).

For more of my reviews tagged “My Movie Odyssey”, check out the tag of the same name on my blog.

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“WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” Gets Oscar Nomination

- Animated short is showing in select theaters in package with other nominees

A 53-year-old song inspired a short film that is now up for a 2024 Oscar.

The animated short is titled “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” and based loosely around 1971’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over!).” But this 11-minute film focuses not on the main title, but rather, its parenthetical subtitle.

“This is an anti-war song; it’s a protest song,” writer and director Dave Mullins said in a making-of featurette for the film. “It’s why we didn’t make a Christmas or holiday short - we made an anti-war short.”

There’s no dialogue as “WAR IS OVER!” tells the story of soldiers on opposing sides of a fictionalized battlefield playing a surreptitious game of chess via carrier pigeon as the fighting rages. The filmmakers had trouble finding a place for the title song - executive producer Sean Ono Lennon had no interest in making a traditional music video for such a well-known number - so it runs over the credits. Thomas Newman composed the score, which Mullins said serves “as the emotional voice of the characters.”

Lennon said he wanted to “do good by (his parents’) art” in working on the short.

“What I don’t want,” he later told The New York Times, “is for my mother and father’s work to disappear with the sands of time.”

Not yet streaming, “WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko” is showing in select North American movie houses in package screenings with other Oscar nominees in the Animated Short Film category.

3/2/24

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All Short Films Nominated at The 96th Academy Awards

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WAR IS OVER: INSPIRED BY THE MUSIC OF JOHN AND YOKO

Carrier pigeon

Sparks chess game between soldiers

From opposing sides

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That's one for the history books.....

...well, it would have been had Lily Gladstone won. But awards season is OVAH! The Oscars have been handed out. Here are 2024's Best Actor, Actress, Supporting Actress and Actor winners.

They have joined a great club.

THEY ARE THE CHAMPIONS!

Best Picture OPPENHEIMER

Best Directing Christopher Nolan

Best Actor in a Leading Role Cillian Murphy

The elusive Malachy Murphy on hand.

Best Actress in a Leading Role Emma Stone

Best Actor in a Supporting Role Robert Downey Jr.

Best Actress in a Supporting Role Da’Vine Joy Randolph

*Issa Rae peeping in.

Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) American Fiction (Cord Jefferson)

Best Writing (Original Screenplay) Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet and Arthur Harari)

Best Animated Feature The Boy and the Heron

Best Documentary Feature Film 20 Days in Mariupol

Best International Feature Film The Zone of Interest

Best Animated Short Film War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

Best Live-Action Short Film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Best Documentary Short Film The Last Repair Shop

Best Cinematography Oppenheimer (Hoyte van Hoytema)

Best Costume Design Poor Things (Holly Waddington)

Best Makeup and Hairstyling Poor Things (Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier and Josh Weston)

Best Original Song “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie (Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell)

Best Original Score Oppenheimer (Ludwig Göransson)

Best Production Design Poor Things

Best Film Editing Oppenheimer (Jennifer Lame)

Best Sound The Zone of Interest

Best Visual Effects Godzilla: Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi and Tatsuji Nojima)

GODZILLA heels is extreme commitment to the bit.

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WAR IS OVER! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko wins the Oscar for Best Animated Short film at the 2024 Oscars

 

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2024 Oscar Winners List (Updating Live)

Hello there, everyone, and welcome to this years updating Oscars list! I will be watching the awards this year, and updating this list with the winners as they are announced throughout the evening! If you'd like to come into my messages or askbox with thoughts, please feel free to do so! And enjoy!

Best Supporting Actress - Da’Vine Joy Randolph

Best Animated Short Film - War is Over! Inspired by the Music of John & Yoko

Best Animated Feature Film - The Boy and the Heron

Best Original Screenplay - Anatomy of a Fall

Best Adapted Screenplay - American Fiction

Best Makeup & Hairstyling - Poor Things

Best Production Design - Poor Things

Best Costume Design - Poor Things

Best International Feature Film - The Zone of Interest

Best Supporting Actor - Robert Downey Jr.

