The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

From my last post and, well, all the other Valentine’s day posts you have probably figured that I am a bit of a cynic when it come to love. But I could never be cynical about a love of books. That is why I couldn’t help but love the following video.

This academy award nominated short film definitely deserves it. It is simple, beautiful, and touching. it also make me want to read.

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore from Moonbot Studios on Vimeo.

I absolutely love it.

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underbelly of sunshine » I sorta still care

[…] I stopped truly caring about the Oscars years ago. Yeah I was still (sort of) interested in who won what but I usually find out the next morning instead of watching the extremely long ceremony. The academy rarely nominates the movies that I care about or the ones they do (especially the winners) rarely seem deserving. This year I had even less interest in the show. I saw none of the best picture nominees (9? why 9?) and only a few of the nominated films in the other categories. Except for Bridesmaids the films that I saw that I wanted to win, did (Bret McKenzie totally deserved to win for his song in The Muppets and for short animation I adored The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore). […]

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