Pushing on
My ten days of trying to cover the hard-slamming Cannes Film Festival, which has always involved 18-hour work days broken up by sleep periods of five or six hours, has wound to a close, even though the festival will continue for another three days including today — Friday, 5.15. I’ve been hanging with Jett, who reviewed and covered for the Boston Pheonix online for the last six days, and this morning we’re pushing on to Italy for a few days. I’ll still do my daily filing, but from a somewhat more tranquil head-space. I did and saw many things during the festival that I haven’t yet gotten into, so…
Good to see nepotism doesn’t exist among the left. Is Dylan Governor of Florida?
Jayne: On-line gigs don’t pay well, anyway, so Jett’s actually getting the short end of the stick working there.
Kick ass job covering, Jeff. Glad to see someone digging in like this in the blog-o-sphere.
Kick ass job? Not really… snippet here and there does not a good job make.
Crap: … and how much do you pay for reading this site?
Jayne Gacey: Good to see nepotism doesn’t exist among the left. Is Dylan Governor of Florida?
Bogus.
D.Z.: Jayne: On-line gigs don’t pay well, anyway, so Jett’s actually getting the short end of the stick working there.
Excellent!
Kristopher Tapley: Kick ass job covering, Jeff. Glad to see someone digging in like this in the blog-o-sphere.
Excellent!
Craptastic: Kick ass job? Not really… snippet here and there does not a good job make.
Bogus.
AH: Crap: … and how much do you pay for reading this site?
Excellent!
BillandTed, the first BOT program in human form. Can SkyNet be far behind?
Friday is hate day!
Jeff, thanks for all the coverage. Can’t wait to see No Country.
I doubt it’s nepotism as much as the Boston Phoenix not really being in a position to pay a writer’s way to Cannes, and Jett perhaps having the clips to warrant the gig.
Jayne: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/11/skynet_takes_control/
18 hour work days and this is all the coverage you have given us. A few boring interviews and ruining the ending of the best movie there. Weak stuff.
hope you had fun jeff, but your coverage was a trifle underwhelming. i’m cetain you were kicking it euro-style and watching more babes than films.
I would like to say that all the people who defended Jeff’s spoiling of NO COUNTRY because it happened to be a book first are all morons because that means he happened to spoil both in the same sentence.
Morons.
You guys are a bunch of dickweeds.
not as subtle as your mcluhanese…
Jayne Gacey: Good to see nepotism doesn’t exist among the left. Is Dylan Governor of Florida?
Bogus.
D.Z.: Jayne: On-line gigs don’t pay well, anyway, so Jett’s actually getting the short end of the stick working there.
Excellent!
Kristopher Tapley: Kick ass job covering, Jeff. Glad to see someone digging in like this in the blog-o-sphere.
Excellent!
Craptastic: Kick ass job? Not really… snippet here and there does not a good job make.
Bogus.
AH: Crap: … and how much do you pay for reading this site?
Excellent!
Looks like more vaginas got their pearls as Devin would say…
I’m am as yet blissfully unaware of any rumored No Country spoilers. Why? Because I don’t fucking read articles about Coen movies before I see them. It’s just that simple.
cjk: Word. Don’t risk reading if you don’t want to know. That’s my philosophy.
In other news, I’d be curious to see what kind of Cannes coverage all these naysayers would come up with if they were at the festival — one person trying to get into multiple films and press conferences and standing in lines and dealing with jet lag and language barriers. But alas, they’re doing other things.
Wells may spell “Phoenix” wrong, and he just doesn’t get Apatow or Ferrell movies, but he’ll file eventually and it’ll be thoughtful and interesting instead of rushed and cursory.
My friends who are in Cannes don’t know if they are coming or going it’s so hectic. I’m sure you will have more time to download on the festival later.
Buon viaggio.
granted, cannes be busy. but like most festivals, they have rooms and spaces set up for journalists. how long does it take to type out two paragraphs in an 18 hour day?
and the fact that jeff “blew off” what sounded like a very interesting press conference with the DP crew doesn’t sound like he was running non-stop. i’m just sayin’.
