{"id":2412,"date":"2014-09-19T09:58:37","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2412"},"modified":"2014-09-19T09:59:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T16:59:01","slug":"los-angeles-the-city-in-cinema-the-killing-of-a-chinese-bookie-john-cassavetes-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2412","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles, the City in Cinema: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (John Cassavetes, 1978)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106575934\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The 1970s grotesque of John Cassavetes Los Angeles gangster action movie takes place not in the margins of the city, but in a city made up of nothing but margins: mediocre eateries, empty gas stations, parking garages, and the strip club owned by its businessman-turned-hitman protagonist. Tasked with finding and killing the titular &#8220;Chinese bookie&#8221; in this vast, taste-orthogonal void, he must set and stick for dear life to his own set of standards, no matter how garish or delusional they appear.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more of\u00a0The City in Cinema on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/channels\/811600\">its Vimeo channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1970s grotesque of John Cassavetes Los Angeles gangster action movie takes place not in the margins of the city, but in a city made up of nothing but margins: mediocre eateries, empty gas stations, parking garages, and the strip club owned by its businessman-turned-hitman protagonist. Tasked with finding and killing the titular &#8220;Chinese bookie&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2412\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}