Otis is reportedly considering several leads. He is poised to host the canine Oscars, the Wooftahs. Apparently he is a very gay dog. The Russian auteur Alexandre Sokhurov is halfway through his filmic tetralogy on 20th century dictators. His picture Moloch, about Hitler's relationship with Eva Braun, impressed critics at Cannes in 1999, though this year's Palme d'Or contender, Taurus, about the last days of Lenin, has been less well received.
Politicians are incompetent, stupid.
He declined to say, but Margaret Thatcher's life story has yet to be told on film. The Welsh actor Rhys Ifans, noted for exposing himself before the British paparazzi in the comedy Notting Hill, appears before the cameras nude in his latest film. The pair cannot decide whether to train this naked wild man in the ways of 21st century urban living or to leave his simian tendencies be. Let's hope not. French critics detested Jean-Jacques Beineix's film Mortal Transfer on its release in Paris this year, and box office receipts were negligible.