Best Visual Effects - Godzilla Minus One

Best Editing - Oppenheimer

Best Documentary Short Film - The Last Repair Shop

Best Documentary Feature Film - 20 Days in Mariupol

Best Cinematography - Oppenheimer

Best Live Action Short Film - The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Best Sound - The Zone of Interest

Best Original Score - Oppenheimer

Best Original Song - What Was I Made For? by Billie Eilish & Finneas O’Connell

Best Actor - Cillian Murphy

Best Director - Christopher Nolan

Best Actress - Emma Stone

Best Picture - Oppenheimer

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The Official a (not so) Silent Night Playlist

As this is a song-inspired event, we felt some accompanying music was in order! Enjoy this collection of songs nominated by your fellow Berena fans

Tracklist:

Auld Lang Syne Ingrid Michaelson // @daystarsearcher

Baby It’s Cold Outside Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan // @choreomanic

Back to December Taylor Swift // @lilolilyr

Both Sides Now Joni Mitchell // @sapphicdbc

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) Darlene Love // @doctorjameswatson

Christmas Lights Yellowcard // @lilolilyr

Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep) Diana Krall // @batnbreakfast

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Tchaikovsky // @bonnissance

December 1963 Franki Valli & The Four Seasons // @slightlyintimidating

December Will Be Magic Again Kate Bush // @veganpepsibaby

Happy XMas (War is Over) John Lennon & Yoko Ono // @slbrigzi19

Hazy Shade of Winter Simon & Garfunkel // @tebarambles

He's Stuck in the Chimney Again Ana Gasteyer // @seahorsepencils

I Wish it Could be Christmas Everyday Wizzard // @sapphicdbc

I'll Be Home For Christmas The Carpenters // @shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn

I’m Gonna Be Warm This Winter Connie Francis // @doctorjameswatson

Imperfect Christmas Malinda // @imagebender

In the Bleak Midwinter Julie Andrews // @lapalfruity

Just for Now Imogen Heap // @ktlsyrtis

Last Christmas Wham! // @choreomanic

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Dean Martin // @ktlsyrtis

Let the Bells Ring Kate Rusby // @doctorjameswatson

Men of Snow Ingrid Michaelson // @seahorsepencils

Once Upon a December David Newman // @starfleetwitch

One Toy Soldier Enya // @starfleetwitch

River Robert Downey Jr // @batnbreakfast

Santa Baby Eartha Kitt // @lapalfruity

Sleigh Ride The Ronettes // @ariverandasong

Snowfall Ingrid Michaelson // @tebarambles

Someday At Christmas Stevie Wonder // @danceswithcows01

Song for a Winter's Night Gordon Lightfoot // @pers-books

Stay Another Day East 17 // @akaanonymouth

Step Into Christmas Elton John // @veganpepsibaby

The Christmas Song The Raveonettes // @slightlyintimidating

The Heartache Can Wait Brandi Carlile // @seahorsepencils

The Longest Night of the Year Mary Chapin Carpenter // @shippingsincebeforeyouwereborn

The Power Of Love Frankie Goes To Hollywood // @slightlyintimidating

Underneath the Tree Kelly Clarkson // @ktlsyrtis

Valley Winter Song Fountains of Wayne // @akaanonymouth

What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve? Ella Fitzgerald // @batnbreakfast

Where Are You Christmas Faith Hill // @danceswithcows01

White Christmas Bing Crosby // @coldblizzardqueen

White Winter Hymnal Fleet Foxes // @akaanonymouth

Winter Song Ingrid Michaelson & Sara Bareilles // @tebarambles

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Thoughts on the 2024 Oscars

Just the other day I posted my Best Movies of 2023 list, so you pretty much know what I was rooting for! But here are some thoughts on tonight's awards, telecast and winners:

Best Director: Christopher Nolan - he deserved this award, but he easily should've won for Memento, The Dark Knight, Inception or Dunkirk too.

Best Actress: Emma Stone - really Academy? Lilly Gladstone should've won for Killers of the Flower Moon. That was a performance where she leaned into the silences and it was all in the eyes. While Emma Stone gave a powerhouse performance in Poor Things (an uneven movie IMHO) it was more of a showy "hey, look at me" performance. It's hard to compare both performances since they were so different but Gladstone should've won (and made history).

Best Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. - Congrats to the first SNL cast member (he was in the 1985-86 season) to win an Acting Oscar. So cool to see the supporting actor from Weird Science, Back to School and A Scanner Darkly win! He probably should've won for Tropic Thunder, but he is worthy of this award for this performance!

