Cannes: The sad decline from greatness to mediocrity

Modern Conservative ^ | June 04, 2008 | Yervand Kochar

[A_perfect_lady]

It makes me queasy to see Hollywood drooling over Che. Osama is next, you watch. In ten years, college kids will be wearing Osama t-shirts as Hollywood makes a sympathetic movie about his early years. I bet they’re searching the Calvin Kline ads right now looking for some gaunt, hollow-eyed young man to play the part.

[lormand]

Film making is as significant to our world as are pet rocks.

[AU72]

Cannes has always been a eurotrash sandbox.

[Borges]

Cannes isn’t Hollywood.

[Borges]

Would you say the same thing about music? Literature?

[Army Air Corps]

...a festival that increasingly becomes to the art of movies what Michael Jackson is to child development.

Direct hit amidships!

[A_perfect_lady]

No, but movies made in Hollywood are going to Cannes.

[Borges]

The film about Che you mentioned wasn’t made by Hollywood either...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374569/companycredits

[puroresu]

That was an interesting story about Fellini’s 8 1/2 at the Moscow Film Festival. There are Chinese filmmakers who have paid the price in recent years as well, but I don’t see Sean Penn defending them. He’s too busy worrying about that Fascist Police State known as Bush’s America.

[Borges]

Iranian filmmakers too.

[BBell]

Sundance must be an Amerotrash sandbox.

[A_perfect_lady]

The film I mentioned? I didn’t mention it by name, but I was thinking of Motorcycle Diaries, at least one of whose contributing production companies is out of Santa Monica. I’m not sure what your point is, but my own point is that Hollywood churns out left-wing crap and many of them go to Cannes. I’m not sure why you have such a problem with that observation.

[lormand]

"Would you say the same thing about music? Literature?"

Yes. I have managed to survive quite comfortably with spending my time and money on fiction. Music is different IMO because it is something that can be done by anyone in the comfort in their own home. However, not doing so will not threaten their survival.

How did mankind survive before film-making came to light? How did mankind survive before tax-payer subsidized art?

[Borges]

The majority of ‘Motorcycle Diaries’ funding came from outside of American filmmaking. It’s even listed on IMDB with a Spanish title...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318462/companycredits

Very few Big Studio Hollywood films play in competition at Cannes these days actually.

[Borges]

Mankind has always had Art in one form or another. I don’t know what goverment subsidies have to do with this subject.

[A_perfect_lady]

So? Plenty of small Hollywood indies are going, I’ve met them. I LIVE HERE! IN HOLLYWOOD! What, again, is your problem with my remarking on the zeitgeist in Hollywood?

[Borges]

Because the statement you made early on is misleading...

It makes me queasy to see Hollywood drooling over Che. Osama is next...Hollywood makes a sympathetic movie about his early years

[lormand]

"I don’t know what goverment subsidies have to do with this subject."

It doesn't, it was just extra commentary on my part.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Good rundown on all the interminable leftist directors that deem themselves "artists" of the first rank... and it is rank, a stench of the first disorder. These guys have never left high school and are now jockeying for Godhead status rather than Pothead status. But the stink has followed them and it is an evil one. You can smell evil... truly.