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Breeze of Arab Spring felt on Cannes red carpet
May. 25, 2012 3:53 PM ET (AP)
The ripples of the Arab Spring are being felt in summery Cannes, where films from Egypt and Syria, as well as a passionate documentary about the overthrow of Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, are being...
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Kylie Minogue at Cannes in bizarre 'Holy Motors'
May. 23, 2012 9:01 AM ET (AP)
Holy cow. The most rapturous audience reception at the Cannes Film Festival has gone to "Holy Motors," a disorienting, whirling dream of a movie by French director Leos Carax.
Starring Denis Lavant as...
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In the shadows of art, Cannes' market flourishes
May. 20, 2012 10:45 AM ET (AP)
The movie market at Cannes is such a dramatic sideshow that this year it's getting its own film.
Director James Toback and actor Alec Baldwin have been knocking up and down Cannes' Croisette boulevard...
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'After the Battle' brings Egypt uprising to Cannes
May. 17, 2012 2:59 PM ET (AP)
If there were a prize for most topical movie at the Cannes Film Festival, it would go to Egyptian entry "After the Battle," whose completion, its director says, is a political act in itself.
Yousry...
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Dior exhibit traces 60 years of cinema
May. 11, 2012 3:26 AM ET (AP)
Going back to where it all began, a new exhibit in the childhood home of legendary designer Christian Dior in Normandy sheds new light on the house's huge contribution to the silver screen.
The setting...