{"id":11372,"date":"2016-09-25T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T02:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11372"},"modified":"2016-09-23T08:55:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:55:27","slug":"uncle-yanco-black-panthers-196768-agnes-varda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11372","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Yanco \/ Black Panthers (1967\/68, Agnes Varda)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Uncle Yanco<\/em> (1967)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Above all, man is nourished by what&#8217;s marvelous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While in California, Agnes introduces herself to a relative, who is an awesome weirdo (it must run in the family), a painter and builder living on a Sausalito houseboat inspiring all the local hippies.  She shoots and edits this encounter with her usual verve, including slates and rehearsals, capturing and restaging realities.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/yancopanthers1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/yancopanthers2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<br \/>\n<strong><em>Black Panthers<\/em> (1968)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good images of a Panther rally protesting the imprisonment of Huey Newton &#8211; mostly straightforward reportage and interviews with lively editing.  It&#8217;s less vibrant as a film than her others, possibly because her tourist crew wasn&#8217;t trusted by the panther community.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/yancopanthers3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/yancopanthers4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>David Myers shared cinematography credits on both of these films.  He&#8217;d become an acclaimed rock doc photographer beginning a couple years later with <em>Woodstock<\/em> and <em>Gimme Shelter<\/em>, including at least three Neil Young movies, a Grateful Dead concert film, <em>The Last Waltz<\/em>, <em>Louie Bluie<\/em> and Bob Dylan&#8217;s <em>Renaldo and Clara<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Yanco (1967) &#8220;Above all, man is nourished by what&#8217;s marvelous.&#8221; While in California, Agnes introduces herself to a relative, who is an awesome weirdo (it must run in the family), a painter and builder living on a Sausalito houseboat inspiring all the local hippies. She shoots and edits this encounter with her usual verve, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[410,910,1975,926],"class_list":["post-11372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1960s","tag-agnes-varda","tag-boating","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11420,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11372\/revisions\/11420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}