{"id":13961,"date":"2020-12-21T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T01:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=13961"},"modified":"2020-12-21T11:10:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:10:24","slug":"the-chills-the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-martin-phillipps-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/13961","title":{"rendered":"The Chills: The Triumph and Tragedy of Martin Phillipps (2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you do keep drinking, you will die.&#8221;  Opens with Martin in the hospital, then hangs out as he curates a Chills exhibit from the lifelong collection of mementos and toys in his home, and narrates his own chronological Chills history through his clipping and media archives.  A pattern is set: his band makes a record, tours, breaks up, he starts a new band.  As always with these things, it assumes the audience cares most about the glory days, not the recent past, so we skip <em>Silver Bullets<\/em> and go straight into the recording of <em>Snow Bound<\/em>.  Some insight into major label finance: Warner Bros says he owes them $425,000.  Very average rock doc, assumes the viewer already believes Martin to be a tormented genius, and doesn&#8217;t bother trying to convince newcomers.  Some nice vintage concert video, at least.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/chills.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you do keep drinking, you will die.&#8221; Opens with Martin in the hospital, then hangs out as he curates a Chills exhibit from the lifelong collection of mementos and toys in his home, and narrates his own chronological Chills history through his clipping and media archives. A pattern is set: his band makes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1148,810,2073],"class_list":["post-13961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-indie-rock","tag-new-zealand","tag-rock-doc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13990,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13961\/revisions\/13990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}