{"id":1496,"date":"2012-05-02T23:58:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/?p=1496"},"modified":"2012-05-02T23:58:47","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T03:58:47","slug":"pickup-on-south-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/?p=1496","title":{"rendered":"Pickup on South Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffd500;\">\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0002087\/\">Samuel Fuller<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> 1953<\/p>\n<p>I was in the mood for a noir film. But this one played out differently. I&#8217;m surprised this got a Criterion treatment as well as all of the critical praise recently, versus the tepid one it received when it was released. I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s an okay noir film.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the highlights of the film is looking back at NYC in &#8217;53 and realizing just how bad the piers and docks were. If it&#8217;s to be believed that this man lived in a shack on the piers, pretty crazy. And as with any old New York film, I do love and miss those accents. I thought the police detective&#8217;s accent was awesome. Another amazing scene is where Candy gets beaten up. It&#8217;s an intense scene and the cinematography and orchestration is terrific.<\/p>\n<p>But what really annoyed me were those scenes where Vaseline is applied for close-ups of the actresses. It was really annoying because there was no need for it plus it was inconsistent. Oh well, sign of the times.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/films\/446-pickup-on-south-street\" target=\"_blank\">More Info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605 Director: Samuel Fuller Year: 1953 I was in the mood for a noir film. But this one played out differently. I&#8217;m surprised this got a Criterion treatment as well as all of the critical praise recently, versus the tepid one it received when it was released. I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s an okay noir film. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[25,17],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1496\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentlywatching.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}