{"id":44658,"date":"2024-07-29T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T15:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=44658"},"modified":"2024-08-05T23:03:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T03:03:03","slug":"a-two-hearted-tale-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/29\/a-two-hearted-tale-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"A Two Hearted Tale (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2headed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2headed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2headed.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2headed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2headed-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Dave Chappelle asked for a Bell\u2019s Beer during a comedy set in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Taking a sip, he casually called out, &#8220;<em>The Two-Hearted Ale? Why the hell did you put a fish on the label?<\/em> &#8221; This is the story of that iconic trout label adorning the most popular it IPA beer in America, and its eccentric artist, Ladislav Hanka.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Selected to the Indy Film Festival, directors Rory McHarg &amp; Bret Miller create possibly one of the most niche short subject documentaries of the year, discussing how a small brewery became a big beer company and how a lot of their success hinged on the perfect label for their beer. There isn\u2019t a lot of focus on the dynamics of running a company, or the group of friends starting the company.<\/p>\n<p>Instead the pair of directors use the recurring topic of the beer label as conversation, garnering extensive conversations with artist Ladislav Hanka who spends a majority of the time taking us through the process of making the label, and his reasons for wanting include <span style=\"color: #808080;\">a portrait of writer John Voelker&#8211;pen name Robert Traver&#8211;(who wrote &#8220;Anatomy of a Murder&#8221;) <\/span>on the bottle. He also discusses painful issues like the litigation that followed after his estate was, at the time, was attempting to rehabilitate his image.<\/p>\n<p>He, of course, had a penchant for drinking. Nevertheless, despite being a very niche, it gets points for originality and I had a fine time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Chappelle asked for a Bell\u2019s Beer during a comedy set in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Taking a sip, he casually called out, &#8220;The Two-Hearted Ale? Why the hell did you put a fish on the label? &#8221; This is the story of that iconic trout label adorning the most popular it IPA beer in America, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[109,292,501,3433],"class_list":["post-44658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-art","tag-documentary","tag-indie-film","tag-short-fikm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44778,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44658\/revisions\/44778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}