Blogging, NYT-style.

This is the first of what we - meaning my colleague and buddy, AO Scott, and yours truly - hope will be many on-the-run postings from the Cannes Film Festival or, as it is known here, Festival de Cannes. Yes, in between press screenings, jostling through the crowds and writing articles for the paper, we are writing a blog. The idea is pretty simple: we want to give you an idea of what it's like to be at the best and most important film festival in the world by ruminating on the good, the bad, the ugly and, we hope, the purely, even frivolously entertaining.

And this morning, Scott writes: "My head is still spinning. A truly shocking thing happened this morning. I saw a really good Woody Allen movie. Really." Dargis, in the meantime, has just caught Fatih Akin's Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul and will soon be catching Gus Van Sant's Last Days.

What a very welcome development - and what fun.

Posted by dwhudson at May 12, 2005 1:34 PM