{"id":25261,"date":"2006-10-05T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdon.blog\/Abingdon2006\/2006\/10\/05\/abcd-film-society\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T23:36:00","slug":"abcd-film-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=25261","title":{"rendered":"ABCD Film Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/abcd01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/abcd01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The ABCD is currently advertised in the window of Frugal Food. (Previously Frugal Food had a half window entitled &#8216;Back to School&#8217; about getting rid of headlice with natural remedies. )<\/p>\n<p>This evening at 7:45 pm, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abfilms.org.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">AB<\/span>ingdon <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">C<\/span>ollege and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">D<\/span>istrict Film Society<\/a> showed their first film of the autumn season.<\/p>\n<p>The ABCD have been running for about thirty years but nobody really knows as records got lost in College moves and reorganisations.<\/p>\n<p>The ABCD is the place to see films in Abingdon. Membership only: although you can join for just the week if the film takes your fancy, and if they have room. Tonight, the sloping lecture theatre at the college was almost full.<\/p>\n<p>This evenings film was a 2004 film set in Argentina called BOMBON EL PERRO. The producer had selected a carpark attendant with just the right enigmatic expression, and not an actor, to play the lead.<\/p>\n<p>At the end everybody can score the film on a little sheet: A,B,C,D,E. The rating and peoples comments are read back at the start of the following week. Last year&#8217;s highest scoring film was also set in South America: Motorcycle Diaries. You can see members&#8217; A,B,C,D,E scoring  and reactions on the ABCD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abfilms.org.uk\/\">site<\/a> and it makes very interesting reading. Just take one for the film  Ivans Childhood <span style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:-1;\">&#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Never again, please! Whatever was it       all about? &#8220;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/1600\/bombon_perro.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4552\/136\/320\/bombon_perro.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>This is a better close up of the film poster. The dog is a Dogo Argentino (or Argentinian Mastiff).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ABCD is currently advertised in the window of Frugal Food. (Previously Frugal Food had a half window entitled &#8216;Back to School&#8217; about getting rid of headlice with natural remedies. ) This evening at 7:45 pm, the ABingdon College and District Film Society showed their first film of the autumn season. The ABCD have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}