{"id":1765,"date":"2012-01-09T15:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2012-01-17T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T18:56:34","slug":"movienight-wednesday-january-11th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1765","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Wednesdays is past."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1772\" href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?attachment_id=1772\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1772\" title=\"Ok, so I'm prettier than you. Whatever.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/future.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/future.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/future-300x165.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Wednesday night MovieNight experiment provided no scientific evidence that one night of the week is preferable to another, but I have come to my own conclusion: MovieNight belongs on a Thursday evening. So there you have it.<\/p>\n<p>One thing was abundantly clear, however. Miranda July is a &#8220;polarizer&#8221; (spell check tells me that this isn&#8217;t a real word&#8230; why the heck not?). <em>The Future<\/em> is the highly anticipated (at least by us) sophomoric effort from July. Her debut film, <em>Me and You and Everyone We Know<\/em> was my introduction to July, and it charmed me silly. A week after first watching it, <em>MandYandEWW<\/em> screened at MovieNight to a packed house. It was one of those magical evenings when I could look out from my perch behind the bar and see total engagement. Nobody &#8220;texted&#8221; (also not a word, according to Spelly McCheckinheimer), nobody slept, nobody chatted&#8230; just big wide eyes and smiles everywhere. In the weeks that followed, other guests explained that they hadn&#8217;t attended it because they&#8217;d seen it and hated it! Miranda the Polarizer.\u00c2\u00a0 While I confess that we weren&#8217;t exactly blown away with <em>The Future<\/em> when we saw it at IFC this summer, I still thought it would make a good MovieNight. Surprisingly, the second viewing (perhaps due to my preparedness to be underwhelmed?) was highly entertaining, and I found myself weeping with laughter. Maybe it&#8217;s about what phase the moon is in. ?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1235170\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Wednesday night MovieNight experiment provided no scientific evidence that one night of the week is preferable to another, but I have come to my own conclusion: MovieNight belongs on a Thursday evening. So there you have it. One thing was abundantly clear, however. Miranda July is a &#8220;polarizer&#8221; (spell check tells me that this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=1765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Future of Wednesdays is past.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1775,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}