{"id":386,"date":"2003-09-05T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2003-09-05T18:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/09\/this_is_not_an_endorsement\/"},"modified":"2003-09-05T11:13:39","modified_gmt":"2003-09-05T18:13:39","slug":"this_is_not_an_endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/09\/this_is_not_an_endorsement.html","title":{"rendered":"THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Simon Beaufoy, the British producer who wrote &#8220;The Full Monty,&#8221; is bringing out his new<br \/>\nmovie &#8220;This Is Not a Love Song.&#8221; The big deal about that is, it will be &#8220;the world&#8217;s first Internet<br \/>\npremiere,&#8221; as the U.K. Film Council terms it. The flick, written by Beaufoy and directed by Bille<br \/>\nEltringham,&nbsp;is being screened today &#8212; at 1 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. in London&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp; on<br \/>\nthe film&#8217;s Web site, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisnotalovesong.com\/\"><FONT\ncolor=#003399><EM><STRONG>thisisnotalovesong.com<\/STRONG><\/EM><\/FONT><\/A>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Trouble is, the site says unless you&#8217;re in the United Kingdom you won&#8217;t be allowed to see it.<br \/>\n(Give it a try anyway. You never know.) If nothing else, you can&nbsp;see the trailer. I just did.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s very well produced, though not much help in sorting out the story. All I could tell is<br \/>\nthat&nbsp;it had the tempo at times of a chase flick and the look of a horror flick.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The site has a detailed plot summary, but the Reuters synopsis does just fine: &#8220;&#8216;This Is Not a<br \/>\nLove Song&#8217; tells the tale of two bad boys on the run from vigilante farmers and has been favorably<br \/>\ncompared with hit thrillers &#8216;Blair Witch Project&#8217; and &#8216;Deliverance.'&#8221; It does give reason for pause,<br \/>\nthough. What couldn&#8217;t be favorably compared with &#8220;Blair Witch&#8221;?<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Beaufoy, the British producer who wrote &#8220;The Full Monty,&#8221; is bringing out his new movie &#8220;This Is Not a Love Song.&#8221; The big deal about that is, it will be &#8220;the world&#8217;s first Internet premiere,&#8221; as the U.K. Film Council terms it. The flick, written by Beaufoy and directed by Bille Eltringham,&nbsp;is being screened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}