{"id":1129,"date":"2008-05-09T17:19:26","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T16:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2015-03-22T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T10:08:14","slug":"dont-miss-i-served-the-king-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1129","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I Served the King of England&#8217; opens in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2693\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/servedkingenglandcliff2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2693\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2693\" title=\"servedkingenglandcliff2\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/servedkingenglandcliff2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/servedkingenglandcliff2.jpg 599w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/servedkingenglandcliff2-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2693\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivan Barnev is sublime as a resourceful waiter in Jiri Menzel&#8217;s Czech masterpiece<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0best film I saw at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival was called &#8220;I Served the King of England&#8221; and today it is released finally in the U.K., first at London&#8217;s Barbican Centre and then to select cinemas nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Smart, ironic and surreal, like Bohumil Hrabal&#8217;s novel on which it&#8217;s based, &#8220;I Served the King of England,&#8221; is often flat-out hilarious. It was third on my Top 10 for 2007 behind only &#8220;The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford&#8221; and &#8220;The Band&#8217;s Visit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See my review of the film here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=14\">post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0best film I saw at the 2007 Berlin International Film Festival was called &#8220;I Served the King of England&#8221; and today it is released finally in the U.K., first at London&#8217;s Barbican Centre and then to select cinemas nationally. Smart, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=1129\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,14],"tags":[106,363,701],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-notes","category-reviews","tag-i-served-the-king-of-england","tag-barbican","tag-jiri-menzel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5607,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}