{"id":1749,"date":"2012-01-31T14:39:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T20:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2012-01-31T14:39:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T20:39:33","slug":"notes-from-the-attic-pietro-germi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/notes-from-the-attic-pietro-germi\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from the attic: Pietro Germi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two must-see comedies from Italian director Pietro Germi: <strong>Divorce Italian Style<\/strong> (1961) and <strong>Seduced and Abandoned<\/strong> (1964).<br \/>\nThey're about crazy Sicilian characters, awkward situations, ruined honor and teenage love interests. If I had to pick one it would be Seduced and Abandoned. They're both available next door at 9th Street Video.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1863\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Divorce-Italian-Style.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Divorce-Italian-Style.jpg 852w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Divorce-Italian-Style-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Divorce-Italian-Style-768x433.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><!--more-->Divorce daydream.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1864\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/seduced2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/seduced2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/seduced2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Uh-oh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/seducedDVD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"348\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/seducedDVD.jpg 348w, https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/seducedDVD-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I admit it: what first drew me to these films was the awesome artwork on this DVD case. Well done, Criterion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two must-see comedies from Italian director Pietro Germi: Divorce Italian Style (1961) and Seduced and Abandoned (1964). They're about crazy Sicilian characters, awkward situations, ruined honor and teenage love interests. If I had to pick one it would be Seduced and Abandoned. They're both available next door at 9th Street Video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films","category-opinion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}