{"id":42727,"date":"2019-08-31T00:57:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=42727"},"modified":"2019-08-31T00:57:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T05:57:35","slug":"venice-2019-first-glimpses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/31\/venice-2019-first-glimpses\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice 2019: First glimpses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pedro-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pedro-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pedro-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pedro-2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pedro-2-500x279.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DB here:<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re a bit rushed right now to post, but suffice it to say that we&#8217;e already seen Kore-eda&#8217;s <em>La Verit\u00e9<\/em>, Gray&#8217;s <em>Ad Astra<\/em>, Al-Mansour&#8217;s <em>The Perfect Candidate<\/em>, Sandoval&#8217;s <em>Lingua Franca<\/em>, the restored Oliveira masterpiece <em>Francisca<\/em>, Larra\u00edn&#8217;s <em>Ema<\/em>, and Polanski&#8217;s <em>J&#8217;Accuse\u00a0<\/em>. . . and others. We&#8217;ll brief you on these, but I did want to register what fun it was to see a radiant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/category\/directors-almodovar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pedro Almod\u00f3var<\/a> at his press conference, on the occasion of his receiving the Golden Lion Career Award. A RAI video is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainews.it\/tgr\/veneto\/video\/2019\/08\/ven-il-leone-d-oro-alla-carriera-a-pedro-almodovar-15c9077f-d354-4874-92f3-b8ea787c5747.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll soon be putting up more pictures on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/observationsonfilmart\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our Instagram page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ad-astra-600-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ad-astra-600-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ad-astra-600-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ad-astra-600-1-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ad-astra-600-1-500x294.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DB here: We&#8217;re a bit rushed right now to post, but suffice it to say that we&#8217;e already seen Kore-eda&#8217;s La Verit\u00e9, Gray&#8217;s Ad Astra, Al-Mansour&#8217;s The Perfect Candidate, Sandoval&#8217;s Lingua Franca, the restored Oliveira masterpiece Francisca, Larra\u00edn&#8217;s Ema, and Polanski&#8217;s J&#8217;Accuse\u00a0. . . and others. We&#8217;ll brief you on these, but I did want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42727"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42737,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42727\/revisions\/42737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}