{"id":39723,"date":"2024-01-21T16:20:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39723"},"modified":"2024-01-21T16:20:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T22:20:12","slug":"word-of-the-day-935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/01\/21\/word-of-the-day-935\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Slow cinema<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Slow cinema<\/b>\u00a0is a genre of\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Art cinema\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_cinema\">art cinema<\/a>\u00a0characterised by a style that is\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Minimalist\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minimalist\">minimalist<\/a>, observational, and with little or no\u00a0<a title=\"Narrative\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narrative\">narrative<\/a>, and which typically emphasizes\u00a0<a title=\"Long take\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_take\">long takes<\/a>.\u00a0It is sometimes called &#8220;contemplative cinema&#8221;.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slow_cinema\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/movies\/2024\/01\/17\/end-we-start-from-movie-review\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The End We Start From\u2019: Slow cinema\u2019s version of the apocalypse<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Michael O&#8217;Sullivan, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You could also call [The End We Start From] \u2014 directed with a slack sense of urgency by Mahalia Belo, making her theatrical feature debut, and written by Alice Birch (\u201cLady Macbeth\u201d), based on Megan Hunter\u2019s 2017 book \u2014 slow cinema\u2019s version of a post-apocalyptic thriller. Paradoxically, not juicing up the stakes with expensive effects and emotional baloney has the effect of making the situation seem at times more, not less, dire. Comer is especially good at conveying a sense of genuine, if weirdly relaxed, panic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slow cinema: Slow cinema\u00a0is a genre of\u00a0art cinema\u00a0characterised by a style that is\u00a0minimalist, observational, and with little or no\u00a0narrative, and which typically emphasizes\u00a0long takes.\u00a0It is sometimes called &#8220;contemplative cinema&#8221;. [Wikipedia] Noted in &#8220;\u2018The End We Start From\u2019: Slow cinema\u2019s version of the apocalypse,&#8221; Michael O&#8217;Sullivan, WaPo: You could also call \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/01\/21\/word-of-the-day-935\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39724,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39723\/revisions\/39724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}