{"id":20032,"date":"2014-07-25T05:10:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=20032"},"modified":"2014-07-24T22:12:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T14:12:10","slug":"films-starring-al-pacino-willem-dafoe-in-competition-at-71st-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/25\/films-starring-al-pacino-willem-dafoe-in-competition-at-71st-venice-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Films starring Al Pacino, Willem Dafoe in competition at 71st Venice Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_20033\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20033\" style=\"width: 567px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Al_Pacino_Roma_Film_Fest_cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20033\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Al_Pacino_Roma_Film_Fest_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Al Pacino. Photo by Andrea Ricca \/ Flickr.\" width=\"567\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Al_Pacino_Roma_Film_Fest_cropped.jpg 567w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Al_Pacino_Roma_Film_Fest_cropped-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Al Pacino. Photo by Andrea Ricca \/ Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ROME\u2014This year\u2019s Venice Film Festival will tackle topics from the financial crisis to drone warfare, and feature performances from Willem Dafoe, Al Pacino and Ethan Hawke.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers on Thursday announced a 20-strong competition lineup that includes Ramin Bahrani\u2019s subprime mortgage drama \u201c99 Homes,\u201d with Andrew Garfield and Laura Dern, and Andrew Niccol\u2019s \u201cThe Good Kill,\u201d starring Hawke as a dissatisfied drone operator.<\/p>\n<p>Other films competing for the Golden Lion include David Gordon Green\u2019s Texan drama \u201cManglehorn\u201d starring Pacino and Holly Hunter; Abel Ferrara\u2019s \u201cPasolini,\u201d starring Dafoe as the taboo-breaking Italian filmmaker; and \u201cThe Cut\u201d by Turkish-German director Fatih Akin.<\/p>\n<p>The 71st Venice Film Festival opens Aug. 27 with the world premiere of Alejandro Inarritu\u2019s \u201cBirdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance,\u201d starring Michael Keaton. The festival runs to Sept. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME\u2014This year\u2019s Venice Film Festival will tackle topics from the financial crisis to drone warfare, and feature performances from Willem &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":20033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}