{"id":628,"date":"2004-12-04T01:59:03","date_gmt":"2004-12-04T04:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=628"},"modified":"2006-01-01T12:40:36","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T16:40:36","slug":"falling-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=628","title":{"rendered":"Falling Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span> saw <a href=\".\/wp-content\/misc\/Fallingleaves.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right;margin:5px\" alt=\"sm_fallingleaves.jpg\"   src=\".\/wp-content\/misc\/sm_fallingleaves.jpg\" width=\"122\" height=\"69\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> &#8216;Hero&#8217; (<a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/001810.html\">mentioned before<\/a>) and was impressed. It&#8217;s not as much a <em>martial arts<\/em> feature special, but mostly a visual spectacle. And an amazing use of colours in the scenes and scenery. Stunning.\n<\/p>\n<p>The movie was nominated for an Oscar (&#8216;Foreign Feature filn&#8217;) in 2002, which (alas) went to a <a href=\"http:\/\/awardsdatabase.oscars.org\/ampas_awards\/DisplayMain.jsp?curTime=1102139417754\">German movie<\/a>.  Back in Europe, I remember seeing a couple of other Yimou movies, (notably &#8216;Raise the Red Lantarn&#8217;) in small movie theatres. It&#8217;s a nice surprise to see a movie of him making it to a DVD aisle in a local Sobeys store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw &#8216;Hero&#8217; (mentioned before) and was impressed. It&#8217;s not as much a martial arts feature special, but mostly a visual spectacle. And an amazing use of colours in the scenes and scenery. Stunning. The movie was nominated for an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=628\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}