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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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Producing more, Brad Pitt is 'Killing Them Softly'
May. 24, 2012 5:34 AM ET (AP)
Brad Pitt is making the movie star thing look darn easy.
Since he last collaborated with Andrew Dominik, he's starred in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading," David Fincher's "The Curious Case of...
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Haneke, Loach among Cannes highlights thus far
May. 22, 2012 8:32 AM ET (AP)
The first half of the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival has completed a life cycle in films that range from the motivating spark of child birth to the despair of slow death in old age.
The latter came...
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In the shadows of art, Cannes' market flourishes
May. 20, 2012 9:45 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...