{"id":55663,"date":"2015-08-20T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55663"},"modified":"2015-08-08T15:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T19:41:29","slug":"cinema-on-the-edge-peoples-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=55663","title":{"rendered":"CINEMA ON THE EDGE: PEOPLE&#8217;S PARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, August 20  6:30PM<br \/>\nAsia Society<br \/>\n725 Park Avenue, New York, NY<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Peoples-Park-low.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[55663]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Peoples-Park-low.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People&#8217;s Park<\/p>\n<p>\u4eba\u6c11\u516c\u56ed \/ Renmin gongyuan<br \/>\nDirected by J.P. Sniadecki &amp; Libbie Cohn<br \/>\n2012. USA\/China. 75 min. DCP. In Sichuanese and Mandarin Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>This delightful documentary was shot in the buzzing People\u2019s Park, Chengdu, Sichuan in one single, bravura take lasting 75 minutes. Made by two young American directors, the film captures the fullness of Chinese urban leisure life. As the camera pans side to side and glides relentlessly forward through the park, it catches hundreds of Chinese urbanites out for fun, relaxation, socializing, and a certain kind of freedom: eating, strolling, singing, practicing calligraphy, and watching each other. Watching becomes dancing, as the film slowly gathers an ecstatic, trance-like groove, building to a rapturous climax, as people, movement, music, image, and sound mix together: this is as close to pure pleasure as cinema gets.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and information at: <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/new-york\/events\/peoples-park\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, August 20 6:30PM Asia Society 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55672,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55663\/revisions\/55672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}