Cannes Film Festival 2008

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Bonjour, Cannes!

Peggy Siegal | Posted 07.19.2008 | Entertainment

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A private jet, seven lunches, six premieres, 16 parties, five megayachts, one helicopter, one-on-ones with Brad Pitt, Mick Jagger, and Robert DeNiro. One woman lives the dream at the Cannes Film Festival.

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The Class: Inside the Walls of French Education

Karin Badt | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment

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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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Searching for Screenwriters in the South of France

Jonathan Handel | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment

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Not surprising for the country that originated the auteur theory, screenwriters are not the stars of Cannes. But if screenwriters don't garner the glamour, they nonetheless can be found with a bit of searching.

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Madonna: "I Am Because We Are"

Karin Badt | Posted 06.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Alerting audiences to the painful problems in Malawi is an exceptionally good thing, but Madonna's new film is weak, largely due to Madonna's over-the-top urge to make this a film of hope.

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Mike Tyson and James Toback: Two Obsessives Meeting

Karin Badt | Posted 06.13.2008 | Entertainment

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It was clear, from the scenes Toback chose to emphasize that he, who has personally known Tyson for twenty-two years, shares an understanding of both Tyson's self-destructive appetite and his fight to the finish.

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Cannes 2008: Shooting Wim Wenders

Karin Badt | Posted 06.11.2008 | Entertainment

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Palermo Shooting thankfully reminds us less of Wenders' recent unwatchable sprawls and more of his early powerhouse films where a voice-over ponders philosophical issues to the sound of music.

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Short Is Cool in Cannes

Efe Cakarel | Posted 06.10.2008 | Media

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Today, it is possible for a lone director to claim the status of auteur with a consumer-grade digital camera, a laptop, and a web site to exhibit their work.

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Cannes 2008: No Love in Two Lovers

Karin Badt | Posted 06.07.2008 | Entertainment

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In James Grey's new movie Two Lovers, no one finds mutual love. Each says to the other: "You deserve to be loved", while the recipient of the sentiment longs for someone else.

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Miracle on the Steppes (and the Red Carpet): Tulpan, Winner of a Certain Regard

Karin Badt | Posted 06.05.2008 | Entertainment

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Dvortsevov's film had traveled from the Steppe to Cannes -- and he had been in the audience when they thunderously applauded.

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The Other Side of Cannes

Karin Badt | Posted 06.04.2008 | Entertainment

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Have you ever wondered at the origin of those celebrity papers you see in supermarkets? The AmFAR gala was a celebrity-sight-seeing event for fashion journalists and paparazzi.

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Benicio del Toro Wins Best Actor In Cannes, French Film Wins Best Picture

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 06.03.2008 | Entertainment

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%meta(topic:01005000;ap_topic:general entertainment;subtopic:movies;%) CANNES, France (AP) _ The French film "The Class," a frank tale about classroo...

Cannes Film Festival 2008

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