{"id":3765,"date":"2016-01-15T23:59:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T04:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2016-01-17T15:17:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T20:17:49","slug":"movienight-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3765","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Bel rings true."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/diary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3771\" alt=\"diary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/diary.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/diary.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/diary-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marielle Heller&#8217;s <em>The Diary of a Teenage Girl<\/em> tells a story we&#8217;ve kind of heard before&#8230; teenage girl loses virginity to mother&#8217;s boyfriend&#8230; but this telling of it was so non-judgemental. Did anyone actually do anything\u00c2\u00a0morally <em>wrong<\/em> here, in the druggy haze of 70&#8217;s San Francisco? Certainly the director did not. Although the sex scenes were quite explicit, one never felt as though actress Bel Powley or her character, Minnie Goetz, were exploited&#8230; not an easy thing to pull off!<\/p>\n<p>Another great MovieNight, although there was a certain sadness in the air following the loss of David Bowie. Props to Marie for coming dressed in David style!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I had the pleasure of working on set with Ms. Powley just two days after MovieNight! I had no idea that this sweet girl was from my old stomping grounds of Shepherds Bush! I think the expression on my face says it all \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bandr.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3772\" alt=\"bandr\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bandr.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bandr.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/bandr-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Photograph by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drewjarrett.com\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Jarrett<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3172532\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" alt=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter cadbzengsbezmygwrwii cckvdgibximcesfrpsgm tiesouriqwlmstxfkwks cwnrlaugicmavbrryrlb\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/counter.dreamhost.com\/cgi-bin\/Count.cgi?df=fauxlimey-movienights.dat&amp;st=1952&amp;pad=F&amp;ft=0&amp;dd=D&amp;istrip=T\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marielle Heller&#8217;s The Diary of a Teenage Girl tells a story we&#8217;ve kind of heard before&#8230; teenage girl loses virginity to mother&#8217;s boyfriend&#8230; but this telling of it was so non-judgemental. Did anyone actually do anything\u00c2\u00a0morally wrong here, in the druggy haze of 70&#8217;s San Francisco? Certainly the director did not. Although the sex scenes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Diary of a Teenage Girl. Bel rings true.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765"}],"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=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}