Best Supporting Actress: Da'Vine Joy Randolph - I named The Holdovers my Best Movie of 2023 so I'm thrilled they did the right thing and at least rewarded Randolph!

Best Documentary Feature Film: 20 Days in Mariupol - I named this my Best Documentary of 2023. Big Congrats to GBH, Frontline and everyone involved with this powerful doc!

Best Animated Short Film: War Is Over - In my recent guide to the Oscar Nominated Short Films I predicted this. But big congrats to co-writer / executive producer Sean Ono Lennon. The son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono oversaw the short animated film inspired by John and Yoko's "Happy Xmas (War is Over)". I met Mr. Sean Ono Lennon when he did an in-store performance at Other Music in NYC in 2010. In Feb. 2015, I named his band Ghost of the Saber Tooth Tiger's album Midnight Sun my #1 Album of 2014. Then both The GOASTT and their leader Sean Lennon retweeted it and thanked me! I've also gotten to cover his band The Claypool Lennon Delirium here as well.

Best Live Action Short Film: The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar - another short film I predicted would win. Wes Anderson has been nominated in a lot of other categories, but it's nice to see him finally win, even if he should've won for Bottle Rocket or Rushmore!

Very cool to see Slash doing a guitar solo during "I'm Just Ken". Yes the Barbie song lost to Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell's "What Was I Made For" also from that film, but how cool was it to see the GNR guitarist ripping it up at the Oscars?!

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Picture: Oppenheimer Director: Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer Actor: Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer Actress: Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon Supporting Actor: Robert Downey Jr. - Oppenheimer Supporting Actress: DaVine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers Adapted Screenplay: American Fiction Original Screenplay: Anatomy of a Fall Editing: Oppenheimer Cinematography: Oppenheimer Production Design: Poor Things Costume Design: Barbie Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Documentary Feature: 20 Days in Mariupol International Feature: The Zone of Interest Score: Oppenheimer Song: "What Was I Made For?" - Barbie Hair & Makeup: Maestro VFX: Godzilla Minus One Sound: Oppenheimer Animated Short: War is Over! Inspired by the music of John & Yoko Documentary Short: The ABCs of Book Banning Live Action Short: The After

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kinda became a tradition on accident for me to go see the oscar nominated animated short films at a movie theater (they play them all as a group, it's nice)

tl:dr--they were not good this year and Our Uniform should win but it's going to go to War is Over

last year the worst one by far was the winner, The Boy the badger the fox and the horse, or something like that. It had an incredible cast of A-listers and every line of dialogue was like the moral in a children's picture book. "what do you want to be when you grow up?" the badger asks the boy, he replies "kind" ugh excuse me while i puke so hard my eyes pop out of my head so I don't ever have to watch it again jfc.

this year's disgustingly saccharine and obviously very expensive equivalent is "War Is Over! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko" which about a pair of soldiers on the opposite side of a trench warfare who are playing chess via carrier pigeon. The two trenches charge each other, the two soldiers figure out that the other person is their friend and they see the pigeon get hit by a bomb and die. They read its final message and stop all their fellow soldiers from fighting. Not the worst and the juxtaposition of chess against an actual war is so cliche that no one does it, which makes it novel again. But then john fucking lennon starts wailing as it's revealed to the audience that the message said "war is over" and you only have a beat to take that in before the fucking children's choir joins in. Not to be a flanderized Liz Lemon but *eyeroll* oh brother

anyway they'll probably all go online in a couple weeks, rn they're hard to find w/ a 2-minute google search. The special commendation Wild Summon was good too, gross but effective

oh yeah also the issue with this year's noms is that they. uh. IDK how to phrase it but there's a type of vignette-y meandering plotless story that I'm ok with in short stories but i have a higher bar for visual mediums so like Totoro is nice for nostalgia reasons but multiple stories in a row animated by different teams where I Do Not Know What The Plot Is Or Why I Care About These Characters is. not my thing. So Pachyderme, Letter to a Pig, and 95 Senses were just an absolute drag to watch in sequence. Our Uniform was also vignettes but at least I knew for a fact waht the fuck was happening at any given moment. Kinda wish we just got the four losers from last year again this year so they could get the recognition they deserve

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IMAGINING OCEAN CHILD: OVERDUE HOMAGE TO AN ICONIC EXILED VISIONARY – tribute by David D. Fowler / playlists by Aeon 999 – updated & expanded Feb 26, 2023

This post is MFF's tribute to YOKO ONO's music, multimedia works, filmmaking, performance art – and of course, her relentless peace activism. We present links to the best available editions of most of her discography, and lots of items documenting her extraordinary life. Her many collaborations with JOHN LENNON are highlighted, as well as those with musicians such as LADY GAGA, SONIC YOUTH, FRANK ZAPPA, IGGY POP, FLAMING LIPS, SEAN LENNON, and various remix artists.

