{"id":36423,"date":"2020-05-16T15:57:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T22:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=36423"},"modified":"2020-05-16T16:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T23:18:22","slug":"rip-lynn-shelton-director-of-your-sisters-sister-laggies-at-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2020\/05\/16\/rip-lynn-shelton-director-of-your-sisters-sister-laggies-at-54\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Lynn Shelton, director of Your Sisters Sister, Laggies  at 54"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<blockquote><p>Director Lynn Shelton, who brought an independent spirit to film and TV, dies at age 54 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> (LA Times)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1aaalynnshelton-1-e1589670957369.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1aaalynnshelton-1-e1589670957369.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"744\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36434\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Lynne Shelton, August 27, 1965 \u2013 May 15, 2020)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/44056-twice-removed\/#.XsBhP8BlCM8\">Photo via <\/a><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1aaayour-sisters-sister-uk-poster-e1589669805891.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/1aaayour-sisters-sister-uk-poster-e1589669805891.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Working collaboratively with her actors, discussing with them plot details and allowing them to improvise scenes, she devised a directorial style melding strong narrative hooks with detailed character work and a feeling of sustained intimacy.<a href=\"https:\/\/filmmakermagazine.com\/44056-twice-removed\/#.XsBhP8BlCM8\">via <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laggies interview With Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz, Kiera Knightley and Sam Rockwell via Variety\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ae28iPslOKs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/lynn-shelton-dead-director-humpday-your-sisters-sister-was-54-1294913\">Variety obit<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her career took off after Humpday bowed at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. Starring Joshua Leonard, Alycia Delmore and Duplass, it was acquired by Magnolia Pictures for distribution and would screen in the Director&#8217;s Fortnight section at Cannes.<br \/>\nHumpday received the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award in 2010.<br \/>\nYour Sister&#8217;s Sister (2011), a comedic love triangle, starred Duplass, Rosemarie DeWitt and Emily Blunt and premiered at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival.<br \/>\nShe followed with Touchy Feely (2013), starring DeWitt in an idiosyncratic story of a massage therapist who develops an aversion to human touch, and Laggies (2014), with Keira Knightley portraying a woman in the throes of a quarter-life crisis. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Lynn Shelton, who brought an independent spirit to film and TV, dies at age 54 (LA Times) (Lynne Shelton, August 27, 1965 \u2013 May 15, 2020) Photo via Working collaboratively with her actors, discussing with them plot details and allowing them to improvise scenes, she devised a directorial style melding strong narrative hooks with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2020\/05\/16\/rip-lynn-shelton-director-of-your-sisters-sister-laggies-at-54\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RIP Lynn Shelton, director of Your Sisters Sister, Laggies  at 54&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}