With the Premiere of the new documentary The Palindromists, we thought our readers would be intrigued to see a variety of short films that are structured as palindromes.
They look the same forwards and backwards.
Category Archives: Eat My Shorts
Into the Closet: Criterion or Criteriumb?
What if you were invited into a closet filled with a thousand of the world’s great classic movies on DVD/BluRay and told that you could select a dozen to add to your library?
Photo courtesy of Katie Hogan’s “She Likes Movies.”
Creature Discomforts: Life in Lockdown
By Gary Meyer
Do you remember a short film called Creature Comforts?
Stop motion clay animated zoo animals were given voice by a series of non-actors in series of “man on the street” type interviews where they talk about the advantages and disadvantages of living in a zoo. In 1991 the film won an Academy Award for director Nick Park and Aardman Animations.
They are back.
LAUGHING WITH CARL REINER
Carl Reiner made the world laugh. We will miss him but his legacy was to leave us laughing no matter what. And boy do we need it now.
As a kid I loved Your Show of Shows. Other than the program’s stars, Sid Ceasar and Imogene Cocoa, I had no idea who the other people were except that they were funny and we loved them for that. The actors and writers included unknowns like Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris, Larry Gelbart, Neil Simon, Woody Allen and Carl Reiner.
EAT MY SHORTS: Ella & Kim Sing & Swing
The wonderful sounds of Ella Fitzgerald and Kim Nalley are even more fun if you can watch them perform.
There is no way we can include all the great material one can find on the Internet. We offer a sampling that will keep you happy for hours featuring both Ella and Kim.
EAT MY SHORTS: Laughter is the Best Medicine
During the Coronavirus – Covid 19 lockdown there is much uncertainty but the creative spirits of people rise to keep us smiling and laughing in the most unlikely of circumstances. We thought you could enjoy some of the humor appearing on social media.
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