{"id":18579,"date":"2026-04-28T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18579"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T01:52:49","slug":"henry-fonda-for-president-2024-alexander-horwath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18579","title":{"rendered":"Henry Fonda for President (2024, Alexander Horwath)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/coreyatad\/film\/henry-fonda-for-president\/\">Corey Atad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It works for several reasons. The Fonda family&#8217;s history in the colonies dating back to the 1600s, for one, giving the project a remarkable historical breadth. But there&#8217;s also something to Fonda being born as The Movies begin to take shape, with a career spanning the real golden eras of Hollywood filmmaking. He becomes, in the context of this film, a figure through which to understand America&#8217;s good spirit, and how it lost out to America&#8217;s evil delusions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After convincing us for three hours that Henry Fonda represents America itself, weaving film and interview clips and bringing in political history and Henry&#8217;s outspoken actor kids, the doc closes on a shot of pelicans, affirming its greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Atad: It works for several reasons. The Fonda family&#8217;s history in the colonies dating back to the 1600s, for one, giving the project a remarkable historical breadth. But there&#8217;s also something to Fonda being born as The Movies begin to take shape, with a career spanning the real golden eras of Hollywood filmmaking. He [&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":[2643,3480,239,93,91,340,1413,1414],"class_list":["post-18579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-alexander-horwath","tag-birds","tag-documentary","tag-filmmaking","tag-henry-fonda","tag-jane-fonda","tag-peter-fonda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579","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=18579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18600,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18579\/revisions\/18600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}