{"id":10487,"date":"2021-07-14T12:32:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2021-07-14T12:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:32:20","slug":"a-word-from-our-programmer-7-14-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/a-word-from-our-programmer-7-14-21\/","title":{"rendered":"A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER - 7\/14\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cinema friends, foodies, and moderately-melancholy-media-enthusiasts,<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday sees our twin openings of unlikely spiritual siblings in cinema: <a href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/1974\"><strong><em>Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/1980\"><strong><em>Pig<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong> Both films are raw portraits of the private lives of those who found something in kitchens and around shared tables, and ultimately retreated into themselves. One is a celebration of the singular influence of Mr. Bourdain, and the other features Nic Cage as a reclusive former chef seeking revenge for the theft of his beloved truffle pig.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/PIG_Nicolas-Cage_01_courtesyNEON-700x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10490\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/1980\"><strong><em>Pig<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is best experienced cold \u2014 and while it may look like a gonzo riff on <em>John Wick<\/em> or <em>Taken<\/em> \u2014 it bears little similarity to those or even prior Cage-rage-engagements like <em>Mandy. <\/em>If the cited examples <em>show<\/em> the violent spectacle of narratively-justified action, Michael Sarnoski\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/1980\"><strong><em>Pig<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is an honest interrogation of that \u201cjustification,\u201d tearing deep into loss, alienation, and revenge. It's a beautiful film with a seemingly absurd premise, but it\u2019s also a testament to Nicolas Cage\u2019s abilities, and perhaps one of his very best performances. Lastly, one would be remiss to ignore the cosmic alignment of <a href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/1980\"><strong><em>Pig<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u2019s place in a Ragtag trilogy alongside <em>Truffle Hunters <\/em>and <em>Gunda.<\/em> What exactly is the universe trying to tell us about food and philosophy?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/1980\"><strong><em>Pig<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>plays alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/1961\"><strong><em>Zola<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, following the final shows of <a href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/films\/1973\"><strong><em>Summer of Soul<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay hungry,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ted<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday sees our twin openings of unlikely spiritual siblings in cinema: Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain and Pig. Both films are raw portraits of the private lives of those who found something in kitchens and around shared tables, and ultimately retreated into themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[66,67,68,69,70],"class_list":["post-10487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anthony-bourdain","tag-cinema","tag-pig","tag-programmer","tag-roadrunner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}