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It's been a whirlwind awards season for Room star Brie Larson, who is very likely to end up taking home the Best Actress Oscar at Sunday's Academy Awards. But the first thing she wants to do when it is all over has nothing to do with movies. "I really want to read Finnegans Wake," Larson, 26, told reporters at the 2016 Independent Spirit Awards - where she nabbed another best actress award - of her non-work plans. "It's really hard. I'm traveling so much, I have to like put it aside because I'm not - something like that, I really like to feel the pages.

This cool poetic short is the result of a one-week challenge proposed by director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom), helped by Ronen V and using the voice talent of his Brick star Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Titled Page 439, it is in fact a reading of the 439th page of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, accompanied by a photo montage.

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There is no need to adjust your monitor, wonder if you swallowed too many of Grandpa's happy pills, or even be afraid that you have somehow entered into a Finnegan's Wake-like world where up is down, left is right, and James Joyce is actually relevant. That's right - Kyle Newman's ...