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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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Young Hollywood stars strike out on own at Cannes
May. 23, 2012 1:58 AM ET (AP)
Vampires, Transformers, singing high-schoolers: They can all be tough to outrun.
But at the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival, a number of young Hollywood stars are attempting to do just that. By...
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Review: Was anyone clamoring for `Men in Black 3'?
May. 22, 2012 6:53 PM ET (AP)
There's a moment early on in "Men in Black 3" when Will Smith's Agent J sits down next to his longtime partner, Tommy Lee Jones' Agent K, and bemoans the fact that he's too old for this sort of thing...
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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...