Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa - Beyond the Multiplex

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Today in Cannes Hell: Bush Billboards, Early Favorites and Sean Penn Being A Dick [Cannes Film Festival]
Published 5/16/2008 by STV at Defamer
... of gay Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor and Jesus Christ straddling a US fighter jet. There's Andrew O'Hehir tempting us at Salon with his A Christmas Tale rave (headlined "Grief, cancer, Nietzsche and Santa") and Anne Thompson ...

Links for the Day (May 17th, 2008)
Published 5/17/2008 by Keith Uhlich (noreply@blogger.com) at The House Next Door
... . 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 Tyson’s narration/analysis of his own life, but in an almost ghostly way. To see a filmmaker with such an identifiable voice subsume that voice in his subject is somewhat disconcerting. Tyson is nothing if not self-critical, but the film lacks dynamism. Watching it, I longer for more Toback––there’s something missing here, the conversation ...

Cannes: Vendredi, 16 Mai
Published 5/17/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... Andrew O’Hehir, “This won’t be an easy sell even to European audiences, and it’s not likely to win the Palme d’Or. But if I see another film all year long that prickles me, disturbs me or moves me half as much, I’ll be surprised.” ...