{"id":88776,"date":"2017-02-10T00:36:31","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T05:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=88776"},"modified":"2017-02-10T00:36:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T05:36:31","slug":"berlin-film-festival-kicks-off-with-django-reinhardt-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/02\/10\/berlin-film-festival-kicks-off-with-django-reinhardt-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlin film festival kicks off with Django Reinhardt movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_88777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88777\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Django_Reinhardt_Gottlieb_07301.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-88777\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Django_Reinhardt_Gottlieb_07301.jpg\" alt=\"The curtain is going up on the annual Berlin International Film Festival, with a French film about jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt kicking off the first of the year's major European movie fests. (Photo by William P. Gottlieb [Public domain])\" width=\"486\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Django_Reinhardt_Gottlieb_07301.jpg 486w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Django_Reinhardt_Gottlieb_07301-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The curtain is going up on the annual Berlin International Film Festival, with a French film about jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt kicking off the first of the year&#8217;s major European movie fests. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ADjango_Reinhardt_(Gottlieb_07301).jpg\">William P. Gottlieb [Public domain]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>BERLIN \u2014 The curtain is going up on the annual Berlin International Film Festival, with a French film about jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt kicking off the first of the year&#8217;s major European movie fests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDjango,\u201d from first-time director Etienne Comar, is the first of 18 movies competing for the festival&#8217;s top Golden Bear award.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s diverse program includes Oren Moverman&#8217;s drama \u201cThe Dinner,\u201d starring Richard Gere and Laura Linney; a documentary on artist Joseph Beuys by German director Andres Veiel; and British director Sally Potter&#8217;s \u201cThe Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A seven-member jury led by Dutch director Paul Verhoeven will announce the winners of the Golden Bear and other honours Feb. 18.<\/p>\n<p>Verhoeven said Thursday he hoped to see diverse and \u201chopefully controversial\u201d movies, \u201cwhere we as a jury would really have heated arguments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2014 The curtain is going up on the annual Berlin International Film Festival, with a French film about jazz &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":88777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14990,14991],"class_list":["post-88776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-berlin-international-film-festival","tag-django-reinhardt","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88776","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=88776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}