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• Cannes, Day Seven: J.C. Chandor makes good, Nicolas Winding Refn goes bad, and Claire Denis gets ugly

  Yeah, it's ridiculous to try to establish some "rule" here (though D'Angelo has seemingly never had an aesthetic preference he didn't want to codify into a general rule). Context, backstory, and characterization are not "writer's crutches ...

  May 22, 2013 - 2:04 PM

• Cannes, Day Seven: J.C. Chandor makes good, Nicolas Winding Refn goes bad, and Claire Denis gets ugly

  Gaspar Noe.

  May 22, 2013 - 1:51 PM

• Cannes, Day Seven: J.C. Chandor makes good, Nicolas Winding Refn goes bad, and Claire Denis gets ugly

  Shyamalan has never directed someone else's script either. I think OP was saying these are directors he wishes would direct screenplays written by other people.

  May 22, 2013 - 1:50 PM

• This week we're barely putting up with The Hangover Part III

  I've never been a fan of the '70s singer-songwriter-softies, but for some reason Cockburn (at his best, anyway) really works for me.

  May 22, 2013 - 12:38 PM

• Cannes, Day Seven: J.C. Chandor makes good, Nicolas Winding Refn goes bad, and Claire Denis gets ugly

  Yeah, everything I've read about it makes it sound like an entertainingly lurid grotesquerie directed in a high-art style bordering on camp. THIS IS NOT A BAD THING.

  May 22, 2013 - 12:27 PM

• Cannes, Day Seven: J.C. Chandor makes good, Nicolas Winding Refn goes bad, and Claire Denis gets ugly

  Plus, the best script he ever wrote he didn't direct: Stuart Little!

  May 22, 2013 - 12:24 PM