This short was included on the Swing Time DVD… it’s really funny so far.

This is super corny and very amusing. The production values seem to be a lot higher than usual for this kind of thing.

This is (as usual) just an excuse to string some musical numbers together… and the cinematography is a bit… wonky? But man, these number are poppin! I can’t take my eyes off of the screen.

Mack has done a gazillion of things, and it pretty much looks like all of them are shorts? So this was his thing.

Now, OK, this isn’t a cinematic masterpiece, but for its genre (“stringing together vaudeville acts into a b movie”), it’s absolutely perfect — I’ve never seen anything as good as this in that genre. There’s not a millisecond of time wasted: It’s all zingers (some of them good) and singing and dancing (some of it excellent).

It’s some kind of genius, so:

Hotel a la Swing. Roy Mack. 1937. ⚅

Hm… surely I’ve seen this before?

I can’t recall it, though. Perhaps I haven’t? It just seems in-credible.

No, I have seen this! And it’s hilarious.

This is perfect! Even the meet cute wasn’t as harassey as usual, and more based on coincidences than putting on the hard word.

Swing Time. George Stevens. 1936. ⚄

Allie Total Blamblam. Isn’t that from… a Bowie song? Oh, just the “total blam blam” bits.

This is Jarmusch’s first movie?

I like the rhythms of this… it’s flowing in a nice way… but the lead guy isn’t… he isn’t John Lurie. Just saying.

It’s John Lurie!!!

A very similar ending to that Chantal Akerman film.

Permanent Vacation. Jim Jarmusch. 1980. ⚃