{"id":963,"date":"2010-11-05T16:32:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=963"},"modified":"2023-03-26T20:01:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T00:01:33","slug":"toto-the-hero-boum-crack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"Toto the Hero. Boum = Crack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/toto2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-977\" title=\"Et ma soeur!\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/toto2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/toto2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/toto2-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Time Out review that we used to describe this MovieNight referred to <em>Toto the Hero<\/em> as &#8220;[a] deliciously offbeat film&#8221; and &#8220;an immensely vibrant, inventive, compassionate movie&#8221;. That pretty much sums it up, but the reviewer neglected to mention the theme tune, which I have been unable to get out of my head since first viewing <em>Toto<\/em> about a month ago. My wife has threatened to leave me unless I stop singing\/whistling\/humming it. I managed to cover it up with a layer of the theme from Winter&#8217;s Bone for a few days, but it&#8217;s back, and it&#8217;s stronger than ever!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/movienight.richardlohr.com\/audio\/Boum.mp3\">&#8220;Boum&#8221; (Warning! This catchy tune may get stuck in your head for weeks!)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Toto the Hero<\/em> was the first installment in our three-part Belgian mini-season (we won&#8217;t be doing all three consecutively), and it was suggested by Flavia who, with her second successful suggestion, gets her very own paragraph on the <a title=\"See who suggested what.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?page_id=12\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">suggestion page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Jessie for (inadvertently?) injecting three lovely &#8220;flickas&#8221; into the MovieNight mix. I promised them Bergman next week. Hurra!<\/p>\n<p>Also, while we&#8217;re thanking&#8230; we should also express our deep gratitude to Igor, for all the great video material he&#8217;s given us (Yello&#8217;s Touch DVD entertained us in the after hours once again!) over the years. Also for detecting the &#8220;Auto-Iris&#8221; setting that somehow got turned on on our projector. Now&#8230; about that conspiracy theory&#8230; should we show <em>Zeitgeist <\/em>at MovieNight?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103105\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><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>The Time Out review that we used to describe this MovieNight referred to Toto the Hero as &#8220;[a] deliciously offbeat film&#8221; and &#8220;an immensely vibrant, inventive, compassionate movie&#8221;. That pretty much sums it up, but the reviewer neglected to mention the theme tune, which I have been unable to get out of my head since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=963\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toto the Hero. 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