Aftersun used “Under Pressure” in an ecstatic, cathartic burst to tell us we were witnessing “the last dance” of a father and his daughter. In A Serious Man, the trite Jefferson Airplane hit “Somebody ...

You don’t make a movie alone. The filmmakers behind this year’s Oscar-qualifying short films can attest to that. The directors of “Butterfly,” “The Hemingway” and “Mother Tongue,” each eligible in ...