{"id":114720,"date":"2017-08-29T04:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T08:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=114720"},"modified":"2017-08-29T04:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T08:14:35","slug":"venice-film-festival-offers-grit-glamour-and-george-clooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/29\/venice-film-festival-offers-grit-glamour-and-george-clooney\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Film Festival offers grit, glamour and George Clooney"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114726\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Venice_Film_Festival_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114726\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Venice_Film_Festival_logo.png\" alt=\"This is a logo owned by Venice Film Festival for Infobox. (Wikimedia Commons, Fair Use)\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is a logo owned by Venice Film Festival for Infobox. (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=41496186\">Wikimedia Commons, Fair Use<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>VENICE, Italy &#8212; The Venice Film Festival is kicking off the fall cinema season with searing drama, serious glamour and a crop of new movies vying for attention, awards and acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s oldest cinema festival is a key showcase for films hoping to dominate Hollywood&#8217;s awards season. In recent years, Venice has been a launch-pad for Oscar winners including \u201cBirdman,\u201d \u201cSpotlight\u201d and \u201cLa La Land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s edition opens with Alexander Payne&#8217;s \u201cDownsizing,\u201d a science fiction-tinged drama starring Matt Damon as a man who hopes to minimize his problems by shrinking himself.<\/p>\n<p>Other films competing for the festival&#8217;s Golden Lion prize include George Clooney-directed heist movie \u201cSuburbicon\u201d; Guillermo del Toro&#8217;s fantastical \u201cThe Shape of Water\u201d and Darren Aronofsky&#8217;s secrecy-shrouded thriller \u201cMother!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 74th Venice Film Festival runs Wednesday to Sept. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VENICE, Italy &#8212; The Venice Film Festival is kicking off the fall cinema season with searing drama, serious glamour and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[22251,13087,19616,20641],"class_list":["post-114720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-birdman","tag-la-la-land","tag-spotlight","tag-venice-film-festival","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}