Shorts watched February 2009
Torture Money (1937, Harold S. Bucquet) Caught on TCM’s Oscar Month – this beat out Deep South and Should Wives Marry? for best two-reeler. A cop from the Bunco Squad goes undercover to investigate a...
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Methuselah (1927, Jean Painlevé) The title character is a dog-masked shoe-obsessed megalomaniac. Painlevé himself plays Hamlet, and surrealist poet Antonin Artaud found time to appear in this between...
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Another entry for… Initiated by Shadowplay It’s rare for late-career shorts to even exist. Filmmakers tend to “graduate” from shorts to features, never looking back, unless called to work on some...
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