{"id":358,"date":"2008-08-28T13:23:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T13:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2008-08-28T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T13:24:43","slug":"the-venice-film-festival-a-very-italian-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/latest-news\/the-venice-film-festival-a-very-italian-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"The Venice Film Festival: A Very Italian Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/film-and-tv\/features\/the-venice-film-festival-a-very-italian-affair-910772.html\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk']);\" target=\"_blank\">The Independent today about the Venice film festival<\/a> and the number of Italian films in competition.  I disagree with a couple of things &#8211; mostly quotes from one Lee Marshall:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The film critic Lee Marshall writes in Screen International: &#8220;Venice 2008 is one of the clearest illustrations to date of the identity crisis the traditional, all-inclusive film festival is facing. It has been clear for some time that the age of the auteur is over; these days even dedicated, high-frequency viewers generally choose films by buzz rather than director.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet the festival includes films by the Coen Brothers and Darren Aronofsky, who are exactly that, directors with &#8216;pull&#8217;.  At least as much as, say John Huston or Elia Kazan were (they were succesful because they made reliably good, but quite different films).  And if anyone is an auteur, wouldn&#8217;t it be Pupi Avati?<\/p>\n<p>Or:<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #888888;\">&#8220;Cinema is (almost) no longer cinema &#8230; The type of &#8216;classic&#8217; contemporary cinema such as Venice seemed designed to support has finally run out of steam. The idea of a &#8216;modern&#8217; cinema that lasts 50 years is a contradiction in terms.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which frankly sounds like someone trying to create a zeitgeist (hey, everybody needs a good zeitgeist occassionally!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, apart from that, it&#8217;s an interesting article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good article in The Independent today about the Venice film festival and the number of Italian films in competition. I disagree with a couple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}