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Von Trier's 'Dancer In The Dark' Turned Into Opera

nytimes.com | ZACHARY WOOLFE | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Musical, Royal Danish Opera, Dancer in the Dark, Palme D'Or, Lars Von Trier, Opera, Lincoln Center, Melancholia, Selma Jezkova, Film, Cannes Film Festival, Movies, Bjork, Poul Ruders, Arts News

If Sarah Bernhardt's definitive performance in Victorien Sardou's 1887 play "La Tosca" had been available through Netflix, would Puccini ever have bas...

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Terrence Malick's 'The Tree Of Life': A Contemporary Garden Of Eden?

G. Roger Denson | Posted 08.05.2011

Read More: Terrence Malick, Jessica Chastain, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Film, 64th Cannes Film Festival, Palme D'Or, The Tree of Life, Tree of Life, Arts News

Eminently lyrical and rapturous in the cinematic manifold that it kaleidoscopically brings into and out of focus onscreen with each turn of the Terrence Malick lens, Tree of Life is one of those singular cinematic milestones.

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Prince William on Honeymoon As Controversial Diana Film Premieres in Cannes

Yvonne Yorke | Posted 07.17.2011

Read More: Mohammed Al Fayed, Pippa Middleton, Palme D'Or, Uma Thurman, Prince William, Lars Von Trier, Princess Diana, Woody Allen, Royal Honeymoon, The Tree of Life, Cannes Film Festival, Aishwarya Rai, Terrence Malick, Brad Pitt, Penelope Cruz, Pirates of the Caribbean, Antonia Banderas, The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodovar, Unlawful Killing, Keith Allen, Lady GaGa, Johnny Depp, Rachel McAdams, Salma Hayek, Meloncholia, Style News

While Prince William is on his honeymoon, moving forward with the next chapter of his life, 4,800 miles away there are those who are still looking back into the tragic events in his past.

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Top 5 Films At Cannes 2011

Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Princess Diana, Lynne Ramsey, Lars Von Trier, Woody Allen, Cannes 2011, Melancholia, Film, Video, Midnight in Paris, Palme D'Or, Palm D'Or, The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodovar, Keith Allen, Unlawful Killing, Cannes Film Festival, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Robert De Niro, Arts News

Right now all eyes are on the French Riviera. The 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival rolled out its red carpet and opened on May 11th with Woody Allen's...

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Robert De Niro: Cannes Jury Duty Like 'A Vacation'

AP | By JILL LAWLESS | Posted 07.11.2011

Read More: Jury Duty, De Niro, Robert De Niro, Palme D'Or, Johnny To, Olivier Assayas, Cannes, Jude Law, Film Festivals, Cannes Jury, Linn Ullmann, Uma Thurman, Film, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes 2011, Arts News

CANNES, France -- Seeing, and judging, 20 movies in just over 10 days is not everyone's idea of a holiday. But not everyone is Robert De Niro. The Ac...

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Cannes Top Prize Contenders Announced

AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Pater, Palme D'Or, Directors, Bertrand Bonello, Lars Von Trier, Cannes, Julia Leigh, Maiwenn, Cannes Film Festival 2011, Film, Cannes Film Festival, Terrence Malick, Albert Brooks, Arts News

-- Here is the list of the 19 films in competition for the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, the Palme d'Or. The festival runs May 11-22...

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Interview With Winner of Cannes Festival: Thai Director Weerasethakul Speaks About Reincarnation

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palme D'Or, Cannes Film Festival 2010, Uncle Boonmee, Cannes Film Festival, Weerasethakul, Entertainment News

I met with Weerasethakul, director of Uncle Boonmee, the #2 prizewinning film at Cannes. A man as peaceful and articulate as the movie, he laughed when I asked him to explain his film.

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Tim Burton Announces Palme d'Or Winner at Cannes: Thai Film Uncle Boonmee

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mathieu Amalric, Palme D'Or, Uncle Boonmee, Of Gods and Men, Cannes Jury, Cannes Film Festival 2010, Tim Burton, Tournee, Xavier Beauvois, Weerasethakul, Cannes Film Festival, Entertainment News

Uncle Boonmee quietly took Cannes by surprise for its evocative story of a dying man who experiences his past lives, including one as a buffalo in a jungle and another as a catfish.

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Michael Haneke: When the Nazis Were Children

Erica Abeel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Essential Viewing, Haneke in His Own Words, Germany on Eve of WWI, Origins of Nazism, Michael Haneke, New York Film Festival, Palme D'Or, The White Ribbon, Entertainment News

Haneke's masterful drama unfolds in a rural German town on the eve of World War I, in an attempt to unearth the origins of Nazism.

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Palme d'Or Winner of Cannes 2009: Michael Haneke's "White Ribbon"

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palme D'Or, White Ribbon, Michael Haneke, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Civil War, World War I, Cannes, Weimar-Germany, Protestants, Film, Entertainment News

The intent of the movie is to show how the imminent war -- or any imminent war -- results from the sickness of a culture as well as from inherent human malice.

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Cannes Wrap Up: What Journalists are Saying

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jury Decision at Cannes, Palme D'Or, Jane Campion, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Haneke, Michael-Haneke, Cannes Winners, Marco Bellocchio, Cannes Film Festival 2009, Cannes, Entertainment News

Fish Tank tells the story of an alienated adolescent girl fighting her way to have an identity with a mother who hates her and a peer group which shuns her.

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'The White Ribbon' Wins Palme d'Or At 2009 Cannes

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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CANNES, France — Austrian director Michael Haneke's somber drama "The White Ribbon" claimed the top prize Sunday at the Cannes Film Festival, wh...

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The Class: Inside the Walls of French Education

Karin Badt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: French Society, Social Mobility, Cannes Film Festival 2008, Sarkozy, Palme D'Or, French Schools, The Class, Cannes Film Festival, French Education System, Nicolas Sarkozy, Entertainment News

The Class, despite its intentions to show dynamic pedagogy at work, reveals its the opposite: how "learning" in France consists of accumulating "facts."

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