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My 5 Favorite Films At Cannes

May 26, 2008 – 2:20 pm

For all the talk about how this was a mediocre year at the Cannes Film Festival, I think I personally saw a higher ratio of good to garbage than is my festival norm. Maybe I’m being Pollyanna-ish; maybe I just went in with lower expectations. Regardless: though certainly I saw films too mediocre to merit [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film festivals, Uncategorized, cannes 2008 | Comments (1)

Bad Lieutenant Remake: Abel Ferrara Says, ‘Don’t Count On It.’

May 23, 2008 – 11:00 am

Also, he may or may not be remaking THE SEARCHERS, possibly as some kind of revenge.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film festivals, cannes 2008 | Comments (4)

Cannes: Che Aftermath

May 22, 2008 – 6:00 am

Will the Cannes cut of CHE go the way of SOUTHLAND TALES? By even suggesting it, are we ensuring that it’s going to happen?

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Community, Film festivals, cannes 2008 | Comments (0)

Cannes: Nerves on the CHE Red Carpet

May 21, 2008 – 12:44 pm

I’m watching the red carpet arrivals for the Che premiere right now via the Festivals closed circuit TV station. “Steven Soderbergh looks somewhat worried,” says the English translator. No shit. The director, wife Jules Asner and Che star Benicio Del Toro not only looked like they were walking into a hanging, but they couldn’t contain [...]

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Cannes Diary: Che and the Quest For Relevance

May 21, 2008 – 11:00 am

Steven Soderbergh tries to rise to the Sean Penn Relevancy Challenge. Also: the French FORREST GUMP. With boobs.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film festivals, cannes 2008 | Comments (2)

Cannes Diary: Everything is Fine

May 19, 2008 – 7:00 am

Eavesdropping on the Indiana Jones premiere, and notes from the Marche.

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Cannes: Tyson

May 17, 2008 – 6:19 am

photo by Karina Longworth
France loves James Toback, and James Toback loves France right back. The New York auteur, whose work is more often than not unfairly maligned stateside, has already seen Fingers, his first (and best) film, remade by French director Jacques Audiard. The original is one of two Toback films screening at Cannes [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Documentary, Film festivals, Uncategorized, cannes 2008 | Comments (4)

Cannes Diary: The Movie That Wasn’t There

May 16, 2008 – 10:29 am

The SEX AND THE CITY movie is not at Cannes but, thanks to VOGUE, it’s on my mind on the way out there.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film festivals, cannes 2008 | Comments (1)

Cannes Links 05/15/08

May 15, 2008 – 12:46 pm

I’m running off to the airport shortly and will be away from the computer until Friday afternoon Cannes time, but here’s a quick look at the news coming out of the festival as of Thursday morning:

Un Conte de Noel, Surveillance, and The Pleasure of Being Robbed have been picked up. The former two were bought [...]

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film festivals, Uncategorized, cannes 2008 | Comments (0)

Robert Downey Jr in Cannes, in Blackface.

May 13, 2008 – 12:00 pm

Above: the construction of a giant Tropic Thunder ad outside the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, captured by Variety. More pictures of Hollywood’s billboard invasion of the resort town at the Circuit blog.

By Karina Longworth | Posted in Film festivals, cannes 2008 | Comments (1)