I keep getting told Edinburgh Fringe is going down hill and doesn't reflect it's old spirit, and now Cannes is apparently lost as well. This is most disheartening given that I am yet to attend either event yet.

I think The Crying Game 3D could seriously work. As you said, Mr. Kermode, 3D only works when "objects" are pointing at you. (Sorry, I couldn't resist)

Is this year's Cannes simply a pretty mediocre year film-wise, or are producers choosing to take their films to other festivals, or promote them in other ways?

I think this sums up everything you're saying about the glamorous aspects of Cannes overshadowing the actual reason the festival exists:



https://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20100519/ten-hilton-almost-missed-cannes-film-fes-c60bd6d.html

Mark, your dream movie is about to happen.

It has just been announced that 'Pirates Of The Caribbean 4' is to be made 'properly' in 3D (albeit without Gore V this time - aah).

Get that left leg ready.

Tagline....

"They're Pirates, they're in the Caribbean, and they're in 3D"

Did Mark Kermode just use the term 'brainstorm' about 6 seconds after talking about a terrible memory of an epileptic fit? Perhaps a slight error...

It's twenty years since I went to Cannes and blagged my way into the press screening of Wild at Heart. It was really nothing more than a glorified trade fair for the distributors back then, not surprising that nothing has changed.



Woolley should go beyond 3-D, take a page from William Castle and produce a new Crying Game in "Tea-Bag-O-Vision".

I saw Stoned and thought it was terrible. Dull, predictable and an all too whimsical lead performance. Of course it is based on a known story, but at no stage was it interesting and (although it pains me to say it) i found the characters irritating.



Perhaps i should watch again because i find it surprising you like it so much, Mark.