{"id":976,"date":"2023-12-13T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=976"},"modified":"2023-12-18T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T15:03:50","slug":"afire-wednesday-december-13th-730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/13\/afire-wednesday-december-13th-730\/","title":{"rendered":"Afire. Petzold is hot."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/af5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-982\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NewScreen was on fire again tonight (sorry&#8230; couldn&#8217;t resist) with the return of director Christian Petzold. Petzold has held this audience in silent rapture in past MovieNights with <em>Barbara<\/em>, <em>Phoenix<\/em>, and <em>The State I Am In<\/em>, but this was his first NewScreen appearance. With <em>Afire (Roter Himmel)<\/em> he mixes in more humor than usual, but somehow, that humor serves to heighten the drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To me, there is nothing quite as gratifying as looking out from my &#8220;station&#8221;, behind the bar upon a room full of transfixed faces. That&#8217;s what this is all about.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26440619\/?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>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewScreen was on fire again tonight (sorry&#8230; couldn&#8217;t resist) with the return of director Christian Petzold. Petzold has held this audience in silent rapture in past MovieNights with Barbara, Phoenix, and The State I Am In, but this was his first NewScreen appearance. With Afire (Roter Himmel) he mixes in more humor than usual, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/13\/afire-wednesday-december-13th-730\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Afire. Petzold is hot.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","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\/976","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=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":983,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}