{"id":57,"date":"2006-06-25T23:46:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T03:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/57"},"modified":"2009-05-18T17:52:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:52:52","slug":"a-prairie-home-companion-2006-robert-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/57","title":{"rendered":"A Prairie Home Companion (2006, Robert Altman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Totally enjoyed it.  Jim compares it to <em>Neil Young: Heart of<br \/>\nGold<\/em> in how the performances look + feel, and that&#8217;s about right (except<br \/>\nwithout the harsh video look of <em>NY:HoG<\/em>).  Lotta performances and backstage<br \/>\nmusings about life, death and endings.  Except for the Tommy Lee Jones<br \/>\npart, it&#8217;s almost done mockumentary-style.  If I didn&#8217;t know a little bit<br \/>\nabout R Altman, I&#8217;d think they shot three times as much material and put<br \/>\nthe thing together in the editing room.  Tricky to make a fully-scripted<br \/>\nmovie seem so free, but he always manages.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t listen to the radio show and wouldn&#8217;t have recognized Garrison<br \/>\nKeillor&#8217;s voice before seeing the movie, so can&#8217;t comment on how it treats<br \/>\nthe legacy of his show.  Very well, I&#8217;d imagine, since he wrote it and<br \/>\nco-stars.  I&#8217;ve read negative comments about Kline, Jones, Lohan and<br \/>\nMadsen&#8217;s characters, but I ate it right up&#8230; enjoyed all of them.  Way to<br \/>\ncombine humor with horror.  I felt it was worth the ticket price right when<br \/>\nthe opening credits started&#8230; all those names of some of my favorite<br \/>\nactors together up on screen.  I&#8217;d happily call it Altman&#8217;s best film in a<br \/>\ndecade, but I have sort of a soft spot for <em>Cookie&#8217;s Fortune<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Totally enjoyed it. Jim compares it to Neil Young: Heart of Gold in how the performances look + feel, and that&#8217;s about right (except without the harsh video look of NY:HoG). Lotta performances and backstage musings about life, death and endings. Except for the Tommy Lee Jones part, it&#8217;s almost done mockumentary-style. If I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,19],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-robert-altman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2446,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/2446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}