Last year, I acted in Richard “Donnie Darko” Kelly’s flick “Southland Tales”. This morning, it was one of only three American films selected for the Cannes Film Festival Competition section. Big congrats to Richard! His film is waaaaay wonderful and out-there, and will surely blow your fucking mind, once you peep it.

“Clerks II” has to wait ’til next week to find out whether or not we get into the fest as well (we’ve been angling for a screening slot in either the Un Certain Regard section, or another out-of-competition slot), but for now, I’m just elated to see “Southland” get that much-deserved competition position.

[Clerks II is] Not in the competition. But that’s cool, because we didn’t try to get into the competition. Too much… competition to get into the… competition.

Next week, they make another announcement about the rest of the fest – all the films OUTSIDE of the competition.

But for today… FUCKING HUZZAH FOR “SOUTHLAND TALES”!!!!!! WAY TO GO, RICHARD!!

T’was never a lock, y’know? T’was always a gamble. We were hoping that, having been there with “Clerks” in ‘94 and “Dogma” in ‘99, they might be inclined to include us. But it was a tough year. I mean, even Aronofsky’s “The Fountain” didn’t get it.

We’ll know by either tomorrow [Friday] or early next week.

Cannes can be fickle. Last year, they declined programing “Brokeback Mountain”. A few years back, they declined programing “Lost in Translation”. You just never know. But we’ve still got our fingers crossed for a midnight screening.