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"Who was the “major U.S. critic” who allegedly “stormed away from a mobbed, delayed 10:30 p.m. Cannes press screening of Two Lovers declaring she’s ‘not going to wait an hour for f—–g [director] James Gray’”? After allowing the blogosphere to stew on it for a week and a half, EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum uses the Pop Watch blog to come clean. ” stormed away from a mobbed, delayed 10:30 p.m. Cannes press screening of Two Lovers declaring she’s “not going to wait an hour for f—–g [director] James Gray. “Dear reader, the storming, cursing critic in this international incident was me.” Girls in terrible earrings! Boyfriends looking for an out plan! Radar has a photo gallery from a first New York public screening of Sex and the City. Burbanked salutes the late Harvey Korman with a clip from High Anxiety. Remember ROFLcon? It’s going on tour, with stops in San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Seattle through the summer. More info here. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth " [More]

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"Who was the “major U.S. critic” who allegedly “stormed away from a mobbed, delayed 10:30 p.m. Cannes press screening of Two Lovers declaring she’s ‘not going to wait an hour for f—–g [director] James Gray’”? After allowing the blogosphere to stew on it for a week and a half, EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum uses the Pop Watch blog to come clean. ” stormed away from a mobbed, delayed 10:30 p.m. Cannes press screening of Two Lovers declaring she’s “not going to wait an hour for f—–g [director] James Gray. “Dear reader, the storming, cursing critic in this international incident was me.” Girls in terrible earrings! Boyfriends looking for an out plan! Radar has a photo gallery from a first New York public screening of Sex and the City. Burbanked salutes the late Harvey Korman with a clip from High Anxiety. Remember ROFLcon? It’s going on tour, with stops in San Francisco, New York, Chicago and Seattle through the summer. More info here. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog " [More]

Cannes: Two Lovers
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"I don’t entirely buy James Grey’s Two Lovers, and typing this having just walked out of the far superior Un Conte De Noel, I feel strange even praising it. I freely admit that even as certain elements are effectively thrilling in their depiction of tortured passion, it’s all put to the service of a narrative that is occasionally offensive in its total lack of surprise. But, but, but: after dozing on and off for the film’s first twenty or thirty minutes, I awoke to see Joaquin Phoenix breakdancing his way into the arms of Gwyneth Paltrow, and for whatever reason, from that point on I was sort of into it. About an hour later I became totally sucked in, when that moment of dance floor silliness met its dissonant counterpoint with a second, far more desperate scene of Phoenix dancing his way into Paltrow’s arms. It’ll be too little too late for some, but in its final third, Two Lovers becomes an extremely strong parable about the madness of romantic love, and maybe even its impossibi ... " [More]

Cannes: Two Lovers
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"I don’t entirely buy James Grey’s Two Lovers, and typing this having just walked out of the far superior Un Conte De Noel, I feel strange even praising it. I freely admit that even as certain elements are effectively thrilling in their depiction of tortured passion, it’s all put to the service of a narrative that is occasionally offensive in its total lack of surprise. But, but, but: after dozing on and off for the film’s first twenty or thirty minutes, I awoke to see Joaquin Phoenix breakdancing his way into the arms of Gwyneth Paltrow, and for whatever reason, from that point on I was sort of into it. About an hour later I became totally sucked in, when that moment of dance floor silliness met its dissonant counterpoint with a second, far more desperate scene of Phoenix dancing his way into Paltrow’s arms. It’ll be too little too late for some, but in its final third, Two Lovers becomes an extremely strong parable about the madness of romantic love, and maybe even its impossibi ... " [More]

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