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...Hollywood extravaganzas blow into Cannes every year, and among all the serioso European and Asian fare that dominates the Competition they're like a clown visiting a children's ward: colorful, noisy, oversize and full of professional pep, compared to the wan, torporous little things languishing immobile in their beds. So today, when Ocean's Thirteen was the main attraction, many critics anticipated it with pleasure- if only as playtime after a week's homework studying and reporting on the worthiest art films...
...knew that, sometimes, nothing looks so good on the giant Festival Palais screen as a bad Hollywood movie. In 1992 the Opening Night entry was Basic Instinct, that chicly sleazy sex-and-violence thriller starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone and the space between Sharon Stone's legs. U.S. critics had seen the movie months before, and dumped their contempt on it. Yet in the Lumiere Theatre at Cannes, on that 60-ft.-wide canvas, it had the kind of luminosity, confidence and throbbing pulse that no Franco-Polish minimalist masterpiece could match. This, we were reminded, is why audiences...
...revival or exhumation of the Rat Pack series has reason to exist (big if), it's to prove that Hollywood still knows how to parade the old careless glamour. That's the only reason an audience has to see the Ocean movies. So the biggest surprise and disappointment about the new one is not that it's kind of a corpse, but that the stars aren't made to look beautiful, sexy, starrish...
...camera love them; they've been doing it for years, in some cases decades. So I have to think what I saw today was a prank of the emulsion, or the director. The big Palais screen, as longtime festivalgoers can vouch, is supposed to lend an extra radiance to Hollywood stars. Soderbergh makes them look like Nick Nolte in that mug shot...
...right price, would you ever leave and play for the Yankees? Please say no to this question! :) Nicole Smith, HOLLYWOOD...