We've been asked: why didn't GreenCine Daily cover Cannes comprehensively? First of all, who could (or would want to) compete with David Hudson for his meticulous round-ups of winners and links, and not unrelatedly, which one of you sugar mamas reading this was supposed to pay my way to France? I made an executive decision that the world didn't need one more armchair critic recycling opinions and industry (over)hype, and inroads have been made to mine fresh content for next year's event.

Until then, we turn to Mike D'Angelo ("a professional film critic for the past dozen years, primarily for Time Out New York and Esquire"), who has just returned stateside from Cannes, where he filed a sharp, utterly merciless series of reports for the A. V. Club. Sitting down at my kitchen table, D'Angelo and I discussed the unusual way he funded his 12-day expedition, why he feels Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon was a lousy choice to win the Palme d'Or, the significance of Twitter in film journalism today, and why he never seems to like any of the movies he sees (or so you think).

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Posted by ahillis at May 25, 2009 10:08 PM