I watched an awful lot of shorts this year, culminating in Shorts Month, during which I watched way too many. Loved the hell out of all these.<\/p>\n
1. Agn\u00e8s Varda: Du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la c\u00f4te<\/a><\/em>, L’ Op\u00e9ra mouffe<\/a><\/em> and Ulysse<\/a><\/em><\/strong> 2. Dave Fleischer: Koko’s Earth Control<\/a><\/em>, Snow White<\/a><\/em> and Betty Boop’s Halloween Party<\/a><\/em><\/strong> 3. Buster Keaton: The Playhouse<\/a><\/em>, One Week<\/a><\/em>, The High Sign<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n 4. The Telltale Heart<\/em> (1928 Charles Klein<\/a> and 1953 Ted Parmelee<\/a>)<\/strong> 5. Osamu Tezuka: Broken Down Film<\/a><\/em> and Jumping<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Runners-up: Vivian<\/a><\/em>, The Perfect Human<\/a><\/em>, Passionless Moments<\/a><\/em>, Organism<\/a><\/em> and The Mystery of the Leaping Fish<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I watched an awful lot of shorts this year, culminating in Shorts Month, during which I watched way too many. Loved the hell out of all these. 1. Agn\u00e8s Varda: Du c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la c\u00f4te, L’ Op\u00e9ra mouffe and Ulysse Between her features, her shorts and her Beaches, Agn\u00e8s basically won my whole year. 2. […]<\/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":[152],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","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=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBetween her features, her shorts and her Beaches<\/em>, Agn\u00e8s basically won my whole year.<\/p>\n
\nMuch as I love the Looney Tunes, there must’ve been audience members in the 30’s sighing, thinking of these Fleischer cartoons and saying “they don’t make ’em like that anymore.”<\/p>\n
\nIt’s always fun to see different adaptations of the same work, but super-rare for them both to be this brilliant.<\/p>\n
\n6. L’Apparition<\/a><\/em> (1986, Pascal Aubier)<\/strong>
\n7. Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine<\/a><\/em> (2005, Peter Tscherkassky)<\/strong>
\n8. Nostalgia<\/a><\/em> (1971, Hollis Frampton)<\/strong>
\n9. The Man Who Planted Trees<\/a><\/em> (1987, Frederic Back)<\/strong>
\n10. A Matter of Loaf and Death<\/a><\/em> (2008, Nick Park)<\/strong>
\n11. The Strip Mall Trilogy<\/a><\/em> (2001, Roger Beebe)<\/strong>
\n12. Chess Fever<\/a><\/em> (1925, Vsevolod & Shpikovsky)<\/strong>
\n13. Motion Painting No. 1<\/a><\/em> (1947, Oskar Fischinger)<\/strong>
\n14. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery<\/a><\/em> (1946, Robert Clampett)<\/strong>
\n15. PES: Western Spaghetti<\/a><\/em> and Roof Sex<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n