{"id":1371,"date":"2010-07-15T07:22:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T12:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2010-07-15T07:42:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T12:42:36","slug":"chasing-russell-brandget-him-to-the-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/movie\/2010\/07\/15\/chasing-russell-brandget-him-to-the-greek\/","title":{"rendered":"~CHASING RUSSELL BRAND\/GET HIM TO THE GREEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Russell-kate.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Russell-kate.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Russell-&amp;--kate\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Russell-kate.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Russell-kate-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Russell-up-close.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Russell-up-close.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Russell-up-close\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Russell-up-close.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Russell-up-close-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/russell-street-poster-.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/russell-street-poster-.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"russell-street-poster-\" width=\"504\" height=\"378\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/russell-street-poster-.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/russell-street-poster--300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NYC, SUMMER 2010.<\/p>\n<p>if you are chasing TILDA SWINTON &#8211; forget about &#8216;I AM LOVE&#8217; &#8211; how does a movie that starts off so good &#8211; turn so bad ? and I  mean really bad. the opening shots and esp the black and white location photography is wonderful, and so are the titles, as in &#8220;SAN REMO&#8221;, which stretch from one end of the screen to the other in large black block letters . . . but that&#8217;s about it, it just gets too bad to even consider. the one interesting (art world) note &#8211;  the inlaid marble ??!! ground of the big pedestrian square in San Remo &#8211; seems to have been the uncredited inspiration for MARTIN CREED&#8217;S marble floor installation at Gavin Brown&#8217;s ??<\/p>\n<p>. . . but chasing the snake-hipped RUSSELL BRAND in &#8216;GET HIM TO THE GREEK&#8217; &#8211; now,  that paid off !! uncertain whether my big-time crush on all things Russell Brand was universal, I asked my colleague, film maven JAN ALBERT for her take. Jan&#8217;s reply:<br \/>\n&#8220;oh yes, I really enjoyed it &#8211; the music video  parody &#8211; African Child &#8211; was one of the funniest things I&#8217;ve seen in recent memory.&#8217; !! <\/p>\n<p>check out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gethimtothegreek.net\/\">GET HIM TO THE GREEK\/OFFICIAL WEBSITE !!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH, NYC, SUMMER 2010. if you are chasing TILDA SWINTON &#8211; forget about &#8216;I AM LOVE&#8217; &#8211; how does a movie that starts off so good &#8211; turn so bad ? and I mean really bad. the opening shots and esp the black and white location photography is wonderful, and so are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}