{"id":15105,"date":"2014-07-19T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T10:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15105"},"modified":"2014-07-19T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T10:28:36","slug":"boyhood-a-remarkable-film-that-most-people-will-never-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15105","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Boyhood&#8221; &#8211; a remarkable film that most people will never see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Linklater &#8211; who wrote and directed <em>&#8220;Boyhood&#8221;<\/em> over a period of 12 years &#8211; is a kind of genius but his films are the very antithesis of Hollywood blockbusters, Now, I love many blockbusters for their excitement, but Linklater offers something which I want as well: slow, thoughtful, domestic, dialogue-driven, convincing looks at life.<\/p>\n<p>Very few people will go to the cinema to see <em>&#8220;Boyhood&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; the average theatre-goer will find it too long and too slow. Downstream, more &#8211; but not that many more &#8211; will rent it or view it on television. But that&#8217;s a pity because this is a minor masterpiece. See my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsA-B.html#Boyhood\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Linklater &#8211; who wrote and directed &#8220;Boyhood&#8221; over a period of 12 years &#8211; is a kind of genius but his films are the very antithesis of Hollywood blockbusters, Now, I love many blockbusters for their excitement, but Linklater offers something which I want as well: slow, thoughtful, domestic, dialogue-driven, convincing looks at life. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15108,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15105\/revisions\/15108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}