We also invite you visit our previous tribute to Yoko and John, – which has been totally overhauled and expanded, in honor of Yoko's 90th birthday. In 1970, the Ono Lennons separately issued their first solo albums. What if they had instead merged all that material into one release, alternating their songs in a similar way to their 1980 swan song, DOUBLE FANTASY? We offer our version of the resulting double album – along with lots of other entertaining items.

To go to that post, click the first link at the bottom of the page. You'll also have access to our other posts about John Lennon and the Beatles. Finally: all blessings of birth upon Ocean Child. We are happy to honor this extraordinary woman's life – as she marks nine decades of gracing this beleauguered earthly sphere with her immense talent, fearless integrity, and inspiring strength.

HISTORY OF A LEGEND Yoko Ono: The Most Famous Unknown Artist https://www.thecollector.com/yoko-ono/ Yoko Ono's Life in Photos https://people.com/music/yoko-ono-life-in-photos/ Yoko Ono Lennon: Then & Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdG9aObHIvU Yoko Ono: The Untold Truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3LVGDEls3g The Case For Yoko Ono https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoU0E_ab36Q The Real Yoko Ono https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f5SbaMMI7U&list=PL66C0D87412005F39 John & Yoko On Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmvmnYEy9NY Top 20 Yoko Ono Quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma-wAZ9LYss Yoko Ono's Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono Yoko Ono Exhibit At MoMA https://www.moma.org/artists/4410 Fluxus: Happening Artists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UQFU-Nswro A Leading Woman In Fluxus Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTjMU7fW3H8 Fluxus Archive http://georgemaciunas.com/exhibitions/fluxus-foundation-archive-yoko-ono/ Fluxus Plays Ono's 'Lighting Piece' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxhrVKPtgu4 Concept Art On Show In London 1966 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ahjdOaJ4JE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Music Of The Mind 1967 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxNJbRtqTPs When John Met Yoko 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT3nTx1exHE Amsterdam Honeymoon 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1p1IC_rXIA Bed Peace 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGHklZPuUjs War Is Over 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhgq_XRKynY Sweet Toronto 1969 https://www.johnlennon.com/music/albums/live-peace-in-toronto/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb_PRqyqn_A Yoko Ono & Her Sixteen-Track Voice 1971 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/yoko-ono-and-her-sixteen-track-voice-237782/ When John & Yoko Met Frank 1971 https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/john-lennon-yoko-ono-frank-zappa-jam-session-1971/ Dick Cavett Show 1971 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKIitr-5gA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxoxMuca-2s Mike Douglas Show 1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag02O1HIAwU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMOgIGWfDZ4 SNL: Mr & Mrs Lennon At Home 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRa8oXksoA John Lennon's Final Interviews 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qofTunet3g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VegLeptUQ4M ----------------------------------------------------------------------- John Lennon Murder News Reports 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3pMYI4Q2uM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L21zEKnw5G0 Lennon's Last Day & Death in NY City 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ68xik2pMo Shocking Facts About Lennon's Death 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sArxAjlBvRw Yoko: An Intimate Conversation 1981 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/yoko-ono-cover-story-john-lennon-death-1234681088/ Walking On Thin Ice 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft7-xEiwvJw 20/20: Yoko Pays Tribute To John 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2olNCHH1-XE John & Yoko: A Love Story 