{"id":6268,"date":"2026-04-02T23:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6268"},"modified":"2026-04-03T19:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:52:44","slug":"seconds-by-john-frankenheimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/02\/seconds-by-john-frankenheimer\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Seconds<\/em> by John Frankenheimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 Tanking in Cannes, it dug too deep into the human condition even for Nouvelle Vague tastes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Incredibly bleak, existentialist, and Kafkaesque with mysterious machinations of an impenetrable system.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Howe\u2019s a giant, and his experimental shots with Arriflex handhelds pull the rug out from under guesses, beliefs, and certainties alike.<\/p>\n<p>The protagonist fails to make even a single unprompted decision, which probably wasn\u2019t well received either.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seconds_(1966_film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Seconds<\/em><\/a> by John Frankenheimer, 1966.<br \/>\nWatched at the Metropol theater on March 27, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/02\/seconds-by-john-frankenheimer\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Seconds by John Frankenheimer\"><p>\ud83c\udfac Perhaps, after the foreshadowing was left on the cutting room floor, the final shot works even better.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6360,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}