A hardy thank-you...
...goes out to Turner Classic Movies (or is it "a hearty thank-you"?) for its documentary last night, Bienvenue A Cannes ("director Richard Schickel looks at the Cannes Film
Festival, celebrating its 60th year and takes viewers through one of
the world's most famous film festivals."). It single-handedly made me want to never ever attend the Cannes Film Festival. An interesting feat, since until last night, it was something I'd always wanted to do. I have friends who attend, including a filmmaker friend in Paris who attends every year, and when I first met Hubert Selby, Jr. out in Los Angeles, he had just returned from Cannes, where the movie of his book Requiem for A Dream had just premiered, and he'd had a spectacular time...
Well, the festival looks like such a feeding frenzy now and I am so loathe to be in groups larger than, like, three other people. (Odd, since I lived in Manhattan for 23 years, but go figure!) Most people don't realize that I am an intensely anti-social person. Almost pathologically so. I was actually referred to as a sociopath by someone who knew me really well in the 90s. Probably, at least at that point in time, the moniker was accurate, although it's only been recently that I've been able to get enough perspective on my life thus far that I've been able to see really clearly that I really am out on some other planet most of the time.
I am learning to be okay with that.
However, I digress. As usual.
It sure is good to have one less thing to do, "attend Cannes Film Festival," on that huge to-do list, isn't it???
But speaking of Turner Classic Movies, they are now running a contest for a guest programmer. I would so love to enter except that I have an accute dislike of being videotaped. If I were to enter, this would be my programming line-up for an evening of legendary actors in their breakthrough films.
1921 - Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1937 - Cary Grant in The Awful Truth
1951 - Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire
1955 - James Dean in East of Eden
Doesn't that sound like a really cool evening of film? And hosted by moi with all my outstanding commentary? (I have a memory like a steel trap when it comes to useless trivia about actors and/or movies I love.) I guess the only way you'll get to see this, though, is to come visit...I'm not guaranteeing that I'll actually open the door, but if I do, the wine on offer will be really really excellent! Absolutely.
Well, the festival looks like such a feeding frenzy now and I am so loathe to be in groups larger than, like, three other people. (Odd, since I lived in Manhattan for 23 years, but go figure!) Most people don't realize that I am an intensely anti-social person. Almost pathologically so. I was actually referred to as a sociopath by someone who knew me really well in the 90s. Probably, at least at that point in time, the moniker was accurate, although it's only been recently that I've been able to get enough perspective on my life thus far that I've been able to see really clearly that I really am out on some other planet most of the time.
I am learning to be okay with that.
However, I digress. As usual.
It sure is good to have one less thing to do, "attend Cannes Film Festival," on that huge to-do list, isn't it???
But speaking of Turner Classic Movies, they are now running a contest for a guest programmer. I would so love to enter except that I have an accute dislike of being videotaped. If I were to enter, this would be my programming line-up for an evening of legendary actors in their breakthrough films.
1921 - Rudolph Valentino in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1937 - Cary Grant in The Awful Truth
1951 - Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire
1955 - James Dean in East of Eden
Doesn't that sound like a really cool evening of film? And hosted by moi with all my outstanding commentary? (I have a memory like a steel trap when it comes to useless trivia about actors and/or movies I love.) I guess the only way you'll get to see this, though, is to come visit...I'm not guaranteeing that I'll actually open the door, but if I do, the wine on offer will be really really excellent! Absolutely.
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