{"id":18382,"date":"2026-02-13T21:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18382"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T23:13:57","slug":"pear-and-vogel-20-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18382","title":{"rendered":"Pear and Vogel 20 shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Pear<\/em> (2024 Joel Potrykus)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two-hander about trauma, and Joel&#8217;s <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/17680\">second<\/a> movie of the year about suicide.  Woman re-grows her dead husband in the back yard, but he&#8217;s not the same.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/pear.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>De D\u00fcva: The Dove<\/em> (1968, Coe &#038; Lover)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A silly-assed Ingmar Bergman parody in fake-Swedish (challenging Death to a game of badminton) has no business being this good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Cuckoo Waltz<\/em> (1955, Emile van Moerkerken)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Processions of people (or zoo animals), some serious and some less so, speed-manipulated so they dance back and forth in slow-fast-motion.  Cute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Fashion<\/em> (1960, Yoji Kuri)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No real build to this, just a five-minute boogie of film-scratch animation playing off some cut-out figures with an all-drums soundtrack for five minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/kuri1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Love<\/em> (1964, Yoji Kuri)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Absurd love story &#8211; tall woman chases short man with a butterfly net until she captures him and makes him her pet.  Much dialogue, but only the word &#8220;hi.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/kuri2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>The Window<\/em> (1965, Yoji Kuri)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Windows<\/em>, more like it &#8211; apartment building with windows lighting up to follow the hijinks within.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/kuri3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pear (2024 Joel Potrykus) Two-hander about trauma, and Joel&#8217;s second movie of the year about suicide. Woman re-grows her dead husband in the back yard, but he&#8217;s not the same. &#8211; De D\u00fcva: The Dove (1968, Coe &#038; Lover) A silly-assed Ingmar Bergman parody in fake-Swedish (challenging Death to a game of badminton) has no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2287,21,2852,3080],"class_list":["post-18382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-joel-potrykus","tag-shorts","tag-vogel-subversives","tag-yoji-kuri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382","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=18382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18417,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18382\/revisions\/18417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}