{"id":144954,"date":"2019-03-06T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=144954"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:03:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:03:15","slug":"film-comment-on-man-of-aran-1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=144954","title":{"rendered":"<i>Film Comment<\/i>: On <i>Man of Aran<\/i> (1934)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-of-aran-2_WEB.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-of-aran-2_WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144955\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-of-aran-2_WEB.jpg 625w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-of-aran-2_WEB-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-of-aran-2_WEB-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/man-of-aran-2_WEB-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nIn my latest for <i>Film Comment<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/blog\/tcm-diary-man-of-aran\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I wrote about Robert Flaherty&#8217;s &#8220;documentary&#8221;, <i>Man of Aran<\/i><\/a>, filmed out on the Aran Islands in 1932-33, released in 1934. Its footprint is pretty huge and if you go to the Aran Islands now, you can&#8217;t escape its presence. The story behind the story is almost more interesting than the film itself &#8211; but the footage of the island is awe-inspiring. I mean, look at this. <\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"894\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144964\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran.jpeg 894w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran-100x75.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran-200x149.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran-768x573.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran-400x298.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"894\" height=\"664\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran2.jpeg 894w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran2-100x74.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran2-200x149.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran2-768x570.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran2-400x297.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 894px) 100vw, 894px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"891\" height=\"666\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran3.jpeg 891w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran3-100x75.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran3-200x149.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran3-768x574.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran3-400x299.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"891\" height=\"668\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran4.jpeg 891w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran4-100x75.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran4-200x150.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran4-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aran4-400x300.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my latest for Film Comment, I wrote about Robert Flaherty&#8217;s &#8220;documentary&#8221;, Man of Aran, filmed out on the Aran Islands in 1932-33, released in 1934. Its footprint is pretty huge and if you go to the Aran Islands now, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=144954\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2493,35,2668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144968,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144954\/revisions\/144968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}