Cannes: Tyson

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Links for the Day (May 17th, 2008)
Published 5/17/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
[image] 1. Some Cannes news of note: two entries from Stream contributor Eric Kohn, "Speaking Cinema" & "Navigating the Festival Mayhem." GreenCine gathers the first reviews of Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona . Spout Blog 's Karina Longworth reports on James Toback's documentary Tyson . And Andrew O'Hehir's latest Cannes post, "Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa." [ "The film essentially plays like a conversation between Tyson and Toback, with all of Toback’s lines edited out. You thus feel the filmmaker’s influence on ...

Cannes. Tyson.
Published 5/17/2008 at GreenCine Daily
"France loves James Toback, and James Toback loves France right back," writes Karina Longworth at the SpoutBlog. "The New York auteur, whose work is more often than not unfairly maligned stateside, has already seen Fingers, his first (and best) film, remade by French director Jacques Audiard. The original is one of two Toback films screening at Cannes this year; the other, his documentary on long-time friend Mike Tyson, premiered to more than one standing ovation last night." ...