{"id":35814,"date":"2019-08-12T08:40:09","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=35814"},"modified":"2019-08-12T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:01:04","slug":"being-screened-any-minute-now-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2019\/08\/being-screened-any-minute-now-in-edinburgh.html","title":{"rendered":"Being Screened Any Minute Now in Edinburgh, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"191\" data-attachment-id=\"35818\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/edinburgh-international-film-festival\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/edinburgh-international-film-festival.png\" data-orig-size=\"750,191\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2019\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/edinburgh-international-film-festival-300x76.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/edinburgh-international-film-festival.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/edinburgh-international-film-festival.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/edinburgh-international-film-festival.png 750w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/edinburgh-international-film-festival-300x76.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assemblyfestival.com\/whats-on\/meeting-jim\">&#8216;Meeting Jim,&#8217; who&#8217;s having the time of his life. <\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As I&#8217;ve written before: &#8220;I\u2019ve never met Jim. We\u2019ve only corresponded by email about the strange case of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2016\/03\/the-strange-case-of-orwells-typewriter.html\">Orwell\u2019s typewriter<\/a>. But I know that Jim Haynes is a man for all reasons \u2014 pleasure, food, sex, mind, books, theater, life \u2014 and that to meet him in person all you have to do is show up at his door in Paris for dinner.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/712bbFXYpPQ\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure><\/center>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">And here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/review\/meeting-jim-1124328\">a review of the film<\/a> in the Hollywood Reporter from the 2018 screening: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Haynes is a figure of ample but approachable charisma who proves wonderfully stimulating company over the briskly edited picture&#8217;s 70-odd minutes \u2014 a fictional biopic would likely have to cast the likes of Jeff Bridges, Sam Elliott or Donald Sutherland. His life story contains material for an entire mini-series or two . . . <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>. . . an impeccably international co-production, [the documentary] was shot in the summer of 2016 and thus before the election of Donald Trump and the rise of xenophobia-tinged European nationalism, and the director generally steers clear of direct political commentary. The commercialization of countercultural phenomena is another unexplored avenue: we glimpse a banner for Edinburgh&#8217;s alternative-oriented Fringe, now obtrusively and incongruously sponsored by a major financial services company. . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The picture is also a little evasive on Haynes&#8217; private life, and his participation (or otherwise) in the more hedonistic excesses of the countercultural scene. But while&nbsp;<em>Meeting Jim<\/em>&#8216;s form has none of the cheeky experimentation that marked many of the gregarious Haynes&#8217; own exploits and cultural contributions \u2014 such as the adults-only 1970s Amsterdam film festival Wet Dreams, fleetingly and tantalizingly mentioned \u2014 it functions just fine as a record of emotion happily recollected in golden-years tranquility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Jim Haynes in a documentary. As I&#8217;ve written before: &#8220;I&#8217;ve never met Jim. We&#8217;ve only corresponded by email about the strange case or Orwell&#8217;s typewriter. But I know that he is a man for all reasons \u2014 pleasure, food, sex, mind, books, theater, life \u2014 and that to meet him in person all you have to do is show up at his door in Paris for dinner.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,20,21,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"category-media","9":"category-movies","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/edinburgh-international-film-festival.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-9jE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35814"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35840,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35814\/revisions\/35840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}