{"id":232,"date":"2011-01-07T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2011-01-07T15:09:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T15:09:47","slug":"de-niro-to-head-cannes-film-festival-jury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/de-niro-to-head-cannes-film-festival-jury\/","title":{"rendered":"De Niro to head Cannes Film Festival Jury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/415px-Robert_De_Niro_KVIFF_portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-233\" title=\"415px-Robert_De_Niro_KVIFF_portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/415px-Robert_De_Niro_KVIFF_portrait-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/415px-Robert_De_Niro_KVIFF_portrait-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/415px-Robert_De_Niro_KVIFF_portrait.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frenchrivieratraveller.com\/Cannes\/FilmFestival.html\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a> has yet to release the selection of films for 2011 but they have announced the president of the jury: <strong>Robert De Niro<\/strong>. The 67-year old veteran has already been president of the Cannes Film Festival Jury in the 1980s and has pronounced himself\u00a0 &#8220;very honoured and happy to head the jury for this year&#8217;s Cannes Film Festival.\u201d\u00a0 And, as co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, this is a man who knows from film festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Not to quibble, but much as I appreciate De Niro in the public eye, I appreciate him a lot more on screen and I don&#8217;t mean in a movie with &#8220;Fockers&#8221; in the title. Why can&#8217;t we have another Scorcese-De Niro collaboration? Come on, guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cannes Film Festival has yet to release the selection of films for 2011 but they have announced the president of the jury: Robert De Niro. The 67-year old veteran has already been president of the Cannes Film Festival Jury in the 1980s and has pronounced himself\u00a0 &#8220;very honoured and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/de-niro-to-head-cannes-film-festival-jury\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannes","category-cannes-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenchrivieratraveller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}