{"id":925,"date":"2012-09-14T19:02:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T18:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=925"},"modified":"2013-01-04T08:24:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T07:24:24","slug":"the-firemens-ball","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/the-firemens-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Firemen&#8217;s Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"eventPage\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-firemens-ball.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-firemens-ball-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Still from The Firemen&#039;s Ball\" title=\"The Firemen&#039;s Ball\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-firemens-ball-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/the-firemens-ball.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><!--<h2><\/h2>--><p class=\"archiveTitle\">Friday, 07 December 2012: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/the-firemens-ball\/\" target=\"_self\">The Firemen&#039;s Ball<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"timeDate\">Friday, 07 December 2012, 20:00<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"venue\"><strong>Venue<\/strong>: Forest Row Village Hall (see <a href=\"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/location-and-tickets\/\">Locations and Tickets<\/a> for further details)<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"strand\"><strong>Programme category<\/strong>: Forest Row Film Society<\/p>\r\n\r<\/p>\n<p>Director: Milo\u0161 Forman, Czech 1967, 70 mins, U<\/p>\n<p>The fire department in a small town is organising a big party to celebrate the 80th birthday of the ex-boss. The whole town is invited but things don&#8217;t quite go to plan. A sensitive and very funny film which is a milestone in Czech cinema.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>it&#8217;s the best work Forman&#8217;s done, rooted in a social reality that has eluded him in his American projects, and directed with a nonlinear suppleness that suggests the formal achievement of Jacques Tati.\u201d <em>Chicago Reader<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Further Reading<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/187-the-firemen-s-ball\">Criterion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20020804\/REVIEWS08\/208040301\/1023\">Roger Ebert<\/a>, Chicago Sun-Times<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sensesofcinema.com\/2010\/cteq\/the-firemen%E2%80%99s-ball\/\">Senses of Cinema<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/milosforman.com\/en\/movies\/the-firemens-ball\">Milo\u0161 Forman&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q9yI9kny118\">Interview with Forman about the film<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Clip<\/h4>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zlSb-KV8NWc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: Milo\u0161 Forman, Czech 1967, 70 mins, U The fire department in a small town is organising a big party to celebrate the 80th birthday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":926,"parent":703,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925\/revisions\/1379"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}