1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q92u8seVWs Ubi Fluxus 1990 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M9-pwgHB3E Inside Edition 1998 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBWx9KKmeho A Night For John Lennon's Words & Music 2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGVASx7Rz9g Yoko's Charm Offensive 2003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uym1cYvLV8g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZbwM0XBG0M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn3Bs6P-G0o ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The US Vs John Lennon 2006 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI6vnXAdDZM Imagine Peace Tower 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLTp11aWn-o Yes I'm A Witch 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI7bSY6LwJc Yoko In Liverpool 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfi4sxYfFfw Yoko Ono: Inspired By Iceland 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABoAMKOPfBc MBL Interview 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bghYe3edOEQ Yoko's Favorite Things In Reykjavík 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMWjaT8s2Tw My Hometown 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isPVjHxxW5s Yoko Ono Speaking Freely 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5CQ5cgxKTE Imagine Peace 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCSBUXUXNg8 Lennonono Grant For Peace 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAqQ_9wKYHk Meltdown 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFqU1R48nUc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6-_fv_t4eQ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Kulturjournal 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKO3paQHKZc Jonathan Ross Show 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXgVugii5LA Ono Hits Back Against Ageists: 'Don't Stop Me!' 2015 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/yoko_ono_hits_back_against_ageist_critics_dont_stop_me.html Yoko Ono Gets Long Overdue Recognition 2015 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/yoko-ono-w-magazine_n_7077946 Reconsidering Avant-Rock Icon Yoko Ono 2016 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/reconsidering-yoko-ono-three-reissues-honor-legacy-of-avant-rock-icon-111164/ TimesTalks Interview 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WIosw1gv50 Ono’s Music Goes Back To The Future – Again 2016 https://hyperallergic.com/280337/with-a-new-remixes-album-yoko-onos-music-goes-back-to-the-future-again/ Just A Story 2016 https://madelinex.com/2016/12/08/yoko-songs-walking-on-thin-ice/ Walking On Thin Ice 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGBz24KqtA Ono Added To 'Imagine' Writing Credits 2017 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40286790 https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/the_story_behind_imagine_by_john_lennon-83853 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Six Vocalists On The Power Of Yoko Ono 2017 https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/six-vocalists-on-the-power-and-influence-of-yoko-ono Re–Listen Without Prejudice To Yoko’s Debut 2018 https://www.popmatters.com/yoko-ono-plastic-ono-band-2530856589.html Life Lessons From Yoko Ono’s Twitter Feed 2018 https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/39851/1/life-lessons-from-yoko-onos-twitter-feed Imagine Peace Tower 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msqonZoUDiw Yoko Ono’s Art of Defiance 2022 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/20/yoko-onos-art-of-defiance Imagine Global Peace 2022 https://www.imaginepeace.com/ https://www.cnn.com/style/article/yoko-ono-imagine-peace-broadcast/index.html Chasing Ghosts 2023 https://donaldbrackett.substack.com/p/chasing-ghosts Yoko At 90: Still Misunderstood After All These Years https://www.nextavenue.org/yoko-ono-at-90-still-misunderstood-after-all-these-years/ Sean Creates Virtual ‘Wish Tree’ For Yoko’s Birthday 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/17/sean-ono-lennon-creates-virtual-wish-tree-for-yoko-ono-90th-birthday Scribble Portrait Of Two Virgins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXBHWKRSJEA Don't Let Me Down: John & Yoko Tribute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGDSAVr13Uw

