{"id":7120,"date":"2011-12-31T21:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T02:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7120"},"modified":"2011-12-31T01:12:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T06:12:47","slug":"favorite-shorts-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7120","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Shorts in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t watch a ton of shorts, not like I did a couple years ago.<br \/>\nBut these were all excellent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6289\">The Old Lady and the Pigeons<\/a><\/em> (1998, Sylvain Chomet)<\/strong><br \/>\nThis totally made up for <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5879\">The Illusionist<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6286\">The Chorus<\/a><\/em> (1982, Abbas Kiarostami)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>3. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6841\">Toby Dammit<\/a><\/em> (1968, Federico Fellini)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>4. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6940\">The House Is Black<\/a><\/em> (1963, Forugh Farrokhzad)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>5. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6412\">The Way to Shadow Garden<\/a><\/em> (1954, Stan Brakhage)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe only Brakhage I watched this year.  I rented the second Criterion set but wasn&#8217;t sure if I should watch it or hold out for the blu-ray.  Of course there&#8217;s no reason to delay &#8217;cause I can always watch the films a second time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6289\">Plastic Bag<\/a><\/em> (2009, Ramin Bahrani)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>7. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6289\">Land Without Bread<\/a><\/em> (1933, Luis Bu\u00f1uel)<\/strong><br \/>\nAfter reading about this for years, I felt like I&#8217;d seen it before I saw it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5803\">Monsieur Fantomas<\/a><\/em> (1937, Ernst Moerman)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>9. Three by Agnes Varda: <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6916\">7p., cuis., s. de b.<\/a><\/em> (1984), <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6916\">Ydessa, The Bears and etc.<\/a><\/em> (2004) and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5758\">Le Lion volatil<\/a><\/em> (2003)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10. <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6289\">Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers<\/a><\/em> (2001, Simonsson &#038; Nilsson)<\/strong><br \/>\nThe short &#8211; not the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6172\">feature<\/a>, which was overbaked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t watch a ton of shorts, not like I did a couple years ago. But these were all excellent. 1. The Old Lady and the Pigeons (1998, Sylvain Chomet) This totally made up for The Illusionist. 2. The Chorus (1982, Abbas Kiarostami) 3. Toby Dammit (1968, Federico Fellini) 4. The House Is Black (1963, [&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":[152],"class_list":["post-7120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120","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=7120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7226,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7120\/revisions\/7226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}