{"id":10536,"date":"2021-08-18T16:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2021-08-18T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T21:50:39","slug":"a-word-from-our-programmer-8-18-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/a-word-from-our-programmer-8-18-21\/","title":{"rendered":"A WORD FROM OUR PROGRAMMER - 8\/18\/21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Why horror, Cinema friends?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those amongst our readership who need no cajoling to wade waist-deep into the\u00a0darker<\/em>\u00a0realms of projected entertainment, I apologize. For the terror-averse, the cajoling begins now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Friday, we open\u00a0The Night House<\/a>, an unnerving and genuinely terrifying mystery that surrounds a recently widowed Rebecca Hall left with the lake house her late lover built for her.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director David Bruckner finds himself and his work varyingly referred to as\u00a0Mumblegore \u2014\u00a0<\/em>owing equal parts to old-school horror inventiveness and the scattershot millennial movement of Mumblecore and its cohorts Joe Swanberg, Mark Duplass, and Greta Gerwig \u2014 and\u00a0Elevated Horror \u2014<\/em>\u00a0a contentious label that simultaneously scolds seedier endeavors and somewhat erroneously crafts common cause between the polished and heady horrors of Ari Aster\u2019s\u00a0Midsommar,\u00a0<\/em>Robert Eggers\u2019\u00a0The Witch<\/em>, and Jordan Peele\u2019s\u00a0Get Out.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But labels are a fickle shorthand and when the name-drops and comparisons still don\u2019t paint a clear picture, what remains is an enthusiastic invitation to immerse oneself completely, and in this particular parable, to not just to ruminate on grief, but skewer it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Night House<\/a>\u00a0opens at the Cinema Friday, August 20 alongside\u00a0<\/em>The Green Knight<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>Ailey<\/a>. Masks are required for all guests regardless of vaccine status.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But don\u2019t just take my word for it, listen to friend-of-the-Fest, and longtime\u00a0Film Comment\u00a0<\/em>contributor and podcast-host, Nicolas Rapold\u2019s conversation with the film\u2019s star, Rebecca Hall, on\u00a0The Last Thing I Saw<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Ted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why horror, Cinema friends? For those amongst our readership who need no cajoling to wade waist-deep into the\u00a0darker\u00a0realms of projected entertainment, I apologize. For the terror-averse, the cajoling begins now. This Friday, we open\u00a0The Night House, an unnerving and genuinely terrifying mystery that surrounds a recently widowed Rebecca Hall left with the lake house her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[67,90,91,69,92],"class_list":["post-10536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news1","tag-cinema","tag-david-bruckner","tag-mystery","tag-programmer","tag-the-night-house"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536","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=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}