{"id":113,"date":"2019-02-28T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T04:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2019-03-07T14:01:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T19:01:10","slug":"shoplifters-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/28\/shoplifters-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Capernaum. Tears were shed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/capernaum2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135\"\/><figcaption>One and a half men<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>NewScreen was on fine form this week with Nadine Labaki\u2019s <em>Capernaum<\/em> \u2013 one of this year\u2019s foreign-language Oscar nominees, and the Jury Prize-winner at Cannes last year.\u00a0 In the words of Robbie Collin from the Telegraph, &#8221; It\u2019s the story of a child surviving on the streets of Beirut, infused with the richness of great fiction and the heart-in-mouth power of frontline news footage. The peril feels so truthful and specific, and the young cast\u2019s reactions to it so astonishingly natural, that my heart couldn\u2019t work out whether it should break or pop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t put it better. We cried, and then we applauded.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, this is the third foreign-language Oscar nominee to appear at NewScreen (<em>Cold War<\/em> and <em>Roma<\/em> preceded), and we&#8217;re not done yet. Watch this space!<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s short feature was <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/staffpicks\/315528770\">Brain Wave<\/a> directed by Jake Fried.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8267604\/?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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewScreen was on fine form this week with Nadine Labaki\u2019s Capernaum \u2013 one of this year\u2019s foreign-language Oscar nominees, and the Jury Prize-winner at Cannes last year.\u00a0 In the words of Robbie Collin from the Telegraph, &#8221; It\u2019s the story of a child surviving on the streets of Beirut, infused with the richness of great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/28\/shoplifters-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Capernaum. Tears were shed.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-life","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}