THE ARTS OF AN ICON Yoko Ono's Performance Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGCKom0bKIk John & Yoko’s Best & Strangest Collaborations https://musicfeeds.com.au/features/john-lennon-yoko-onos-best-strangest-collaborations/ Yoko Ono’s 5 Most Iconic Works https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-yoko-onos-5-iconic-works John Cage & Yoko Ono: Osaka 1962 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC_bg0_Tp4g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOuZnKVoMzw Cut Piece 1964 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbQBD06N0Hs Satan's Bed 1965 https://archive.org/details/satans.-bed.-1965.-dvdrip Bottoms 1966-67 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1280941726041621 https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/yoko-ono-bottoms-short-film/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/yokoonoofficial/3304679559/ https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2017/screening-yoko-onos-bottoms/ https://madelinex.blogspot.com/2016/07/getting-to-bottom-of-yoko-onos-film-no.html https://www.moma.org/calendar/galleries/5511 https://www.gardinermuseum.on.ca/blog-exploring-yoko-onos-film-no-4/ https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/15/380 https://vimeo.com/48883603 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- AOS 1968 https://www.beatlesbible.com/1968/02/29/live-yoko-ono-and-ornette-coleman-royal-albert-hall-london/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0d9VDIfNuY Two Virgins 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUdG5EfHrPU https://www.johnlennon.com/music/albums/unfinished-music-no-1-two-virgins/ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/john-lennon-yoko-ono-two-virgins-album-cover-naked-controversy-censorship-a8649476.html https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/john-lennon-two-virgins-cover-court-case-1319452/ David Frost Hammers In A Nail 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGyKlaGwya8 John & Yoko Have A Loud Conversation 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZLTQ0Iwz3A Revolution: Take 18 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3glcY2LQIk What's The New Mary Jane 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI2LDXfHPL4 Revolution #9 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF7SgFtSbaI Life With The Lions 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgIvWeOTnGk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Wedding Album 1969 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GA0bSyllxo Plastic Ono Band 1970 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D0nMzHjMR8&list=PL6ogdCG3tAWis8381V3_hT6zlRmOVKJ_u https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK36mKhnvyQ Fly 1971 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpqu8kzp56I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlGnwOab_aE Plastic Onos Of Invention 1971 https://vimeo.com/799935514 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl5nL_tKXLA Some Time In New York City 1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5RuCEhHcG4&list=PL2L2BDLggO-C-nBI9u5CzGcvgVmEb6P3- Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory 1972 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe24sT7_NOQ Approximately Infinite Universe 1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZclA4vKtt4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-l8peTtSxY&list=OLAK5uy_n-lSeTHdHd7gyEmlAFe6WHeKftwUgkHGA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Feeling The Space 1973 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IXHUeQQZ0Q One Step Festival, Japan 1974 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOFogstDqb0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPz0v2dvqYE Shaved Fish 1975 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob2sGJk97DQ Double Fantasy 1980 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWG9KAgD6UA&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmS-yWgD9TJFSAbb1wwiqIEb This Is Not Here: Rarities 1969-80 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfwc1DgiFdc Season Of Glass 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDTp2XjoJHA It's Alright (I See Rainbows) 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnjkdw-aREQ Heart Play: Unfinished Dialogue 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOPGiI7YX5E Milk & Honey 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJgn68PA8X0&list=PLI6kLIhBBwmQjI_-Ggya-kUuCFRIZVhTl Every Man Has A Woman 1984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-yqvCeW01o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ZtAJE-kFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=befr6EIGVGk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhRhsDOOOLc ----------------------------------------------------------------------- StarPeace 1985 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnbwTPafGBo New York Rock 1994 https://genius.com/albums/Yoko-ono/New-york-rock Rising 1995 https://open.spotify.com/album/3Eul0rbOz62sBPAOtFhlqr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqiSVpYc4p0 A Story 1997 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYTLSCxfgqI Blueprint For A Sunrise 2001 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCSoPJ_FGyc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfDHmIPg9CM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQiz5MulA2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g45PgwycVuU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znH_xUc8EPM Yes, I'm A Witch 2007 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kmcOFpQ-YD9vcEYuLJeBzyq_6pJEQKoTg Open Your Box 2007 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kPWBoUgHfNgR3IKnh8cjqS4KHcEPHmTmY Between My Head & The Sky  2009 https://open.spotify.com/album/4BpAwcuCB5GAykJqbHjWjx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Voice Piece For Soprano & Wish Tree 2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GMHl7bmlzw Plastic Ono Flaming Lips 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi55FjvnVi8 The Road Of Hope 2011 https://www.imaginepeace.com/archives/13631 https://beatleshelp.net/collabo/yokoroad.html YokoKimThurston 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u-KTl8ke9Q&list=PL68pqhiMhQL7wCPYKEZDqb91fTGez6zi6 Take Me To The Land Of Hell 2013 https://open.spotify.com/album/5tVy5MAp2SYdxFbWZeLSX9 Cut Pieces 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8GzrtesFsQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMAIrFWk1fs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODG1Ha3YY0Q https://iconfetch.com/reviews/various-artists-cut-pieces-a-tribute-to-yoko-ono-review Yes, I'm a Witch Too 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/feb/18/yoko-ono-yes-im-a-witch-too-review https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/yes-im-a-witch-too-190238/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Warzone 2018 https://open.spotify.com/album/5EvPFlJpDNTJ6qFMiEJnwH SuONO 2019 https://open.spotify.com/album/2cbA9uLwDzvPeeG1QdJZ1R Yoko Ono Goes Metal! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wP3dOUl3Xg Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p25T01GWns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fgaQAKgOFQ&list=PLS4jAfE9d3aIGR1SPLm0GEOQay6UGuoA9 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/18/various-artists-ocean-child-songs-of-yoko-ono-review-canvasback-music-atlantic-records https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ocean-child-songs-of-yoko-ono-album-review/ https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/various-artists-ocean-child-songs-of-yoko-ono/ https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwmusic/article/Ocean-Child-Songs-of-Yoko-Ono-Tribute-Compilation-Released-Today-20220218 Don't Worry Yoko https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6WU0rp4S2gsgjagf2hMjwB Passport Office: Yoko Ono Tribute 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5mE_oj7B7A Yoko's Smiles Film Project https://smilesfilm.com/ OceanChild Calls Me https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5iHenyL2W0nf58ze2jT8uL

