{"id":1691,"date":"2011-11-25T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2011-12-01T00:18:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:18:35","slug":"movienight-black-friday-november-25th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"Melancholia provides happiness on a Friday night."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1704\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=1704\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1704\" title=\"Kirsten looking well-grounded.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/melancholia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/melancholia.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/melancholia-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To many of you who were [lucky] enough to have over-indulged at the tables of\u00c2\u00a0 families and friends the day before, the prospect of a Friday MovieNight must have been an appealing return to some sort of normalcy. Well, not exactly normalcy: a planet named Melancholia is on course to destroy Earth, after first wreaking emotional havoc on an already dysfunctional wedding party. After a montage of stunning imagery, evoking among other things, Kubrick&#8217;s <em>2001 Space Odyssey<\/em>, and making at least one informed viewer wonder what the heck had happened to the Lars von Trier co-originated <a title=\"What's Dogme 95?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dogme_95\" target=\"_blank\">Dogme 95<\/a> manifesto, <em>Melancholia<\/em> snapped into sharp, jolting crispness, and entertained majestically.<\/p>\n<p>The folding chairs had to come out!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1527186\/\" 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>To many of you who were [lucky] enough to have over-indulged at the tables of\u00c2\u00a0 families and friends the day before, the prospect of a Friday MovieNight must have been an appealing return to some sort of normalcy. Well, not exactly normalcy: a planet named Melancholia is on course to destroy Earth, after first wreaking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melancholia provides happiness on a Friday night.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1702,"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\/1691"}],"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=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}