{"id":607,"date":"2008-08-11T15:29:22","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=607"},"modified":"2008-08-11T15:29:22","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T19:29:22","slug":"shorts-watched-july-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/607","title":{"rendered":"Shorts watched July 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Les Miracles de la cene<\/em> (1988, Pascal Aubier)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jesus as cheap magician.  The water-into-wine and one-loaf-into-many tricks impress the Last Supper crowd, but yanking out the tablecloth doesn&#8217;t work as well.  Very short, wordless comedy &#8211; lovely.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/july08shorts01.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Blood of the Beast<\/em> (1949, Georges Franju)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wowie, I&#8217;d put off watching this short doc because I figured it would be intense and horrifying.  Then I had some time to kill at our hotel in Virginia, and there it was on my laptop, so I put it on&#8230; a slaughterhouse documentary, hours before going to a fancy restaurant with steak and veal dishes, stupid.  So I had to order the fish.  Movie has the same fascinating combination of beauty and horror, poetry and death which permeated <em>Night and Fog<\/em>.  A classic, but not one to watch very often.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/bloodofthebeast1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/image08\/bloodofthebeast2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Miracles de la cene (1988, Pascal Aubier) Jesus as cheap magician. The water-into-wine and one-loaf-into-many tricks impress the Last Supper crowd, but yanking out the tablecloth doesn&#8217;t work as well. Very short, wordless comedy &#8211; lovely. Blood of the Beast (1949, Georges Franju) Wowie, I&#8217;d put off watching this short doc because I figured [&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":[477,274,21],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-animal-slaughter","tag-jesus","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}