{"id":483,"date":"2003-10-08T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-08T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=483"},"modified":"2003-10-08T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-08T15:59:00","slug":"more-on-revivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/483","title":{"rendered":"More on revivals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, dance movies <i>are<\/i> sort of seeing a revival, what with MTV Films&#8217; &#8220;Save The Last Dance&#8221; and the recent explosion of onscreen musicals like Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s &#8220;Moulin Rouge&#8221; and &#8220;Chicago&#8221; (if you can count those as &#8216;dance&#8217; movies) but I&#8217;m not sure that such a small handful qualifies as a full-blown resurgance.  I&#8217;m all for it, though, if it means more scenes like Jim Broadbent doing those spastic backflips as Harold Zidler.<br \/>\nPersonally, I&#8217;d love to see some more good Westerns.  &#8220;Tombstone&#8221; was one of my favorite movies from the last decade or so.  And what Westerns there <i>are<\/i> on the short-term landscape are pretty bleak.  Costner.  Ugh.<br \/>\nDave, what do you want to see more of?  (And Erin, have you had any luck logging in yet?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, dance movies are sort of seeing a revival, what with MTV Films&#8217; &#8220;Save The Last Dance&#8221; and the recent explosion of onscreen musicals like Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s &#8220;Moulin Rouge&#8221; and &#8220;Chicago&#8221; (if you can count those as &#8216;dance&#8217; movies) but I&#8217;m not sure that such a small handful qualifies as a full-blown resurgance. I&#8217;m all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-7N","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}