Film Festival Audiences Get Up for Anything These Days. Maybe they Shouldn’t | Commentary

This article will take you 10 minutes to read — about as long as Yorgos Lanthimos’ standing ovation last week in Venice

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Adam Driver, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Woody Allen have recently gotten standing ovations. (Getty)

Ben Svetkey

Benjamin Svetkey

Veteran entertainment journalist Benjamin Svetkey shoots the breeze, raises a brow and sometimes wags a finger in his ruminations on the latest Hollywood news and controversies.

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Every year, filmmakers gather at festivals across the globe and compete over whose is the longest.

At the Venice Film Festival earlier this week, Bradley Cooper’s measured an impressive seven while Adam Driver’s was an average-size six. Woody Allen’s, though, was only a five and poor Roman Polanski’s was a puny three

But hello there, Yorgos Lanthimos! The Greek director’s unfurled at a whopping 

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