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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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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...
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Breeze of Arab Spring felt on Cannes red carpet
May. 25, 2012 2:53 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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Efron leaves his comfort zone in 'The Paperboy'
May. 24, 2012 8:38 AM ET (AP)
Zac Efron felt uncomfortable filming his revealing role "The Paperboy" _ and he says that's the way he wanted it.
The "High School Musical" actor has moved into decidedly grown-up territory with the...
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Review: `The Intouchables' is a real crowd-pleaser
May. 23, 2012 3:12 PM ET (AP)
On paper, "The Intouchables" looks like eat-your-vegetables cinema: the story of a wealthy, white disabled man and the troubled black youth from the projects who becomes his reluctant caretaker....