{"id":5359,"date":"2006-06-14T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T00:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2006\/06\/14\/silverdocs-day-2\/"},"modified":"2006-12-23T12:20:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T16:20:55","slug":"silverdocs-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2006\/06\/14\/silverdocs-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Silverdocs Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/default.aspx\">Silverdocs <\/a>there was a wireless connection set up in the Cinema Lounge and that&#8217;s where I blogged from. This year I&#8217;m still blogging from the Cinema Lounge but the connection this time is a citywide free wi-fi for Silver Spring. I didn&#8217;t know my hometown had already made that leap. So greetings from the free Silver Spring wi-fi-enabled Silverdocs Cinema Lounge.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tfaoi.com\/cm\/1cm\/1cm383.jpg\" \/> I met <a href=\"http:\/\/chutry.wordherders.net\">Chuck <\/a>at the screening of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/whatr.aspx\"><em>What Remains<\/em><\/a>, a film that had me near-tears throughout, mostly just for the portrayal of a <em>good fucking life<\/em>. It&#8217;s about photographer Sally Mann, who lives on a farm in Virginia with the love of her life, taking pictures of her gorgeous kids, gorgeous land&#8230;oh and dead decaying bodies. But it&#8217;s a portrait of a life lived so fulfillingly that all I could think was geez I have done something wrong in life, why don&#8217;t we all live like this?<br \/>\nI also caught <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/laper.aspx\">La Persona de Leo N.<\/a>, a really lovely little film about a transsexual in Venice, Italy, undergoing his sex change operation. Next I&#8217;m off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/muskr.aspx\"><em>Muskrat Lovely<\/em><\/a>, the film about the Miss Outdoors Pageant in the Chesapeake area of Maryland which is rumored to be like a real-life <em>Best in Show<\/em>. I&#8217;ll let you know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year at Silverdocs there was a wireless connection set up in the Cinema Lounge and that&#8217;s where I blogged from. This year I&#8217;m still blogging from the Cinema Lounge but the connection this time is a citywide free wi-fi for Silver Spring. I didn&#8217;t know my hometown had already made that leap. So greetings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,1227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-movies","category-silverdocs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58QoK-1or","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}