{"id":17972,"date":"2013-03-06T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17972"},"modified":"2013-03-06T13:33:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T18:33:57","slug":"the-rock-video-stylings-of-michel-gondry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rock-video-stylings-of-michel-gondry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock Video Stylings of Michel Gondry"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hghFCkIKmPY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Provided the snow that&#8217;s expected to fall in Delaware and points south of Philadelphia doesn&#8217;t blow up to New York tomorrow I am planning on seeing director <strong>Michel Gondry<\/strong> introduce and discuss the influence of the 1963 film British kitchen-sink film\u00a0<em>Billy Liar<\/em> at the IFC Center.<\/p>\n<p>I really like Gondry&#8217;s movies and rock videos. I simply like his all-around style, which is why I&#8217;m most interested in hearing him talk about this movie I saw years ago and liked well enough (but not as much as some other movies from that period). I didn&#8217;t realize until reading up on him, though, that he was also a drummer in a French band, Oui Oui, and that he directed a certain favorite video with obvious debts to this Oui Oui video&#8230;<em>after the jump<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/urrbhgC8PB0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Anyhow, I&#8217;m not exactly what you would call a &#8220;visual guy&#8221;\u2014or at least I&#8217;ve never developed a vocabulary for discussing what appeals to me visually the way I can do so \u00a0regarding sound, but Gondry&#8217;s videos and movies resonate with me. I look forward to possibly learning a little more about what his work means to me.<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vXhEDuL5DGg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provided the snow that&#8217;s expected to fall in Delaware and points south of Philadelphia doesn&#8217;t blow up to New York tomorrow I am planning on seeing director Michel Gondry introduce and discuss the influence of the 1963 film British kitchen-sink film\u00a0Billy Liar at the IFC Center. I really like Gondry&#8217;s movies and rock videos. I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rock-video-stylings-of-michel-gondry\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}