Cannes. Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters.

FX Feeney calls Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters, screening Out of Competition and at the Seattle International Film Festival in June, "a feel-good movie about failure" and adds right away: "Full disclosure: Variety assigned this review to an impartial non-staffer since editor-in-chief Peter Bart co-wrote and co-produced Boffo, inspired by his own forthcoming book. That duly confessed, this critic's job was made easy by the film's sharp-witted swiftness under the direction of Bill Couturie, and by Bart's own implicit candor." Army Archerd, the world's first film blogger, got a kick out of it, too.

Bart, Danny DeVito and Couturie.

Duane Byrge in the Hollywood Reporter: "Mixing a superb collection of clips from such blockbusters as The Godfather, Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy and Titanic as well as such mega-bombs as Howard the Duck and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Boffo illuminates that one contradictory reality of Hollywood moviemaking: The trouble with moviemaking is that it is a business, but the trouble with it as a business is that it is also an art."

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