{"id":2332,"date":"2019-03-04T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/?p=2332"},"modified":"2019-03-04T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T14:14:23","slug":"random-movie-monday-billy-the-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2019\/03\/04\/random-movie-monday-billy-the-kid\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Movie Monday &#8212; Billy the Kid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<p>When the random number generator spat back DVD 5234 at me, I assumed this was going to be a documentary or biographical film about the infamous outlaw. Not so! Instead, Jennifer Venditti&#8217;s 2007 documentary follows Billy, an oddball, outsider teenager in rural Maine. The film won Best Documentary at the 2007 South by Southwest festival. Here&#8217;s our summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The story of\u00a0Billy, an articulate but isolated fifteen-year-old boy trying to figure out life and death, love, and rock and roll.\u00a0Billy<br>\u00a0wanders through a small town in Maine, trying to traverse\u00a0the<br>\u00a0frustrating gap between imagination and reality. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The film is an intriguing look at the type of teenager you could find at almost any high school in the US, but there&#8217;s something about Billy that&#8217;s bursting with a unique energy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BILLY THE KID TRAILER\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQvEh9ulORk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the random number generator spat back DVD 5234 at me, I assumed this was going to be a documentary or biographical film about the infamous outlaw. Not so! Instead, Jennifer Venditti&#8217;s 2007 documentary follows Billy, an oddball, outsider teenager in rural Maine. The film won Best Documentary at the 2007 South by Southwest festival. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies-at-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}