Cannes Film Festival Has American Slant This Year
Melissa Block talks to Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Zeitchik about what’s popular this year at the Cannes Film Festival. From Paris now to the French Riviera. The 2012 Cannes Film Festival got under way this week, and at least one thing is clear …
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Cannes Film Festival sponsors a benefit for Haiti
By Stephen Schaefer CANNES, France — A first in its glamorous history, the 65th Cannes Film Festival officially sponsored a charity benefit yesterday called Haiti: Carnival in Cannes, hosted by Sean Penn, supermodel Petra Nemcova and director Paul …
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Sex, exploitation on the African beach: the Cannes Film Festival entry …
CANNES, France — There’s sun, sand and sex in Cannes Film Festival entry “Paradise: Love” — and they add up to a grim and unsettling holiday movie. Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s film depicts middle-aged European women at a Kenyan holiday resort …
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65th year for Cannes film fest
CANNES, France — If all film festivals are balancing acts, it stands to reason that the annual extravaganza at Cannes, likely the world’s most celebrated cinematic event, has more to balance than most. Especially this year.
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Cannes Film Festival fashion: Who rocked the red carpet?
(CBS/AP) The actresses attending this year’s Cannes Film Festival must have arrived with a lot of luggage. On Wednesday, the opening day of the 12-day festival, actresses Diane Kruger, Eva Longoria and Tilda Swinton each made multiple outfit changes …
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Cannes Film Festival: ‘Jackie Chan announces his retirement from action films
Asked why he had decided to stop making action films he said the physical strain had become too much. Speaking at the launch of his new production Chinese Zodiac at the Cannes Film Festival, Chan said it would be his final performance as an action hero …
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Cannes Film Festival Newswire to: Afghanistan