{"id":1067,"date":"2010-12-09T11:31:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T16:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2010-12-12T17:04:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-12T22:04:42","slug":"movienight-thursday-december-9th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1067","title":{"rendered":"Before Night Falls, a Hot Pretty Lady not made."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beforenight2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1073\" title=\"I am gay.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beforenight2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beforenight2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/beforenight2-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The last line in <a title=\"Read the review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reelviews.net\/movies\/b\/before_night.html\" target=\"_blank\">James Berardinelli&#8217;s review<\/a> of <em>Before Night Falls<\/em> was pretty much on the money: &#8220;It is an intriguing and sporadically powerful motion picture with a stellar central performance.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Although somewhat disjointed, the story did get told, and at times the camera work was delicious.<\/p>\n<p>We chose to show Before Night Falls to mark Tania&#8217;s birthday (of one of our regular guests, who happens to be Cuban-born), and as part of the celebration, we had four (yes four!) special cocktails, all rum based.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather unexpectedly, we had a full house, and for a while we were &#8220;in the weeds&#8221; behind the bar. So much so, that I kind of refused to make a Hot Pretty Lady for one of our guests (sorry Alex!) and suggested that he have a strawberry mango daiquiri instead. He seemed to enjoy the substitute, but I do feel a bit like a bully. Next time, sir, I will try to be more accommodating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0247196\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last line in James Berardinelli&#8217;s review of Before Night Falls was pretty much on the money: &#8220;It is an intriguing and sporadically powerful motion picture with a stellar central performance.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Although somewhat disjointed, the story did get told, and at times the camera work was delicious. We chose to show Before Night Falls to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1067\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Before Night Falls, a Hot Pretty Lady not made.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1079,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}