{"id":54,"date":"2018-04-05T23:59:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T04:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2019-02-19T13:13:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:13:56","slug":"the-death-of-stalin-we-try-out-the-new-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/the-death-of-stalin-we-try-out-the-new-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Stalin. We try out the new place."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/stalin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47\"\/><figcaption>Such a lovely man&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a cast that reads like a who&#8217;s who of British comedy (Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor represent for the US of A), this darkly hysterical romp through Stalinist Russia is also an entertaining history lesson. One wouldn&#8217;t normally expect too many laughs in a movie entitled <em>The Death of Stalin<\/em>, but then again, this is the work of director\/screenwriter Armando Iannucci, who&#8217;s acerbic wit made us laugh (very much out loud) with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"In the Loop at MovieNight (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=194\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In the Loop <\/em>at MovieNight<\/a> back in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Death of Stalin<\/em> was banned in Russia, albeit not entirely successfully. Of course, most of our guests tonight were from that place!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4686844\/?ref_=ttfc_fc_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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a cast that reads like a who&#8217;s who of British comedy (Steve Buscemi and Jeffrey Tambor represent for the US of A), this darkly hysterical romp through Stalinist Russia is also an entertaining history lesson. One wouldn&#8217;t normally expect too many laughs in a movie entitled The Death of Stalin, but then again, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/05\/the-death-of-stalin-we-try-out-the-new-room\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Death of Stalin. We try out the new place.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","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\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}