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nick aol.com> wrote:
> On Apr 24, 4:02 am, MFalc1
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gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> Competition
>>>> Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Three Monkeys
>>>> Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne - Le Silence De Lorna
>>>> Arnaud Desplechin - A Christmas Story
>>>> Clint Eastwood - Changeling
>>>> Atom Egoyan - Adoration
>>>> Ari Folman - Waltz With Bashir
>>>> Philippe Garrel - La Frontiere De L'Aube
>>>> Matteo Garrone - Gomorra
>>>> Charlie Kaufman - Synecdoche, New York
>>>> Eric Khoo - My Magic
>>>> Lucretia Martel - La Mujer Sin Cabeza
>>>> Brillante Mendoza - Serbis
>>>> Kornel Mondruczo - Delta
>>>> Walter Salles - Linha De Passe
>>>> Paolo Sorrentino - Il Divo
>>>> Pablo Trapero - Leonera
>>>> Wim Wenders - The Palermo Shooting
>>>> Jia Zhangke - 24 City
>>>> Steven Soderbergh - Guerrilla and The Argentine
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>>>> Out of competition
>>>> Steven Spielberg - Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
>>>> Mark Osborne and John Stevenson - Kung Fu Panda
>>>> Ji-Woon Kim - The Good, The Bad, The Weird
>>>> Woody Allen - Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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>>> Not the most unpromising Competition and Out-of-Competition lineup
>>> I've seen . . . but what in hell is the Spielberg film doing there??
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>> Remember when THE DA VINCI CODE played Cannes a couple of years back?
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> It got the worst reviews imaginable which ended up doing Ron Howard
> and his movie a favor because from then on, it was a case of "well, it
> wasn't quite *that* bad".
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> Has anyone been able to sit through The Da Vinci Code twice? I didn't
> mind seeing it in a theater but attempts to watch even a minute of it
> since then, it's like hitting a brick wall of boredom.
I hit the brick wall 3 hours in (DVR said it was only 20 minutes, but I
think it's clock is wrong) on the first viewing and turned it off.
