{"id":515,"date":"2009-08-26T15:31:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=515"},"modified":"2009-08-26T15:31:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T21:31:30","slug":"passport-series-2009-starts-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/passport-series-2009-starts-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Passport Series 2009 Starts August 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Come! I implore you!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A last minute reminder that the Passport Series \u2013 Ragtag Cinema\u2019s annual program of cutting-edge new films from around the world \u2013 kicks off <strong>tonight at 7:00pm<\/strong> with <strong><em>The Song of Sparrows<\/em><\/strong>, a lyrical new Iranian film about family, class, ostriches(!), and tradition by Majid Majidi, the director of Academy Award-winner <em>The Children of Heaven<\/em> (1999). Arrive early to enjoy a glass of Darioush Iranian wine and stick around after the film for a talk by Safa Zinati, an Iranian art specialist and painter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajidi's artfully-composed film is a portrait of happenstance and perseverance... With its sweeping cinematography, utterly affectless acting, and humane perspective, <em>The Song of Sparrows<\/em> is a treat in every sense of the word.\u201d (Chris Barsanti, <em>Filmcritic.com<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A last minute reminder that the Passport Series \u2013 Ragtag Cinema\u2019s annual program of cutting-edge new films from around the world \u2013 kicks off tonight at 7:00pm with The Song of Sparrows, a lyrical new Iranian film about family, class, ostriches(!), and tradition by Majid Majidi, the director of Academy Award-winner The Children of Heaven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-films"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}