{"id":9278,"date":"2005-07-28T22:00:14","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/28\/the-sicilian\/"},"modified":"2005-07-28T22:00:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T19:00:14","slug":"the-sicilian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/28\/the-sicilian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sicilian"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p><!-- IMDB tt0093966 --><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/rummovie\/tt0093966.jpg?w=660&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Sicilian (1987)\" \/>&#8220;<a href =\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093966\">The Sicilian<\/a>&#8221; sounded like a good mafia crime movie, which I am, I have to admit, a big fan of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by:<\/strong> Michael Cimino<br \/>\n<strong>Genres:<\/strong> Crime, Drama<br \/>\n<strong>Cast:<\/strong> Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Richard Bauer, Barbara Sukowa, Giulia Boschi, Ray McAnally, Barry Miller, Andreas Katsulas, Michael Wincott, Derrick Branche, Richard Venture, Ramon Bieri, Stanko Molnar<br \/>\n<strong>IMDB raintg:<\/strong> 5.0<br \/>\n<strong>My rating:<\/strong> 5.0 [rate 5.0]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It turned out to be a Sicilian version of a well-known Robin Hood story.  Maybe with more politics, guns, and blood involved, but not very different.  It&#8217;s also a type of movie that they usually show on TV, few decades after it was released.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also a very average movie.  There was nothing special about it what-so-ever.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>&#8220;The Sicilian&#8221; sounded like a good mafia crime movie, which I am, I have to admit, a big fan of. Directed by: Michael Cimino Genres: Crime, Drama Cast: Christopher Lambert, Terence Stamp, Joss Ackland, John Turturro, Richard Bauer, Barbara Sukowa, Giulia Boschi, Ray McAnally, Barry Miller, Andreas Katsulas, Michael Wincott, Derrick Branche, Richard Venture, Ramon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/28\/the-sicilian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sicilian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,24],"tags":[433],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-movies","tag-italian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9470,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/18\/yao-a-yao-yao-dao-waipo-qiao\/","url_meta":{"origin":9278,"position":0},"title":"Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"September 18, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Getting tired of Hollywood productions, I watch Chinese movies once in a while.\"Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao\" (aka \"Shanghai Triad\") was queued for today. 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