{"id":11018,"date":"2022-06-29T14:14:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/?p=11018"},"modified":"2022-06-29T14:18:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T19:18:02","slug":"a-word-from-our-programmer-6-22-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/a-word-from-our-programmer-6-22-22\/","title":{"rendered":"A Word From Our Programmer - 6\/22\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Greetings Cinema friends,<br><br>This week we raise a glass to\u00a0<em>doing it wrong<\/em>\u2014to unrelenting optimism in spite of talent, to mad pursuits of artistry, to breaking rules, to impropriety, and to playing with your food: this week we welcome\u00a0<strong><em>The Phantom of the Open<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><em>Flux Gourmet<\/em><\/strong>.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maurice Flitcroft held the titles of crane-operator, shoe polish salesman, and occasional ice cream man before finding his niche in 1976 as\u00a0<em>the world\u2019s worst golfer.<\/em>\u00a0<strong><em>The Phantom of the Open<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0follows Flitcroft\u2019s rise to infamy through blind determination, endearing ineptitude, and deception. Shortly after picking up golfing, Flitcroft aspired to compete solely for the love of the game. As an amateur without the time or resources to obtain an official handicap (the numeric measure of a golfer\u2019s potential), Maurice simply declared himself a professional. Despite the British golfing establishment\u2019s best efforts, Flitcroft would become a folk hero to talentless-yet-tenacious dreamers everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/film\/flux-gourmet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/15b7290c001\/8a65ea71-82f7-4228-aa5a-a76a2f0e4163.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Flux Gourmet<\/em><\/strong>, meanwhile, is the newest excursion from British filmmaker Peter Strickland. From sound engineering to the tactile obsessions of designer fashion, Strickland\u2019s uniquely surreal and comedic brand of suspense is foregrounded in rich sensory experiences. This time around, the gustatory and olfactory systems reign supreme as an avant garde performance troupe employs food in all the wrong ways.\u00a0<strong><em>Flux Gourmet<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s art-world satire is deliciously stomach-churning (if not gag-inducing). Do yourself a favor and be sure to order a digestif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Lastly, we make a toast to our own history, as we celebrate Ragtag\u2019s birthday this Saturday evening. We\u2019ve come a long way from the definition of our namesake\u00a0<em>(Disreputable! Untidy! Incongruous!)<\/em>\u00a0but we\u2019re still proud of our scrappiness\u2026 and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that.<br><br>-Ted<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings Cinema friends, This week we raise a glass to\u00a0doing it wrong\u2014to unrelenting optimism in spite of talent, to mad pursuits of artistry, to breaking rules, to impropriety, and to playing with your food: this week we welcome\u00a0The Phantom of the Open\u00a0and\u00a0Flux Gourmet. Maurice Flitcroft held the titles of crane-operator, shoe polish salesman, and occasional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-from"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11022,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11018\/revisions\/11022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}