The 2009 Cannes Film Festival screening schedule went up online yesterday. Since I’m only staying for nine days (Tuesday, 5.12 to Thursday, 5.21), I have to figure something out about two films showing on Friday, 5.22 — Gaspar Noe‘s Into The Void and Terry Gilliam‘s The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. I’ll basically need to hunt these down at “market” screenings, which sometimes happen prior to press and public showings. Honestly? I’ll survive if I miss the Gilliam.
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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