PLASTIC ONO HIT PARADE Cut Piece Fragment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWczMBtPa04 I Love You Earth 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcjtJtheV0w Give Peace A Chance 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO2bHSTQvdo Sakura https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaizNVbic_k Oh Yoko 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59qSQRoDj4w We're All Water 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm2BiPIIe78 Imagine 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugrAo8wEPiI Who Has Seen The Wind / I Want You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-PlkbZmFL0 Franklin Summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3qmWcOiBEw Every Man / Every Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aZKfBKIJzc Silver Horse 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVdoUJF60DE Talking To The Universe 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkn4CgJtk-Q ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Midsummer New York 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_OGNfbfkY Waiting For The D Train 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx0jP0srv1Q Walking On Thin Ice 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1DHm7p1sm4 Death Of Samantha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_2zJolQqL0 Woman Is The Nigger Of The World 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tA1Rncx4D4 She Hits Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGQT0-p8OKU Mrs. Lennon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wZGwXFP7RY Kurushi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj3XWYQoQio Ask The Dragon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axZFlBxstQw Toy Boat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWCQRQ-ceRc Mind Train https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loWNAErqpdY Age 39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdLMgSEpV3w I'm Moving On https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me-BweAhOUs ----------------------------------------------------------------------- No, No, No https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk60mWX4FME Angel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKPtmy5PIRY New York Woman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDYU6lPtNwM I’m Not Getting Enough https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuQbhK_BeRk Bad Dancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ4loH18hQ8 Give Me Something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDAWM46XBX8 Move On Fast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rte8k_LuXus Loneliness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVFjwcEdEfw Hold Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP_ELx_8Mo Tomorrow May Never Come https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxYBb-Hn_og Forgive Me, My Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h1icC_JU7g ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't Worry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioNtn3tKP_A Open Your Box: Club Mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK6KA1Q6IyE Ono Wouldnit (I'm a Star) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUd7J-tQ6hU Yes, I'm A Witch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kve_s_9TXVw Between My Head & The Sky   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmDKKDwaXyQ I Love You Earth 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8y9KviIqK4 Walking On Thin Ice 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u7jf-TYoZk The Sun Is Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpXcIo3e9-Y It's Gonna Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76LjyxX-GHI Hell In Paradise 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_YKPQ9Sq4 Turned The Corner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPQ0v67TxhY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvN2iGm9tNs Born In A Prison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97LRxXJd1f4 Now Or Never https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svxKQ4l8SC4 Dogtown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vw6aWu4M-qc Woman Is The Nigger Of The World 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOu7QtVLfJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2lbYBLDbYU Why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_cwuRmjhsY Warzone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAsV7Udjl4A Hell In Paradise 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSlEb19xz-Y Don't Worry Kyoko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxCnKGl1hNU Hiroshima Sky Is Always Blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsdWHJbMWE ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A Thing Called Life https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/yoko-ono-thing-called-life Sky Piece For Jesus Christ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYXSXne1iOA Where Do We Go From Here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7_2sVdyJUw Imagine 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdX9XmLJkns Joseijoi Banzai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JGIS_ht0uU Teddy Bear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRy1OoyU68 I Love All of Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtJKVJimb3U It Happened / Waiting For The D Train 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u3u16bFEYU Midsummer New York 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7JkwKtI6P4 Talking To The Universe 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caCLILHefio Walking On Thin Ice 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCCof18PBJE Wake Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_nCLrA1wg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Rising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx_5ySapx68 Give Peace A Chance 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ootBttc3hps Children Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EE3c5SVImk Give Ice A Chance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXGQ5LEP2UY Woman Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AShdkFArvOA Silver Horse 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9MpXTKdCo0 Every Man Has A Woman Who Loves Him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqnIwAPKrew Nobody Sees Me Like You Do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18cAtRIIB2c I Love You Earth 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1_1DHLwHZo ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Listen, The Snow Is Falling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZvP5fjemw Imagine 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZnzxovFqw Who Has Seen The Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvLgl-Y23u4 I'm Alive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II_kkhsz4Iw We're All Water 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfZvHuh7wKM Goodbye Sadness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQ1DsJV84k It's Alright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5-7AF6Iyy8 I'm Going Away Smiling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h53LXRsChvc Oh Yoko 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuBMA8quzkg Happy Xmas (War Is Over) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_kj60DIq2M John & Yoko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzciqnHlnL4

