{"id":154144,"date":"2020-07-28T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/28\/venice-becomes-first-major-film-festival-to-return-after-coronavirus-lockdown\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T13:48:20","slug":"venice-becomes-first-major-film-festival-to-return-after-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=154144","title":{"rendered":"Venice becomes first major film festival to return after coronavirus lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Festival reveals 2020 line-up, with Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Nomadland one of eight films by female directors to compete for the Golden Lion Helen Mirren, Shia LaBeouf and Greta Thunberg are among the big names due to be on display at the 2020 Venice film festival, as it gears up to be the first major festival to stage a physical event in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Inevitably the lineup has a slimmed-down feel, with many films delayed or held back, meaning there is little in the way of Venice\u2019s traditional dose of Hollywood glamour.Festival director Alberto Barbera announced the main list of titles on Tuesday, which drew together films by the likes of Alex Gibney, Chlo\u00e9 Zhao and Luca Guadagnino. Zhao\u2019s film, Nomadland, is arguably the most prized: following her indie hit The Rider, Zhao has adapted Jessica Bruder\u2019s non-fiction account of older Americans forced on to the road by economic crisis, with Frances McDormand acting as producer as well as taking the lead role. In a sign of the pressures on film festivals, Nomadland will simultaneously premiere at the Toronto film festival, as well as subsequently filling the prestigious Centrepiece screening at the New York film festival. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/jul\/28\/venice-2020-becomes-first-major-film-festival-to-return-after-coronavirus-lockdown\" target=\"_blank\">Venice becomes first major film festival to return after coronavirus lockdown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Festival reveals 2020 line-up, with Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s Nomadland one of eight films by female directors to compete for the Golden Lion Helen Mirren, Shia LaBeouf and Greta Thunberg are among the big names due to be on display at the 2020 Venice film festival, as it gears up to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}