{"id":1462,"date":"2017-01-18T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2017-01-18T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T15:42:38","slug":"every-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=1462","title":{"rendered":"Every winter&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rewatch Polanski&#8217;s <em>Dance of the Vampires<\/em>. It&#8217;s paper snow and spray-on cobwebs, you never lose sight of the stage, but these are glowing, picture book storyboards of folklore and fireside ghost tales, with details from someone who grew up in a land where wolves still prowled, before the smoke and dust of war consumed everything. And under the tavern and camp comedy is a dreamlike terror, how would <em>you<\/em> cope, driving home the stake? Scattered about the film are touches of greatness. An indoor snowfall from an off-screen skylight precedes the Count&#8217;s first appearance, his intended entranced. When the innkeeper is brought home dead, bitten and iced through, Polanski has him strike the pose of a man running, or sneaking about, frozen in motion. He gets the best actors, best score, best script, does all the hard work of a competent director and then adds something more. Write your line, and just when the reader reels at the close, lay on a deeper meaning, evoke a memory mislaid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170118_134633-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1463\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170118_134633-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170118_134633-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_20170118_134633-1-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rewatch Polanski&#8217;s Dance of the Vampires. It&#8217;s paper snow and spray-on cobwebs, you never lose sight of the stage, but these are glowing, picture book storyboards of folklore and fireside ghost tales, with details from someone who grew up in a land where wolves still prowled, before the smoke and dust of war consumed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1468,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}