{"id":953,"date":"2023-11-29T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2023-12-03T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T00:16:16","slug":"fremont-wednesday-november-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/29\/fremont-wednesday-november-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"Fremont &#8211; Afghan insomniac seeks intimacy with fortune cookie message."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/frem1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/frem1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/frem1-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Another magic moment at NewScreen tonight&#8230; Babak Jalali&#8217;s quietly observed Fremont (named for the California city in which our protagonist finds herself living, after escaping from Afghanistan as a translator to the US military) is ultimately a love story. Each character is vividly drawn in delicious black and white, rather Jarmushian at times, and with a great deal of subtle humor thrown in. The film was perhaps a bit too quiet to make it a hit, but please try to see it if you can. It&#8217;s available on Prime.<\/p>\n<p>Our short feature was another outstanding music video, <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/819250296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xena, featuring a track by Palestinian singer Nai Barghouti, remixed by Skrillex.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8591526\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another magic moment at NewScreen tonight&#8230; Babak Jalali&#8217;s quietly observed Fremont (named for the California city in which our protagonist finds herself living, after escaping from Afghanistan as a translator to the US military) is ultimately a love story. Each character is vividly drawn in delicious black and white, rather Jarmushian at times, and with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/29\/fremont-wednesday-november-29th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fremont &#8211; Afghan insomniac seeks intimacy with fortune cookie message.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-and-life","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}