I doubt it’s nepotism as much as the Boston Phoenix not really being in a position to pay a writer’s way to Cannes, and Jett perhaps having the clips to warrant the gig.
Jayne: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/11/skynet_takes_control/
CJ and Mick: Yep, you got it right. I was in Cannes and personally saw Jeff jammed into lines snaking through the friggin’ Palais and hammering people for interviews at parties and panels and I was thinking, “wow, this guy is dying for his art.” He was everywhere and actually, I think his cumulative coverage for being a one man show is pretty heroic, not to mention continually worth reading. And he’s a competitor!!!!
To the rest of you, I’ll quote my late father: “You’d bitch if they hung you with a new rope.”
Now let’s see who wins the Palme D’Or. Oh, to everyone who dissed “The Banishment,” please refer to the words from my late father. The film’s a masterpiece and I’m sorry if the critical community has fallen ill with a collective case of ADHD.
Note to critics: Please don’t use the word “pretentious” to describe “Banishment” if a) you’ve ever written glowingly about OTHER pretentious films or b) ever been pretentious in YOUR OWN writing.
I think that covers everyone.
The Tower of Light was very lonely. Hardly anyone ever went there. It was such a good location. Near the Court of the Universe, near the very heart of things. Near General Electric, and not far from Pepsi-Cola, which was so popular, and near Clairol, the Clairol Pavilion, where women lined up hours at a time to get advice on their hair, how their hair should be arranged. It was a good location, but it was lonely
Christian, I know what you mean about the Death Proof event. It does, however, seem like just another Weinstein snake oil sale.
Salon was there. They have coverage if you’re interested.
i know mick, i posted the salon story here so people could read what jeff cavalierly missed. but it sounded interesting since weinstein was trying to curtail kurt rusell etc. would have liked jeff’s take and maybe he could have asked qt about his film in the way he praises/condemns it.
Luckily, I didn’t read the “No Country” article, but anyone who spoils the end of a movie that no one on this continent could have even seen yet, or anyone who defends such an action, are total dicks.
You guys are a bunch of dickweeds.
The alternative to Wells being in Cannes and not having the energy to post frequently is him being in Los Angeles and having enough time on his hands to post five times daily about how much he expects Pirates 3 to be soul-rotting and finding a receipt for a hamburger Gore Verbinski once bought for a Bush voter.
there were a dozen different ways jeff could have started his piece on NO COUNTRY and he deliberately chose to give away the end. it was a conscious choice. i read the script so no big.
I’m am as yet blissfully unaware of any rumored No Country spoilers. Why? Because I don’t fucking read articles about Coen movies before I see them. It’s just that simple.
The Tower of Light was very lonely. Hardly anyone ever went there. It was such a good location. Near the Court of the Universe, near the very heart of things. Near General Electric, and not far from Pepsi-Cola, which was so popular, and near Clairol, the Clairol Pavilion, where women lined up hours at a time to get advice on their hair, how their hair should be arranged. It was a good location, but it was lonely
It wasn’t my choice to read the spoiler; it was right there IN THE FIRST SENTENCE of THE FIRST ENTRY at THE TOP OF THE PAGE (at the time)
Get off your high horses.
I read the first half of the first sentence and realized it was a spoiler and stopped reading. All I’m saying. (Riding jet powered high horse down Wilshire Blvd. and getting pissed off at the ass monkeys who insist on going 34 miles an hour in the left hand lane).
I read the first half of the first sentence and realized it was a spoiler and stopped reading. All I’m saying. (Riding jet powered high horse down Wilshire Blvd. and getting pissed off at the ass monkeys who insist on going 34 miles an hour in the left hand lane).
18 hour work days and this is all the coverage you have given us. A few boring interviews and ruining the ending of the best movie there. Weak stuff.
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