PLASTIC LENNONO BAND’S DOUBLE FANTASY REDUX https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/637199656638693376/plastic-ono-bands-double-fantasy-playlists OBSCURE BRIT POP BAND CONQUERS AMERICA https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/190742973420/on-this-day-in-1964-some-obscure-brit-pop-band IMAGINE THERE’S NO LENNON https://musemash.tumblr.com/post/189549754295/imagine-theres-no-lennon

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Narciso, chi è l’italiano che ha vinto l’Oscar per il corto di Sean Lennon: “Hollywood mi ha dato la statuetta, ma l'Italia mi ha formato”

L’Italia non ha vinto l’Oscar stanotte. Ma un italiano, sì. Massimiliano Narciso, nato a Milano nel 1975, è il character designer di War is over – inspired by the music of John & Yoko, che si è portato a casa la statuetta per il miglior cortometraggio di animazione. Narciso è rimasto in platea quando sono saliti a ritirare il premio i suoi compagni in questa piccola grande impresa di 11 minuti:…

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Oscars 2024 : photos et palmarès

Palmarès :

Meilleur film : Oppenheimer de Christopher Nolan

Meilleur réalisateur : Christopher Nolan pour Oppenheimer

Meilleur acteur : Cillian Murphy pour Oppenheimer

Meilleure actrice : Emma Stone pour Pauvres Créatures

Meilleur acteur dans un second rôle : Robert Downey Jr. pour Oppenheimer

Meilleure actrice dans un second rôle : Da’Vine Joy Randolph pour Winter Break

Meilleur scénario original : Anatomie d’une chute de Justine Triet et Arthur Harari

Meilleur scénario adapté : American Fiction de Cord Jefferson, adapté du roman Effacement (Erasure) de Percival Everett

Meilleurs décors et direction artistique : James Price, Shona Heath et Zsuzsa Mihalek pour Pauvres Créatures

Meilleurs costumes : Holly Waddington pour Pauvres Créatures

Meilleurs maquillages et coiffures : Nadia Stacey, Mark Coulier et Josh Weston pour Pauvres Créatures

Meilleure photographie : Hoyte van Hoytema pour Oppenheimer

Meilleur montage : Jennifer Lame pour Oppenheimer

Meilleur son : Johnnie Burn et Tarn Willers pour la Zone d’intér��t (The Zone of Interest) de Jonathan Glazer

Meilleurs effets visuels : Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi et Tatsuji Nojima pour Godzilla Minus One

Meilleure chanson originale : What Was I Made For ? de Billie Eilish et Finneas O’Connell pour le film Barbie

Meilleure musique de film : Ludwig Göransson pour Oppenheimer

Meilleur film international : la Zone d’intérêt (The Zone of Interest) de Jonathan Glazer (Royaume-Uni)

Meilleur film d’animation : le Garçon et le Héron (The Boy and the Heron) d’Hayao Miyazaki

Meilleur film documentaire : 20 Days in Mariupol de Mstyslav Tchernov

Meilleur court métrage (prises de vues réelles) : la Merveilleuse Histoire de Henry Sugar («The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar») de Wes Anderson

Meilleur court métrage (documentaire) : The Last Repair Shop de Ben Proudfoot et Kris Bowers

Meilleur court métrage (animation) : War Is Over ! Inspired by the Music of John and Yoko de Dave Mullins et Brad Booker

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Photos : Just Jared ©