This is Day 5 of the Cannes 2007 diary. It is now time for Cannes 2008, but your correspondent is not attending. Lundi 21 Mai 07 Jackpot! My hideous morning ritual standing in the Cinephile Line of Losers pays off. I get a pass to a Schöndorff film and the Uli Seidl premiere at the […]
This is the Cannes 2007 Diary, Day 4 Dimanche 20 Mai 2007 If you do the math, you’ll find that I’m getting about six hours of sleep a night and maybe two meals a day – one of which might be crackers. Considering the pathetic state of Cannes cuisine, this turns out to be not only a […]
This is the Cannes Diary, Day 3 Samedi, 20 Mai 2007 By 10AM it’s clear that there are no passes offered that are any good to me. They give out some for the Classics and the Cinefondation screenings – there is at least one evening premiere, but since I’m in a no-tux situation, I decide against […]
This is the Cannes diary, 2007, Day 2 Vendredi, 18 Mai 07 Les Cinephiles, I have come to realize, are Les Bottom-Feeders. On the way in today I was accosted by a dozen or so Cinephiles looking to score an “invit’ “ to today’s film at the Palais. Remember that Cinephiles can go to the […]
Last year I attended the Cannes Film Festival, on assignment from Some Online Journal. I was to give a “festival report” of what happened there. The first draft of the article turned out to be over 22,000 words and included quite a bit of extraneous but interesting detail. More than one notebook was filled with […]