{"id":4088,"date":"2016-12-22T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2017-01-02T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T22:57:09","slug":"movienight-christmas-special-thursday-december-22nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4088","title":{"rendered":"American Honey. British genius."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4093\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/amhoney.jpg\" alt=\"amhoney\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/amhoney.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/amhoney-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Writer\/director Andrea Arnold has long been a favorite at MovieNight. Of her previous works, <em>Red Road<\/em> (2006) and <em>Fish Tank<\/em> (2009)* have lit up our screen and thrilled our audiences. This time, she immersed us in a world of drifting American kids &#8211; on the road, selling magazines, partying and getting wasted. Although there&#8217;s not so much of a story to <em>American Honey<\/em>, it matters little. The action is enthralling, the casting is amazing (Sasha Lane and Shia LaBeouf rock), and each shot is absolutely gorgeous to look at, and feel part of&#8230; all 163 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Many of you were already away when we screened this, and I was briefly tempted to re-screen it, but there are just too many great movies to show you right now. At least there&#8217;s that to look forward to in 2017!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3721936\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-348 size-full\" 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;\"><em>*Wuthering Heights<\/em> (2011) is the only one of her films that I missed, somehow, but it&#8217;s just been added to my to-see list. I can only imagine how Ms. Arnold does Emily Bronte!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter cadbzengsbezmygwrwii cwnrlaugicmavbrryrlb omccpaycogunqbufrobb wtjuclruxqusvdimijbh dvrxkwbgaazeyxdedyib jmyguopgrrlcxkxhygif upbnqoyhmbntrkitpcbb ayatndoxczsgniinchac webctghasvclkkoqyzdg jzqaqrtdmqhwalpfzwwy zpkcqxpnfqyyjvayejxv igcaewbnhypcmzhpibvb wlirusqdnzvagfcbyxar txxeqdymvumbjqksgura zhuuwmpjmrhnvdzxqyna mylwidlbiiqgggfeclwp uhuziawnpkmsqzdnooyz qnualnxvxetsbuzhsuug kaqzkiivyzebyuoxikru chnudiequqorlitwcwfi mlhvaxhlqlkjfiribkbn fqkhuayyzbhyzlvgfpjy fvcqsbmvofemewepbdwz cjuecrxaxbzfbpgevruw xwwjhorsxentfxngucht kgbzkxksuuttamerdhsd kahaxqlapseqycmwnsav tnvsblxaucfxcnmpufvo\" 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\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer\/director Andrea Arnold has long been a favorite at MovieNight. Of her previous works, Red Road (2006) and Fish Tank (2009)* have lit up our screen and thrilled our audiences. This time, she immersed us in a world of drifting American kids &#8211; on the road, selling magazines, partying and getting wasted. Although there&#8217;s not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=4088\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">American Honey. British genius.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4092,"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\/4088"}],"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=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4101,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions\/4101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}