{"id":615,"date":"2007-10-08T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T10:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=615"},"modified":"2011-10-29T18:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T23:49:19","slug":"chicago_film_fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/chicago_film_fe.html","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Film Festival: The Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dir: Paul Schrader.<\/p>\n<p>Actrs: Woody Harrelson (main lead), Kristen Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Lily Tomlin, Willlem Dafoe, <A HREF=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0000885\/\">Ned Beatty<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>This was a bit of a mess. We were down with it for the first half and then things started to unravel.  Had a very 80s\/90s feel to it, hard to believe it was filmed recently.  Full of Washington DC &#8220;high society&#8221; (<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/thank_you_get_f.html\">oh sweet monkey sundae<\/A>, are those people pretentious or what) and supposed intrigue.  The attempt to make Harrelson&#8217;s character BOTH a gay dandyish society fop AND a gay in a serious relationship with a trendy political artist didn&#8217;t really work for us.  The two sides of his personality never melded and the contrast of the scenes was choppy.<\/p>\n<p>Some good acting, not <I>terrible<\/I>, but would be very surprised if this film ever really sees the light of day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dir: Paul Schrader. Actrs: Woody Harrelson (main lead), Kristen Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Lily Tomlin, Willlem Dafoe, Ned Beatty. This was a bit of a mess. We were down with it for the first half and then things started to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/chicago_film_fe.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciff","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}