{"id":2534,"date":"2014-08-31T05:52:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T05:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=2534"},"modified":"2014-08-31T05:52:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T05:52:31","slug":"love-is-strange-and-the-film-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/31\/love-is-strange-and-the-film-is-beautiful\/","title":{"rendered":"Love IS Strange and the Film is Beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Love<\/a><\/p>\n

Today’s lesson: When Rick Atkins <\/a>picks a movie that ISN’T American Pie, go. Tonight we saw Love Is Strange<\/a>\u00a0– a warm, loving, measured story beautifully built and executed. \u00a0I am still reeling from The Normal Heart, as I wrote here<\/a> \u00a0and I hadn’t wanted another sad tale in the same week.<\/p>\n

SO when I heard what this film was about, I balked. No More Sad. I ended up agreeing to go though, and am so very glad I did.<\/p>\n

In most cases with “small” films like this people say they’ll wait for Netflix; there are no special effects or broad vistas that require the big screen. In this case though, Manhattan was such a part of the story that it was worth seeing it in all its glory.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t even sad. \u00a0Sad things happened but there was so much love and humor, Charlie Tahan<\/a>, the young man in this photo, was so wonderful and\u00a0Lithgow<\/a> and Molina<\/a>‘s couple was so much like any couple who’d been together a long time that there was also a deep familiarity that was a great part of the pleasure on the journey we took with them all.<\/p>\n

No big conclusions here. \u00a0We just got home and these are my first reactions but I doubt they will change; go and see for yourself and comment here if you have thoughts to share.<\/p>\n

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Today’s lesson: When Rick Atkins picks a movie that ISN’T American Pie, go. Tonight we saw Love Is Strange\u00a0– a warm, loving, measured story beautifully built and executed. \u00a0I am still reeling from The Normal Heart, as I wrote here \u00a0and I hadn’t wanted another sad tale in the same week. SO when I heard … Continue reading Love IS Strange and the Film is Beautiful<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,28,7],"tags":[2795,2799,2800,3417,991,2794,2797,2796,1619,2798],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-culture","category-film","category-life","tag-alfred-molina","tag-catholic-church","tag-charlie-tahan","tag-family","tag-gay-marriage","tag-john-lithgow","tag-love-is-strange","tag-marisa-tomei","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-housing-costs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-ES","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}