Film festivals are indefinitely on hold, canceled so long as the global coronavirus outbreak makes it unsafe to hold mass gatherings — especially those that bring together guests from different corners of the world.
And yet, the lineups keep coming, even though the programmers know their festivals won’t be happening this year.Case in point is today’s unveiling of the Cannes official selection, in which we learned Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” two entries from Steve McQueen’s BBC-backed “Small Axe” anthology project, Pete Docter’s Pixar-animated “Soul” and more than 50 other features would have been invited to premiere at the French film festival.What good does it do for a festival to announce a list of movies they have no way of showing? Is it merely a way for such events to “call dibs” on films they would like to have hosted — say, to prevent
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