{"id":787,"date":"2012-02-07T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/02\/the-producer-behind-the-artist.html"},"modified":"2012-02-07T10:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T18:25:00","slug":"the-producer-behind-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/02\/the-producer-behind-the-artist.html","title":{"rendered":"The Producer Behind &quot;The Artist&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CRAZY ideas come and go; most don&#8217;t see the light of day. When millions of dollars are required, it&#8217;s even harder for unorthodox notions to go anywhere.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UFINzRB__IU\/TzFsfj5ZBKI\/AAAAAAAABQY\/L2bRRcz9OPE\/s1600\/Thomas_Langmann_Ce%CC%81sars_2009.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-UFINzRB__IU\/TzFsfj5ZBKI\/AAAAAAAABQY\/L2bRRcz9OPE\/s1600\/Thomas_Langmann_Ce%CC%81sars_2009.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>So when Michel Hazanavicius decided he wanted to make a black-and-white silent film, he needed a lunatic to finance the project. He found one. HERE is my Q&#038;A with Thomas Langmann, the producer who made <i>The Artist<\/i> &#8212; nominated for 10 Academy Awards &#8212; happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRAZY ideas come and go; most don&#8217;t see the light of day. When millions of dollars are required, it&#8217;s even harder for unorthodox notions to go anywhere. So when Michel Hazanavicius decided he wanted to make a black-and-white silent film, he needed a lunatic to finance the project. He found one. HERE is my Q&#038;A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[76,124,40,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-film","7":"category-french","8":"category-indie","9":"category-los-angeles","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}