{"id":4003,"date":"2016-10-13T23:59:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T03:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4003"},"modified":"2016-10-17T19:51:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T23:51:34","slug":"movienight-thursday-october-13th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4003","title":{"rendered":"Rams &#8211; Two stubborn brothers butt heads&#8230; sweaters optional."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rams.jpg\" alt=\"rams\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rams.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rams-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s screening of <em>Rams<\/em> took a few of our diehard football fans by surprise&#8230; apparently, they were expecting a documentary about one of their favorite teams.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I jest. Another gorgeous MovieNight experience, well attended, and well appreciated&#8230; and the popcorn was even well popped this time. Once more, I&#8217;d like to leave the final pronouncement to Mike D&#8217;Angelo, from his review for The Onion A. V. Club.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #a9c4d9;\">In its lovely final scene, Rams unexpectedly transforms from comedy to something far more poignant, and that shift reverberates backward through the entire movie, even recontextualizing all the nude-dude jokes. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a neat trick, and serves as a welcome reminder that Icelandic cinema (a) exists and (b) has a flavor of its own\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpart goofy, part tender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3296658\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-348 size-full\" 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;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter cadbzengsbezmygwrwii cwnrlaugicmavbrryrlb omccpaycogunqbufrobb wtjuclruxqusvdimijbh dvrxkwbgaazeyxdedyib jmyguopgrrlcxkxhygif upbnqoyhmbntrkitpcbb ayatndoxczsgniinchac webctghasvclkkoqyzdg jzqaqrtdmqhwalpfzwwy zpkcqxpnfqyyjvayejxv igcaewbnhypcmzhpibvb wlirusqdnzvagfcbyxar txxeqdymvumbjqksgura zhuuwmpjmrhnvdzxqyna mylwidlbiiqgggfeclwp uhuziawnpkmsqzdnooyz qnualnxvxetsbuzhsuug kaqzkiivyzebyuoxikru chnudiequqorlitwcwfi\" src=\"http:\/\/counter.dreamhost.com\/cgi-bin\/Count.cgi?df=fauxlimey-movienights.dat&amp;st=1952&amp;pad=F&amp;ft=0&amp;dd=D&amp;istrip=T\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s screening of Rams took a few of our diehard football fans by surprise&#8230; apparently, they were expecting a documentary about one of their favorite teams. Of course I jest. Another gorgeous MovieNight experience, well attended, and well appreciated&#8230; and the popcorn was even well popped this time. Once more, I&#8217;d like to leave the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4003\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rams &#8211; Two stubborn brothers butt heads&#8230; sweaters optional.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4004,"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\/4003"}],"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=4003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4003\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}