{"id":1169,"date":"2006-02-09T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2006\/02\/09\/are-you-the-favorite-person-of-anybody\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T15:41:00","slug":"are-you-the-favorite-person-of-anybody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/are-you-the-favorite-person-of-anybody\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you the favorite person of anybody?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed Miranda July&rsquo;s first feature film called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meandyoumovie.com\/\">Me and You and Everyone We Know<\/a>. (My comments about it are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/feeling-better-about-movies.html\">here<\/a>.) It is now available for rental on DVD and I highly recommend it to you. July&rsquo;s work is deceptively simple (as well as her acting) but there&rsquo;s something in the characters and ambiance she creates that just stays with you after the film is over.<\/p>\n<p>A new DVD magazine called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wholphindvd.com\/index.html\">Wholphin<\/a> was recently launched and it includes a short film by Miranda July. It&rsquo;s called Are you the favorite person of anybody? and it features the filmmaker herself as well as the fantastic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000604\/\">John C. Reilly<\/a>. You can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/ent\/video_dog\/misc\/2006\/02\/08\/favorite_person\/index.html\">the short film on Salon<\/a> for free but you&rsquo;ll have to view an ad first. Don&rsquo;t let that stop you. It&rsquo;s a great piece. Wholphin Magazine describes it as &laquo; the closest thing to cinema haiku we&rsquo;ve ever seen &raquo;. You cannot watch it and not wonder: &laquo; Am I the favorite person of anybody? &raquo;<\/p>\n<p>God, I&rsquo;m dying to make a short film again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed Miranda July&rsquo;s first feature film called Me and You and Everyone We Know. (My comments about it are here.) It is now available for rental on DVD and I highly recommend it to you. July&rsquo;s work is deceptively simple (as well as her acting) but there&rsquo;s something in the characters and ambiance&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/09\/are-you-the-favorite-person-of-anybody\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are you the favorite person of anybody?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}