{"id":9071,"date":"2014-03-23T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T00:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2014-03-21T16:12:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T20:12:29","slug":"natan-2013-paul-duane-david-cairns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9071","title":{"rendered":"Natan (2013, Paul Duane &#038; David Cairns)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not as relentlessly <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4791\">Decasia<\/a>n as the trailer suggests, actually settles down into a normal storytelling groove of interview material for a good while, but punctuated by Natan&#8217;s papier-mache-headed stand-in, a few effects shots of a wall of posters, and that voiceover by The Film Itself.  These are all evocative additions &#8211; the poster gallery returns re-postered before and after the nazi invasion, and some of the scant footage of Natan himself, at his trial, has him repeatedly covering his head with a newspaper.  This is already more thoughtful stylistic presentation than most documentaries get, then the voiceover and bookending Melies stories put it over the top.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/natan1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Plus the story is killer, one of those subjects that researchers dream of &#8211; a chance to correct the wrongs of history.  Bernard Natan isn&#8217;t set up as a saint, but at the very least an important figure in history, a founder of French cinema who deserved a better end and reputation than he got.  The directors even scored an interview with the academic who brought the unfounded rumors and nazi-era smears into the modern age, a villain of the picture though he doesn&#8217;t seem to realize it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image14\/natan2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not as relentlessly Decasian as the trailer suggests, actually settles down into a normal storytelling groove of interview material for a good while, but punctuated by Natan&#8217;s papier-mache-headed stand-in, a few effects shots of a wall of posters, and that voiceover by The Film Itself. These are all evocative additions &#8211; the poster gallery returns [&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":[1049,1781,1072,93,91,541,248],"class_list":["post-9071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-bernard-natan","tag-david-cairns","tag-documentary","tag-filmmaking","tag-melies","tag-nazis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071","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=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9099,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions\/9099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}