Brad & Angie - Ah Cannes!
angela
I am on every film mailing list there is so I guess I asked for this. But honestly, how many Cannes emails can a person get? And for goodness sake, what the heck is Jessica Simpson doing there?!?! And didn’t Zodiac already come out? What is it doing “premiering” there? And what is Pam Anderson doing there? At least my close friends, Angie & Brad have movies there. It’s not their fault that the media (and I) are totally obsessed with them.
I know I am just a hater. I am just jealous that it is not me lying on the beach watching walking ads for subpar movies pass me by. But what has happened to Cannes? As a teenager, I was obsessed with the mystery and prestige of Cannes. There were all of these European celebrities, all of these amazing films that would never come out in the US because we are too short sighted to see brilliance in cinema. Now, there is still the prestige but like so many festivals, it has become a slave to the publicity machine. Films that are actually in the festival are completely overshadowed by the films with big budgets trying to get some buzz.
It was nice amidst all of the fluff emails to learn that at Cannes, Martin Scorsese announced the launch of the World Cinema Foundation on Tuesday in a bid to preserve neglected films for posterity and restore others that have been damaged. I have always been impressed by his involvement with film preservation.
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| Posted on May 23, 2007
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