{"id":408,"date":"2020-01-30T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T04:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2020-02-10T23:54:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T04:54:54","slug":"beanpole-thursday-january-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/beanpole-thursday-january-30th\/","title":{"rendered":"Beanpole. A &#8220;tall&#8221; tale, deeply-rooted in uncomfortable truths."},"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\/02\/bean.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-417\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Russia&#8217;s official submission to the 2019 Oscars, 27 year old (then &#8211; now 28) director Kantemir Balagov&#8217;s <em>Beanpole (Dylda)<\/em> left our audience in a state of ecstatic shock tonight.\u00a0\u00a0 For a few, the memory of propaganda surrounding the &#8220;great patriotic war&#8221; was uncomfortably close to home, but for those of us lucky enough to be peeking through this window for the first time, or perhaps looking through the same window with a different perspective, this tableau of beautiful bleakness was a gorgeous treat, with outstanding performances by Viktoria Miroshnichenko and Vasilisa Perelygina. I&#8217;m already looking forward to watching it again with some dinner guests (you know who you are). Thank you to my lovely friend Anastasia Komarova for suggesting (insisting, even) that I see this ))<\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s short feature was <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/382571955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Le Silence de la rue<\/a>, directed by Marie Opron. Also beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes&#8230; of course there was banana bread!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10199640\/?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>Russia&#8217;s official submission to the 2019 Oscars, 27 year old (then &#8211; now 28) director Kantemir Balagov&#8217;s Beanpole (Dylda) left our audience in a state of ecstatic shock tonight.\u00a0\u00a0 For a few, the memory of propaganda surrounding the &#8220;great patriotic war&#8221; was uncomfortably close to home, but for those of us lucky enough to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/30\/beanpole-thursday-january-30th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beanpole. A &#8220;tall&#8221; tale, deeply-rooted in uncomfortable truths.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","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\/408","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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}