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'Great Gatsby' to open Cannes Film Festival
It's only fitting: F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in the south of France, and now his most famous character, Gatsby, is heading there. Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" will open the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, festival organizers announced...
Tags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Film Festivals, France, Holidays, The Great Gatsby (movie, 2013)
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'The Great Gatsby' to open Cannes 2013
For its premiere 2013 showcase in the south of France, the Cannes Film Festival is going back to 1920s America. Organizers at the prestigious film gathering said Monday night that Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby" will open this year's festival on May...
Tags: Ridley Scott, Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio, Film Festivals, James Franco
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Cannes 2013: Steven Spielberg to head film festival jury
Steven Spielberg will head the jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, slated for May 15-26, organizers have announced. In announcing Spielberg's selection, festival President Gilles Jacob said the 66-year-old American director is a "Cannes 'regular',"...
Tags: Academy Awards, Film Festivals, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Steven Spielberg
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Oscars 2013: 'Amour' wins for foreign language film
As the French might say, the victory of "Amour" for foreign language film at the Oscars on Sunday was practically a fait accompli. Pourquoi, you ask? Well, Michael Haneke's beautiful, elegiac film about a sudden crisis threatening an octogenarian...
Tags: Academy Awards, Film Festivals, The White Ribbon (movie), France, Golden Globe Awards
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'Beyond the Hills' tells a different kind of exorcism tale
In 2005, Romania's equivalent of the sensational O.J. Simpson trial rocked Eastern Europe when a priest and four nuns from a convent in the country's remote Moldavia region went to prison for accidentally killing a young woman during an exorcism. The case...
Tags: Academy Awards, William Friedkin, O.J. Simpson, Film Festivals, Celebrities
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Deborah Landis, ever the advocate for costume designers
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticDesigning costumes so ingrained in popular culture that they still inspire Halloween disguises 30 years after they were created — Michael Jackson's "Thriller" jacket, Indiana Jones' signature outback slouch look and the unforgettable "College"...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Hobbies, Elizabeth I, Harry Potter (fictional character), Edith Head
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Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac' hooks up with Magnolia Pictures
If there were some kind of cinematic mad lib invented for maximum potential art house outrage, Danish filmmaker/provocateur Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac” -- with a cast including Charlotte Gainsbourg, Shia LaBeouf, Jamie Bell, Uma...
Tags: Jamie Bell, Willem Dafoe, Antichrist (movie), Film Festivals, Charlotte Gainsbourg
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What's behind Jafar Panahi's 'Closed Curtain'?
 On Tuesday night at the Berlin Film Festival, the Iranian director Jafar Panahi will debut his new movie “Closed Curtain.” Panahi himself won’t be there to present it, of course; he remains under house arrest in Iran, and the premiere...
Tags: Entertainment, Film Festivals, Berlin International Film Festival, Abbas Kiarostami, Movies
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Did 'We Have a Pope' foretell Pope Benedict's resignation?
As topics for fact-based movies go, you’d be hard-pressed to find one as tricky as the papal selection. The process is cloaked in secrecy, for starters, and it’s not like it happens much more than once a decade. Yet the news that Pope...
Tags: Film Festivals, Vatican City, Roman Catholicism, Sundance Film Festival, Movies
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Nagisa Oshima dies at 80; iconoclastic Japanese filmmaker
Nagisa Oshima, an iconoclastic Japanese director and screenwriter best known in the West for the sexually explicit films “In the Realm of the Senses” and “Empire of Passion,” died Tuesday at a hospital near Tokyo, his production...
Tags: Film Festivals, Sociology, France, French Literature, Crime, Law and Justice
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Golden Globes 2013: Michael Haneke on his parody Twitter account
In what has been one of the strange joys of this awards season, a parody Twitter account attributed to Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke has become a treasure trove of comedy gold with its digs at Terrence Malick, pictures of cats and general sense of...
Tags: Sex and the City (movie), Film Festivals, Golden Globe Awards, Social Media, Brett Ratner
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Oscars 2013: 'Amour' in, 'Intouchables' out for foreign language
Academy voters showed their love for Austria's "Amour" on Thursday morning, with the deep and intimate look at an aging couple facing the end of life together being nominated not just for best foreign language film, but also for best picture and in...
Tags: The Artist (movie), Movies, Jean Dujardin, Language, A Royal Affair (movie)
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