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Intrigued by the viral hit Hillary's Downfall, Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog looks at the use of Oliver Hirschbiegel's film as a mash-up material and discovers that there "are so many Downfall spoofs on YouTube that I'm almost positive I was the last one to know that spoofing Downfall was, like, a thing that people did."

At GreenCine Daily, David Hudson revisits the current crisis in film criticism and links to a piece at PopMatters where Bill Gibron contends that "New technology may mean a new way of communication, but […] It's time to cast off the amateurish aura given off by what many of us do and recognize the role we will play in the next decade."

Over at Defamer, Stu VanAirsdale reports a busy week for Werner Herzog, who is not only teaming on projects with two fellow mad geniuses David Lynch and Alejandro Jodorowsky but also remaking Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant with Nicolas Cage. (Related: Jonathan Rosenbaum's newly published essay on Ferrara.)

Also from Cannes: A selection of the Croisette billboard poster action from Mike Jones at The Circuit and Jeffrey Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere.

Andrew O'Hehir's joined the chorus of voices decrying the opening night film at Cannes. It seems as if few could see the value of Blindess, despite its best intentions. O'Hehir's opening comments: "Is it really too late to call Carrie Bradshaw? Opening night at the 61st Festival de Cannes needed her badly."

Keeping up with bloggers of another stripe, Leonard Pierce at The Screengrab looks in on Libertas, a forum for Conservative Thought on Film. There he finds out that the reason there are so few good roles for women in Hollywood is because of feminists. Who'd have thunk?

AJ Schnack at "All these Wonderful Things" picked up on some not such wonderful things — the possible demise of ThinkFilm. But his speculation led to a bit of wrist slapping by David Poland at "Hot Button", who wrote "When AJ Schnack sends out a blog entry as "BREAKING," when it is, in fact, neither breaking or news, you have to wonder." What you have to wonder is another question altogether.