www.indiewire.com — by Glenn Kenny (May 22, 2008)
The one overwhelming message coming from the competition films at the 61st Cannes Film Festival is: shit's messed up. " Waltz With Bashir " digs into the never-fully-healed wounds of war. In Matteo Garrone 's " Gomorra ," organized crime isn't an aberration; it's just the shadow army of an irredeemably venal free-market system. The Dardenne Brothers ' " The ...
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Hollywood Elsewhere —
Another Salute Some Came Running 's Glenn Kenny , writing for Indiewire , liked Che also . He doesn't exactly convey the doing of cartwheels in the lobby in this piece, but here's a godo passage: "Good thing that Soderbergh, as far as my opinion is concerned, doesn't have a rabble-rousing bone in his body. Che benefits greatly from certain Soderberghian qualities that don't always serve his other films well, e.g., detachment, formalism, and intellectual curiosity."
Cannes. Che.
GreenCine Daily —
... benefits greatly from certain Soderberghian qualities that don't always serve his other films well, e.g., detachment, formalism, and intellectual curiosity," writes Glenn Kenny at indieWIRE. ...
Speaking of conservatives...
Mostly Movies —
...they'll be checking the batteries on their laptops because we're going to be hearing a lot about Soderbergh's two-part, not-what-you-expect, leave-out-the-bad-stuff, Che Guevara biopic. (Indiewire) ...
Is ‘Che’ This Year's ‘Southland Tales’?
Vulture —
... pronounces himself "among a small core of fans of the films," even as his site posts a mostly negative review by Glenn Kenny (which does point out that a number of sequences in the films are stunning, including a soon-to-be-legendary train derailment and battle scene in the first half). And Cinematical is the first to go against the prevailing wisdom, ...
Today in Cannes Hell: The Great 'Che' Debate Begins [Cannes Film Festival]
Gawker: Defamer —
... likening Che to previous rough-cut Cannes clusterfucks including Southland Tales, The Brown Bunny and 2046 and scolding: "DON'T TAKE AN UNFINISHED MOVIE TO CANNES!!!!"
But... but... the producers even splurged for a brown-bag dinner during intermission! With Kit-Kats! Anyway, Che has its defenders as well; Kim Voynar thinks it's a Palme D'Or (and maybe even Oscar) front-runner, Jeffrey Wells is over the moon and Glenn Kenny has high praise at indieWIRE:
Che benefits greatly ...
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weblogs.variety.com 5/22/2008 — "A folly." "A mess." "Great." These words came from some of the critics coming out of Steven Soderbergh's four-hour 18 minute Spanish-language Che Wednesday night. At the end there was slight applause; no boos. My own description: noble failure.
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blogs.indiewire.com 5/22/2008 — cheBAGS.jpg In keeping with the famine faced by Che and his band of brothers in the second half of Steven Soderbergh 's " Che ," guests were served a small sack dinner tonight that contained a flattened half sandwich, bottle of water and a mini Kit ...
cheBAGS.jpg In keeping with the famine faced by Che and his band of brothers in the second half of Steven Soderbergh 's " Che ," guests were served a small sack dinner tonight that contained a flattened half sandwich, bottle of water and a mini Kit ...
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