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Froth, frocks and film at an anxiety-tinged Cannes
May. 28, 2012 5:27 AM ET (AP)
There was Brad Pitt and Nicole Kidman, red carpet glamour and a crop of new Academy Award contenders _ but this was also the year the global financial crisis exploded onto movie screens at Cannes.
"La...
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Pattinson leaves vampires behind in 'Cosmopolis'
May. 27, 2012 7:20 AM ET (AP)
Robert Pattinson has gone from playing a vampire to depicting another kind of bloodsucker _ a billionaire financier whose world crumbles in the course of a nightmarish cross-town drive in...
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Haneke's 'Amour' wins top prize at Cannes
May. 27, 2012 4:02 PM ET (AP)
The Cannes Film Festival rewarded one of its favorite directors Sunday, as Michael Haneke won the top prize for a second time with his stark film about love and death, "Amour."
The Austrian director's...
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De Niro talks to Bates grads, gets honorary degree
May. 27, 2012 3:57 PM ET (AP)
As he received an honorary doctorate Sunday, Oscar-winning actor Robert De Niro told Bates College graduates that despite his own lack of formal education, he made out OK.
During a 15-minute address...
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Matthew McConaughey pulls off Cannes double header
May. 26, 2012 11:05 AM ET (AP)
To have one film competing at the Cannes Film Festival is a privilege. To have two, Matthew McConaughey says, is wonderful good fortune _ and the reward for a spell of hard labor in the trenches of...