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Call this a post-Oscars afterthought, but I think the inaugural 2005 blacklist for un-produced screenplays is working out to be a fairly good predictor/barometer in discriminating the output of quality films and misfires.

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.

Food for Fought

For a writer/director who’s known for his witty and charming dialogue, this teaser-trailer is suspiciously absent of any and all proof of that. It offers us but a few forced deliveries at the very beginning and end. How clever Kevin, you truly are a master wordsmith (But I guess that’s why it falls into the ‘teaser’ category). And look, it starts off in black & white, how nostalgic and paltry. Are we gonna be treated to another lame-ass attempt from Randal conning Dante into admitting all the gay S&M stuff he would do for a flying car again? Is he gonna tongue-lash another customer about how they can’t “shop here anymore!”