{"id":648,"date":"2009-11-19T22:34:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T04:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2009-11-19T22:34:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T04:34:46","slug":"school-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/school-daze\/","title":{"rendered":"School Daze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/gfx\/images\/arts\/photos\/2009\/10\/22\/arts-an-education-584.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"257\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>An Education<\/strong><\/em>, a coming-of-age study of teen girlhood in early '60s London, and a likely Oscar contender, opens <strong>Friday, November 20<\/strong>.\u00a0 \"As you may have heard, a star is born in An Education,\" writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifc.com\/news\/2009\/10\/fear-and-learning.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rob Nelson<\/a> for IFC.com. \"As Jenny, an early 60s suburban London teen who considers giving up Oxford for a man almost twice her age, Carey Mulligan is a stunner -- quick-witted and graceful in the old school rom-com tradition. The movie, too, is a snappy throwback to earlier charms -- part of the current pre-sexual revolution revival, along with <em>Mad Men<\/em> and the Beatles reissues (the first half of them, anyway). Pleasingly conventional, <em>An Education<\/em> teaches us again that there's almost nothing harder to resist in movies than a girl's makeover, particularly when the change is philosophical as well as cosmetic.\"<\/p>\n<p>Check our Coming Soon page for some of the film opening in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Education, a coming-of-age study of teen girlhood in early '60s London, and a likely Oscar contender, opens Friday, November 20.\u00a0 \"As you may have heard, a star is born in An Education,\" writes Rob Nelson for IFC.com. \"As Jenny, an early 60s suburban London teen who considers giving up Oxford for a man almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}