{"id":1662,"date":"2026-02-19T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:02:44","slug":"the-secret-agent-thursday-february-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/the-secret-agent-thursday-february-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Agent. A brightly colored movie with brightly colored VW Bugs everywhere. And then there&#8217;s Carnivale&#8230; people dropping off like flys."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/secret_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1672\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I need some gasoline.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1977 Brazil. Not an easy time to stick to one&#8217;s principles and remain alive, but certainly fertile territory for brilliant movie-making. In <em>The Secret Agent<\/em>, director Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho manages to break up the terror with doses of comedy, sometimes humanist, sometimes absurd, often laugh out loud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Try as I might, I couldn&#8217;t get this almost 3 hour epic started at 8:30, as I had promised. Still, I was only about 15 minutes late. This was, however, 15 minutes too many, and we had a couple of dozers-off. I had to intervene with a quick bit of shushing. All good. Another great night at NewScreen.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27847051\/?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>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1977 Brazil. Not an easy time to stick to one&#8217;s principles and remain alive, but certainly fertile territory for brilliant movie-making. In The Secret Agent, director Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho manages to break up the terror with doses of comedy, sometimes humanist, sometimes absurd, often laugh out loud. Try as I might, I couldn&#8217;t get this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/19\/the-secret-agent-thursday-february-19th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Secret Agent. A brightly colored movie with brightly colored VW Bugs everywhere. And then there&#8217;s Carnivale&#8230; people dropping off like flys.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","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\/1662","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=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}