{"id":2507,"date":"2014-06-21T01:35:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T00:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=2507"},"modified":"2015-03-01T08:01:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T07:01:49","slug":"willow-and-wind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/willow-and-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Willow and Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"eventPage\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/29-willowwind.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/29-willowwind-470x260.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Willow and Wind\" width=\"470\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-single-thumbnail wp-image-2508\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--<h2><\/h2>--><p class=\"archiveTitle\">Saturday, 14 February 2015: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/willow-and-wind\/\" target=\"_self\">Willow and Wind<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"timeDate\">Saturday, 14 February 2015, 17:30<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"venue\"><strong>Venue<\/strong>:  (see <a href=\"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/location-and-tickets\/\">Locations and Tickets<\/a> for further details)<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"strand\"><strong>Programme category<\/strong>: Forest Row Film Society<\/p>\r\n\r<\/p>\n<p>Director: Mohammad-Ali Talebi, Iran 2000, 77 mins, PG<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>&quot;Leaves you on the edge of your seat; it&#8217;s at once cartoonish and insanely heroic. The director is Mohammed-Ali Talebi and the writer is Abbas Kiarostami; they prove that great film-making is possible with the simplest of tools.&quot; <i>The Times<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cA school window is broken, and kids can\u2019t concentrate because the rain is getting in. The culprit isn\u2019t allowed back into class until he mends it. So he carries a large pane of glass across the countryside in a gale. The wind blows; but will he crack?&#8230; an epic quest, poetic and breathtakingly beautiful. It has big-hearted humanism, but Hitchcockian tension too. An edge-of-seat masterpiece. Unmissable.\u201d Mark Cousins<\/p>\n<p>The first part of a Mohammad-Ali Talebi double bill, with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/bag-of-rice\/\" title=\"Bag of Rice\">Bag of Rice<\/a><\/em>. Dinner at a local restaurant, and special ticket prices, is <a href=\"https:\/\/event.bookitbee.com\/2593\/films-by-mohammad-ali-talebi\/\">also available<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Further reading<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2014\/apr\/10\/willow-and-wind-review-iran-child-film\" target = \"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.cinemaofchildhood.com\/willow-and-wind\/\" target = \"_blank\">Filmhouse<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href= \"http:\/\/www.watershed.co.uk\/dshed\/willow-and-wind\" target = \"_blank\">Interview with Talebi<\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: Mohammad-Ali Talebi, Iran 2000, 77 mins, PG &quot;Leaves you on the edge of your seat; it&#8217;s at once cartoonish and insanely heroic. The director&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2508,"parent":703,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2507\/revisions\/2729"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}