{"id":271,"date":"2008-09-08T01:49:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T08:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/271"},"modified":"2008-09-08T01:53:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T08:53:18","slug":"shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early 80s, Kristin and I were watching HBO and happened upon one of the most memorable films of our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a brief, animated short film which had won the 1982 Student Academy Award.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Ursula\"It was called “Guess Who’s For Dinner<\/strong>” and in it, a\u00c2\u00a0spinach monster attacks a child during dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 It was hysterical and after 25 years is still a clear image in my head. Kristin and I have both spent hours over the years, searching for this in any form… if you stumble upon it, let us know!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The talented animator, Kathy Zielinski<\/a> has gone on to career with Disney and animated the memorable character Ursula (the witch) in the Little Mermaid, in addition to others.<\/p>\n

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And then, of course, there were the midnight short film festivals at the Villa theatre where I saw some memorable, and not so memorable animated shorts. Who could forget… <\/em><\/p>\n

Bambi vs. Godzilla?<\/font><\/em> <\/p>\n

I’ve been a fan of short films ever since. So I was delighted to find I can get the academy award nominated shorts for 2004 – 2007.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I got 2006 first (because that’s the one I noticed first)<\/em> and watched them last night.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 What a delightful evening.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Some were better than others, of course – but I enjoyed all of them but one.<\/p>\n

I think my favorite live action short was\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00c3\u00a9ramos pocos<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (spain).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Mom has left her slob of a husband and grown son, who are helpless without her. They liberate Gran from a nursing home to cook and clean for them.\u00c2\u00a0 Fun, with a twist.<\/p>\n

West Bank Story<\/a><\/em> is a love story and rivalry between Israelis and Palestinians and their fast food joints.\u00c2\u00a0 Made by students at USC, it actually was a musical – and won the Oscar.\u00c2\u00a0 It was fun.<\/p>\n

My favorite animated short was The Danish Poet<\/em><\/a>” (Canada-Norway)\u00c2\u00a0– which did win the Academy Award.\u00c2\u00a0 Simple line drawings and a sweet story. You can actually see this one on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’m looking forward to the other years’ collections!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Do you like short films?\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>Have you seen any that were memorable or that you’d recommend?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the early 80s, Kristin and I were watching HBO and happened upon one of the most memorable films of our lives.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a brief, animated short film which had won the 1982 Student Academy Award.\u00c2\u00a0 It was called “Guess Who’s For Dinner” and in it, a\u00c2\u00a0spinach monster attacks a child during dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 It … Continue reading Shorts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-entertainment","category-reviewsrecommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}