{"id":14008,"date":"2021-01-17T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14008"},"modified":"2021-01-16T14:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T19:03:18","slug":"downhill-racer-1969-michael-ritchie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14008","title":{"rendered":"Downhill Racer (1969, Michael Ritchie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe they really don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like this anymore.  Watched on a whim, dunno Michael Ritchie (two <em>Fletch<\/em> movies and <em>Prime Cut<\/em>) and this isn&#8217;t about anything of interest (Robert Redford is a hotshot replacement skier on the US olympic team coached by Gene Hackman), but visually it&#8217;s really well put together.  Maybe not the undercranked-looking wide shots of ski races, but everywhere else the editing and movement is very alive.  Redford likes a girl, of course: Swedish Camilla Sparv (of <em>The Trouble with Angels<\/em>), who is working for a ski manufacturer, and of course he has rivalries with his teammates, including good dude Jim McMullan (of a couple Joel Schumacher movies), who gets laid up and misses the olympics.  Not running out and recommending this as an example of Pure Cinema, but more watchable than a late 60&#8217;s New Hollywood sports movie has any business being.<\/p>\n<p><em>What skiing leads to:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image20\/downhill.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe they really don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like this anymore. Watched on a whim, dunno Michael Ritchie (two Fletch movies and Prime Cut) and this isn&#8217;t about anything of interest (Robert Redford is a hotshot replacement skier on the US olympic team coached by Gene Hackman), but visually it&#8217;s really well put together. Maybe not the [&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":[410,13,2795,2698,2796,2797],"class_list":["post-14008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-criterion","tag-gene-hackman","tag-olympics","tag-robert-redford","tag-skiing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008","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=14008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14039,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14008\/revisions\/14039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}