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Cannes 2013: For 'Blue Ruin' helmer, a new path to career-building
CANNES, France--Most of the attention at the Cannes Film Festival this week centers on the big names--Nicolas Refn, Alexander Payne, James Gray. But the springtime cinema gathering can sometimes makes room for someone a little different. Someone, say,...
Tags: Genres, Movies, Film Festivals, Arts and Culture, Octavia Spencer
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Cannes 2013: Critics give Coppola's 'Bling' mostly golden marks
The last time Sofia Coppola brought a movie to the Cannes Film Festival, in 2006 with "Marie Antoinette," she might have preferred to stay home: The reviews were harsh, and the film was booed by audiences. The reaction to her new movie, "The Bling Ring,...
Tags: Paris Hilton, Christopher Nolan, Film Festivals, Movies, Arts and Culture
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'Before Midnight' strikes new path in couple's journey
NEW YORK — "Before Midnight," Richard Linklater's third film about the relationship between an American man (Ethan Hawke) and French woman (Julie Delpy), closes with what might be the series' piece de resistance: a 30-minute hotel-room argument...
Tags: Film Festivals, Movies, Easy Rider (movie), Arts and Culture, Demographics
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WikiLeaks film shifts focus after Julian Assange won't share info
When director Alex Gibney began work on his documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," he thought he would be telling the story of a charismatic, silver-haired free speech advocate named Julian Assange, who had exposed dark corners of...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Media Industry, Bradley Manning, Philosophy, Movies
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James Gray brings a film to Cannes five years after divided reaction
CANNES, France — For the better part of two decades, director James Gray has been making textured dramas about people, often immigrants and their children, who experience all manner of frustration and struggle. It prepared him well for the...
Tags: Alec Baldwin, Two Lovers (movie), Film Festivals, Bronx (New York City), Movies
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In 'Touch of Sin,' Jia Zhangke changes his style but not themes
CANNES, France — "A Touch of Sin," an early critical favorite among the films in the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival this year, has been widely greeted as signifying a new direction for the Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The claim...
Tags: Media Industry, Genres, Film Festivals, Movies, China
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Setting Times stories to music: from Nick Cave to Dionne Warwick
By Kari Howard This week, I came across a website called Six Word Stories. The website, its creators say, was inspired by a bet from Ernest Hemingway’s pals that he couldn’t write a story in six words. So I thought I’d do six-word...
Tags: Photography and Video, Video Supplies and Services, Mary Fallin, Natural Disasters, Music
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Cannes 2013: Seen at the Carlton
CANNES, France -- While the Cannes Film Festival turns all the hotels on La Croisette, this city’s beachfront main street, into advertising sites for new and upcoming films, the pride of place is always reserved for the grand dame of hostelries, the...
Tags: France, Film Festivals, Monsters University (movie), Despicable Me 2 (movie)
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Cannes 2013: Emma Watson says 'Bling Ring' 'wasn't about stealing'
CANNES -- Few people can call watching reality TV a professional obligation. But Emma Watson found herself in just that position researching the role of a celebrity-obsessed thief in the fact-based "The Bling Ring." “I had a lot of work to get into...
Tags: Paris Hilton, Television, Harry Potter (fictional character), Emma Watson, Film Festivals
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Directors have enjoyed setting movies at the Cannes Film Festival
Not many of us will ever get to the fabulous Cannes Film Festival currently taking place in the glamorous French resort town. But there is a way to enjoy the Cannes experience vicariously via the films that have used the international festival as a...
Tags: French Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Johnny Depp, Treat Williams, Movies
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Asghar Farhadi goes for maximum emotional impact in his films
CANNES, France — "Stories come to me," says Asghar Farhadi, his sharp eyes focused, intense. "This one came to me, and I decided to follow it." It sounds straightforward, simple even, but nothing about the filmmaker's latest work, "The Past," fits...
Tags: A Separation (movie), France, Movies, Film Festivals, Iran
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Cannes 2013: Critics tell Jerry Lewis he's no expert on comedy
Given that he hasn’t had a good joke since Eisenhower was in the White House, Jerry Lewis probably shouldn’t have complained that he doesn’t find female comedians funny. At a Cannes Film Festival news conference to tout his new film,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Melissa McCarthy, Movies, Film Festivals, Hallmark Channel (tv network)
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