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STEVEN SODERBERGH'S 4 1/2-hr. Che Guevara movie premieres at Cannes. Viewers attempt unsuccessful coup of projectionist booth...
...distributors thought it was much too ratty for the theater. I would go to places with two big reels and give them to the projectionist and three or four people in suits would come in and sit down. By the end of the first reel, when the lights came on, they'd all be gone. We got a little discouraged. One day, this guy called up and said, "I'd like to come see it." He was manager of a string of porn houses all over the West. At the end of the screening, he said, "It looks like...
DIED. Philippe Noiret, 76, one of France's most esteemed actors, who lent an earthy, avuncular charm to more than 125 movies over a half century; in Paris. A two-time winner of the César award (France's Oscar), he gained global fans as a weary film projectionist in 1988's Cinema Paradiso and as the poet Pablo Neruda in the 1994 hit Il Postino...
...DIED. Philippe Noiret, 76, one of France's most esteemed actors, who lent an earthy, avuncular charm to more than 125 movies over a half century; in Paris. A two-time winner of the César award (France's Oscar), he gained global fans as a weary film projectionist in 1988's Cinema Paradiso and as the poet Pablo Neruda in the 1994 hit Il Postino...
Borat CELLULOID GOLD Makes me want to get up and cheer. Patton Oswalt—the funniest stand-up comedian in America—saw a preview screening of this and said that he made the projectionist stop midway through because he was laughing too hard. I don’t actually laugh at the trailer, I just marvel at it. It makes you forget about the inevitable pain that you’ll feel when you have to sit through the build-ups to the punchlines in the interviews. Just enough to entice, not so much as to disgust...