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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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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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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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Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies
Jun. 1, 2012 2:33 PM ET (AP)
"Snow White & the Huntsman," a revisionist telling of the classic fairy tale, is only earning fair reviews from critics in its opening weekend.
Kristen Stewart stars as a warrior princess version...
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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...