“There’s more writing about movies these days than ever before. In print and online, it’s never been worse-especially on the Internet where film buffs emulating the Vachel Lindsay-Manny Farber tradition are no longer isolated nerds but an opinionated throng, united in their sarcasm and intense pretense at intellectualizing what is basically a hobby.”
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The lineup for the 61st Cannes film festival was unveiled this morning with the biggest surprise being the inclusion of Steven Soderbergh’s twin Che Guevara biographies The Argentine and Guerrilla. Here’s a list of some of the other highlights:
In Competition

Adoration, Canada, Atom Egoyan
Changeling, U.S., Clint Eastwood
Che (The Argentine, Guerrilla,) Spain, Steven Soderbergh
Un Conte de noel, France, [...]

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