{"id":8176,"date":"2016-10-10T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?p=8176"},"modified":"2016-10-10T13:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:49:01","slug":"october-surprise-american-honey-opens-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/october-surprise-american-honey-opens-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"October Surprise: AMERICAN HONEY opens Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8177 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/honeymaxresdefault-700x394.jpg\" alt=\"honeymaxresdefault\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/>We're excited to open American Honey on Friday, October 14!<\/p>\n<p>A sensation at the Cannes Film Festival, where it took home the Jury Prize,<em> American Honey<\/em> is a dazzling and ambitious road film set in the Midwest. Star (20-year-old Sasha Lane, delivering a head-turning debut performance) is dumpster diving when she notices a van carrying a young, motley crew. She follows them inside the local K-Mart and makes eye contact with Jake (Shia LaBeouf). The next day, Star hops in their van, and they head towards Kansas City, selling magazines door-to-door and partying along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\"A scrappy, sprawling astonishment. Part dreamy millennial picaresque, part distorted tapestry of Americana and part exquisitely illustrated iTunes musical. It's constantly, engrossingly active, spinning and sparking and exploding in cycles like a Fourth of July catherine wheel. LaBeouf easily delivers his best performance, but the film never slips away from Star's evolving point of view, or Lane's electric presence.\" (Guy Lodge, <em>Variety<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We're excited to open American Honey on Friday, October 14! A sensation at the Cannes Film Festival, where it took home the Jury Prize, American Honey is a dazzling and ambitious road film set in the Midwest. Star (20-year-old Sasha Lane, delivering a head-turning debut performance) is dumpster diving when she notices a van carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","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=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}