{"id":4023,"date":"2022-07-09T13:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T12:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=4023"},"modified":"2022-10-16T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T15:48:12","slug":"summer-of-soul","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/summer-of-soul\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of Soul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/01-Nina_Simone_Summer_Of_Soul-450x286.jpg\" alt=\"Still from Summer of Soul\" class=\"wp-image-4025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/01-Nina_Simone_Summer_Of_Soul-450x286.jpg 450w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/01-Nina_Simone_Summer_Of_Soul-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/01-Nina_Simone_Summer_Of_Soul-1536x975.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/01-Nina_Simone_Summer_Of_Soul-110x70.jpg 110w, https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/01-Nina_Simone_Summer_Of_Soul.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"eventPage\">\n         <!--<h2><\/h2>--><p class=\"archiveTitle\">Friday, 23 September 2022: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/summer-of-soul\/\" target=\"_self\">Summer of Soul<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"timeDate\">Friday, 23 September 2022, 20:00<\/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\n         <p>Director: Questlove, USA 2021, 117 mins, 12<\/p>\n         <blockquote>\n            <div>&#8220;[A] reminder that the joy of musical community is one of the great human experiences, a unifying truth in more ways than one&#8221; <i>Slate<\/i><\/div>\n         <\/blockquote>\n         <p>In the same summer as Woodstock, the Harlem Cultural Festival took place over six weeks and featured an extraordinary line-up of African-American artists. From a youthful Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight, and a duet from Mahalia Jackson and Mavis Staples, through to B.B. King, Max Roach, Sly and the Family Stone, and Nina Simone, <i>Summer of Soul<\/i> is an incredible record of Black musical and political culture in 1969, the legacy of which is still with us today.<\/p>\n         <h4>Further reading<\/h4>\n         <ol>\n            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2021\/jan\/29\/summer-of-soul-review-sundance-harlem-cultural-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyeforfilm.co.uk\/review\/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised-2021-film-review-by-amber-wilkinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eye For Film<\/a><\/li>\n            <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/summer-of-soul-or-when-the-revolution-could-not-be-televised-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RogerEbert.com<\/a><\/li>\n         <\/ol>\n         <h4>Trailer<\/h4><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZFpPsW4ZKoE?rel=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director: Questlove, USA 2021, 117 mins, 12 &#8220;[A] reminder that the joy of musical community is one of the great human experiences, a unifying truth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4025,"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\/4023"}],"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=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4076,"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4023\/revisions\/4076"}],"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\/4025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}