{"id":2067,"date":"2018-01-01T18:45:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2020-09-08T20:08:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T20:08:20","slug":"lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2018\/01\/lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"LUCKY [USA], THU 6 DECEMBER, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2KLLkj84GAo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry Dean Stanton shines in his final role as Lucky, a cantankerous, desert-dwelling, chain-smoking 90-year-old atheist. A heartening meditation on mortality, human connectedness and enlightenment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having out lived and out smoked his contemporaries, this fiercely independent atheist\u2019s life has revolved around a daily routine of yoga, crossword puzzles, TV game shows, and cigarettes. But as he contemplates the end of life, Lucky finds himself on a late journey of self-exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Dean Stanton&#8217;s final on-screen performance is funny, touching and beguiling, and particularly poignant in the knowledge that he passed away just days before the film\u2019s US cinema release.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s an award-winning first feature from actor-turned-director John Carroll Lynch (Fargo, Zodiac).<\/p>\n<p><em>No one who cares about movies and those rare actors who can elevate them into something unforgettable would dream of missing this scrappy, loving tribute to a virtuoso<\/em>. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/movies\/movie-reviews\/lucky-review-harry-dean-stanton-gets-the-goodbye-he-deserves-200091\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/28\/movies\/lucky-review-harry-dean-stanton.html\">New York Times Critic&#8217;s Pick<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This quirky drama \u2013 Stanton\u2019s last film \u2013 is really something to see.<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/film\/lucky-harry-dean-stanton-contemplates-his-own-mortality-1.3626840\">The Irish Times\u00a0<\/a><strong>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The sandblasted terrain of Stanton\u2019s face constitutes a movie within a movie, a life revealed in contemplation.<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/lucky-2017\">rogerebert.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>USA, 2017 |Language: English | 88 minutes | Cert: CLUB<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 \u00a0John Carroll Lynch<\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0<span lang=\"UZ-CYR\">Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr., Tom Skerritt and Beth Grant<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A short Irish film, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/235956209\">The Swimmer<\/a> [10 minutes], will be shown before the feature.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Harry Dean Stanton shines in his final role as Lucky, a cantankerous, desert-dwelling, chain-smoking 90-year-old atheist. A heartening meditation on mortality, human connectedness and enlightenment. Having out lived and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,51],"tags":[18,20,35,22,21,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}