{"id":1186,"date":"2008-11-18T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T03:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2012-06-22T04:11:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T08:11:12","slug":"don-hertzfeldt-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1186","title":{"rendered":"Don Hertzfeldt shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I saw a filmmaker personally touring his film trilogy around the country it was Crispin Glover, whose new one is called <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/7333\">It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.<\/a><\/em>  Hertzfeldt&#8217;s first two are called <em>Everything Will Be OK<\/em> and <em>I Am So Proud Of You<\/em>.  Similarities end there, though.<\/p>\n<p>Kicked it off with <strong><em>The Meaning of Life<\/em><\/strong>, which I hadn&#8217;t seen in a while but didn&#8217;t remember liking.  Removed from the post-<em>Rejected<\/em> anticipation and taken in context of his recent introspective films, it&#8217;s not bad at all, just a bit one-note.  We all die, and we are only one step in the evolutionary chain, not necessarily the best and final form of life.  Wotever, Mr. Hertzfeldt.  Looks super-nice on 35mm.  I said mean things <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/253\">last time I saw it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He played <strong><em>Rejected<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Billy&#8217;s Balloon<\/em><\/strong>, both of which I have memorized and I think most of the crowd has too.  Broke up the next two movies with <strong><em>Intermission in the 3rd Dimension<\/em><\/strong>, a fluffy piece of ridiculousness which I think both Don and the crowd wish he&#8217;d do more of.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Everything Will Be OK<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>I Am So Proud Of You<\/em><\/strong> are the first two parts of a planned trilogy about Bill.  The first section focuses on Bill&#8217;s unnamed illness, his inability to function in everyday life.  The second flashes back and forth through time exploring Bill&#8217;s childhood, present, old age, and ancestors and all the awful ways they all died.  They&#8217;re good movies, and I love the look of the peephole split-screens.  I mostly feel they&#8217;re depressing midlife-crisis movies, but there&#8217;s just (barely) enough warmth and love in there to keep it from falling apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last time I saw a filmmaker personally touring his film trilogy around the country it was Crispin Glover, whose new one is called It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. Hertzfeldt&#8217;s first two are called Everything Will Be OK and I Am So Proud Of You. Similarities end there, though. Kicked it off with The Meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,287,679,21],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-animation","tag-director-in-attendance","tag-don-hertzfeldt","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7812,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/7812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}