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It is once again film festival season at home and abroad. The Venice International Film Festival started last week, and Telluride got chugging along in Colorado shortly thereafter. Soon TIFF comes for the 6. But we’re actually here to focus on performance art : the standing ovations after a movie premieres at an international film festival. People be clappin’, and reporters be trackin’ said clappin’. And as with Cannes last year, we are averaging all the standing ovation reportage, and condensing it into one handy-dandy list. Unless otherwise noted, our timing of each film’s standing ovation is an average of three trades: Variety (the eastern European judge of applause if there ever was one),…
