{"id":283,"date":"2019-10-10T23:59:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T04:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=283"},"modified":"2019-10-21T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:53:55","slug":"the-wicker-man-1973-thursday-october-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/10\/the-wicker-man-1973-thursday-october-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wicker Man. Oh Jesus! Oh Lord! Oh NewScreen!"},"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\/10\/wicker3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294\"\/><figcaption>Take the flame. Feel him in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We set a rather high bar for our second official season of NewScreen with this British classic. Robin Hardy&#8217;s <em>The Wicker Man<\/em> was originally relegated to the minor leagues, and cut down in length to serve as an opening short for Nicolas Roeg&#8217;s <em>Don&#8217;t Look Now<\/em> (our next feature, btw.)<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most asked question after the movie? &#8220;How did you find this?&#8221; In fact, this was recommended to me by Sophie K. Davis, about 10 years ago!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s opening short was <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gW2SEpWWqXM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Cheeto Christ Stupid-Czar (opens in a new tab)\">Cheeto Christ Stupid-Czar<\/a><\/em>, by the amazingly clever satirist, Randy Rainbow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><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><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We set a rather high bar for our second official season of NewScreen with this British classic. Robin Hardy&#8217;s The Wicker Man was originally relegated to the minor leagues, and cut down in length to serve as an opening short for Nicolas Roeg&#8217;s Don&#8217;t Look Now (our next feature, btw.) The most asked question after &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/10\/the-wicker-man-1973-thursday-october-10th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Wicker Man. Oh Jesus! Oh Lord! Oh NewScreen!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newscreen-stuff","category-strange-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","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=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}