{"id":162,"date":"2012-03-28T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T12:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=162"},"modified":"2020-05-09T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T20:27:46","slug":"san-francisco-international-film-festival-quadrophenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/san-francisco-international-film-festival-quadrophenia\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco International Film Festival: Quadrophenia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/festival.sffs.org\/films\/film_details.php?id=84\" rel=\"http:\/\/festival.sffs.org\/films\/film_details.php?id=84 noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-163\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"quadsfiff12a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/quadsfiff12a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><em>Quadrophenia<\/em> is to show at the &#8216;San Francisco International Film Festival&#8217; next month. The 55th prestigious festival runs from 19th April &#8211; 3rd May.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tommy<\/strong> (1975) may be Pete Townshend\u2019s most famous rock opera, but <strong>Quadrophenia<\/strong> (1979) is his most personal. In the hands of director Franc Roddam, the tale becomes a kitchen-sink drama of near-v\u00e9rit\u00e9 realism and a timeless tale of teenage alienation and identity. \u201cI don&#8217;t wanna be the same as everybody else. That\u2019s why I\u2019m a Mod,\u201d says Jimmy (Phil Daniels), the parka-wearing, scooter-riding London teenager who spends his days at a dead-end ad agency job and his nights grooving to the likes of The Who.<\/p>\n<p>Held each spring for 15 days, the &#8216;San Francisco International Film Festival&#8217; is an extraordinary showcase of cinematic discovery and innovation in one of the country&#8217;s most beautiful cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quadrophenia is to show at the &#8216;San Francisco International Film Festival&#8217; next month. The 55th prestigious festival runs from 19th April &#8211; 3rd May. Tommy (1975) may be Pete Townshend\u2019s most famous rock opera, but Quadrophenia (1979) is his most personal. In the hands of director Franc Roddam, the tale becomes a kitchen-sink drama of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33411,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/33411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}