{"id":1734,"date":"2026-04-16T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2026-05-10T09:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T14:56:11","slug":"knife-on-the-water-thursday-april-16th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/knife-on-the-water-thursday-april-16th\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife in the Water still cuts through."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/K_feature_lrg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1753\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/K_feature_lrg.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/K_feature_lrg-481x360.jpg 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#437ca3\">As Kim Newman (Empire) writes: &#8220;Having attracted international attention in the early &#8217;60s with cruelly absurdist short films (Two Men and a Wardrobe, The Fat and the Lean) about isolated characters clashing as they struggle through empty landscapes, Polanski&#8217;s first feature elaborates on the theme but with added depth of characterization. Indeed Knife in the Water is so well-written and acted you don&#8217;t notice until very late how artificial and stylized the whole set-up is.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Knife in the Water<\/em> drew a full house tonight, and we were all delighted. Is it still ok for us to love this movie? Polanski is on the &#8220;cancelled&#8221; list, in exile in Europe, having escaped prosecution in the US for feeding Quaalude to a 13-year old girl in a California swimming pool. Not cool. However, let&#8217;s remember that  <em>Knife<\/em> was made under communist rule, by a very young Polanski. I&#8217;m not going to lose any sleep over it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070917\/?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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Kim Newman (Empire) writes: &#8220;Having attracted international attention in the early &#8217;60s with cruelly absurdist short films (Two Men and a Wardrobe, The Fat and the Lean) about isolated characters clashing as they struggle through empty landscapes, Polanski&#8217;s first feature elaborates on the theme but with added depth of characterization. Indeed Knife in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/16\/knife-on-the-water-thursday-april-16th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Knife in the Water still cuts through.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","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\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}