{"id":2400,"date":"2013-02-28T14:23:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2013-03-11T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T17:08:08","slug":"movienight-thursday-february-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"Howabout Walkabout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2434\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=2434\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2434\" title=\"Do you think Dad is going to catch us up?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/walkabout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/walkabout.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/walkabout-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 2 of our surrealist mini-season, Nicolas Roeg&#8217;s weird and wonderful <em>Walkabout,<\/em> pulled in a great crowd and moved Norris up to 3rd place in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?page_id=12\">Successful Suggesters<\/a> list (getting to 2nd place will take some doing, however!). <em>Walkabout<\/em> is a movie that lingers in the memory, in no small part because of the crazy camerawork with sudden cutaways to close-ups of animal inhabitants of the outback.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen <em>Walkabout<\/em> a few times, but this was the first time on Blu-ray. Maddeningly, the &#8220;brand new&#8221; Blu-ray disc started acting up just past the half-way mark, so we had to eject, wash, dry, put back, etc. This is so unfair. Anyway, people assured me that it didn&#8217;t detract from their MovieNight experience&#8230; were they just being nice?<\/p>\n<p>More about this film on IMDb\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067959\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" 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>Part 2 of our surrealist mini-season, Nicolas Roeg&#8217;s weird and wonderful Walkabout, pulled in a great crowd and moved Norris up to 3rd place in the Successful Suggesters list (getting to 2nd place will take some doing, however!). Walkabout is a movie that lingers in the memory, in no small part because of the crazy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=2400\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Howabout Walkabout?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2409,"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\/2400"}],"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=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}