{"id":20882,"date":"2012-02-13T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=20882"},"modified":"2012-02-13T13:52:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T21:52:44","slug":"west-of-memphis-amy-berg-2012-new-zealand-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=20882","title":{"rendered":"West of Memphis (Amy Berg, 2012): New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Truman Kewley. Viewed at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmschoolrejects.com\/images\/West-of-Memphis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>West of Memphis is a gritty\u00a0documentary fallowing the lives of three corruptly\u00a0incarcerated\u00a0teens.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/newsimages1\/westcb1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"314\" height=\"197\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Threw out the film we see interviews with family members from both sides of the case.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/static\/dims4\/INDIEWIRE\/984da4d\/4102462740\/thumbnail\/680x478\/http:\/\/d1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net\/a5\/1cac901f9a11e18f3c123138165f92\/file\/West_Of_Memphis_filmstill1_AmandaHobbs_byOliviaHamel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"201\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The audience is also exposed to old news footage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/gfx\/images\/arts\/photos\/2012\/01\/25\/hi-westmemphis3-cp-02003284-6col.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"207\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three boys struggle to freedom with help from the entire nation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/img2-2.timeinc.net\/ew\/i\/2012\/01\/19\/west-of-memphis-sign_320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After 18 years finally freed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bestmoviesevernews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/west-memphis-three-dualing-docs-damian-echols-baldwin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Truman Kewley. Viewed at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. West of Memphis is a gritty\u00a0documentary fallowing the lives of three corruptly\u00a0incarcerated\u00a0teens. Threw out the film we see interviews with family members from both sides of the case. The audience is also exposed to old news footage. Three boys struggle to freedom with help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}