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IONCINEMA.com presents: Best of Fests64th Venice Film Festival When: August 29th to September 8th, 2007 Counting Down: ...

IONCINEMA.com presents: Best of Fests60th Cannes International Film Festival When: May 16 to May 27th, 2007 Counting Down: ...

First reaction: non-surprise. Many of the films mentioned below were tagged to be amongst the final choices – and the ones that I thought were going to break into the fest (namely a couple of American pics) look to be headed to Italy’s Venice film fest in the fall. Two films that I won’t be checking out are the ones that I’ve already seen (albeit, 10 minutes more of Deathproof could be interesting) and Zodiac...

2007 is the year that the Cannes film festival turns 60 and to celebrate the occasion they asked 35 world-ranking directors to mark the b-day bash with a three-minute short. For many Chacun son cinema shall bring out the pearly whites among he few cinephiles lucky enough to see the film. Sixty is also nifty because of the onslaught of other projects that will most likely make it at this year’s fest. Both a culmination of what I’ve read in Variety and cineuropa.org and my own two cents worth, this is a taste of some of the stuff we can expect to see at this year’s 60th.

I had my reservations about it specially since I wasn't a big fan of "Hedwig" but to watch it with more than 2000 thousand people at the most prestigious festival was quite a treat. The sex at first was shocking and draw giggles from the audience but after the film’s final credits rolled up one notices that it wasn’t the vulnerability of naked bodies but the honesty of the character that makes one care. It got a standing ovation from audience. It's a daring peace of work of art. I'm wondering what John Cameron Mitchell is up to next. The "actors" are quite good and go on having careers with the worst behind them.