Editors’ Note: Todd McCarthy recently wrote about his layoff from The Hollywood Reporter. To commemorate the sense of collective loss we all feel for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival that would …
that would have started tomorrow but had to be scratched for safety reasons like everything else because of the COVID-19 pandemic, McCarthy writes about his long love affair for the singular event, and reveals what movies we would have seen and how, with theatrical moviegoing an uncertainty, some might wait to get their red carpet moment at the Palais in 2021 when Cannes comes roaring back.
Another emphatic difference between Cannes then and now was the extreme paucity of American critics and journalists. In 1970, there were precisely two journalists/critics who made the trip across the pond to cover Cannes, Rex Reed and Kathleen Carroll of the. Rex was already notorious due to his bestselling collection of devastating and hilarious celebrity profiles,was still a month away.
It’s another story altogether but worth pointing out that Cannes was not very heavily covered in the United States, and not at all by the electronic media, until 1979, when. That film, and the attendant publicity it generated, did more to bring Cannes to the attention of the general public than anything else.
The word I’ve heard from festival insiders in Europe this week is that some of strong contenders for Cannes 2020 berths might actually be held back a full year in order to contend next May.
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