{"id":155,"date":"2006-03-01T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-01T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-05-03T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T00:43:08","slug":"robert-altman-the-player-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Robert Altman &#8211; The Player (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/1600\/player.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/240\/726\/320\/player.jpg\" \/><\/a> I knew I had seen and loved it, but as with Shortcuts, I couldn&#8217;t remember a thing. Now, memory is an odd fellow, and often you&#8217;ll immediately recognize what you couldn&#8217;t actively remember &#8211; but not me, in this case. Every part of it was just as fresh and new as it was when I first saw it, and that is just as well, for it is a terrific and clever script, and surprises in general work much better when you don&#8217;t know they&#8217;re coming. Tom Hanks is wonderful as the lead character, an asshole producer in trouble, there are numerous celebrity cameos, and the opening scene rivals the one in Bertolucci&#8217;s 1900. In fact, just seeing this long continuous setup made me want to rewatch 1900, and to my dismay I found that it is available neither at Netflix nor Amazon, and the studio doesn&#8217;t currently offer DVDs of it for sale. A remark oddly fitting for the end a minireview of a satire about the movie business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew I had seen and loved it, but as with Shortcuts, I couldn&#8217;t remember a thing. Now, memory is an odd fellow, and often you&#8217;ll immediately recognize what you couldn&#8217;t actively remember &#8211; but not me, in this case. Every part of it was just as fresh and new as it was when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,22,8,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drama","category-englisch","category-good","category-movie","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}