Cannes Film Festival
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Cannes Review: 'Me And You' A Middling Return For Bernardo Bertolucci
It's been nine years since the last feature film from Bernardo Bertolucci, and for a moment there, it looked like "The Dreamers" would be the final effort from the currently wheelchair-bound filmmaker. And while we're glad he's re-energized and back to making movies, unfortunately, "Me And You" will...
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Cannes Review Capsule: 'Killing Them Softly'
How did the new film from the director and star of "The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford" fare with critics at Cannes?
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CANNES 2012: Abbas Kiarostami's LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Denial and delusion ripple the pristine visual surface of "Like Someone in Love," Abbas Kiarostami’s masterful critique of social and emotional formality, set in Japan.
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Cannes 2012 - South African Cinema Getting More Adventurous w/ Genres With "The Adventures Of Supermama"
As we announced last week, the South African National Film & Video Foundation (NFVF) in association with the Department of Arts & Culture (DAC), is leading a South African delegation to the 65th Cannes Film Festival (which is currently underway, with about ...
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Cannes Review: It's Isabelle Huppert Times Three In Hong Sang-soo's Light 'In Another Country'
Heaviness tends to dominate the Cannes Film Festival, and this year is no different. Death ("Amour"), doubt ("The Hunt"), losing limbs ("Rust And Bone") and religious fanaticism ("Beyond The Hills") are just some of themes that have cropped up so far as we get to the halfway point of the fest. And w...
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Cannes Virgin Diary 2: Wet Fest Yields Best So Far, 'Amour'
A storm blew through the city Sunday, and it is still cool and rainy. By the grace of whatever, I have yet to catch a cold. The dreary weather reminds me of San Francisco, so maybe I should see it as an antidote to my homesickness, which is beginning to settle in. I thought the rain would keep peopl...
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Cannes Review: Brilliant & Angry 'Killing Them Softly' Is The Anti-Thriller For Our Times
"What is that American promise? It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have obligations to treat each other with dignity and respect," Barack Obama said at the Democratic National Convention in 2008. And that section of the speech ...
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Global Film Initiative - One of U.S.'s Most Creative Distributors at the 65th Cannes Film Festival!
The Global Film Initiative is a leading distributor and funder of films from Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, including Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard film MISS LOVELY (dir. Ashim Ahluwalia, India) being sold by Fortissimo and screening May 24 and ...
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CANNES 2012: Hong Sangsoo's IN ANOTHER COUNTRY
The screenwriting process produces a kind of sandbox cinema in Hong Sang-soo’s "In Another Country," the Korean director’s latest jazz riff on human interconnection. The film’s beach side location may be consistent with earlier films, but its unique characterizations traverse freely outside the logi...
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James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain in Double Feature: 'The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby'
James McAvoy is replacing Joel Edgerton (who was attached in February) to star with Jessica Chastain in the double-feature film project, "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him" and "The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her"...
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