{"id":22494,"date":"2019-01-30T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T18:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=22494"},"modified":"2019-01-30T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T18:14:22","slug":"avalon-screening","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/avalon-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalon screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Dryden<\/strong> will screen <strong>Avalon<\/strong> (Barry Levinson, U.S. 1990, 128 min., 35mm) as part of the L'chaim: Celebrating Jewish Life series. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Jewish immigrant family settles in the Avalon neighborhood of Baltimore. By the 1940s and 1950s, the tight-knit family is slowly unraveling, as each new generation embraces an American way of life, including moving to the suburbs instead of remaining with the extended family. Television plays a central symbolic role in the family's assimilation and reveals the fracturing of the family in small yet poignant moments: television replaces mealtime conversation, and two cousins of the younger generation create TV commercials for their burgeoning business using Americanized names. Avalon is the third in a semi-autobiographical tetralogy of \"Baltimore films\" (along with Diner, 1982; Tin Men, 1987; and Liberty Heights, 1999) by director Barry Levinson, who won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for Avalon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <em>[source: <a HREF=\"https:\/\/www.eastman.org\/event\/film-screenings-special-events\/avalon\">George Eastman Museum calendar<\/a>, 2019-Jan-28]<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dryden will screen Avalon (Barry Levinson, U.S. 1990, 128 min., 35mm) as part of the L'chaim: Celebrating Jewish Life series. A Jewish immigrant family settles in the Avalon neighborhood of Baltimore. By the 1940s and 1950s, the tight-knit family &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/event\/avalon-screening\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3316],"class_list":["post-22494","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-jayceland-2019-jan-31","cat_jayceland-2019-jan-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/22494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/22494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22538,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/22494\/revisions\/22538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22494"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayceland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=22494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}