{"id":23853,"date":"2021-12-14T09:15:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23853"},"modified":"2021-12-14T09:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T15:15:51","slug":"very-quick-note-on-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23853","title":{"rendered":"Very quick note on film."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I initially wasn&#8217;t going to blog this, but decided to throw it up here just for the sake of discussion:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/item\/prn-21-078\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 2021 list of films added to the National Film Registry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My quick takes: I like &#8220;Stop Making Sense&#8221;, and it is a great concert film, but is it of &#8220;cultural, historic or aesthetic importance&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I approve of &#8220;Strangers on a Train&#8221;, but I haven&#8217;t seen that since the days UT had a film program&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Long Goodbye&#8221;? Seriously? <strong>Do not<\/strong> get me started on that one.<\/p>\n<p>I have never seen &#8220;Pink Flamingos&#8221;, and I&#8217;m not really that interested in John Waters films in general. But I&#8217;m reminded of Roger Ebert&#8217;s review:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/pink-flamingos-1997\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Note: I am not giving a star rating to \u201cPink Flamingos,\u201d because stars simply seem not to apply. It should be considered not as a film but as a fact, or perhaps as an object.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I initially wasn&#8217;t going to blog this, but decided to throw it up here just for the sake of discussion: The 2021 list of films added to the National Film Registry. My quick takes: I like &#8220;Stop Making Sense&#8221;, and it is a great concert film, but is it of &#8220;cultural, historic or aesthetic importance&#8221;? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23854,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853\/revisions\/23854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}