{"id":34767,"date":"2021-12-05T21:29:16","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34767"},"modified":"2021-12-05T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T03:29:16","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/05\/belated-movie-reviews-705\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34769\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/til-the-clouds-roll-by.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34769\" class=\"wp-image-34769\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/til-the-clouds-roll-by.jpeg?resize=388%2C218&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"388\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/til-the-clouds-roll-by.jpeg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/til-the-clouds-roll-by.jpeg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/til-the-clouds-roll-by.jpeg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/til-the-clouds-roll-by.jpeg?resize=250%2C140&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>It was about here that I recalled I don&#8217;t actually like musicals much.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you know the name Jerome Kern, but haven&#8217;t seen <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Till_the_Clouds_Roll_By\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Till the Clouds Roll By<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1946), you may want to see it. A &#8220;fictionalized biopic,&#8221; it follows the life of theater composer Jerome Kern, as he bounces from unknown, to his first success and, concurrently, the love of his life, endures the loss of a producer in the sinking of the <strong>S. S. Lusitania<\/strong>, and endures other incidents, fictional and not, all to the accompaniment of the many theater songs he composed over the decades.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s softly lit, references conflict, loss, and setbacks, but without making them the center of the film. As a tribute film, this makes sense; the decision to fictionalize it makes less. The result is a collection of sweetly sentimental songs which may require an injection or two of insulin, and a question in the back of the mind: what was true and what was not?<\/p>\n<p>But it was still enjoyable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know the name Jerome Kern, but haven&#8217;t seen Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), you may want to see it. A &#8220;fictionalized biopic,&#8221; it follows the life of theater composer Jerome Kern, as he bounces from unknown, to his first success and, concurrently, the love of his life, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/12\/05\/belated-movie-reviews-705\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34770,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34767\/revisions\/34770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}