{"id":3091,"date":"2009-05-15T13:49:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T18:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2009-08-28T18:57:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T23:57:26","slug":"opening-in-theaters-may-15th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=3091","title":{"rendered":"Opening in theaters May 15th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3092\" title=\"big_man_japan_main_a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/big_man_japan_main_a-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"big_man_japan_main_a\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/big_man_japan_main_a-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/big_man_japan_main_a-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/big_man_japan_main_a-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/big_man_japan_main_a.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>The best movie of last year, not released to US theaters, was <em>Big Man Japan<\/em>, a hilarious, moving, silly, deadpan, ridiculous mockumentary. Imagine if Christopher Guest made a movie about Godzilla, as if he were real, and you sort of get the idea, but it is a lot better than that description. <em>Big Man Japan <\/em>is in limited release theatrically, but it will be on DVD on July 28th for everyone who doesn&#8217;t live in a major US city. You can read about my reaction to <em>Big Man Japan<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=1318\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s Rian Johnson&#8217;s follow-up to <em>Brick<\/em>, <em>The Brothers Bloom, <\/em>a Wes Andersonish version of David Mamet, with Mark Ruffalo and Adrien Brody as two con-men brothers who never let each other or the audience know when their game is up. You can read my review<a href=\"http:\/\/www.regrettablesincerity.com\/?p=2842\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best movie of last year, not released to US theaters, was Big Man Japan, a hilarious, moving, silly, deadpan, ridiculous mockumentary. Imagine if Christopher Guest made a movie about Godzilla, as if he were real, and you sort of get the idea, but it is a lot better than that description. Big Man Japan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,15],"tags":[5188,3798,728,2909,275,144,3504,4087,210,2987,4088,307,4600,1206,140,5189,3795,1035,4085,772,2589,4086,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regrettablesincerity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}