The Times Cinema this week hosts screenings of some of the hardest Oscar-nominated works to see in theaters: the shorts. This program compiles the five animated and five live-action shorts nominated for 2010, including The Lady and the Reaper, a Spanish cartoon about a doctor and nurse who fight off the grim reaper to save an old lady and A Matter of Loaf and Death, a British animated short about murder in the bakery business. Live-action highlights include The Door, about the human toll of the Chernobyl accident, and The New Tenants, a Danish short about a couple that accidentally gives a bag of heroin to an elderly neighbor, mistaking it for flour.
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