{"id":7956,"date":"2008-04-12T12:57:15","date_gmt":"2008-04-12T16:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7956"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:58:30","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:58:30","slug":"an-anecdotal-film-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7956","title":{"rendered":"An anecdotal film review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is an anecdotal film review?  <a href=\"http:\/\/cinemastyles.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/only-connect.html\">Jonathan explains what he wants to try to do<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m going to review films by relating a story. Nowhere in the story will be any mention of the film whatsoever. It&#8217;s up to you, the reader, to interpret the story with the film any way you wish but hopefully, if you&#8217;ve seen the movie or even if you haven&#8217;t, you&#8217;ll understand why the story connects to the movie for me. But more than that, I do not intend this as a gimmick. I intend it as a legitimate way to review a movie. I don&#8217;t see it as something many others would want to do, but I like the idea of it. I&#8217;ll hope you&#8217;ll agree. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His first anecdotal review is up.  <a href=\"http:\/\/cinemastyles.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/anecdotal-review-ai-artificial.html\">He reviews <i>AI<\/i>, but never mentions the film<\/a>.  Jonathan tells such a terrific story that I forgot about the film review part of it.  The last line of the post is just perfect.   (Actors, theatre students, directors of plays &#8211; anyone who has been or is any one of those things &#8211; will eat that post up &#8211; with its view of a college acting environment &#8211; I just so recognized it!!).  It&#8217;s an intriguing idea, the anecdotal film review, and I might have to try my hand at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is an anecdotal film review? Jonathan explains what he wants to try to do: I&#8217;m going to review films by relating a story. Nowhere in the story will be any mention of the film whatsoever. It&#8217;s up to you, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=7956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956"}],"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=7956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23428,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions\/23428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}