{"id":374,"date":"2019-12-19T23:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T04:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2020-01-05T23:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T04:44:31","slug":"midsommar-thursday-dec-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/19\/midsommar-thursday-dec-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Midsommar. Midvintar. Mid-martini. Wha&#8217;appen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/midsom1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/midsom1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/midsom1-573x360.jpg 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight, just two days before the winter solstace, we enjoyed what has been noted for being a horror movie that takes place fully in daylight. <em>Midsommar<\/em>, Ari Aster&#8217;s follow up to the deeply disturbing <em>Hereditary<\/em> is a  creepy (seems to be an oft-recurring theme around here this season), and gruesomely captivating story of pagan ritual.  Aster was inspired by Robin Hardy&#8217;s 1973 <em>The Wicker Man<\/em> &#8211; this year&#8217;s NewScreen season opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world wide internet for computers, as my fiend Michael likes to call it, is jam-packed with &#8220;explanations&#8221; of the ending, and theories about the deeper meaning of <em>Midsommar, <\/em>but c&#8217;mon! It&#8217;s just a break-up movie with some twitchy, witchy action. OK, joking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can the seemingly hapless, and long-suffering Dani (played perfectly by  English actor, Florence Pugh) endure the mediocrity of her selfish boyfriend and his idiot friends. Not giving anything away here, but it&#8217;s kind of a happy ending&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our into short tonight was Dimitri Basil&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Obsession - Joywave (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/staffpicks\/371205292\" target=\"_blank\">Obsession &#8211; Joywave<\/a> a fun mash-up of fictional movie title screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8772262\/?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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, just two days before the winter solstace, we enjoyed what has been noted for being a horror movie that takes place fully in daylight. Midsommar, Ari Aster&#8217;s follow up to the deeply disturbing Hereditary is a creepy (seems to be an oft-recurring theme around here this season), and gruesomely captivating story of pagan ritual. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/19\/midsommar-thursday-dec-19th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Midsommar. Midvintar. Mid-martini. Wha&#8217;appen?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","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\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}