{"id":180,"date":"2019-03-28T23:59:54","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T04:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2019-05-28T20:01:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T01:01:56","slug":"girl-2018-march-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/girl-2018-march-28th\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl. NewScreen is on pointe once again."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\"\/><figcaption>Ouchy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been a lot of criticism from the LGBTQ (not sure if those are all the letters currently in use, to be honest) community of cisgender director Lukas Dhont&#8217;s directorial debut, <em>Girl<\/em>, based on a real life account of a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who has aspirations of one day becoming a ballet dancer. I guess I&#8217;m not qualified to appreciate or refute that criticism, but let me say this: I felt a lot of her pain through the artistry of this beautiful movie, and so did our audience. Once again this week, a  ripple of applause  spread through the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then there was banana bread \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our short tonight was a venerable favorite from MovieNight, and it remains timeless: <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Over Time (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/19024160\" target=\"_blank\">Over Time<\/a><\/em>, directed by Oury Atlan, Thibaut Berland, and Damien Ferri\u00e9. Sadly, it is titled &#8220;Overtime&#8221; on Vimeo, rather than &#8220;Over Time&#8221;, which is kind of the whole point.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8254556\/?ref_=ttcrv_crv_tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a lot of criticism from the LGBTQ (not sure if those are all the letters currently in use, to be honest) community of cisgender director Lukas Dhont&#8217;s directorial debut, Girl, based on a real life account of a 15-year-old girl, born in the body of a boy, who has aspirations of one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/girl-2018-march-28th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Girl. NewScreen is on pointe once again.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}