blogs.indiewire.com - 5/22/2008
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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 Kat bar. The 20 minute gave guests a breather amidst the four-hour plus marathon. We'll have more on the film in indieWIRE on Thursday, but my ...
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Cannes: Che Aftermath
SpoutBlog —
... need to see the movie before they left town.
David Poland has no love for any blogger or journalist who “felt compelled to offer their opinions way too early,” thus increasing the chances that “Soderbergh cuts the film under Cannes pressure - even though there is no consistent correlation between Cannes response and US release success.” But David was in L.A. He didn’t have the experience of being placated with a perfunctory sack lunch in between Che chunks; he didn’t wait for an after party ...
Is ‘Che’ This Year's ‘Southland Tales’?
Vulture —
... Last night's Cannes premiere of Che, Steven Soderbergh's ambitious, four-hour biopic of Che Guevara, seems to have been something of a fiasco. So today, talk among the critics and commentators is split between complaints about the crappy meal everyone got during intermission — a sandwich and a mini–Kit Kat in a brown bag, apparently — and the shaggy and anti-commercial movie that meal interrupted. "No doubt it will be back to the drawing boards for Che," ...
Today in Cannes Hell: The Great 'Che' Debate Begins [Cannes Film Festival]
Gawker: defamer —
... But... but... the producers even splurged for a brown-bag dinner during intermission! With Kit-Kats! Anyway, Che has its defenders as well; ...
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Cannes: Che Aftermath
blog.spout.com 5/22/2008 — I didn’t see Che . Last night was the first night since I’ve been here that I had an opportunity to go to bed at a reasonable hour and, after a week of dozing off in screenings on three hours of fitful sleep, I took it. Regrets? Reading ...
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