{"id":205,"date":"2019-04-11T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T04:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2019-04-15T06:59:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:59:01","slug":"three-identical-strangers-2018-april-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/three-identical-strangers-2018-april-11th\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Identical Strangers. Stranger and stranger."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/3strange.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/3strange.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/3strange-566x360.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the face of it, one might assume that a documentary whose premise is fairly obvious &#8211; triplets separated at birth are reunited &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t be able to hold its audience in rapt attention, but Tim Wardle&#8217;s <em>Three Identical Strangers<\/em> does just that. I won&#8217;t go into details for the sake of not being a spoiler, but suffice it to say that there are many layers of skin to peel off of this particular onion. Some layers are stretched a bit, but overall, this is mesmerizing stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week we revisited two NewScreen favorites: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Chemical Brothers - We've got to try (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/324955103\" target=\"_blank\">The Chemical Brothers &#8211; We&#8217;ve got to try<\/a>, directed by Ninian Doff, featuring &#8220;Girl the Dog&#8221;. We just <em>had<\/em> to show it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second thing? Banana bread, baby! <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7664504\/?ref_=ttcrv_crv_tt\" 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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the face of it, one might assume that a documentary whose premise is fairly obvious &#8211; triplets separated at birth are reunited &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t be able to hold its audience in rapt attention, but Tim Wardle&#8217;s Three Identical Strangers does just that. I won&#8217;t go into details for the sake of not being a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/three-identical-strangers-2018-april-11th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Three Identical Strangers. Stranger and stranger.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","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\/205","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=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}