May 17, 1987
FILM VIEW; 40 YEARS OF CANNES: GHOSTS AND DREAMS
By VINCENT CANBY
LOOKING RATHER LIKE AN OVER-sized reproduction of Christopher Columbus's flagship, the vessel built for the filming of Roman Polanski's ''Pirates'' is now moored alongside a quay off the old port of Cannes. From time to time, it's open to the public. It can be rented for private parties. Right now, in the middle of the celebratory, 40th annual Cannes International Film Festival, the ship is not receiving visitors, but it dominates the view from the Croisette.
This spectacular movie prop, empty if not abandoned, is a reminder of all the things that can go wrong between the conception of a film and the day that a tape version arrives at your corner video cassette store. ''Pirates,'' which cost more than $40 million, is the kind of flop against which all subsequent flops are measured.
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