{"id":8609,"date":"2020-12-05T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T16:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8609"},"modified":"2020-12-05T11:10:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T16:10:17","slug":"review-moundsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8609","title":{"rendered":"Review: MOUNDSVILLE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>PBS profiles a small town in transition<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-8-10-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-8-10-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-8-10-656x1024.png 656w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-8-10-768x1198.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-8-10-400x624.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-8-10-433x675.png 433w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-8-10-692x1080.png 692w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-FIX-8-10.png 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Safely visit the small West Virginia town of Moundsville during the pandemic without leaving your home. \u201cMoundsville,\u201d a documentary film, co-directed by journalist John W. Miller and filmmaker David Bernabo, is an excellent oral history of a struggling coal mining community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The filmmakers carefully train their cameras on the humble townspeople who tell the oral history of their community. You can sometimes hear the filmmakers asking follow-up questions, but the narrative is all local voices. Reminiscent of Errol Morris\u2019 seminal 1981 film \u201cVernon, Florida,\u201d \u201cMoundsville\u201d is a profile of a place in transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, unlike the early Morris meandering approach, Miller and Bernabo structure their movie with a series of title cards that inform the viewer. These signposts allow the narrative to unfold like a non-fiction novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose-400x225.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose-900x506.png 900w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose-533x300.png 533w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rose.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the rest of Jonathan&#8217;s review online and in print in the Times-Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/11\/moundsville-pbs-profiles-a-small-town-in-transition\">https:\/\/times-herald.com\/news\/2020\/11\/moundsville-pbs-profiles-a-small-town-in-transition<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small town America is center stage in PBS documentary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[206,2006],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-documentary","tag-pbs","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8612,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8609\/revisions\/8612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}