{"id":1968,"date":"2012-05-01T19:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T23:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2012-06-15T07:52:31","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T11:52:31","slug":"movienight-thusday-may-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"Death of a Cyclist&#8230; one year after the accident. Coincidence?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1990\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=1990\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1990\" title=\"I know your little secret, lady.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/deathcycle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/deathcycle.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/deathcycle-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually, I had wanted to show this right after my bike accident, but I was persuaded that it was rather irreverent, even by my standards. However, being that <em>Death of a Cyclist<\/em> was made in 1955, waiting another year to watch it served only to let this fine, vintage Spanish cinema take on even more flavor.<\/p>\n<p>Not so many people turned up&#8230; one of our guests offered the explanation, &#8220;They really don&#8217;t like the old ones, do they?&#8221;, but last season&#8217;s huge turnouts for <em>City Lights<\/em> and <em>Casablanca<\/em> (to which <em>Death of a Cyclist<\/em> bore a more than a few resemblances &#8211; observe the Peter Lorre looky-likey in this photo) suggests that perhaps &#8220;They really don&#8217;t like the old, foreign ones that they haven&#8217;t heard about, do they?&#8221; would be a more accurate analysis. Who knows? Anyway&#8230; the bottom line:<\/p>\n<p>Another great movie on our screen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0048394\/\" 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>Actually, I had wanted to show this right after my bike accident, but I was persuaded that it was rather irreverent, even by my standards. However, being that Death of a Cyclist was made in 1955, waiting another year to watch it served only to let this fine, vintage Spanish cinema take on even more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Death of a Cyclist&#8230; one year after the accident. Coincidence?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1991,"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\/1968"}],"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=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}