{"id":73164,"date":"2013-11-25T06:59:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73164"},"modified":"2013-11-25T07:04:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T12:04:19","slug":"introduction-to-classic-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73164","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Classic Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/only_angels_have_wings.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/only_angels_have_wings.jpg\" alt=\"only_angels_have_wings\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/only_angels_have_wings.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/only_angels_have_wings-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/only_angels_have_wings-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/only_angels_have_wings-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Siren has an amazing post up about what films you should show to someone who has never seen a movie pre-1960, outside of, oh, <i>Wizard of Oz<\/i> or <i>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/i>. How do you introduce someone (students, let&#8217;s say, although it can be broader than that) to the wealth of genius in films from Hollywood&#8217;s Golden Era?  She &#8220;crowd sourced&#8221; the post on Facebook, getting suggestions from her voluminous readership, a comments section that was rich with suggestions.  So there are actually two posts that you need to read:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/easy-to-love-ten-classics-for-people.html\">Easy to Love: Ten Classics For People Who Don&#8217;t Know Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/selfstyledsiren.blogspot.com\/2013\/11\/gateways-to-classic-films-whole-bunch.html\">A Whole Bunch of Other Classic Film Suggestions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My contribution was <i>Only Angels Have Wings<\/i>, which I consider to be a perfect and timeless film.  <\/p>\n<p>What would you suggest?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Siren has an amazing post up about what films you should show to someone who has never seen a movie pre-1960, outside of, oh, Wizard of Oz or It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life. How do you introduce someone (students, let&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=73164\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164"}],"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=73164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73169,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73164\/revisions\/73169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}