{"id":17927,"date":"2025-09-21T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=17927"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:54:29","slug":"puma-shorts-watched-sept-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/17927","title":{"rendered":"Puma shorts watched Sept 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could See a Puma<\/em> (2011, Eduardo Williams)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Youths live in the ruins, someone falls and gets hurt. Camera likes to rove around, not getting too close to the action. It’s nice to see that the Human Surge<\/a><\/em> guy’s stylistic weirdness was already in place at this point. A few kids go looking for a medicinal herb, do not see a puma but they do slip into another dimension.<\/p>\n

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\nSchody\/Stairs<\/em> (1969, Stefan Schabenbeck)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Clay guy comes across a sea of stairs, wanders through, up and up, until he reaches the summit of a long staircase then lies down and becomes another step in the stairs. Polish, of course. Whatever point they’re making about the futility of life, they sure spent a lot of time on stair fabrication and walking animation to make it.<\/p>\n

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\nThe Heart of the World<\/em> (2000, Guy Maddin)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This should probably play monthly in every movie theater.<\/p>\n

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\nCreature Comforts<\/em> (1989, Nick Park)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Always assumed I’d seen this before but maybe not. Interviews with zoo patrons restaged as interviews with the clay-mated animals, started a whole trend of these things.<\/p>\n

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\nInspirace<\/em> (1949, Karel Zeman)<\/strong><\/p>\n

What madman would make a stop-motion film out of glass? Artist in need of inspirado spaces out on a rainy window, dreams a glass fantasy ice skater and the dandelion clown in her pursuit.<\/p>\n

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\nMan Without a Shadow<\/em> (2004, Georges Schwizgebel)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Swirling dizzy blobby animation. The man has a shadow from the start, so I wasn’t surprised when he sells it to a devil in exchange for the promise of riches and women. But I was surprised when, after women want nothing to do with a shadowless man, he gets a pair of red boots that enable him to leap across the earth, checks out different gatherings, and settles on a shadow theater where he can manipulate the puppets shadowlessly without using rods or strings.<\/p>\n

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\nPassing Time<\/em> (2023, Terence Davies)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Terence reads a poem with that voice of his – rougher than it was in Of Time and the City<\/a><\/em> – the music piece swelling in the background – over a nice shot of some trees.<\/p>\n

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\nBut Why?<\/em> (2021, Terence Davies)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never wrote up this Benediction<\/a><\/em>-era Davies poem, in which two of his stars from that movie swap places\/timelines, but I’ve watched it many times and like to quote it when I ascend the stairs, I descend the stairs… but why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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