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Saturday marked the first AFI Fest screening of upcoming IFC First Take release 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu. The 2007 Cannes Palm d’Or winner (and prohibitive favorite for a best foreign language Oscar nod) has been getting rave reviews and since I missed it at the New York [...] Believe it or not, Roger Friedman writes on FoxNews.com that Michael Moore’s lates film, Sicko is “brilliant and uplifting.” [...] Inspired by Tom Hall’s post today about Cannes, I feel compelled to mention that I, too, am not on the Riviera this year. After going in 2003 with the Hamptons International Film Festival and again last year as a journalist, I fully expected to be back this year, but alas, non. As a member of [...] Ok, so I have finally gotten around to switching from Buzznet (they are SO ’05) to Flickr and am in the process of posting pix, some with witty bon mots, even! Keep checking back, as by the end of next week I hope to have a few years worth of pix loaded, most of which have never been in this blog before and many of which include you. Yes, you! [...] My first attempt at video blogging. Please be kind! [...] After the letdown that was Fast Food Nation and given the risky source material (a Philip K. Dick novel) and filmmaking technique involved (rotoscoping animation), I was excited and very wary when I sat down for an afternoon screening of Richard Linklater’s 2nd Cannes entry, A Scanner Darkly. I needen’t have been wary. [...] The whole evening was magical and while my cinematography and sound recording don’t quite do it justice (I was using a Canon digitial elph, for Christ’s sake!) this was one night to remember. Without further ado, a verse from the now-classic “Wig In A Box.” [...] Shoo Bee Doo Bee Doo Wop! Jay Brannan overdid it at the soda shop…. [...] |
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