{"id":265,"date":"2006-12-31T23:57:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T04:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=265"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:36:38","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:36:38","slug":"looking-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, I haven&#8217;t had time to read a lot of books, but have finally started to catch up on some of the movies I&#8217;ve missed out on over the years. Some were checked out of the U.N.C. library, some I bought, but most came from Netflix. In 2006, I watched 98 movies, one of them twice, only two previously familiar, plus 20 shorts. (At least half a dozen more I&#8217;d seen many years before, but more or less forgotten.) Some brief notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best: perhaps <em>Smiles of a Summer Night<\/em> &#8212; I hadn&#8217;t realized that Bergman could be funny. All I remember from college is <em>The Seventh Seal<\/em>, <em>Virgin Spring<\/em>, and some contemporary scenes of emotional torture and self-torture.<\/li>\n<li>Worst by far: <em>By Brakhage<\/em> &#8212; what little I watched of it was pretentious crap. On a scale of one to five stars, I gave even <em>The Abominable Dr. Phibes<\/em> one and a half, but <em>By Brakhage<\/em> earned a special score of zero stars.<\/li>\n<li>Most painful to watch, at least for a bibliophile: <em>I, the Worst of All<\/em>, which features both a book-burning scene  (1:06) and another in which philosopher-poet Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz is forced to sell all of her books and scientific apparatus (1:39).<\/li>\n<li>Best adaptation of a novel I&#8217;ve read: Schl&ouml;ndorff&#8217;s <em>Coup de Gr&acirc;ce<\/em>. I&#8217;ve looked into <em>Young T&ouml;rless<\/em> (the book) but not read it yet.<\/li>\n<li>Worst adaptation: <em>The Driver&#8217;s Seat<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Most suitable for showing bits of in 6th-grade Geography class: Ozu&#8217;s <em>Good Morning<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will add to this list if I think of anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last year, I haven&#8217;t had time to read a lot of books, but have finally started to catch up on some of the movies I&#8217;ve missed out on over the years. Some were checked out of the U.N.C. library, some I bought, but most came from Netflix. In 2006, I watched 98 movies, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-ive-been-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}