{"id":387,"date":"2020-01-09T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T04:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=387"},"modified":"2020-01-13T11:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T16:43:55","slug":"one-cut-of-the-dead-thursday-jan-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/one-cut-of-the-dead-thursday-jan-9th\/","title":{"rendered":"One Cut of the Dead. A Russian doll of a Zombie flick."},"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\/2020\/01\/onecut.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-388\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having seen Shin&#8217;ichir\u00f4 Ueda&#8217;s <em>One Cut of the Dead<\/em> just a few days earlier, It was difficult for me to not laugh at events that looked like one thing, but which would turn out to be altogether different when revealed later. Our audience thought I was over-reacting, and being something of a cheerleader. I had to apologize, but they figured it out later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This hysterical film within a film (within a film?) joyride was made for an astoundingly low $25,000, and has gone on to gross $30.5 million worldwide!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Due to a technical glitch, I found myself scrambling to find an opener last minute, so I hit the replay button and showed Anna Mantzara&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/288230647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Enough (opens in a new tab)\">Enough<\/a><\/em>  &#8211; her first year film from London&#8217;s Royal College of Art. It was great to see again.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7914416?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>Having seen Shin&#8217;ichir\u00f4 Ueda&#8217;s One Cut of the Dead just a few days earlier, It was difficult for me to not laugh at events that looked like one thing, but which would turn out to be altogether different when revealed later. Our audience thought I was over-reacting, and being something of a cheerleader. I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/one-cut-of-the-dead-thursday-jan-9th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Cut of the Dead. A Russian doll of a Zombie flick.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","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\/387","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=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}