UPDATE: 09/10/08: IFC ultimately purchased the domestic rights to Che, not Magnolia Pictures. It will run for one week in December, and then be released in January via on-demand. Word from the TIFF via the NY Post is that Steven Soderbergh's $60 million 4-hour-plus Che Guevara biopic, Che, has finally been picked up by Mark…
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Today, director Steven Soderbergh's four hour subtitled Che Guevera biopic, Che (presented as two films entitled The Argentine and Guerilla) premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Online, critical reception is already momentously loud and divided, in a "Here we go..." way. And as you might expect, the film(s)'s questionable commercial prospects and controversial depiction…
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With the Festival de Cannes kicking off later this week, a bunch of new production photos have surfaced. First up is Steven Soderbergh's Che, a pair of films (The Argentine and Guerrilla) starring Benicio Del Toro as Argentine revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara de la Serna. The running time for the two films combined is a…
Read MoreAfter college, I kicked it around downtown Miami for a bit. While the city never became the new hipster mecca to replace Brooklyn as the, uh, booming condo industry promised, I did become aware that Fidel Castro has died approximately 1,000 times and that the locals like to celebrate each time like it's the last…
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