{"id":3962,"date":"2015-07-01T14:45:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/home\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2015-07-01T14:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T14:45:39","slug":"julys-essential-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/julys-essential-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy, Tangerine, The Look of Silence, Irrational Man: July&#8217;s Essential Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the touching <em>Amy<\/em> to Woody Allen&#8217;s cross-generational love-and-crime story <em>Irrational Man,<\/em> July is more than basking in the Sun. Here are this month&#8217;s best movie releases.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Amy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Director<\/em>: Asif Kapadia<br \/>\n<em>Starring<\/em>: Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Yasiin Bey, Pete Doherty, Tony Bennett, Mitch Winehouse<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens July 1st<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From director Asif Kapadia, <em>Amy<\/em> tells the story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse &#8211; in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, <em>Amy<\/em> is a revealing and touching tribute to one of the most unique voices of her generation. Irreplaceable, unforgettable and larger-than-life, <em>Amy<\/em> does not &#8211; nor could a documentary ever &#8211; do the singer justice, but it comes close to perfectly remembering her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HiMb_hj1fTw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tangerine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Director<\/em>: Sean Baker<br \/>\n<em>Starring<\/em>: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O&#8217;Hagan, James Ransone<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens July 10th<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of this year&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival breakout successes, <em>Tangerine<\/em>, is compelling in many ways: the first Sundance film to be shot almost entirely on an iPhone 5S, <em>Tangerine<\/em> transcends its small budget. The story, which focuses on one night in the rocky life of a Los Angeles trans prostitute who, after being released from jail, is on the hunt for her pimp\/boyfriend and the female he cheated on her with. <em>Tangerine<\/em> is full of propulsive energy, purpose and urgency, and color tones and compositions that do not hint at this being a movie shot on a smartphone. But while the smartphone thing might be a bit of a gimmick, the movie is far from it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ALSwWTb88ZU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Irrational Man<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Director<\/em>: Woody Allen<br \/>\n<em>Starring<\/em>: Emma Stone, Joaquin Phoenix, Parker Posey, Jamie Blackley<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens July 17th<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With <em>Irrational Man<\/em>, Woody Allen is back to the same crime-and-punishment themes he tackled with movies such as 1989\u2019s <em>Crimes and Misdemeanors<\/em>. This time, muse Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix &#8211; who plays a disillusioned small town college philosophy professor going through a deep existential crisis &#8211; star as lovers and, quite literally, partners in crime. <em>Irrational Man<\/em> is Woody back in form, serving a movie that punches, surprises and fascinates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZvOnxL2pKbI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Look of Silence<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Director<\/em>: Joshua Oppenheimer<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens July 17th<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Oppenheimer&#8217;s Oscar-nominated <em>The Act of Killing<\/em> was a slow-burning, powerful masterpiece. The movie&#8217;s successor, <em>The Look of Silence<\/em> is equally ambitious, if more personal. Oppenheimer has made great strides, through these two major cinematic projects, in documenting the fallout from the Indonesian genocide. <em>The Look of Silence<\/em> is about a family of survivors who found out who killed their son, and documents their humane confrontation with the killer. Speaking to us last year, Oppenheimer said, &#8220;<em>The Look of Silence<\/em> gives you a haunted feeling of what it would be like to be an ordinary person&#8230; and will take the debate inside Indonesia to a whole new level.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aA_ZHAs4M9k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Stanford Prison Experiment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Director<\/em>: Kyle Patrick Alvarez<br \/>\n<em>Starring<\/em>: Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Thomas Mann, Keir Gilchrist, Johnny Simmons, Olivia Thirlby<\/p>\n<p><em>Opens July 17th<\/em><\/p>\n<p>IFC Film&#8217;s adaptation of the seminal psychological experiment conducted in the early 70s doesn&#8217;t hold back: a chilling procedural recreation of the experiment conducted at Stanford University in 1971 investigating the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or a prison guard, the movie is crude, brutal and complex, and despite its peachy-keen denouement, difficult to stomach from today&#8217;s perspective.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c6VyJNohSCk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the touching Amy to Woody Allen&#8217;s cross-generational love-and-crime story Irrational Man, July is more than basking in the Sun. Here are this month&#8217;s best movie releases. Amy Director: Asif Kapadia Starring: Amy Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Yasiin Bey, Pete Doherty, Tony Bennett, Mitch Winehouse Opens July 1st From director Asif Kapadia, Amy tells the story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":[25],"tags":[266,267,268,269,39,270,82,271],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film","tag-amy","tag-amy-winehouse","tag-emma-stone","tag-irrational-man","tag-joaquin-phoenix","tag-tangerine","tag-the-look-of-silence","tag-woody-allen"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoQFa-11U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/notofu.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}