{"id":1858,"date":"2017-03-13T16:41:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T23:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=1858"},"modified":"2017-03-13T16:41:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T23:41:27","slug":"film-screening-of-yorgos-lanthimoss-the-lobster-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=1858","title":{"rendered":"Film Screening of Yorgos Lanthimos&#8217;s &#8220;The Lobster&#8221; (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1859\" src=\"https:\/\/test-comma-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Lobster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Lobster.jpg 800w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Lobster-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Lobster-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Lobster-705x392.jpg 705w, https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/The-Lobster-450x250.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Please join us for\u00a0<span class=\"m_6746833942936232070gmail-m_-8300382775493803885gmail-il\"><span class=\"m_6746833942936232070gmail-il\">COMMA<\/span><\/span>&#8216;s next event in our &#8220;Modernist Energies&#8221; program with a screening and discussion of Yorgos Lanthimos&#8217;s 2015 dystopian comedy,\u00a0<i>The Lobster,\u00a0<\/i>on Friday, March 17th at 1:00 in South Hall 2635.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"m_6746833942936232070gmail-m_-8300382775493803885gmail-m_-7191898378171247788gmail-page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"m_6746833942936232070gmail-m_-8300382775493803885gmail-m_-7191898378171247788gmail-section\">\n<div class=\"m_6746833942936232070gmail-m_-8300382775493803885gmail-m_-7191898378171247788gmail-layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"m_6746833942936232070gmail-m_-8300382775493803885gmail-m_-7191898378171247788gmail-column\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019s dystopian comedy centers on the frantic search for love and meaning in a strictly hierarchized\u00a0world in which failure to find companionship results in exclusion from the human species. Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz star as outcasts, living on the fringes of society to avoid capture and to discover alternatives to state-sanctioned romance. The Lobster won the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards. The screening will be followed by discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">As always, Pizza and drinks will be provided, so come hungry!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us for\u00a0COMMA&#8216;s next event in our &#8220;Modernist Energies&#8221; program with a screening and discussion of Yorgos Lanthimos&#8217;s 2015 dystopian comedy,\u00a0The Lobster,\u00a0on Friday, March 17th at 1:00 in South Hall 2635. Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019s dystopian comedy centers on the frantic search for love and meaning in a strictly hierarchized\u00a0world in which failure to find companionship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,55,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comma.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}