{"id":3103,"date":"2012-09-20T21:15:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T02:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2012-09-20T21:15:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T02:15:50","slug":"ai-wei-wei-never-sorry-opens-friday-sept-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/ai-wei-wei-never-sorry-opens-friday-sept-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry opens Friday, Sept. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=3104\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ai-web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"276\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3104\" \/><\/a>We're happy to bring you another popular film from this year's True\/False Festival.  <\/p>\n<p>\"Remember Tank Man? The unknown Chinese protester who stalled a line of armored vehicles during the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square? What he was to those tanks, the artist-provocateur Ai Weiwei is to the entire Chinese government: a solitary figure who simply will not back down.<\/p>\n<p>Alison Klayman\u2019s documentary is one of the most engagingly powerful movies of the year almost completely on the strength of Ai\u2019s rumpled charisma and the confusion it creates in the bureaucratic mindset of the Chinese Communist Party. A big, burly bear of a man, with a caustic sense of humor behind deadpan eyes, he\u2019s a culture jammer who began as an artist with political tendencies but has become an activist who happens to make art. The film captures the events of 2010 and early 2011, when Ai\u2019s stubborn insistence on being heard \u2014 on the right of every Chinese man and woman to be heard \u2014 was gathering force and making him an icon both in China and internationally.\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/movies\/2012\/08\/02\/weiwei-review-art-and-the-activist\/nfBkWGLyv7BJiiz2L7CHCO\/story.html\" title=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">--Ty Burr, Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/youtu.be\/2dtfeh6a01c[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We're happy to bring you another popular film from this year's True\/False Festival. \"Remember Tank Man? The unknown Chinese protester who stalled a line of armored vehicles during the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square? What he was to those tanks, the artist-provocateur Ai Weiwei is to the entire Chinese government: a solitary figure who simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}