{"id":36930,"date":"2020-07-31T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T18:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=36930"},"modified":"2021-08-19T05:38:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T12:38:32","slug":"rip-alan-parker-midnight-express-shoot-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2020\/07\/31\/rip-alan-parker-midnight-express-shoot-the-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Alan Parker Midnight Express, Shoot the Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaalanMickey1-e1596220151497.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaalanMickey1-e1596220151497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36942\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Alan Parker and Mickey Rourke)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cinephiliabeyond.org\/alan-parkers-angel-heart-astonishing-hell\/\">Alan Parker Angel Heart <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-news\/alan-parker-the-wall-midnight-express-dead-obituary-1037589\/\">Alan Parker Rolling Stone obit <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Sir Alan Parker, Director of \u2018The Wall,\u2019 \u2018The Commitments,\u2019 \u2018Midnight Express,\u2019 Dead at 76<br \/>\nBritish filmmaking giant also helmed Bugsy Malone, Mississippi Burning and Fame<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/07\/alan-parker-dies-director-of-bugsy-malone-midnight-express-evita-was-76-1203000762\/\">Midnight Express Director Alan Parker died <\/a> (Deadline obit) <\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/news-bfi\/features\/parkive-look-through-alan-parkers-archive\">Alan Parker&#8217;s Archive <\/a> (Notes, letters etc from BFI.org.UK)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><> <> <><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaBradalan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaBradalan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"464\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36934\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaBradalan.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaBradalan-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Brad Davis in Midnight Express)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SHOOT THE MOON - restaurant scene\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k3lEBYbFYWI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Albert Finney and Diane Keaton in Shoot the moon.<br \/>\n(His most personal film)<\/p>\n<p>Peter Bradshaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/jul\/31\/alan-parker-a-maker-of-glorious-films-with-a-gift-for-connecting-with-audiences\">A Guardian film critic who also loved &#8220;Shoot the Moon&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><> <> <><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1aaaDKshoot-the-moon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1aaaDKshoot-the-moon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"470\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1aaaDKshoot-the-moon.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/1aaaDKshoot-the-moon-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2017\/06\/24\/peter-weller-naked-lunch-actor-is-an-art-historian-of-italian-renaissance\/\">Peter Weller<\/a> and Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon)<\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaAngelas-Ashes-1999-e1629376621100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1aaaAngelas-Ashes-1999-e1629376621100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38970\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2009\/07\/20\/goodbye-teacher-man-rip-frank-mccourt\/\">Frank McCourt wrote Angela&#8217;s Ashes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Angela&#039;s Ashes (1999) Official Trailer #1 - Frank McCourt Movie HD\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NPXP17JJ4GY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Alan Parker and Mickey Rourke) Alan Parker Angel Heart Alan Parker Rolling Stone obit Sir Alan Parker, Director of \u2018The Wall,\u2019 \u2018The Commitments,\u2019 \u2018Midnight Express,\u2019 Dead at 76 British filmmaking giant also helmed Bugsy Malone, Mississippi Burning and Fame Midnight Express Director Alan Parker died (Deadline obit) Alan Parker&#8217;s Archive (Notes, letters etc from BFI.org.UK) &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2020\/07\/31\/rip-alan-parker-midnight-express-shoot-the-moon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Alan Parker Midnight Express, Shoot the Moon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}