{"id":1043,"date":"2024-01-31T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2024-02-04T19:56:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T00:56:46","slug":"the-promised-land-wednesday-january-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/31\/the-promised-land-wednesday-january-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"The Promised Land. Mikkelsen delivers&#8230; as always."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pl2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1051\" style=\"width:634px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pl2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/pl2-600x360.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Not Schinkel. De Schinkel! Duh Schinkel?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We don&#8217;t show many epics at NewScreen, but tonight was hella one. It&#8217;s always a treat to see Mads (pronounced Mas in his native Denmark I&#8217;m told) on the big screen. He can convey so much with just a slight adjustment to his chiseled countenance. Unlike so many movies that end suddenly, with a thought-provoking fade to black (don&#8217;t get me wrong&#8230; that can be pretty great too!) this one took the time to work everything out. Happy ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of happy endings (wait for it), tonight&#8217;s feature ended to a spontaneous outbreak of applause. Always a good sign.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20561198\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We don&#8217;t show many epics at NewScreen, but tonight was hella one. It&#8217;s always a treat to see Mads (pronounced Mas in his native Denmark I&#8217;m told) on the big screen. He can convey so much with just a slight adjustment to his chiseled countenance. Unlike so many movies that end suddenly, with a thought-provoking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/31\/the-promised-land-wednesday-january-31st\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Promised Land. Mikkelsen delivers&#8230; as always.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}