{"id":120,"date":"2008-04-02T12:57:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T12:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattblake.wordpress.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2008-07-02T14:09:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T14:09:29","slug":"rip-jules-dassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/rip-jules-dassin\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P Jules Dassin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard that Jules Dassin died a couple of days ago.  Dassin was an American, but made most of his films in Europe after being blacklisted.  I rate <strong>Rififi <\/strong>very highly.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good obituary in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/jules-dassin-maker-of-gritty-thrillers-forced-into-exile-by-the-hollywood-blacklist-803507.html\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk']);\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent<\/a>, which starts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The career of the film-maker Jules Dassin \u2013 from the cycle of realistically gritty thrillers with which he gained initial recognition in Hollywood to the embarrassingly high-falutin literary adaptations to which he turned his attention during his later exile in Europe \u2013 described a descending spiral which was more or less parallel to that followed by Joseph Losey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just heard that Jules Dassin died a couple of days ago. Dassin was an American, but made most of his films in Europe after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}