{"id":14173,"date":"2016-09-06T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14173"},"modified":"2016-09-06T21:32:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T01:32:12","slug":"a-bigger-splash-on-blu-update-on-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14173","title":{"rendered":"A Bigger Splash on Blu + Update on Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Well, the events of the last 24 hours have been a bit surreal. After a bit of a wait, I was poised for a visit from Bell today, and yet between the allotted 8am-12pm, <em>no one came<\/em>. Cue ire, and another footnote in the absurd comedy that&#8217;s characterized my\u00a0month-old quest to have a functional phone (that part&#8217;s now good) and functional high-speed internet (not yet).<\/p>\n<p>I guess some stern words helped, because a technician was called in the evening, so perhaps when I return home, I&#8217;ll not only be able to climb out from a black hole of No Information (I know, there&#8217;s newspapers, radio, conversation, and random yelling on the subway, but it&#8217;s not the same as the world-world-weebe), but be able to start uploading the large files that have been idling on other media.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14189\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BiggerSplash_BR.jpg\" alt=\"BiggerSplash_BR\" width=\"120\" height=\"151\" \/>In the interim, I&#8217;ve posted a review of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14177\">A Bigger Splash<\/a><\/strong>, out on Blu via Fox, and\u00a0the second and latest remake of Jacques Deray&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5895\">La Piscine<\/a><\/strong> (1969), which Francois Ozon remade in 2003 as\u00a0<strong>Swimming Pool<\/strong>. Those who know me would expect I&#8217;d have reviews of all three films, but I&#8217;ve only access to the rated \/ bum-less edition, which isn&#8217;t the same; even\u00a0<strong>Splash<\/strong> has its share of European-styled nudity [tasteful &amp; naturelle], so I&#8217;ll save that review to run alongside the day I get my hands on the French Blu-ray that came out some time ago, and features both Deray&#8217;s French original and the weird English language version shot in tandem. (I kept hoping Criterion would put out their own special edition, since few of Deray&#8217;s films are available in Region 1 \/ A world, but no luck.)<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve actual, functional, 100% All-Mine! internet tonight, coming next is a review of Arrow&#8217;s rather reverent restoration of Blood Bath, a set that gathers the Roger Corman-produced <em>krimi <\/em><strong>Operation Titian<\/strong> (1963) which spawned\u00a0three differently edited films because someone wasn&#8217;t happy with Version A, B, C, or D.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of A Bigger Splash (2015) from Fox, the second and &#8216;splashiest&#8217; remake of Jacques Deray&#8217;s sun-dried drama of quiet indiscretions, La Piscine (1969) + an update of no internet for another week, courtesy of Bell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4612,4149,2562,2563,1710,4611,4613,4620,4618,4617],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/BiggerSplash_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3GB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14199,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14173\/revisions\/14199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}