While running the risk of turning this group blog into an All-Polanski-All-The-Time love fest, I thought it worth while to point out my favorite part of the petition currently circulating the mess halls of Sunset Boulevard. (I mean beside the fact that Woody Allen signed it (which is a cheap shot, I know, but much like my teenage years, I’ll take what I can get)).

Filmmakers in France, in Europe, in the United States and around the world are dismayed by this decision. It seems inadmissible to them that an international cultural event, paying homage to one of the greatest contemporary filmmakers, is used by the police to apprehend him.

In other words, “How dare they disturb the sanctity of a film festival!”

There is a special sort of comedy associated with this idea that only those who have run a film through the festival circuit can appreciate. (more…)

And please do take a moment to give to the Hollywood Fund For Moral Illiteracy…

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Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Darren Aronofsky
Jonatham Demme
Stephen Frears
David Lynch
Martin Scorsese

Full list: (it might have been quicker to name who didn’t sign the petition) (more…)