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REPORT cannes : Cannes film festival: three flicks and arty Palme to look out for

Cannes film festival: three flicks and arty Palme to look out for

The glamorous European movie marathon wrapped on 23 May with the Golden Palme d'Or going to Thailand for the first time. Artistically, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was the most daring film of the competition and the closest to jury president Tim Burton's fantastic universe

by Ole Skambraks @ // 24/05/10

cannes, quentin tarantino, thailand, culture calendar, film, film festival, cinema

PANORAMA cannes : No English or eastern flicks at the 61st Cannes Film Festival

No English or eastern flicks at the 61st Cannes Film Festival

The absence of eastern European titles is the main story at Cannes from 14 – 25 May, amidst well- known western names including the Dardenne brothers, Wim Wenders and Italians Sorrentino and Garrone

by Maria Colucci @ // 15/05/08

cannes, film, george soros , festival de cannes, roberto saviano, laurent cantet, jean-pierre e luc dardenne

REVIEW cannes : Fatih Akin’s cinema: a step closer to integration

Fatih Akin’s cinema: a step closer to integration

Belonging to the homeland, the importance of education for immigration and Turkey's entry into the European Union are converging themes in 'The Edge of Heaven', the latest film by the German director

by marcos de barros // 12/10/07

cannes, immigration, discrimination, film review, society, germany, western eu

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Antichrist get’s booed at Cannes, what an honour Lars von Trier!

We are leaving the cinema completely ravished. This is madness, bare horror and yet nothing surreal: a couple is doing its psychoanalysis in the woods – the thing to avoid!   Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe (I didn’t pay attention to their character names and actually it has no importance as ...

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Audiard’s “Prophet” delivers first Cannes frenzy

Seeing a carotid being cut with a razor blade at 8h30 in the morning is a rather painful breakfast. The two and a half hours that follow this scene are not easier to digest, but French director Jacques Audiard has brought to Cannes a mafia masterpiece which is thrilling and ...

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Mariah Carey and Lenny Kravitz: dancing in the rain

It is crisis and you feel it also in Cannes: beer instead of champaign and peanuts replace the caviar, festival goers had been used to in previous years. Everybody has something to complain about. Restaurants lack reservations, hotels are not fully booked and now it has even started to rain ...

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Cannes film festival 2009 stars the crisis in 3-D (or something like that)

The Cannes film festival kicks off tonight with the world premier of the new Pixar animation feature “Up”. Up - Pixar trailer (sorry, not 3-D) At the first glance it’s of course a little weird that a Disney opens the world’s most important rendezvous in film business. But as ...

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Cannes 2009 in the making: some photos

Long term festival president Gilles Jacob has been around since 1978 (I wasn’t even born then) turning it into the world’s most important film event. Nowadays he leaves the organization to director Thierry Frémaux and prefers shooting photos of the event. Here are some of his first shots:

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