{"id":1361,"date":"2011-04-07T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2011-04-12T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T19:08:00","slug":"movienight-will-return-on-thursday-april-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"City Lights lights up the MovieNight funny bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1383\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=1383\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1383\" title=\"Charlie falls in love\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/citylights.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/citylights.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/citylights-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few days after last week&#8217;s MovieNight, and still haunted by bleak images of despair from last week&#8217;s intensely beautiful <em>White Material<\/em>, we found ourselves watching <em>City Lights<\/em>&#8230; quite by accident. Zofi&#8217;s father, Bolek (an ardent movie buff), invited us to sit down in front of his television for what he promised would be &#8220;a treat&#8221;. Somewhat irreverently, I was in the kitchen fixing a gin and tonic while the opening credits rolled, and I started watching from the scene pictured in this post. Within a few short moments, I was laughing so hard that I had tears running down my cheeks. This had to be the next MovieNight!<\/p>\n<p>As Thursday approached, I was starting to doubt whether I had made a good choice. Would you sophisticated MovieNighters really want to watch an 80 year old silent movie? It turns out that the answer to that rhetorical question was &#8220;Yes!&#8221; Chaplin&#8217;s magic enthralled a full house, and when I was occasionally able to stop laughing and look around the room, I saw faces lit up with joy. Thank you, Charlie. Thank you <a href=\"http:\/\/movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=12\" target=\"_self\">Bolek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0021749\/\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days after last week&#8217;s MovieNight, and still haunted by bleak images of despair from last week&#8217;s intensely beautiful White Material, we found ourselves watching City Lights&#8230; quite by accident. Zofi&#8217;s father, Bolek (an ardent movie buff), invited us to sit down in front of his television for what he promised would be &#8220;a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1361\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">City Lights lights up the MovieNight funny bone<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"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=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1386,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}